Ivo Le Norreys

Ivo 'le Norreys' - the Norseman - a messenger from the King of Norway at the Court of King Henry I.

Added by; HRH Prince Kieren de Muire von Drakenberg

Notes:

In 1122 Ivo le Norreys was a messenger of the King of Norway. This Ivo le Norreys was probably the Ivo de Daresbury whose son William gave lands at Eltonhead in Lancashire to Hugh le Norreys at the end of the twelfth century. The fact that the Daresbury lands ended in the le Norreys family leads me to suspect that Ivo le Norreys and Ivo de Daresbury were the same person.

At the end of the twelfth century William son of Ivo de Daresbury gave with the consent of his wife Siegrith and his heirs to Hugh le Norreys a plough-land in Eltonhead Manor, Lancashire. Through this grant the Eltonhead Manor came to the "le Norreys" name.

In 1221 Hugh le Norreys granted four oxgangs of land, or half the vill of Eltonhead, Lancashire, to William le Norreys, his son, who appears to have settled there becoming the ancestor of the family who took their name from the place and held this mesne manor down to the end of the seventeenth century.

From http://cybergata.com/roots/5013.htm

Web Reference: The Family of "le Norreys". 923 (dead link, March 2017)

Ivo le Norreys of Darebury, Lancashire, England is the first known "le Norreys" to be recorded in England. In 1122, he was a messenger of the King of Norway in England. It is not known if Ivo was from Norway, Normandy or from England. Shortly after, Geoffrey le Norreys's name occurs, and it is not certain how he and Ivo were related. They were close enough in relationship for the descendants of Geoffrey le Norreys to hold the lands that once belonged to Ivo le Norreys.