Robert Despenser

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  1. The office is the origin of the Spencer surname. [5]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 383
  2. 1 2 Mason William II p. 75
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Barlow William Rufus pp. 141–142
  4. 1 2 3 Round "Abetot, Urse d' (c.1040–1108)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  5. Reaney and Wilson Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames p. 420
  6. Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility p. 150

Sources

  • Barlow, Frank (1983). William Rufus. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN   0-520-04936-5.
  • Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN   0-85115-722-X.
  • Mason, Emma (2005). William II: Rufus, the Red King. Stroud, UK: Tempus. ISBN   0-7524-3528-0.
  • Newman, Charlotte A. (1988). The Anglo-Norman Nobility in the Reign of Henry I: The Second Generation. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   0-8122-8138-1.
  • Reaney, Percy H. & Wilson, Richard M. (2005). Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-280663-5.
  • Round, J. H. (2004). "Abetot, Urse d' (c.1040–1108)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. revised by Emma Mason. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28022 . Retrieved 13 June 2009.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

Robert Despenser
Chateau de Tancarville11.jpg
The Château de Tancarville in Normandy.
Despenser was a tenant of the lords of Tancarville.
Royal steward
In office
c. 1088 c. 1098