At 03:24 PM 1/24/2001 -0700, Linda Hannah <[email protected]> wrote: >Also the word "shire" is equivalent to the our word for county. The area of >York is Yorkshire or just York which is divided up into 3 "Ridings" I think. >There is also the famous city of York in Yorkshire. Been there and walked >the famous walls of the city!!! Linda in Albuq From whence the word Sheriff is derived. The famous city of York was during Roman times called Eboracum, from whence the traditional progenitor of the PAGE family --- Hugo de Pageham (Hugo Page) -- reportedly came. Quoting from my book of 1992: "According to research done in England circa 1917 by Charles Nash Page of Point Lomas, California, in the year 12561257 King Henry III of England who had a palace at Eboracum sent a Sir Hugo, Knight (Hugo de Pageham of Ebor [sic, Eboracum, an ancient Roman city which is presentday York, England, where there was a palace of King Henry III], Yorkshire on an important mission to the King of Spain. He was supposedly knighted in 1260 by Henry III, and his title was proclaimed by the heralds giving notice that he was subsequently to be known as Sir Hugo Page. From that time on, Page was adopted as his family name.[Charles N. Page, "History and Genealogy of the Page Family From the Year 1257 to the Present" (Des Moines: By the author, 1917), p. 16.] "Hugonem Pageham and Robertum de la Barre are referred to in Thomas Rymer's "Foedera (Acts of the Kings of England)" in 41st (year of the reign of) Henry III, A.D. 1257, where the letter to the King of Spain is written in Latin. The only short reference to the couriers themselves is also in Latin dated 15 September 1257: "Ifta littera duplicata fuit & miffa Regi Hyfpanie per Robertum de la Barre & Hugonem de Pageham> die Mercurii proximo ante feftum Saniti Mathaei Apoftoli. [Thomas Rhymer, "Foedera, Acts Publica, Conventiones, Literae of the Kings of England."Vol. I (London, 1702, reprinted 1727), under A.D. 1257, 41. H.3., pp. 6389. Library of Congress call JX636, 1702 and/or 1727. The "f" should be interpreted as "s".] Sir Hugo, de Pageham appears several times in the "Close Rolls" of King Henry III 1254-56, and is referred to as a esquire in the armed service of the king "servientibus regis ad arma" ["Calendar of Close Rolls," 1255 (39 Henry III), p. 81.] An Alice is referred to in the "Close Rolls" in 1258 as the wife of Page. [Ibid., 1258, p. 220.] Hugo de Paggham, a king's manatarms, apparently was made a knight the same year, and was again mentioned together with a Rogero de Paggeham, and others.[Ibid., pp. 230 and 332.] In 1259 he is referred to as Henrico Page regarding his military service to the king in Wasconia (Gascony, in France). [Ibid., p. 405.] A Robertum Page is next mentioned in a proclamation in 1266.["Close Rolls" 1264-68, p. 204.] A Richard Page and Johannes de Pabeham are also mentioned in 1267 (51 Henry III).[Ibid., p. 365.] Alas poor Hugo, for it appears that Hugo de Pageham, and others, were ordered to be captured and detained in the king's prison at de Pageham for the death of Roger de Belsham in Sussex in 1267.[Ibid., p. 417.] ... " George W. Page