Roger de Burun, Lord of Horestan Castle

Roger de Burun, Lord of Horestan Castle, in 1166 succeeded his father and brother who had become a monk about ten years earlier. He married Nicola, daughter of Rorland de Verdun and had four children.

Roger gave land to the Cisterian monks of Swineshead Abbey, Lincolnshire. When Roger died in 1199 Nicola married Anketin de Brikescard.

A*Information obtained from ' The Byrom Chronicle, A History of the Byron and Byrom Families, 1066-1800' by Mark Bennett Byron III, 1965