Also known as Drogo de Pevenesel
Sheriff of the Rape of Hastings
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Living: 1100.
The date is given by Keats-Rohan (1999, p. 357; 202, p. 508).
Date of Death: by 1129.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Keats-Rohan (1999, p. 357; 2002, p. 634).
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
(probable) Father-in-law: Reinbert, the sheriff of Hastings.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (1999, p. 357). The Sussex VCH (9:212) states: “There is no mention of Etchingham by name in the Domesday Survey, but at that date Reinbert, the sheriff of Hastings and founder of the house of Echingham, was holding one hide in the hundred of Henhurst, which had been held by Cane before the Conquest. The overlordship followed the descent of the rape. The heir of Reinbert was Dru of Pevensey, whose son Simon de ‘Achingham’ was living about 1150…”
Children:
Evidence
Drew appears in the Regesta (ii, no. 1670).
References
A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 9, the Rape and Honour of Hastings, (Victoria County Histories, 1937).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Robert of Flamborough. Liber Poenitentialis, ed. J.J. Francis Firth (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1971).