Roger de Harewell

1321 - 1390  (69 years)

• Name	Roger de Harewell
  Born	1321	Harewell, Worcestershire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1390	Wootton Wawen, , Warwickshire, England
  Notes	Source: Harwell: Village For A Thousand Years, 1985 print web: http://www.harwellparish.co.uk/village4a1000years/book/book-introduction.html In medieval times, the trade or following of an individual came to be used as a surname and many of these are still in common use, e.g. Smith, Baker, Taylor, etc. In other cases such as a member of a profession or a freehold landowner the place of origin was added after the name, particularly if the individual travelled or was known away from his locality. Thus in the thirteenth century some few villagers would have been known as, for example, ... de Harwell or more correctly de Harewell as the present spelling did not come into general use until the seventeenth century. John de Harewell (1320 -1386) was born in the village, the son of a freeholder, and having studied at Oxford University he became a priest. In the service of the Black Prince he rose to become Governor of Aquitaine in southwest France during the Hundred Years War and finally Bishop of Bath and Wells. A stone effigy lies on his table tomb in Wells Cathedral. John de Harewell following the priesthood, of course had no issue. It is to his brother Roger who married an heiress from Wootton Wawen in Warwickshire, that the direct lineage has been uncovered. Several branches of the family were known in the early seventeenth century in Coventry, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Evesham and Suffolk. A Thomas Foulk Harewell abandoned the impoverished family home at Besford, near Worcester, and sailed with his brother in 1636 as colonists to Virginia, from where the family eventually spread across the southern states of America.
  Person ID	I12209	Master File
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2012

  
  

  Family	Maud de Stanford,   b. 1326, Wooten Wawen, Worcestershire, England ,   d. 1419  (Age 93 years)
  Married	1350	Besford, Worcestershire, England
  Children	1. John Harewell,   b. 1347, Wootton, Warwickshire, England ,   d. 1428, Wootton, Warwickshire, England  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2012
  Family ID	F7175	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart