Walter of Somerville

WALTER OF SOMERVILLE

Walter of Somerville, here treated, is the son of Walter of Somerville, lord of Whitchnour in Staffordshire and Somerville Aston in Gloucestershire. According to Sir William C. Lawrie, the older: "Gualter de Somerville ….. obtained from (the Conqueror) Whitchnour in Staffordshire and Somerville Aston in Gloucestershire. He left several sons, at the commencement of the twelfth century, Gualter, who inherited his estates in England; and William, his second son, who attached himself to David I. He obtained the manor of Carnwath. Lawrie Charters: Notes LIV p. 49. William de Sumerville

Walter of Somerville is the uncle of William of Somerville of Linton and Carnwath. Early Yorkshire Charters III: charter number 1652 and notes on pp. 308-9

Evidence from the Red Book of the Exchequer

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The Red Book of the Exchequer I: p. 339

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The Red Book of the Exchequer I: p. 423

Evidence from Early Yorkshire Charters

c. 1185-1193: Grant by William de Somervill to the monks of Kirkstall of lands in Seacroft, and access for their sheep from La Roundhay over his pasture as they had in the time of his uncle, Walter de Somervill. He affirmed his gift in the land of Nicholas de Tadcaster, vice-archdeacon, because the monks had surrendered to him his town of Seacroft seven and one half years before the end of their term. Early Yorkshire Charters III: charter number 1652 and notes on pp. 308-9

Genealogy

The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1977. By G. W. S. Barrow, FBA., (Oxford University Press, 1980), 231 pp. including indexes. See pp. 193-5 for the Family of de Somerville.