Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Evidence cited below indicates that Roger was still alive in 1247.
Relationships
Father: Ralph de Somery.
This relationship is given by Carter (p. 34) and by Hunt (p. 35).
Mother: Margaret, daughter of William Crassus, lord of Chipping Sodbury. Married before 1194.
This relationship is given by Hunt (p. 34), citing a marriage contract and a confirmation charter, both in the Brooksby cartulary.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Roger de Somery (died about 1273) married (1) Nichola, daughter of William d’Aubigny; married (2) Amabil de Chaucombe.
Evidence
Blount (p. 426 ff.) publishes an agreement made in 1246 between Roger de Someri and Roger de Quincey, the earl of Winchester, regarding hunting in the earl’s park.
Wrottesley (p. 103) abstacts a plea roll entry from 1247 which makes clear that this agreement refers to the Roger of this page, and not his son of the same name.
References
Blount, Thomas (with Josiah Beckwith and Hercules Malebysse Beckwith). Fragmenta Antiquitatis, or ancient tenures of land and jocular customs of manors (London, 1845).
Carter, W.F. (with an appendix by G.P. Mander). “Additions to Grazebrook’s ‘The Barons of Dudley’” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire, New Series (1941) pp. 21-80.
Grazebrook, H. Sidney. “The Barons of Dudley” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire 9 (ii) (1888).
Hunt, John. Lordship and the Landscape: A documentary and archaeological study of the Honor of Dudley c. 1066 - 1322. (British Archaelogical Reports, 1997).
Wrottesley, George (trans.). “Plea Rolls” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire 4 (1883).