Hervey of Ravensworth

   Another name for Hervey was Hervey Fitz Akaris.

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 226:26, Hervey Fitz Akaris, of Ravensworth, forester of the New Forest Ravensworth, married Alice, daughter of Ranulf Fitz Walter of Greystock. 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
Hervey Fitz Akaris, living in 1165, ob. 1182, was "a noble and good knight," who consented that Conan, Earl of Richmound should translate the abbey of charity to East Wilton, and place it on the banks of the river Jore, from which it was called Jorevaulx. He was a witness with his brother walter to a charter of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond (11 Henry II, A.D. 11650); and about the same time he "gave his 9th sheaf of grain which grew on his lands in Lemingford, and Ravenswet to the Priory of Maryke in the Deanery of Richmond." [Burton, Monast. Ebor., p. 357]. He died, 1182, leaving three sons:
Henry Fitz Hervey
Richard
Alan

~ Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, pp. 104-105