Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between 1316 and 1328.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: probably Robert de Rokle.
Robert is recorded as having land in Rookley about 1287-1290 that John had in 1316 and that John’s son Geoffrey had in 1346.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Adam Roucle (died in or before 1328) married Isabel.
Geoffrey Roucle (died 27 March 1390) married Isabel le Boteler, the widow of Richard Wayte of Denmead.
Evidence
from The Book of Fees (p. 1302):
Fees of Carisbrooke Castle.
Feoda Militaria Pertinentia ad Castrum de Caresbrok’ in Insula de Wycht.
Johannes le Flemeng’ et Willelmus le Martre tenenent in propartiam dimidium feodum in Blakepenn’ et Rokle.
Robertus de Rokle tenet iiijtam partem unius feodi in Rokle.
from the Feet of Fines (abstract on Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy):
Place: York.
Date: One week from St Martin, 2 Edward III [18 November 1328].
Parties: Robert de Roukley, querent, and Isabel, who was the wife of Adam de Roukley, deforciant.
Property: 4 messuages, 57 [acres] of land, 2 acres of meadow and 4 acres of moor in Gatecumbe and Roukley in the Isle of Wight (Insula Vecta).
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Isabel has acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Robert, as those which he has of her gift.
For this: Robert has granted to Isabel the tenements and has rendered them to her in the court, to hold to Isabel, of Robert and his heirs for the life of Isabel, rendering yearly 1 penny at the feast of St Michael, and doing to the chief lords all other services. And after the decease of Isabel the tenements shall revert to Robert and his heirs, quit of the heirs of Isabel, to hold of the chief lords for ever.
from Feudal Aids:
1316
Hundredum de Estmedine…
Hameletti
Villa de Rouklye
Villa de Horingeford Johannes de Rouclye
1346
Hundredo de Estmedeine
Galfridus Roucle tenet in Roucle iiijtam partem un. f. quod fuit Ade de Roucle
1428
Insula Vecta
Ricardus Coke tenent quartam partem f. m. in Rokeley, quod Adam de Rokeley quondam tenuit.
from the National Archives catalogue:
JER/SEL/1/15
Quitclaim
Rights in the lands, rents and tenements which William Passelewe the brother of (1) lately conveyed to Geoffrey de Rouklye
(1) Richard Passelewe, brother of William Passelwe of Broke, [I.W.]
(2) Geoffrey Roukley, s. and heir of John Roukley
Witnesses: … Thomas Glamorgan…
1352 April 6
References
Feudal Aids: A.D. 1284-1431 v. 2 (1900).
Liber feodorum. The book of fees, commonly called Testa de Nevill, reformed from the earliest MSS. (1920).
'Parishes: Arreton', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 139-151.