General Notes

Of this ancient family, which assumed the surname of Kyme from a fair lordship, the principal place of their residence in Kesteven, co. Lincoln, the first mentioned in Simon de Kyme (son of William), who founded, temp. Stephen, the priory of Bolington, in Lincolnshire. This Simon m. Roese, dau. of Robert Dapifer (that is, steward to Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln), which lady was commonly called Roese de Bolington. He was s. by his son, Philip. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 309, Kyme, Barons Kyme]