Roger de Martel Lord of Hinton Martel

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³⁰²
Roger Martel died in 1280 and left a widow Joan [Cal. Close, 1279-84, p. 12] and two daughters, Ela aged 7, and Joan aged 4. [Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, 355.] They married two brothers: Ela married Peter fitz Reynold and had a son Roger; Joan married Reynold fitz Reynold and had a son Herbert. [Add. MS. 39373, fol. 225] Ela and Joan were dead by 1309 and Merston passed to Ela's son Roger Martel. He died in 1334, his son Henry being then an infant. [Cal. Pat. 1334\endash 8, p. 24.] This Henry fitz Roger held a knight's fee in Merston in 1344 and died early in 1352, holding the manor jointly with his wife Elizabeth by grant of Margaret, widow of Sir John la Warre. His heir was his son Alan, then aged 9, [Cal. Inq. p.m. i, 29] but he died about eight years after his father, his heir being his brother Thomas, [Cal. Inq. p.m, xi, 621] who proved his age on 4 June 1367. [Cal. Inq. p.m, xii, 182] It was then stated that he was born and baptized at Merston, two of his godparents being Sir Thomas de Holand and Maud de Holand, with whom his father Henry had that year made up a great quarrel. Thomas died in 1382 and the manor came to Elizabeth, daughter and heir of his brother John fitz Roger, who married John Bonvyle. [Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 11] A conveyance of the manor of Merston in 1385 by Sir John Lovel and Maud his wife to John and Elizabeth Bonvyle [Suss. Rec. Soc. xxiii, 2560] was presumably a release of their interest in the manor. Sir John Bonvyle died in 1396, and Elizabeth almost immediately married Richard Stucle.

~History of the County of Susex, Vol. IV, pp. 158-160

• Background Information. ¹²⁷⁸
Eudo Martell possessed land at Glen Magna about 1220, [Rot. Hugonis de Welles, ed. W. P. W. Phillimore, i. 265] and in 1265 William Martell, who had inherited land at Glen from his father Ivo, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 295] was said to possess 7 virgates in demesne and 14 in villeinage there. [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 295] Robert Martell was still holding land at Glen in 1279, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 296] but subsequently the male line of the Martell family seems to have died out. In 1314 Glen was being held by John and Peter, sons of one Reynold. (fn. 46) Nothing further is known about the share of Glen obtained by John, but Peter certainly held his portion in right of his wife Ela, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 296] who may have been an heiress of the Martell family. From Peter and Ela the holding descended to their son Roger, who was known as Roger Martel; his holding at Glen was referred to as a manor in 1333. [Cal. Fine R. iv. 365] Roger's son Henry in turn inherited the manor, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 299] and at his death in 1352 was holding it from Robert de Holand. [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 299] Henry's two elder sons Alan and Thomas each inherited the manor in turn, but both died without issue [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 300] and the manor passed to their brother John, and after his death to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Bonville. [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 301]

~A History of the County of Leicestershire, Vol. V pp. 102-112

Roger married Joan.¹³⁰²