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Birth:          ABT 1061 Port-en-Bassin, Normandy
Death:          1096 Basing, Hampshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I13797
Barony of St John (generations before barony established in 1299)

HUGH DE PORT, an undertenant of Odo Bishop of Bayeux in Normandy, witnessed 
before the Conquest a charter of Duke William which probably passed at Bayeux. In 
Domesday Book he appears as the most important lay tenant-in-chicf in Hampshire, 
holding Basing, Sherborne St. John and 53 other manors in that county; of his Norman 
overlord, the Bishop of Bayeux, he held 13 manors there and a further 13 in Kent (c). 
He was at one time sheriff of Hampshire, and in the address of a royal writ for 
Hampshire of 1080-81 his name took precedence of that of the sheriff. He was one of 
the barons present at the King's court in Normandy in 1085. In 1088 during the later 
stages of the proceedings against William of Saint-Calais, bishop of Durham, he 
together with the bishop of Winchester and Geoffrey de Trailly was sent to order the 
bishop to send his monk Geoffrey to answer certain charges in the King's court. In 
1091 he attested charters of William II. He married Orence, and died as a monk in 
1096 (j). [Complete Peerage XI:316-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(c) This suggests that he owed his great position in England to the initiative of the 
Bishop; in Normandy he had obviously not been a man of much importance.

(j) Anno Domini millesimo nonagesimo sexto, Hugo de Portu factus monachus vicarius 
Wintoniae dedit ecclesiae Sancti Petri Gloucestriae Lyteltone in Hamptschire Willelmo 
rege juniore confirmante. Henricus filius Hugonis de Portu carta sua confirmat donium 
patris sui. A purported chater of William I describes him as "in suo orbitu monachus 
effectus", although it cannot be genuine, there seems no reason to doubt the fact 
stated, or that Hugh was clothed on his death-bed as a monk of Gloucester, without 
however entering the monastery. There can be no doubt that "Vicarius Wintoniae" 
here means sheriff of Hampshire. Hugh had a daughter, whom as "Adelidis soror 
Henrici de Port" the Liber Winton shows as holding a house in Winchester. Emma de 
Percy also had a house there; she was the wife of William de Percy, and either a 
daughter or near relation of Hugh.

Note: I have Emma as a sister, daughter of Hugh's father. This is partly based on 
unsourced information from World Connect; plus the dates given for Emma's husband 
in Burke' Peerage would indicate Emma's father, "of Semer, Yorks", was born earlier 
than Hugh of Basing. Note also that Hugh of Basing, at least in the above text from 
CP, does not have manors in Yorkshire.
died as a monk

Parents
DE PORT Hugh (ABT 1030 - AFT 1066)
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Siblings
DE PORT Emma (ABT 1049 - AFT 1096)
DE PORT Hugh (ABT 1061 - 1096)

Marriage To ____ Orence (ABT 1065 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Orence ABT 1065 - 
DE PORT Henry (ABT 1087 - AFT 1133)

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