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

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Fitz Auger : for Fitz-Alcher, Aher, or Aer. "William the Conqueror gave the Manor of Bosham in Sussex to William son of Augeri and his heirs in feefarm, rendering therefore at the Exchequer yearly, forty-two pounds of silver in solid metal for all service &c."—Blount's Tenures. "William Fitz Auger holds his tenement in Epping and Waltham, Essex, by serjeantry to attend before the King."—Lib. Rub. Scacc. A family of Fitz Alchers or Fitz Aers existed in Shropshire till the fourteenth century. They descended from Alcher or Auger, a tenant of Rainald the Sheriff in 1086 (Domesday): and held Harcott in capite under the Crown, by the service of finding "one serving foot soldier with a bow and arrows to attend the King's army, in Wales." Their other manors formed part of the barony of Fitz Alan. Robert Fitz Aer occurs in the Liber Niger; William Fitz Aer in 1240: Sir John Fitz Aer, in 1272, was Sub-Escheator of the county, "exercising his authority well and honestly;" Conservator of the peace in 1287; and Knight of the shire in 1290. His grandson Thomas, who died in 1316, was the last of the Fitz Aers, and left a daughter Marjory, married to the son of her guardian, Sir Alan de Charlton of Apley.