Adam de Port (d. c. 1133)

Adam de Port (sometimes Adam of Port;[1] d. c. 1133) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Baron of Kington.

Adam was the son of either Hugh de Port[2] or Hubert de Port.[3] The family originated in Port-en-Bessin in the Calvados region of Normandy.[4]

Before 1121, Adam was granted the manor of Kington in Herefordshire by King Henry I of England. Kington had previously been in the royal demense. This grant is considered by I.J. Sanders to have created Adam the baron of Kington.[2] Adam served King Henry in his household as a steward.[1] He was a witness on four royal documents in 1115 and four more in 1121.[5] Adam held 22 knight's fees in Hereford before his death.[6]

Adam may have been the Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1130,[7] and perhaps at other times also, as he may be the person listed as the sheriff in some documents.[8][a]

Adam founded Andwell Priory in Hampshire as a dependent priory of Tiron Abbey. He also gave gifts of land to Tiron itself and Les Deux Jumeaux, another dependency of Tiron.[7]

Adam died between 1130 and 1133.[3] His heir was his son Roger de Port, and he had two other sons named Hugh and Robert.[9]

  1. ^ a b Hollister Henry I p. 361
  2. ^ a b Sanders English Baronies p. 57
  3. ^ a b Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 645
  4. ^ Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families pp. 79–80
  5. ^ Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility pp. 185–186
  6. ^ Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility p. 175
  7. ^ a b Cownie "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  8. ^ a b Green English Sheriffs p. 45
  9. ^ Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 646


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