VAVASOUR

SIR MAUGER LE VAVASOUR, the Norman, is mentioned in Domesday Book, as holding in chief of the Percys, Earls of Northumberland, considerable manors and estates in Stutton, Eselwood, Saxhall, &c. He was s. by his son, SIR MAUGER LE VAVASOR, whose son, SIR WILLIAM LE VAVASOR, Lord of Haslewood, was a judge in the reign of HENRY II., and one of the witnesses to the charter of the Abbey of Sawley, in Yorkshire, refounded by Matilda de Percy, Countess of Warwick. To this abbey he himself also made a considerable donation of land. The grandson of this potent knight, SIR JOHN LE VAVASOUR, Lord of Haslewood, m. Alice, dau. of Sir Robert Cockfield, and had two sons,

WILLIAM (Sir), his successor, ancestor of the VAVAS0URS of HASLEWOOD and SPALDINGTON, Co. York.

Malgerus, who had the manors of Denton and Akswith, and was ancestor of the VAVASORS OF WESTON, whose last male descendant, William Vavasor, Esq. of Weston Hall, d. 15th Jan. 1183, leaving the children of his sister Ellen, who was m. to the Rev. John Carter, his heirs.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll)