Roger de Herdeburgh

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁶⁵
"In Domesday Book Harboroughis rated at 8½ hides, 4½ being held by Richard the Forester (fn. 6) and 4 by Anseis, [V.C.H. Warw. i, 343] in each case directly of the king. Richard's holding had before 1066 been held freely by four thegns, that of Anseis by Bruning.

Hugh de Loges, a descendant of Richard the Forester, [Dugd. 472] quitclaimed 16 virgates in HHarborough Magna to Roger de Herdebergh in 1232. [Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xi), 464. Cf. Bracton's Note Book, 950] This Roger was in 1253 exempted from being put on assizes, juries, or inquests, and from being made sheriff, verderer, or coroner. [Cal. Pat. 1247\endash 58, p. 193] The overlordship had by this time come to the Hastings family, and Hugh de Herdebergh, Roger's son, held half a knight's fee in Harborough which in 1269 was assigned to Joan, widow of Henry de Hastings, in dower. [Cal. Close. 1268\endash 72, p. 42]

~VCH: A History of the County of Warwick, Volume VI, pp. 99-103