Hugh de Port (c. 1015 – 1096), Anglo-Norman, believed to have arrived in England from Port-en-Bessin, leaving behind his son, Adam de Port, died 1133, who in that year owned land from the bishop of Bayeux. Possibly, Hugh was the first Norman Sheriff of Kent.[1] De Port accumulated many properties, thought to have been no less than 53 at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086,[2][3] when he held the manor of Bramshill (Bromeselle).[4] Hugh de Port is associated closely with the history of Portsmouth; most of his estates were based in Hampshire.[5]

Hugh's son and heir was Adam de Port.[6]

References

  1. ^ Green, Judith A. (15 August 2002). The Aristocracy of Norman England. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-521-33509-6.
  2. ^ "Open Domesday". Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  3. ^ "De Port". History.inportsmouth.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Bramshill". Hampshire Gazetteer – JandMN: 2001. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  5. ^ Fantosme, Jordan (1840). Chronicle of the War Between the English and the Scots in 1173 and 1174. J. B. Nichols and son. p. 132.
  6. ^ Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. p. 57. OCLC 931660.

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