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Adam de PORT

Adam de PORT

Male Abt 1151 - 1213  (62 years)


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  • Name Adam de PORT 
    Birth Abt 1151  Basing, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Jun 1213 
    Person ID I28432  Coombs
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2016 

    Father John de PORT,   b. Abt 1121, Basing, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1167 (Age 46 years) 
    Mother Maud SAINT JOHN,   b. Abt 1129, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F10028  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mabel de AUREVALLE,   b. Abt 1150, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. Alice de PORT,   b. Abt 1171, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1213 (Age < 41 years)
     2. William de SAINT JOHN,   b. Abt 1173, Portchester Castle, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1239, Portchester Castle, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     3. Robert de SAINT JOHN,   b. Abt 1175, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F10027  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Feb 2026 

  • Notes 
    • Notes: This feudal baron was governor of the castle of Southampton in the 15th (1213-14) King John, and in the 22nd Henry II [1176] he was fined 300 marks for trespassing in the king's forests. In the 26th of the same reign [1180], he gave 1000 marks to the King for livery of his wife's inheritance in Normandy, and that he might be restored to the king's favour and do his homage. He m. Mabel, dau. of Reginald De Aurevalle, and grandchild and heir through her mother, Muriell, of Roger De St. John, and Cecily his wife, dau. and heir of Robert De Haye, Lord of Halnac, co. Sussex, and his posterity ever afterwards bore the surname of St. John. By this lady he had two sons, William and Robert. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 466, St. John, Barons St. John, of Basing]