• General Notes

  Roger Bertram I, eldest son, with his cross confirmed his father's deed of Brinkburne Priory. In 1157 he gave fifty marks for a market at Mitford. Held of the crown, in 1165, by the service of five knight's fees, by which his father and grandfather had holden under Henry I. In 1172 he paid œ6 10s scutage, to excuse his either going himself or sending a proxy with Henry II, to the conquest of Ireland. To the monks of Newminster he gave the granges of Highlaws, in this parish, and of Horton in the parish of Ponteland, and a part of a peat moss to the nuns of Holystane, the woods called Baldwinwood, and afterwards Nunriding. This was the Roger Bertram who confirmed his father's grants to the monks of Brinkburne, and gave to them the church of Felton, and to them and their men residing within Feltonshire, common of pasture on a moiety of the ground holden by Eudo de Sauceby in exchange for a moiety carucate of land which he had given to his uncle in Aldworth. Richard and Robert Bertram and Ralph de St. Peter bring witnesses to the grant. He married Ada ....., who was a benefactor to the Newminster Priory.
  (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 702)
  
  ROGER BERTRAM, eldest son, who 12 Henry II (1166) certified to six and one-half knights fees and 18 Henry II (1122) paid scutage for not going in the expedition to Ireland; by Ada his wife had as son and heir William.
  (Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 167)
  

Details of Roger's family with Ada de Morville