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Akaris of Ravensworth
- Born: Ravensworth, Richmond, North Riding Yorkshire, England
- Marriage: Unknown
- Died: 1161, Ravensworth, Richmond, North Riding Yorkshire, England 967
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~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 226:25, of Ravensworth. 160
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
Hervey was forester of the New Forest and Arkengarthale, Yorkshire, by the grant of Conan, Duke of Brittany, and son and heir of Akaris Fitz Bardof, which Bardolf was brother of Bodin, who held Ravensworth, Micleton, Romaldkirk &c according to the Domesday Survey.
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, (Fitz Henry), pp. 416-417, footnote (d)
• Background Information. 967
Akaris, or Acarius Fitz Bardolph, who founded the Abbey of Fors (5 Stephen, A.D. 1140) and granted the original site of Jervaulx to the Suvignian monds at York. He also gave a charter to the Priory of St. Andrews, and lands and tenths in Rafenswad (Ravenswath), to which gifts. --"Hen. fit. Hervei, and Conan d'Ask" were witnesses. [Marrig. Charters, Coll. Top. Et. Genealogy III. 114] He died in 1161 and left two sons, Herveus and Walter.
~ Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, p. 104
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