Many years ago I began researching the origins of the name Wafer - tracing it from Normandy to England to the "Welsh Marches" and then to Ireland. Some of this research was done during my time of living in Ireland. This post will focus on my findings in England and Wales.
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Wafer Chronology – England & Wales
1066 - Wafre listed with "The Names of such Nobles and Gentlemen of Marque who came in at this time with the Conqueror." [1577]. In The life of William the Conqueror by Thomas Roscoe. London, pg. 411.
THE BATTLE ABBEY ROLL. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES.
IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. III LONDON : JOHN MURRAY, 1889.
Wafre :
Wafre :
According to Eyton, "this name occurs frequently in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries;" and it is still borne by Hopton-Wafre in Shropshire, and Tedston-Wafre in Herefordshire. Robert le Wafre, in 1253, held Hopton in capite of the Earl of Hereford of the Honour of Brecknock; and Tedstone under John de Wildebouf of the same Honour; both of which were brought in marriage by his only child, Lucia, to a younger son of Lord Mortimer of Wigmore. "The obit of Alice, mother of the above-mentioned Robert, was annually celebrated in Hereford Cathedral. John le Wafre 20 Ed. I. held two virgates of land at Marston by the service of conducting the treasure of our Lord the King from Hereford to London, as often as he should be summoned by the Sheriff, with one horse and an iron helmet, at the costs of the King, to wit, twelve pence a day towards London, and returning at his own proper costs."—Duncumb's Herefordshire. Simon de Wafre held by the same serjeanty, as did Petronilla de Wafre in the time of Henry III. William de Waure represented Canterbury in the parliament held at Westminster 9 Ed. III.—Hasted's Kent. He was one of the three Crown Commissioners appointed to enquire into the case of William de Septvans 41 Ed. III.—Archaeologia Cantiana. "Robertus de Waura" held three parts of a knight's fee of Robert Fitz Odo at Wavre (now Church-Over) in Warwickshire.—Liber Niger. William de Waure occurs in the Staffordshire Pipe Roll of 1199-1200.
1103-07 - Hugh le Wafre gave tithes in "Hantune" (later Hampton Wafre) to Brecon Priory. Source: Herefordshire Place-Names. Bruce Coplestone-Crow. BAR British Series 214, 1989. pg. 96.
c.1107 - Hugh Guafra (Wafre) "rectam decimam totius terre sue de Hantune" re. second charter by Bernard Newmarche to Brecon Priory (Breckonshire). Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884.pg. 70-71.
c.1120 - Robert le Wafre witness re. Brecon Priory and William de Burghill. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884. pgs 117-118.
1160-70 - Robert Wafre - Hampton Wafre. "...in possession of the manor." Also held Tedstone Wafre (same years). "Source: Herefordshire Place-Names. Bruce Coplestone-Crow. BAR British Series 214, 1989. pg. 96, 189.
12th and 13th C – Le Wafre family - Cleobury North - Hopton Wafre. Held lands immediately under Lords of Brecknock [Brecon].
1130 - Rogerus Wafre (Waffers) was the 1st Wafre at Hopton Wafres. Walter de Cropus (ancestor of Le Wafre?) held Cleobury North until le Wafre took over.
1180 - Ricardus filius Waifer - Wiltshire. Source: A Dictionary of English Surnames. Percy Hide Reaney. Psychology Press, 1991. pg. 3268
c.1190 - Robert le Wafre witness re. Brecon Priory and William de Willdeboef. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884. pg 100.
1199 - Robert le Wafer, a Brecon tenant, re. Bredwardine Castle. Source: Lords of the Central Marches : English Aristocracy and Frontier Society, 1087-1265. Brock Holden. Oxford University Press, Aug 7, 2008
c.1200 - Robert le Wafre in regards to Brecon Priory (Brecknock). "The original grant of Robert, or Roger Baskerville [c.1190] was again confirmed by Robert le Wafre, who married Alice, one of his daughters, who describes it by the name of the mill of Llandevaillaue meaning Llandevailog tre'r graig, in which parish it was situated...At a later period, though not long subsequent to these grants, Alice de Baskerville gave to the prior and convent a mesuage or tenement, together with a croft...in the village of Bredwardine." Source: Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries...in England and Wales... by William Dugdale. London, 1821. pg. 261.
1205-1206 - Robert le Wafre witness re. Brecon Priory [Breckonshire] and Stephen de Surdeval. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884. pgs 120-121.
