Hugh PEVERELL Lord of the Manor of sampford, Devon

  General Notes:

EGLOSHAYLE, CORNWALL . Park, that is, a field of any sort, otherwise in this parish it signifies a deer - park, was one of the ancient s eats of the Peverells, lineally descended from William the Conqueror, by Jane his concubine, the wife of Randolph Peverell of Hatfield - Peverell parish in Witham Decanatus, in the county of Essex, who abdicated the said Jane, and left her wholly on the Co nquerors hands, who had issue by her a son, named William Peverell, (who, because born during the joint marriage and lives of the said Randolph and Jane, was surnamed Peverell) upon whom the Conqueror settled t he honor, manor, and borough of N ottingham, a nd town of Lyndeby, on him, and his heirs male. William Peverell the illegitimate son of the Conquorer had at the time of the Domesday Book Lordship of 162 Manors in England, making him the tenth largest proprietor of lands.

Hugh married.