General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Sheriff Of Wiltshire
Edward de Evereux, designated "of Salisbury," was subsequently sheriff of Wiltshire and, at the time of the general survey, possessed lordships in the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Surrey, Hants, Middlesex, Hereford, Buckingham, and Wilts. When sheriff of the latter county, we are told that he received in rent, as belonging to his office, 130 hogs, 32 bacons, 2 bushels and 16 gallons of wheat, the same of barley, 448 hens, 1,060 eggs, 100 cheeses, 52 lambs, 200 fleeces of wool, having likewise 162 acres of arable land and, amongst the reves land, to the value of £40 per annum. This Edward was standard bearer at the battle of Brennevill, in Normandy, fought 20th Henry I [1120], King Henry being present, and distinguished himself by his singular skill and valour. He left at his decease, a dau., Maude, wife of Humphrey de Bohun, and a son and heir, Walter de Evereux. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 167, d'Evereux, Earls of Salisbury]