Hamo de Crevequer - Family History

Family History

A Hamo De Crevequer was born before 1066 in Normandy. Sire "de Cregrave-Vecœur," (with/at) Driencourt (and/at) Briencort, followed the Duke in the battle (at Hastings). (Wace)

Also known as Fitz-Hamon, the father of the first Robert de Cregrave-Vecœur who founded the Priory of Leeds, (Ledes) in Kent, in 1119, and had, by his wife Rohais, three sons, Adam, Elias, and Daniel, and a daughter named Gunnora.

"He was succeeded by Daniel, who, in the 12th year of Henry II, on assessment of aid for the marriage of the King's daughter, certified to the possession of fourteen knights' fees "de veteri feoffemento," and his son and successor, another Robert, was the father of Hamon", the last of his line who married to the heiress of Folkestone. (per Hasted)

Odo of Bayeux, Earl of Kent, half-brother to William I, was consecrated and instituted in 1049 as the Bishop of Bayeux by William, Duke of Normandy. Born in Normandy about 1032 he fell from grace, and was attained and imprisonerd at Rouen until the king's death, in 1087. In 1087 Hamo the Lord of Folkstone was granted the manor of Lenham, seven miles to the south east of Maidstone, lands then possessed by Mereworth (Odo).

"Hamo the Steward Also called Hamo the Sheriff. Sheriff of Kent; a judge at Penenden in case between Lanfranc and Odo of Bayeux. Holdings in Essex, Kent and Surrey."

Preceded by
Walter de Burgsted
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
1263
Succeeded by
Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford
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Name Crevequer, Hamo De
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Date of death 1263
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