Ancestral Glimpses » Sir Roland d'Anvers (± 1027-± 1081)

Personal data Sir Roland d'Anvers 

• Alternative name: Roland d'Auvers
• He was born about 1027 in Auvers, Normandie, FRANCE.
• He died about 1081 in Oxfordshire, ENGLAND.
• This information was last updated on June 20, 2015.

Household of Sir Roland d'Anvers

He is married to Rohaise.

They got married about 1052 at Normandy, FRANCE.

Child(ren):

1. Roger d'Anvers  ± 1056-????
2. Almar d'Anvers  ± 1058-????
3. Robert d'Anvers  ± 1060-????
4. Ralph d'Anvers  ± 1061-± 1110 

Notes about Sir Roland d'Anvers

Sir Roland was probably born about the same time as the conqueror, A D 1027, and may very well have been brother to William de Auvers the son of Helge, whom we find amongst the early benefactors of the Convent of St Sauveur le Vicomte. It seems likely that he married before the time of the Conquest, A D 1066, as we find his sons holding manors when the Survey was completed in the year 1086. Probably Roland was then dead, or possibly he may have returned to Normandy, leaving his sons in possession of the inheritance which he had won in England. [Memorials of the Danvers Family p 38]

Source: Memorials of the Danvers family (of Dauntsey and Culworth) : their ancestors and descendants from the conquest till the termination of the eighteenth century. ...:
"Amongst the Harleian collection of manuscripts is one. No. 4081, which includes an interesting sketch of the origin of the Danvers family in England, and runs as follows: 'Danvers, whose surname Alverse or Aluers, after ye French pronunciation Auvers, is now written Danvers. Alvers was and yet is the name of a village or town in France within or adjoining the Duchy of Normandie, from whence there came a knight into England with William, Duke of Normandie, at the Conquest, who being planted here in regard of that Towne, of which before his coming he was, both he himself at that time, and his posterity were surnamed by the same and called diversly at divers times, but in terms not much differing - de Alverse, de Aluers and de Auvers. ...

And now we may picture Boland of Alvers leaving home in the autumn of the year 1066 to join the army which Duke William was assembling at Dives for the invasion of England.. ...
And, doubtless, our knight fought in the centre of the army with the Normans who formed it, and were led by the Duke's half-brothers Robert, Earl of Mortain, and Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, with whom was the Bishop of Coutances.
But with them fell many a Norman soldier, and of the invading army few were those who escaped unhurt from the perils of the day. Amongst the survivors, so tradition says, was the knight of Alvers. * Fort en loyalty,' he reaped the reward of his valour in manors in Northampton, Oxford- shire, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire, given to him by the leaders of the centre of the Norman army under whom he fought. ...

As regards the earliest members of the English family of the name, these genealogies, though they more or less differ, yet all agree in this, that a Balph or Banulph of Little Marlow, Hitcham and Domey, was the son of the Norman knight who came to England with the Conqueror, and the common ancestor of the Danvers of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Borkshire.

The pedigree in question is one of the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire branches of the Danvers family, and it asserts that the first of the name in England was Sir Boland de Alvers, who had three sons, Balph, Boger, and Almar. ...

Sir Boland was probably bom about the same time as the Conqueror, a.d. 1027, and may very well have been brother to William de Auvers the son of Helge, whom we find amongst the early benefactors of the Convent of St. Sauveur le Yicomte. It seems likely that he married before the time of the Conquest, A.D. 1066, as we find his sons holding manors when the Survey was completed in the year 1086. Probably Boland was then dead, or possibly he may have returned to Normandy, leaving his sons in possession of the inheritance which he had won in England. ..."
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Source: The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical ..., Volume 2 Par Arthur Collins:
"D'anvers, of Culworth, Northamptonshire.Created Baronet, March 21, 1642.
His family, denominated from the town of Anvers, in France, and anciently written de Anverso, or D'Anvers, descend from Roland D'Anverso, who entered England with William the Conqueror, and altho' we find not any lands he held by gift of that Prince, who very liberally rewarded his followers, especially those who took up their abode here, yet Ranulph D' Anvers, his son, received of Crispin, Lord of Wallingford, (whose Knight he was) the manors of Marlow, Dorney, and Huckham, to hold of his Honour of Wallingford.
Roland, (son of Ranulph) was Dapifer to the Baron of Wallingford, and his descendant, Sir Ranulph D'Anvers, married the daughter and heir to William de la Riviere, by which match he greatly increased his estate ; to which a farther addition was made by William, his son and heir, who married with the sister and co-heir of Robert de Coleshall: He was living 17. Edw. III. and one of the witnesses to a charter of that King, dated Nov. Q, 13+3. whereby Nicholas de Cantilupe, became the founder of the Carthusian monastery of Beavall, in com. Nott, and being denominated of Wappenham, had issue Robert, who died 3 7. Edw. III. having had issue by Alice, his wife, sister and co-heir to Robert de la Beech, of Aldworth, in Berks, (whose family had been Barons of Parliament, and of ancient extraction) two sons, Edmund, and Richard. ...
Roland married Rohese in 1052 in , Normandie, France. (Rohese was born in 1031 in France.)

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