Sarah Fitz Ralph

Family/Spouse: Roger de Bavent. Roger died after 1255. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Adam de Bavent was born in of Wiston, Cocking, and Heene, Sussex, England; died in 1292.

Notes:

"COCKING was held of Edward the Confessor by Azor, and in 1086 it was held of Earl Roger by Robert (son of Tetbald), as 12 hides, of which ½ hide was held by Turald. There were 5 mills, and there was one haw in Chichester attached to the manor. Robert's estates constituted the honor of Petworth, later acquired by the family of Percy, and Cocking was held of that honor. In 1187 when the honors of Arundel and Petworth were in the king's hands, Cocking was tallaged among other royal demesnes at 2 marks. In 1195, shortly after Henry de Percy had recovered the honor of Petworth, Brian fitz Ralph disputed his right to the honor, which he himself claimed in right of his wife Gunnor, who was great-granddaughter of Aveline, heiress and probably granddaughter of Robert son of Tetbald. Eventually Brian and Gunnor remitted to Henry de Percy their rights in the honor but retained the whole of the vill of Cocking (except 2 virgates which Henry de Hesset held as appurtenant to ½ knight's fee in Heyshott), with Linchmere and 2 1/20 fees in Selham (and Minstead). It was arranged that these fees should be held of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who should hold of Percy, and this arrangement still held good in 1314." [Victoria County History of Sussex, citation details below, volume 4, "Cocking," pp. 43-47]

Brian married Gunnor Fitz Alan in 1194. Gunnor (daughter of Eudes de Meldon) was born in of Cocking, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Cocking in the time of Henry II. He became a monk in later life.

Notes:

Lord of Cocking, Sussex temp. Henry I.

"There was a church at Cocking in 1086. This was a prebend of the collegiate church of St. Nicholas at Arundel and when that college was converted into a priory subject to the abbey of Séez the church passed to the abbey. In 1200 there was a suit between Brian, son of Ralph, and Gunnor his wife against the abbot of Séez, who was represented by William, prior of Arundel. Brian and Gunnor claimed the advowson in Gunnor's name, on the ground that her great-grandfather Alan had been seised of it and had presented Humphrey de Pallingham in the reign of Henry I. The abbot of Séez against this claimed that the advowson of Cocking belonged to the prebend of Arundel which the monks of Séez had from Roger de Montgomery, who founded the church of Arundel and was the overlord of Cocking at the time of the Domesday Survey. In the autumn of the same year Ralph and Gunnor released their right in the advowson of Cocking Church to the abbot, who in return gave Gunnor a palfrey." [Victoria County History of Sussex, citation details below, volume 4, "Cocking," pp. 43-47]