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Bio-deCROMWELL Ralph
Earliest known bearer of the name SCOVILLE. Probably born in England. Scovilles were located in mid-Wessex for five centuries. Wessex is the old kingdom of the West Saxons. 1194: listed as a gentleman, a knight, a landlord with lands in Hilperton, Herling, Chelworth, Brockley, and Turweston. Held lands "in capite" (direct of the king, or at the king's pleasure): "Not a knight by the mere virtue of possessing land to the value of £20, every owner of which was compelled to be knighted in 1278, or solely as a knight of the shire (member of parliament), but a true knight of England in both the civil and military meanings, or, in words more specific, a man owning a knight's fee of land or had received the honor of knighthood from the king, by being touched on the shoulder with a sword held in the hand of the king; hence we have judged, and may continue to judge, of the quality of the men of the Scoville family in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by this fact of knighthood.
| Date | 1130-1217 |
| File name | Bio-deCROMWELL Ralph.pdf |
| File Size | 1.18m |
| Linked to | Sir Ralph de Escoville |
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