Adam de Port

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Adam de Port
Born: ABT 1151, Basing, Northamptonshire, England
Died: 25 Jun 1213
Notes: "This feudal baron was governor of the castle of Southampton in the 15th (1213-14) King John, and in the 22nd Henry II [1176] he was fined 300 marks for trespassing in the king's forests. In the 26th of the same reign [1180], he gave 1000 marks to the King for livery of his wife's inheritance in Normandy, and that he might be restored to the king's favour and do his homage. He m. Mabel, dau. of Reginald De Aurevalle, and grandchild and heir through her mother, Muriell, of Roger De St. John, and Cecily his wife, dau. and heir of Robert De Haye, Lord of Halnac, co. Sussex, and his posterity ever afterwards bore the surname of St. John. By this lady he had two sons, William and Robert."
Source: Burke, Sir John Bernard.(1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire ("New Version"). London: Harrison. 59. Pall Mall, p. 466. – Cited by: Tudor Place.

Father: John de PORT
Mother: Maud St JOHN

Married 1: Mabel de AUREVALLE
Children:
1. Alice De PORT
2. William De St. JOHN
3. Robert De St. JOHN

Married 2: Sibyl de BRAIOSE (w. of William De Ferrers, 3º E. Derby) AFT 1190, Bramber, Sussex, England
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The Complete Peerage, Vol. 11, p. 320.
(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)

ADAM DE PORT, son and heir (a1), a minor at his father's death, was of age by Michaelmas 1172 (j). At Michaelmas 1180 he made a render of 1000 marks for the fine of his land and for his wife's inheritance in Normandy and that the King should remit his anger and take his homage (a2). In 1194 he was with the King in the army in Normandy, but for some reason his Norman land had at this time been taken into the King's hand and let to farm (c1). He accompanied King John to Normandy after his Coronation and was in freauent attendance on him from 1199 to November 1212. In 1202 he and his son William brought the prisoners captured at Mirebeau to England. Adam married, 1stly, Mabel, heiress of Orval and thereafter through her mother of the St John honor of Halnaker; and 2ndly, Sibyl "The Countess," widow of William [DE FERRERS), EARL OF DERBY (died 1190), and daughter of William (DE DE BRIOUZE, LORD OF BRAMBER, by Bertha, sister and coheir of Mahel OF HEREFORD, LORD OF ABERGAVENNY AND BRECKNOCK, and daughter of Miles (OF GLOUCESTER), EARL OF HEREFORD. He was living on 25 June (c2) and dead on 28 July 1213 (d). His widow was living and unmarried in 1219 and probably in September 1228.