Sir Thomas St. Omer Knight

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The ancient family of De Sancto Omero, or St. Omer, were lords of this Brundale, Norfolk, England. Cecilia de St. Omer, widow, lady of it, gave ten marks in the 6^th year of King John, for the custody of William, son and heir of William Peverel, of Melton Magna in Norfolk; of this family was Sir Bartholomew de St. Omer.

Sir Thomas de St. Omer, in the 20th of Henry III. held it by half a fee of Robert Fitz-Roger, he of William Marshal, &c. William de St. Omer, in the 38th of that King, had a grant of a fair here, and in Mulbarton, with free warren, being then with the King in Gascoyn in France.

~An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol. III, p. 219