Roger d'Abetot

Roger d'Abetot (sometimes Roger of Abitôt^[1]) was a medieval English Sheriff of Worcestershire.

Roger d'Abetot
Sheriff of Worcestershire
In office 1108 – c. 1114
Preceded by	Urse d'Abetot
Succeeded by	Osbert d'Abetot

Roger was the son of Urse d'Abetot, his predecessor as sheriff.^[2] He also held the custody of Worcester Castle, another office he inherited from his father.^[1] He may also have been a constable in Henry I's household, as his father had been.^[3] Along with the offices, Roger also inherited the feudal barony of Salwarpe in Worcestershire.^[4] He was banished from England in around 1110^[1] or in 1114 by King Henry I, and lost his office because of this.^[2] His lands were also forfeit.^[5] According to the medieval writer William of Malmesbury, Henry exiled him because Roger ordered that a royal official be killed.^[1]

The office passed to Osbert d'Abetot, who may have been Roger's uncle, before eventually ending up with Roger's brother-in-law Walter de Beauchamp.^[6]

Citations

1. Hollister Henry I p. 225
2. Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 439
3. Cronne and Johnson "Introduction" Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum p. xvi
4. Sanders English Baronies pp. 75–76
5. Green Aristocracy of Norman England pp. 282–283
6. Round "Abetot, Urse d' (c.1040–1108)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Sources

• Cronne, H. A. & Johnson, Charles (1956). "Introduction". In Cronne, H. A. & Johnson, Charles (eds.). Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154. Vol. II: Regesta Henriici Primi 1100-1135. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. pp. ix–xlvi. OCLC 634967597.
• Green, Judith A. (1997). The Aristocracy of Norman England. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52465-2.
• Hollister, C. Warren (2001). Frost, Amanda Clark (ed.). Henry I. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08858-2.
• Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-722-X.
• Round, J. H. (2004). "Abetot, Urse d' (c.1040–1108)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. revised by Emma Mason. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 June 2009. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.