Sir Roger le Scot Knight of Calverley

  General Notes:

This Calverley Pedigree is based on The Calverley Charters, Presented to the British Museum, by Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Baronet, Vol. I, Notes on the Pedigree, Introduction, pgs. Xxix to lxvi.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵¹
Sir Roger Scot of Calverley who was likely born about 1190. He is mentioned within documents that are part of the Calverley Charters, and in one of these documents he was a witness and named "Sir Roger Scot." Roger was dead in 11 Henry III (1226) when his widow, Jursella, released a bovate of land in Wintereset to the prior of St. Oswald's. [Feet of Fines, case 262, file 21, No. 152]

Roger le Scot disputed his grandfather's grant of Calverley Church: "Roger le Scot claimed the next presentation to the church of Calverley against the Archbishop of York and H., the Treasurer. The defendants stated that William Scot had given the advowson to Roger, Archbishop of York, who had given it to the Chapel of St. Mary, which he had built on the gate near the mother church of St. Peter. The jury found that William Scot, the Roger, did give the church, as stated." [Curia Regis 67, m.I, printed in Abbreviatio Placitorum, p. 68]
~The Calverley Charters, Presented to the British Museum, by Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Baronet, Vol. I, Notes on the Pedigree