Sir Roger la Zouche

Events 

Date of Birth: between 1240 and 1242.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (12B:934). Roger’s age is “variously stated as 28 and more and 30” in his father’s 1270 inquisition post mortem.

Date of Death: shortly before 15 October 1285.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (12B:935). It is the date of the writ for Roger’s inquisition post mortem.

Relationships

Father: Sir Alan la Zouche.

Mother: Ellen de Quincy.

These relationships are given by the Complete Peerage (12B:935).

Spouse: Ela Longespee. Married before 1267.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12B:935).

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir Alan la Zouche (born 9 October 1267 in North Molton, Devon - died shortly before 25 March 1314)

Evidence

Roger’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM v.2, no. 581)

Roger la Suche alias la Zouche.

Writ, 15 Oct. 13 Edw. I.

Leicester.

Extent, 14 Nov. 13 Edw. I.

Esseby la Zouche. The manor (extent given), held of the honour of Winchester for 1 knight's fee.

Alan his son, aged 18 on the day of St. Denis, 13 Edw. I., is his next heir.

References

Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Public Record Office, generally available online at British History Online, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, or Mapping the Medieval Countryside).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Nichols, John. The History and Antiquities of the Count of Leicester (1795-1815).