Hugh de Berners

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Berners is an English family name deriving from Hugh de Berners (Hugo de Bernières, from Bernières-d'Ailly, Normandy), who came with the Norman invasion in 1066

Hugh de Berners held 3 hides of land of the bishop of Ely in 1082 (Regesta V.1, pp. 43&156). - 1128 The Abbey of Waverley was founded by William Giffard, bishop of Winchester. - Hugh Berners was holding Evresdon in Cambridge as tenant in chief. He had a daughter Wimark, whho married Stephen de Langton, whose grandson was Stepehn Langton, archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal in 1206. - Hugh held at the Survey property in the counties of Essex, Cambridge and Middlesex. In Essex it was Berston, Roding Berners and others of Geoffrey de Mandeville; in Cambridgesshire Eversdon. William de Bernes witnessed in 1093 a charter by Robert FitzHugh to Chester Abbey.