Name Suffix:<NSFX> Sheriff Of Gloucester ANCI: HIGH From: New England Ancestors, ancestral file at rootsweb.com WorldConnect
Sources: Moriarty; Norr; Kraentzler 1312. Norr: Roger (Pitres) de Pistres. K: Roger de Pitres. Moriarty: Roger de Pitries or Pistres, (was at Hastings) "came from Pitres, a village across the river from Pont de l'Arche, where some four centuries later the descendants of the Normans and the English administered a sound thrashing to the descendants of the Normans and the French." He was a follower of William Fitz Osborne, who made him the first Norman sheriff of Gloucestershire before 1071.@@S147@@