1210-12 - Simon le Wafre (le Wafrer) re. fees in Herefordshire. [1 hide] Source: A Dictionary of English Surnames. Percy Hide Reaney. Psychology Press, 1991. pg. 3268. See also: The Red book of the Exchequer / edited by Hubert Hall ... v. 2. pg. 452, 497.
1205-1206 - Robert le Wafre witness re. Brecon Priory [Breckonshire] and Stephen de Surdeval. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884. pgs 120-121.
1210-12 - Simon le Wafre (le Wafrer) re. fees in Herefordshire. [1 hide] Source: A Dictionary of English Surnames. Percy Hide Reaney. Psychology Press, 1991. pg. 3268. See also: The Red book of the Exchequer / edited by Hubert Hall ... v. 2. pg. 452, 497.
1212 - Robert le Wafer, a minor, "his three fees being held by Reginald Croc and Ranulf Hurley. Source: Lords of the Central Marches : English Aristocracy and Frontier Society, 1087-1265. Brock Holden. Oxford University Press, Aug 7, 2008. [Note on pg. 122.] See also: The Red book of the Exchequer / edited by Hubert Hall ... v. 2. pg. 601. ["Robertus le Wafre, iij milites quos Reginaldus Crok et Ranulfus de Hurle tenent."]
1215 - 1222 - Robert le Wafre witness re. Brecon Priory and Reginald de Braose. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884.pg 86-87.
1215 - 1222 - Robert le Wafre confirms grant of Reginald de Braose. re. Brecon Priory [(Breckonshire] and the Trosdref Mill. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884. pgs 93-94.
c. 1215 - Robert le Wafre witness re. Brecon Priory and convent [Breckonshire]. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884.pgs 42-43.
c.1220 - Robert le Wafre married Alice, the eldest daughter of Roger de Baskerville. [Note: this is the same Robert listed as a minor in 1212] Source: Antiquities of Shropshire. R. W. Eyton. Vol XI. London: John Bussell Smith,1860.
c.1220 - Robert le Wafre married Alice, the eldest daughter of Roger de Baskerville. [Note: this is the same Robert listed as a minor in 1212] Source: Antiquities of Shropshire. R. W. Eyton. Vol XI. London: John Bussell Smith,1860.
1216-1222 - Robert Wafre (le Wafre) signature on the Charters of Brecknock. Source: Shropshire Parish Registers, Diocese of Hereford, Vol. IX. 1909.
1219 - Symond le Waffre versus Roger le Bygod in Wynedole (Norfolk). Source: A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk: Comprising the fines of the reigns of Edward II., Edward III., Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. A. H. Goose, 1886. pg. 114.
1241 - Robert Wafre as claimant on the Honour of Montgomeryshire (claiming to be heir of Robert de Bollers; claim never proved). Source: Antiquities of Shropshire. R. W. Eyton. Vol XI. London: John Bussell Smith, 1860.
1242/43 - Nicholas of Hopton - Hopton Waffers - 1 knight's fee. Source: Table 2: Tenants of Walter de Lacy in England From list of fees, 1242–36 in Lordship in Four Realms: The Lacy family, 1166–1241. Colin Veach. Manchester University Press, c.2014, p.299.
1242/43 - Nicholas of Hopton - Hopton Waffers - 1 knight's fee. Source: Table 2: Tenants of Walter de Lacy in England From list of fees, 1242–36 in Lordship in Four Realms: The Lacy family, 1166–1241. Colin Veach. Manchester University Press, c.2014, p.299.
1242 - Richard Waifer re. fees in Wiltshire. Source: A Dictionary of English Surnames. Percy Hide Reaney. Psychology Press, 1991. pg. 3268
1249 - Symon le Wafre versus John le Wafre in Wynedole (Norfolk). Source: A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk: Comprising the fines of the reigns of Edward II., Edward III., Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. A. H. Goose, 1886. pg 78
1234 - 1247 - Robert le Wafre [Domino] witness to grant by Herbert fitz Peter to Brecon Priory (Breckonshire). Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884. pgs. 26-27.
1250 – Symon le Wafre v John le Wafre in Wynedole [Norfolk]. Source: A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk: In the reigns of Richard I, John, Henry III, & Edward I. Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas. A.H. Goose, 1885. pg. 78.
c.1250 - William Waffre in Sudbury (north of London).
1255 - Robert le Wafre - Lord of Hopton (Wafre)
1257, July 30th, Lichfield - Robert le Wafer - in a list of eight men "These have gone with Humphrey de Bohun and have protection with clause so long as they shall be in Wales in the king's service." Also mentioned in this list: Philip le Brette, Henry de Monemuth, Richard de Hortel, Payn Wake, Walter de Avenbiry, John de Waldebof, Walter de Muucegros. Before the list is the name William de Munrivell. Source: Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III Preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 4. Great Britain. Public Record Office, 1908.
