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

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Cherecourt : or Chevercourt: De Caprecuria. "Turold de Chevercourt was enfeoffed of Wyfordby, co. Leicester and Carleton, co. Notts, by Roger de Busli, Baron of Tickhill in Yorkshire, and also Lord of Blyth, Notts. Turold held them in 1805."—Nichols' Leicestershire. His son Alfred Fitz Turold was the father of Ralph de Chevercourt, who founded a small monastery in his park at Carlton; Walter de Chevercourt, to whom Henry I. granted a charter of his lands "to hold freely, as his father had held them," and another son who died s. p. Ralph, who apparently was the elder of the two, held of the honour of Tickhill, and his line ended with his son Jordan, who married Alice (or Avice), daughter of Randal, sheriff of Notts and Derby 2 Hen. II., and left three co-heiresses. Audrey de Chevercourt married Robert St. Quintin; her sister Lettice, Ranulph de Newmarch; and Isabel, the youngest, Robert de Furneaux. Walter's posterity was of much longer continuance. From him are counted six successive generations, to Robert, living in the time of Edward III., whose estate was divided between his two daughters, Alice, a spinster, and Joan, who had two husbands, John de Shepey, and John Philipotts of Helpringham. It is evident, however, that collateral descendants remained, for John de Chevercourt occurs in 1467.