Roger de Port was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and
Baron of Kington.
Roger was the son of
Adam de Port, who died around 1133.
[Keats-Rohan ''Domesday Descendants'' p. 646] Through his possession of the manor of
Kington in
Herefordshire
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, he was considered by I. J. Sanders to have been the
baron
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of Kington.
[Sanders ''English Baronies'' p. 57]
Roger gave to the abbeys of
Tiron and
Saint-Vigor-de-Cerisy in Normandy,
[ and to Andwell Priory in England.][Loyd ''Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families'' pp. 79–80]
Roger was married to Sybil d'Aubigny,[Cownie "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''] by whom he had three sons – Adam
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According to Christianity, Adam ...
, Henry, and Hugh. Roger died before 1161.[ Roger was buried at Tiron.][Round "Families of St John and of Port" ''Genealogist'' p. 10]
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Feudal barons of Kington
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