The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. I.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Belesuz : Bolesur in Duchesne's copy: a puzzling name. Simon de Bellosarto is among the Norman knights enumerated in the Feoda Normanniae, Belleserre was one of the Seigneuries held by the Marquis d'Escars, Governor of Honfleur, who died in 1692 (Anselme, ii. 233). A Petronelle de Beuserre occurs in the Norman Exchequer Rolls about 1189: and "Magister Alanus de Belleshour" in the Testa de Nevill. Roger de Beausire held at Covenhope in Herefordshire of the Honour of Wigmore.—Ibid. Beausire or Belsyre (if this is the name here intended) signifies grandfather or ancestor. It still survived in the sixteenth century, when Canon Belsire, the first President of St. John's College, Oxford, and Rector of Tingewick, Bucks (1540) was deprived by Queen Elizabeth.