Roger d'Evreux

Priory of Bradenstoke

Roger d'Evreux came to England in 1066 with his brother William. They were the sons by a second marriage off William d'Evreux, the youngest brother of Richard, count d'Evreux, who was the son of Robert, count d'Evreux and archbishop of Rouen. They were the first cousins of William, count d'Evreux, who was also at Hastings. Roger married Helewysa, sister of Walter de Lacy of Hereford, who gave lands to Gloucester abbey. Her son Robert de Evrois was a benefactor to Brecknock, temp. Henry I. There were two branches in Hereford in 1165 and from one house descended the viscounts of Hereford, and the other from Walter d'Evreux of Rosmar, Normandy, who held lordships in the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Surrey, Hants, Middlesex, Hereford, Buckingham and Wilts, and the lordships of Salisbury and Ambresbery. He was a companion of the Conqueror at Hastings and the ancestor of the Devereux, lord Ferrers of Chartley and earls of Essex, of whom the second, one Robert Devereux, was so celebrated and ill-fated in the reign of queen Elizabeth.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll)