General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Baron
Note:
Simon De Manning lived in the time of King Richard I, who r
eigned A.D.1189-1199 and was the "1st English Barons to tak
e up the Cross & go with King Richard to the Holy Wars" i
n the 2nd Crusade when he was Knighted. This was later tha
n the Conquest. After Simon De Manning the family grew up n
umbers in England. Wills & Records are on record there an
d work of the New England Historical Genealogical Society
, in having abstrats made in print in their Register made i
t possible to learn of the different persons of the MANNIN
G name who lived and died prior to 1700. This is the genera
l race from which we have descended as Manning.
Simon De Manning to whom John Silvester of Westerham, Engla
nd demised LAND by DEED in the 14th yr. of King Richard D 1
202 and who was engaged in the HOLY WAR Against the SARACEN
S under that King. They are said to be DESCENDED from an An
cient and Noble family which took its NAME "FROM MANNING
, a TOWN in SAXONY, whence they came to ENGLAND before th
e CONQUEST and some of them are said to have settled in Fri
esland. They bore of their Arms, Gules, a CROSS POTENCE, o
r FLORY between FOUR Cinquefoils or. Pg. 3 " The Mannings F
amilies of New England Descendants"