Sir Roger de Northwode Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Roger de Northwode, son and heir, a minor at his father's death, was given in custody to Robert de St. John, and was of age in 1247. In 1257 he had licence to hold lands inherited from his father, and otherwise acquired, in Sheppey, Upchurch, Iwade, Bobbing, Newington and Milton, by knight service instead of by gavelkind. As chief executor of Reynold de Cobham, who died sheriff of Kent, he was in charge of Dover Castle prior to 8 Jan 1257/8, and presented the accounts of the shrievalty for the first half of the year 1257-58. In September 1265, by which time he was a knight, he was a commissioner in Kent to take lands of the rebels into the King's hand, and was in and from that year Steward of the Archbishop of Canterbury. A justice to deliver Canterbury gaol, in 1269, and in 1275 and later a commissioner as to debts and affairs of the Jews there. From 1275 or 1276 until his death he was a Baron of the Exchequer, and member of many commissions, including in 1277 and 1280 those for Rochester bridge.

Roger de Northwode married Bone (called also Bonnefille, Bonafilia), sister and heir of John, son of Henry de Waltham who brought him the manors of Shorne and Thornham. He died 9 Nov 1285.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, pp. 753-754

Roger married Bonnefilia de Waltham, daughter of Henry de Waltham and Unknown.¹⁴¹ (Bonnefilia de Waltham was born about 1230 in Shorne, Strood, Kent, England and died in 1286.)