Sir Roger Bacon Knight

  General Notes:

brother was John Bacon
wife was Felicia Kirton, married 1339 in Baconstrhope, Norfolk, England

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ^1175,1180
Sir Thomas Astley, Knight, son and heir of Sir Ralph and his wife Agnes Gerbrug, living 7 Richard II, by Catherine, daughter of Sir Roger Bacon, of Baconsthorpe, in Norfolk, Knight, who survived him, and had issue of Thomas Astley, of Hill-Morton and Melton-Constabel, Ebsquire who married Isabel, daughter of Geoffrey Oke.

~Betham's Baronetage of England, Vol. II, p. 72, Collin's Baronetage of England Vol. III, Part I, p. 64

• Background Information. ¹²²⁹
Catharine, wife of Sir Thomas de Astley who died in Spain, was daughter of Sir Roger Bacon of Baconsthorp, Knight.

~An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the Count of Norfolk: Volume IX, p. 419

• Background Information. ¹¹⁷⁵
Bacon Pedigree given in The Baronetage of England, Volume I by Rev. William Betham, p.14

Grimbald, the founder of the Letheringset church
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Ranulphus
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Roger
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Robert
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Reginald
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Richard married to Alice Moulton
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Sir Herny Kt.
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Sir Henry married to Margaret Ludham
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Roger married to Felicia Kirton
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Three Daughters

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁵⁵
Sir Roger Bacon, was a cammander in the wars during the time of Edward II & Edward III. He was the son of Sir Henry Bacon, son of another Sir Henry, a judge itinerant during the time of Henry III, and lineally descended from Grimbaldus, the first of this family in England.

~Collins's The English Baronetage, Volume I, p. 2

Roger married Felicia Kirton.¹¹⁷⁵