Roger (Montbegon) de Montbegon (abt. 1165 - bef. 1226)

Born about 1165 in England

Ancestors

Died before 30 Mar 1226 before about age 61 in England

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Magna Carta Surety Baron Roger de Montbegon was one of the twenty-five medieval barons who were surety for Magna Carta in 1215. Join: Magna Carta Project Discuss: magna_carta

Biography

Roger was the son of Adam de Montbegon and Matilda, daughter of Adam FitzSwain.^[1] His birth date is uncertain.

From his parents Roger inherited Hornby, Lancashire, and lands in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire.^[2][3]

While Richard I was held prisoner in Germany, Roger associated himself with the future King John in his efforts to gain control of England. In 1197/8 he was fined 500 marks as the price of reaching a settlement wit Richard.^[4]

In 1195 or later Roger witnessed charters of Roger de Lacy.^[5]

In 1199/1200 Roger paid a fine^[4] for permission to marry Olive, daughter of Alan and his wife Joan. He was her second husband.^[6]

In the period leading up to the Magna Carta, Roger refused to pay scutage to King John.^[7] He was one of the Magna Carta Surety Barons in 1215.^[8] He was committed to bring only ten knights to help the Barons enforce the Magna Carta if King John broke its terms,^[7] so he was one of the lesser Barons among the Magna Carta Sureties. Later that year he joined in the rebellion of some Barons against King John.^[9]

In the winter of 1219/20 Hubert de Burgh, who was largely in control of royal government at the time (Henry III was a minor), helped to safeguard Roger from the Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, who was ordered to hand over two manors to Roger, but Roger had to go to court a few months later in an attempt to have this enforced.^[10]

Roger was present at the second coronation of Henry III in May 1220.^[11] The following year he helped to suppress an uprising by William de Forz, who had been another of the Magna Carta Surety Barons in 1215.^[12]

Roger died without issue in 1226.^[7] On 30 March 1226 orders were given for his lands, except those inherited by his widow, to be taken into the king's hands.^[13] They were entrusted to John de Lacy.^[14]

Legacy

Roger de Montbegon is one of the eight Magna Carta surety barons with no traced ongoing line of descendants. He had no issue by his wife Olive. When he died in 1225/26, his castle of Hornby in Lancashire was given by the King to John de Warren, Earl of Surrey; but when his brother, Henry de Montbegon, was recognized as Roger's heir, he recovered it.^[15]

Research Notes

Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Biography

For the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta in 2015, Professor Nigel Saul wrote a set of biographies of the Surety Barons. He and the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee generously gave permission for them to be reproduced on WikiTree. They can be viewed here.

Sources

1. ↑ Corrections to K S B Keats-Rohan's, "Domesday Descendants", pp. 901-1169, 'p.961 Filius Suein, Adam', Foundation for Medieval Genealogy website
2. ↑ Andrew David Connell. The De Lacy Constables of Chester and Earls of Lincoln: the Transformation of an Honor (1190-1311), PhD thesis submitted to Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, England, 2018, p. 171, PDF, accessed 5 May 2020
3. ↑ Liber Feodorum, Vol. I, Part I (1198-1242), His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920, p. 215, Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Richard Thomson. An Historical Essay on the Magna Carta of King John, London, 1829, pp. 296-297, Google Books
5. ↑ Richard Holmes (ed.). The Chartulary of St John of Pontefract, Vol. I, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol. XXV, 1898, pp. 35-6, Internet Archive
6. ↑ Cawley, Charles 'Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families' © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands. Entry for Olive FitzJordan, accessed 5 May 2020: FITZFLAAD 3.b.ii. Johanna uxor Alani dapiferi de Dolo et filia ipsius Oliva.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Dan Jones. Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter, Head of Zeus, 2014, pages unnumbered in Google Books snippets, entry for Roger de Montbegon, Google Books
8. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. ix, Google Books
9. ↑ Andrew David Connell. The De Lacy Constables of Chester, p. 59
10. ↑ David A Carpenter. The Minority of Henry III, University of California Press, pp. 170 and 179, Google Books
11. ↑ David A Carpenter, The Minority of Henry III, p. 191, Google Books
12. ↑ David A Carpenter, The Minority of Henry III, p. 234, Google Books
13. ↑ Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III: 9 to 18 Henry III, 1224-1234, Boydell and Brewer, 2007, p. 78, entries 126-129, Google Books
14. ↑ Andrew David Connell, The De Lacy Constables of Chester and Earls of Lincoln, p. 65
15. ↑ Brookfield Publishing Company - Media: Magna Charta Baron Page for Roger de Montbegon.

See also:

• Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) Vol. 1, Page 321.
• Wikipedia: Roger de Montbegon

Acknowledgements

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Magna Carta Project

As a surety baron, Roger de Montbegon is managed by the Magna Carta Project, even though he is one of the eight barons with no traced ongoing line of descendants. ~ Noland-165 00:37, 27 January 2018 (EST)

This profile was reviewed by Michael Cayley for the Magna Carta Project, finishing on 5 May 2020.