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Birth:          ABT 1043 Ver, Normandy
Death:          AFT 1086 Cockfield, Suffolk, England

Notes
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Cockfield's Manors.

I have already observed that on the death of Jeff. de Meauton, alias Le Constable, 
son of Peter, his three sisters, Isabel, Alice, and Edith were his coheirs, between 
whom this lordship was divided; Edith married Sir Thomas de Astley, Isabel married 
Adam de Cockfeld, and Alice married Robert de Cockfeld, brother of Adam, (as I take 
it,) and sons of Adam de Cockfeld, by Agatha, or Isabel, daughter of Sir Robert de 
Aguillon, by Agatha his wife, daughter and coheir of Fulk de Beaufoe, lord of 
Hockwold and Wilton, in her right.

The family of Cockfield seem to descend from a younger son of the noble family of the 
Veres Earls of Oxford, Alberick de Vere had a younger brother, Roger, who held the 
lordship of Cockfeld in Suffolk, of the abbots of Bury, immediately after the conquest, 
and Anselm, abbot of Bury, who lived in the reign of Henry I. granted the service of 
Roger to his brother, Alberic de Vere, at the King's request; from this town they took 
their sirname.

Adam de Cockfeld left a daughter and heir, Nesta, who was Lady Semere in Suffolk, 
and married Matthew de Leyham.

In the reign of Richard I. Sampson, abbot of Bury, settled for life on Adam, son of 
Robert de Cockfeld, the manors of Groten and Semere in Suffolk, and a fine was 
levied between the said abbot and Adam, in the 7th of that King, of the hundred of 
Cosford, wherein Adam, grandfather of Adam, is mentioned, and in the 10th of that 
King, a fine was levied between Lucy de Cokefeld and Adam her son.

In the 41st of Henry III. a fine was levied between John, son of Robert de Cockfield 
and Isabel, and Adam de Cokefeld and Isabel his wife, impedient, of two messuages, 
two carucates of land, 105s. rent in Mealting, Burgh, Burningham, Sniterley, Birston, 
and East Tudenham, with the advowson of the church of Birston, with all the 
demeans, homages, services of freemen, advowsons of churches, knights fees, wards, 
reliefs, eschaets, villages, woods, alders, meads, pastures, waters, pools, ponds, 
parks, &c. belonging; and whatever Adam and Isabel had of the inheritance of Peter 
de Mealton, father of Isabel, one of whose heirs she was, all which were released to 
John and his heirs, to be held of Robert de Cockfeld and Alice his wife, fort he life of 
Alice, and after her decease of the chief lord of the fee, with a third part of the lands, 
tenements, and advowsons of churches, which Jeffrey de Burnavill and Maud his wife 
held in dower of the said inheritance, she being, as it appears, relict of Geffrey de 
Mealton.

Sir John de Cockfeld was at that time one of the justices of the King's Bench; and in 
the 56th of that King had an annuity of 40l. per ann. as one of those justices.

In the 14th of Edward I. John de Cockfeld claimed view of frank pledge, and other 
liberties belonging to their manor, (now united,) as belonging to the barony of the see 
of Norwich, and William Inge, serjeant at law, and John de Cockfeld, were in the 26th 
of the said reign appointed justices to enquire after the grievances of the people of 
England, in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutlandshire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, 
and Suffolk; concerning things taken from the churchmen and laity, in wool, hides, 
leather, corn, beasts, flesh, fish, &c. either for the keeping of the seas, or any other 
reason after the war with France; according to the King's promise before his going 
over into Flanders and to do all other things according to the form of instructions sent 
them from the King and his council.

In the 12th of Edward II. John de Catfeld, clerk, Eustachius de Dalling, &c. trustees, 
settled this manor on John de Cokfeld and Margaret his wife, for their lives, remainder 
on Reginald, son of John, in fee tail; remainder to John, another son.

We find Sir John de Cockfeld to present to the church of Bristonin 1305, and Cecilia 
his relict in 1311, and 1330, who were father and mother of John, who married 
Margaret; and in 1349, Sir John de Cockfeld presented to Birston.

John Cockfeld, Esq. was probably his son, and died before the year 1365, when 
Simon, Bishop of Ely, granted an indulgence of 40 days, to all who on confession of 
their sins, and saying Ave-Mary and the angelick salutation, for the health of the soul 
of the said John, buried in the conventual church of Wykes in Essex: he died before 
Sir John, his father, and Sir Thomas his brother was lord in the 36th of that King, and 
his son, Sir Robert de Cockfeld, was lord in the 5th of Richard II.

Sir John de Cockfeld, son of Sir Robert, kept his first court in the 4th of Henry V.; he 
married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Foljambe, and died s. p. about the 30th of 
Henry VI. and was then the wife of Ralph Monboucher. After this it came to Agnes, 
sister and heir of Sir John, who brought it by marriage to John Talbys, Esq. of 
Lincolnshire, and so to John Ascough, Esq. of the said county, as may beseen in East 
Tuddenham, in Mitford hundred, who sold it to John Wynham, Esq. in the reign of 
Henry VI. Sir Thomas Wyndham died seized of it in 1522: his son Edmund, in the 27th 
of Henry VIII. held with Thomas Astley, Esq. three knights fees, and 3 quarters of the 
Bishop of Norwich, paying castle guard to Norwich from 30 weeks to 30, 3s. 6d. for 
each fee; and was sold by a fine levied in the 34th of the said King to Sir William 
Butts, whose son William was lord, and by the heiress of this family came to Sir Nich. 
Bacon, Bart. whose son, Sir Edmund, sold it to the Astleys, in which family it now 
remains. From: 'Holt hundred: Melton Constable', An Essay towards a Topographical 
History of the County of Norfolk: volume 9 (1808), pp. 415-426. URL: 
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78583&strquery=cockfield Date 
accessed: 07 March 2012.

Parents
DE VERE Alphonso (ABT 1010 - )
OF FLANDERS Katherine (ABT 1020 - )

Siblings
DE VERE Aubrey (Alberic) (ABT 1039 - 1112)
DE COKEFIELD Roger (ABT 1043 - AFT 1086)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
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Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DE COKEFIELD Lemmerus (ABT 1066 - )

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