1258-1301 - Thomas Le Wauffre - Witness to charter by Bishop of Worcester granting land in Mawene (now Marden), Herefordshire. Source: Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica. Vol. IV. London, 1837. pg. 248.
1263 - Robert le Wafre - of Talelond [Talyllyn near Brecon?]. "The Welsh tenants of Humphrey de Bohun, lord of Brecon...[other Brecknock mesne lords named including Robert le Wafre] had revolted and gone over to Llywelyn." Sources: Calendar of Ancient Correspondence Concerning Wales. Sir John Goronwy Edwards, University Press Board, 1935. pg. 17. The Baronial Plan of Reform, 1258-1263, Volume 1. Reginald Francis Treharne. Manchester University Press, Jan 1, 1971. pg. 292.
c1265 - Lucia le Wafre married Roger de Mortimer of Chirk. Her father was “Lord of Hopton”, Robert le Wafre. [Note: her mother was Alice de Baskerville].
1267 - Robert le Wafre. "Commission to Adam de Grainvill and Richard de Crumpton, Westminster, justices appointed to hear like pleas in the county of Hereford, to enquire whether Ralph de Baskerville, whose lands the king gave by reason of like trespasses to Robert le Wafre, and who has frequently offered to stand his trial touching such trespasses and still is ready to stand to the award of Kenilworth, was guilty of the said trespasses or not. They are to proceed without delay at their next coming to these parts, without waiting for R. bishop of St. Davids, their fellow, if he should be absent, as the king desires that the execution of the award of Kenilworth should not be further postponed to the prejudice of the said Ralph." Source: Patent Rolls. Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III Preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 6. Great Britain. Public Record Office, 1908.
c.1270 - Robert le Wafre - witness to confirmation of grant to Brecon Abbey [Breckonshire] by Humphrey de Bohun, son of Humphrrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Braoise. Source: Cartularium Prioratus S. Johannis Evangelistae de Brecon. London, 1884. pgs 26-27.
[By 1286 le Wafre lands passed to Mortimer.]
1272 - Thomas de Waffre - Maurdin Manor, Hereford. "20 a. meadow and 9a. pasture held of Thomas de Waffre and John de Maurdin by socage and service..." Also named: "Roger son of Sir Roger de Moruo Mari," "Ralph de Hee,"Richard de Nunniton." Source: Writ, 17 June, 1 Edw. I. Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office /prepared under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records. London :Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Mackie and to be purchased from Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1904. Vol 2. p. 28.
1272 - Thomas de Waffre - Maurdin Manor, Hereford. "20 a. meadow and 9a. pasture held of Thomas de Waffre and John de Maurdin by socage and service..." Also named: "Roger son of Sir Roger de Moruo Mari," "Ralph de Hee,"Richard de Nunniton." Source: Writ, 17 June, 1 Edw. I. Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office /prepared under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records. London :Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Mackie and to be purchased from Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1904. Vol 2. p. 28.
1272 - John Waffre listed on Inquisition made at Albedeston, co. Wiltshire. Source: Wiltshire, England, Extracted Parish Records
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1278 – Robert Le Wafre and Nicholas Comyn are nominated by the wife of John Comyn (Amabila) to be her attorneys in Ireland. Source: Calendar of documents, relating to Ireland preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1171-1307. London: Longman, 1875.
1280 - Robert de Waufre re. fees Sydeston, Northampton. Source: Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office
by Great Britain. Public Record Office; Kirby, J. L. (John Lavan); White, Andrew Dickson., 1904. Vol II.
1280 - Robert de Waufre re. fees Sydeston, Northampton. Source: Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office
by Great Britain. Public Record Office; Kirby, J. L. (John Lavan); White, Andrew Dickson., 1904. Vol II.
1282 - Robert le Wafre re. land in Ravenyngham (Norfolk). Source: The Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. London, 1886
1292 - Robert & Simon Wafre. Norfolk. Dispute. Robert Wafre, Bailiff of Lodden Hundred. Simon Wafre over seventy years of age. Public Record Office, E.13/18 m. 43.
1295 - Thomas le Wafre, debtor along with Andrew de Chandos [family held half a fee at Fowhope, Greytree Hundred, Herefords] and Thomas le Wafre.
Creditor: Lawrence de Ludlow (merchant, deceased, of Shrewsbury, Salop). Case heard in Herefords. Source: The National Archives, Kew. Reference: C 241/27/21
Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions. Division within C - Records of the Petty Bag Office. C 241 - Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
1292 - Robert & Simon Wafre. Norfolk. Dispute. Robert Wafre, Bailiff of Lodden Hundred. Simon Wafre over seventy years of age. Public Record Office, E.13/18 m. 43.
