Roger Bacon (abt. 1152 - aft. 1216)

Born about 1152 in Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Biography

Alan D Henry at Genforum:

1. Grimaldus m. Unknown.

Bacon is the name of an ancient seigniory in Normandy, and from this place the Norman ancestors in England took their name nearly a thousand years ago. According to the genealogy of the Suffolk family of Bacon, one Grimald, or Grimaldus, a relative of the Norman chieftain, William de Warrenne, came to England in 1066 at the time of the Conquest and settled near Holt, in County Suffolk. His son, or Great Grandson Robert, took the surname Bacon, or rather assumed the use of the place-name as a surname. In the north of France the surname Bacon is still in use.

William Bacon in 1082 endowed the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen. The surname Bacon is found in the Battle Rolls in England in the eleventh century and in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth. There are occasional variations in spelling, such as Bacun and Bachun, and in some instances the surname Bacon may have been corrupted from Beacon. Some derive the surname from the Saxon baccen or baccen, a beech tree.

Much of the source data for the early Bacon ancestry is taken from "The Bacon Genealogy" by Thomas W. Baldwin (1915) as quoted from "The Baronetage of England" by Kimber and Johnson published in 1801. Also from the "Cleveland Genealogy" by Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The direct line which follows is based on a chart by Mrs Eliza Buckingham Bacon of New Haven which is taken from the Bacon Genealogy by Thomas W. Baldwin, 1915. It differs somewhat from that contained in the grant of a coat of arms made to Sir Nicholas Bacon in 1568, however, in the same book from which an extract of the grant was taken is a table of the family of Bacon from Grimbaldus to Robert, father of Sir Nicholas which with the exception of one or two of the earlier generations is in accord with this line.

i Ranulph "Ralph" m. Unknown. Resided at Thorpe, County Norfolk, called Baconsthorpe by distinction. Cutter says he was known as Ralph de Bacons-Thorpe (thorp means village). In Colonial Families of the United States, Ralph is called "Ran(d)ulf." There were several places called Thorp in Norfolk and he added this name to distinguish him from other lords of Thorp.

Children:

i George Bacon.

ii Roger Bacon.

iii Agnes Bacon.

iv Gilbert Bacon. Gilbert's direct line extends only five generation to Jordan, Adam, Peter and ends with Batrianus Yorkshire Bacon.

Third Generation

i George Bacon m. Unknown. Gave and released to his sister Agnes, widow of Sir Roger DeHalis all the lands belonging to his family in Normandy. (Reg. Abbot De Langley, fol. 90).

Children:

i Roger Bacon b. EST 1165, m. Unknown. Roger, son of George sued by his sister-in-law Agnes, widow of his brother Thomas, for distaining her tenants in Baconsthorpe and Lodue and breaking her park. He raised arms with the barons against the King and had his estates confiscated. His lands were returned by favor of Henry III in 1216. Roger's direct line extends to Robert, Reginald, Richard, Sir Robert, Sir Thomas to John, alias Roger (Friar Bacon) where it ends in 1546. Roger was the progenitor of Bacons of Drinkston and Hessett, Suffolk England.

Fourth Generation

i Roger Bacon m. Unknown.

Children:

i Robert Bacon b. EST 1195.

ii William Bacon.

Sources

• The Bacon Genealogy by Thomas W. Baldwin (1915).
• The Baronetage of England by Kimber and Johnson published in 1801.
• Cleveland Genealogy by Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland.
• Colonial Families of the United States, pp 49-51.?>Massachusetts by Cutter, 1910, Vol I, pp 408-410.
• Woburn (MA) Marriages from 1640-1873, Edward F. Johnson, 1890, p 14 & 15.
• English Origins of New England Families, Second Series, Vol I, pp 58-60 and 933-935.
• Bacon and Allied Families, A Family Directory, by John Bacon, 1958 which contains source data from the Bacon Genealogy by Thomas W. Baldwin, The Cleveland Genealogy by Edmund J. Cleveland and other sources of Bacon Ancestry.
• NEHGR, Vol 90, July 1936, pp 300-301. NEHGR, Vol 56, October 1902, pp 364-374.
• History of the Town of Bedford, by Abram English Brown, Bedford, Published by the Author, 1891.
• Bacon Genealogy, Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640 and His Descendants by Thomas W. Baldwin, 1915.
• Cleveland Genealogy compiled by Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland.
• Michail Bacon and his descendants, by Leon Brooks Bacon, L.B., 1902.Automated Archives Inc., CD-Rom 100 & 102.

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