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Birth:          ABT Nov 1304 Ford, Northumberland, England
Death:          21 Dec 1379 

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BARONY OF HERON (I)

WILLIAM HERON or HEYRUN, son and heir of Sir Roger HERON (c), of Ford in 
Northumberland, by Elizabeth or Isabel (e), one of the three daughters and coheirs of 
Adam DE SWINBURNE, was born about November 1304. From 1336 he is frequently 
mentioned as engaged in some public service, especially in preserving the peace and 
public safety in the troublous Border district where he lived. In November 1337 he and 
his wife Isabel made a settlement of the manor of Ford and the advowson of the 
church, the remainders being to his sons Roger, William, John and Thomas. On 16 
July 1338 he had licence to crenellate his manor house of Ford, and in April 1340, for 
good services rendered as King's yeoman in Scotland and elsewhere, he had licence 
to hold his fortified house by the name of castle, and to have free warren in his 
demesne lands. In 1341 payment was ordered to him of £48 as wages for himself and 
his men-at-arms and hobelers who were employed on the King's service in the March 
of Scotland, and in 1344 he had a grant of the custody of Trollop. He fought in the 
battle of Nevill's Cross, near Durham, in 1346, and received a grant of forfeited lands, 
including a confirmation of the manor of Thornton in Norham, which he had 
purchased, and was made a knight in or before 1348. In 1346 John Darcy the son, 
lord of Knayth, claimed the manor of Ford against William Heron and Isabel his wife, 
alleging a settlement made by Sir William Heron (grandfather of William), but on 2 
March 1347/8 he formally renounced all right in the lands.

William Heron was appointed Keeper of Berwick-on-Tweed in 1350, and next year, as 
chivaler, with Isabel his wife, Roger his brother, and Roger, John, Walter. Thomas, 
Robert and Andrew, his sons, was called upon to acknowledge the various services 
by which the lands in Ford and in other places were held by them of John de 
Coupland, chivaler, of Wooler. In 1353 he was serving in Scotland with ten men-at-
arms and twenty archers. He acquired the Tailbois manor of Croydon, in co. 
Cambridge, about 1354, a tenement at North Gosford in 1361/2, and the manor of 
Whittingham, near Alnwick, jointly with Sir John Heron in 1371. He appears to have 
been charged with complicity in the murder of John de Coupland on Bolton Moor, near 
Alnwick, in December 1363 being next year a prisoner at Winchester, but was able to 
rebut the charge, for in September 1366 he and his son, Sir Roger, gave a release of 
all actions to Joan, the widow of John de Coupland, and others who, had sued the 
evildoers who had killed her husband. He was summoned to Parliament, 8 January 
1370/1, by writ directed Willelmo Heron, whereby he is held to have become LORD 
HERON. He was not summoned again, nor were any of his descendants. At Easter 
1373 he and his sons Roger and Thomas were called upon to show by what services 
they held Ford and other lands of Joan, widow of John de Coupland. He married 
Isabel. He died 21 December 1379. [Complete Peerage VI:484-6, (transcribed by Dave 
Utzinger)]

(c) Roger is said to have been a younger son, but heir male, of William Heron, who d. 
Dec 1296. The eldest son, Walter, had left a daughter and heir, Emmeline, who m. 
John Darcy. Roger is not usually described as a knight, but is so designated in a 
charter dated 1310, an inquisition of 1314, and a return made in 1323. He was living 
in Oct 1332, but d. before 15 Mar 1332/3, when his son William asked permission to 
pay by instalments a debt which his father Roger had incurred as Constable of 
Bamborough Castle. Roger left a widow named Margery, who was living 1346.

(e) She was dead in 1326, when her son William was found to be one of the coheirs of 
Adam de Swinburne.

Parents
HERON Roger (ABT 1280 - BEF 15 Mar 1333)
DE SWINBURNE Elizabeth (Isabel) (ABT 1285 - BEF 1326)

Siblings
HERON William (ABT Nov 1304 - 21 Dec 1379)

Marriage To DE GREY Isabel (ABT 1315 - AFT 2 Mar 1348)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE GREY Thomas II (ABT 1280 - BEF 12 Mar 1344)
DE BEYLE Agnes (ABT 1290 - )

Children by DE GREY Isabel ABT 1315 - AFT 2 Mar 1348
HERON Idoma (ABT 1334 - )

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