1295 - Thomas le Wafre, debtor along with Andrew de Chandos [family held half a fee at Fowhope, Greytree Hundred, Herefords] and Thomas le Wafre.
Creditor: Lawrence de Ludlow (merchant, deceased, of Shrewsbury, Salop). Case heard in Herefords. Source: The National Archives, Kew. Reference: C 241/27/21
Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions. Division within C - Records of the Petty Bag Office. C 241 - Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
1296 - Grant by Richard de Burmers to John, son of Hugh Baudewin, of ½a. land in the field of Odich in the manor of Mauwardin, near the land of Ambresley; [Herefordshire] rent to the chief lord of the fee, one grain of corn. For this grant John has given him 10s. beforehand. Witnesses:—John and Walter de Mauwardin, Thomas le Waffre, and others (named). Sunday after Easter, 24 Edward I. Seal, in white wax. C. 6658. Source: 'Deeds: C.6601 - C.6700', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 366-377. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ancient-deeds/vol6/pp366-377 [accessed 5 March 2019]. Also: A descriptive catalogue of ancient deeds in the Public Record Office by Great Britain. Public Record Office. Vol 6., 1890-1915. London : Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. 373.
1298 - Alan and Geoffrey Wafre, and their wives Gilly and Beatrice. Quitclaim to St. Giles Hospital, Norwich. A windmill and site, rents, etc. Source: Ancient Deeds Belonging to the Duke of Norfolk. Report on manuscripts in various collections by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts; Macray, William Dunn, 1901.
1298 - Alan and Geoffrey Wafre, and their wives Gilly and Beatrice. Quitclaim to St. Giles Hospital, Norwich. A windmill and site, rents, etc. Source: Ancient Deeds Belonging to the Duke of Norfolk. Report on manuscripts in various collections by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts; Macray, William Dunn, 1901.
c.1300 – Mabel Wafre. Abbess of Godstow, endowed land for Trinity College, Oxford University.
1301 - Hugh le Waffre versus Roger Norman in Bunewell (Norfolk). Source: A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk: Comprising the fines of the reigns of Edward II., Edward III., Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. A. H. Goose, 1886. pg. 155
1303 – Robert and Geoffrey Le Wafre in Sturmer, Essex
1334 - Nicholas Wafre, king's clerk and rector of Old Radnor. Source: “Medieval Radnorshire clergy.” by E.J.L. Cole.
Radnorshire Society Transactions. Vol. 19 (1949) p. 17-28.
Radnorshire Society Transactions. Vol. 19 (1949) p. 17-28.
1341 - John le Wafre - Herefordshire. Release by Roger de Chaundos, knight, to John le Wafre, for life, of 5 marks yearly rent for land and tenements which Margery, mother of the said John, held of the said Roger in dower in Wystaneston, and for lands which Andrew le Wafre formerly held there of the same. C.2935. Source: A descriptive catalogue of ancient deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol. 3, Great Britain. Public Record Office, 1890. pg. 311
1341 - Robert le Wafre, of Raveningham [Clavering Hundred, Norfolk], debtor. Creditor: John de Hevingham, taverner, and citizen of Norwich [Norfolk]. Amount: £30.
Before whom: William, the son of William Butt, of Norwich; John de Bumpstead, Clerk. Writ to: Sheriff of Norfolk Source: The National Archives, Kew. C 241/115/211
c.1350 – Thomas le Waffre – Hereford (Welsh Borders) at Tedstone Wafre [11 miles east of Leominster] and Hampton Wafre.
c1350 - Walter le Wafre (his daughter Catherine married William Ruse) seated at Dinnington in Hoxon Hundred, Suffolk. Source: Proceedings of the Suffolk institute of Archaeology and Natural History. Volume 8. 1894. pg. 207
1359 - George, son of Edmund Wafre. Staying England and nominates James de la Hide and Richard Wafre as his attorneys in Ireland for two years. Source: Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record ..., Volume 11. p. 131.
1359 - George, son of Edmund Wafre. Staying England and nominates James de la Hide and Richard Wafre as his attorneys in Ireland for two years. Source: Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record ..., Volume 11. p. 131.
1386 – William Wafre of Toft Monachorum (Norfolk). Source: A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk: Comprising the fines of the reigns of Edward II., Edward III., Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. A. H. Goose, 1886
n.d. Robert de Wafre in Thorp (Norfolk)
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