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Date Posted: 17:19:12 05/31/09 Sun
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Post 230 A: Shakspeare, Saxeby-Perers.
The ancestry of William Shakspeare was researched by Mr. Halliwell, in the Life of Shakspeare. The family Shakspeare had been one of the middle class. John, the father of William, settled in Stratford in c. 1550 where he combined commercial employment with agricultural pursuits. Richard was the father of John Shakspeare. Richard and his brother Henry came from two miles north of Stratford where they had occupied the lands of Snitterfield. The family had been residing in the parishes of Rowington, Wroxall and Packwood ten miles futher north. Richard Shakspeare died before 1460 (Halliwell). He had been a resident in Woldiche, or Oldish, in Temple Balsall. Those facts indicate the family had been seated in that area for some time. No other records of the family Shakspeare have been found in the area of Warwick.
However, three centuries earlier the name 'Shake-espee' or 'Sacespee' is found in the records of Normandy between 1180 and 1200. They appear to be a French form of the English name 'Saxby' or 'Saxby-Perer', 'Shakspeare.'
Rodger Sake espee paid a fine of 10s in the bailifry of Caux, near Lillebonne in 1195. William Sake espee occurs in the same bailifry in the year 1198.
The name 'Saxby' is derived from the manor of the same name in Leicestershire, which passed into the hands of the Norman family of De Perers from Hugh Musard who held it in 1086 only in part. William de Perers of Saxby appears to be the same as William Sakespee mentioned in the records of Normandy in 1195 and again in 1198. William de Pirariis had a dispute over the lands of Saxby with Henry de Perers, or Pirariis in 1174 (Nicholls, Leic. ii. 308).
The arms of this one branch of the family De Perers or Perire is: Argent, a bend sable, charged with three pears. The arms of Saxby are: A bend engrailed sable, on a field barry. The family Perers came from Periers, near Evreux, Normandy. Periers seems to be now called Ferrieres-Haut-Clocher. This brings up the fact that the family Ferrers of the Warwick, Leicestershire area seem to be a branch of the family De Perers. In 1156 Hugo de Periers owned estates in Warwick (Rot. Pip.). In 1165 Geoffry de Periers or Perers held a fief in Stafford. In the 13th century Hugh de Pererers held a fief at Sixtenby, Warwick and Leicester from Roger Mowbray (Testa).
Sir Richard de Perers was a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in 1311; for Herts in 1316 to 1324; and Viscount of Essex and Herts in 1325.
Source reference; the book 'The Nornam People' Originally published in London, 1874. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
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