Robert DE GORRAM

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• Name	Robert DE GORRAM
  Gender	Male
  Died	1166
  Person ID	I14563	Young Kent Ancestors
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2016

  
  

  Father	William DE GORRAM,   b. Bef 1100
  Mother	Matilda
  Family ID	F4354	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Abbot of St. Alban's 1151. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Domesday Descendants: some Corrigenda, by K.S. B. Keats-Rohan http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf de Gorham, Gaufrid Geoffrey de Gorham held, with Agnes de Montpincon or her son Ralph, one fee of St. Albans abbey in 1166. Kinsman of abbots Geoffrey and Robert de Gorron. Abbot Geoffrey de Goron of St. Albans built a hall at Westwick for his brother-in-law Hugh fitz Humbold, whose successors Ivo and Geoffrey used the name de Gorham (GASA i, p. 95). Geoffrey brother of Abbot Robert and Henry son of Geoffrey de Goram attested a charter of Archdeacon John of Durham c. 1163/6 (Kemp, Archidiaconal Acta, 31). Geoffrey's successor Henry de Gorhan of Westwick (now Gorhambury) held in 1210 (RBE 558). VCH ii, 393. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------