. Hereward was the first of this family of whom mention is made, and his son, 2. Gilbert de Segrave, Lord of Segrave, assumed the surname of Segrave from a lordship of that name in County Leicester, where he had his chief residence in the time of Henry II; in the 12th of Henry II, 1166, he held the fourth part of one knight's fee of William de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, and in the 4th of Richard I, 1193, he was Joint Sheriff with Reginald Bassett for Warwick and Leicester under Hugh de Novant, Bishop of Coventry, in which office he continued two years. He subsequently, in 10th of Richard I, gave 400 marks to the King toward the support of his wars.