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Surname History
Domesday Book: 1086 AD
The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the Rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time). Go here for the Domesday Map. The name Bote is listed in Cheshire, the name Boyatt is listed in the Eastleigh settlement of Hampshire and the name Boviete is listed in the Manesbrige Hundred of Hantescire.
Manor of Boyatt: 1206 AD
The Manor of Boyatt in Otterbourne Parish was held by Godric in the reign of Edward the Confessor, but is listed in the Domesday Book as held by Herbrand from the king. In the twelfth century Boyatt was granted to Waverley Abbey by Richard 1, and the grant was confirmed by King John in 1206. The manor continued in the possession of Waverley Abbey until the Dissolution of the Mona steries in the sixteenth century: Boyatt was given to Sir William Fitzwilliam in 1537. He was also an Admiral and in 1539 he con ducted Anne of Cleves to England. The Manor of Boyatt was conveyed to Gilbert Welles in 1566 and remained in part with the recusant family of Bambridge until the end of the eighteenth cen tury.
Scotland: 1296 AD
This appears to be the first known Boyt name in Scotland and may have resulted in a variant name for the BOYD surname. This could support some of the close DNA results from the Boyd families. The use of surnames was just becoming of age and was not always handed down to the next generation.
NAME ON MAP: BOYT (in the old county of) Ayrshire DATE: 1296 MEANING: probably from GOIDELIC buidhe `yellow', the nickname of the blond-haired Simon, nephew of the first High Steward of Scotland, Walter Fitzalan. A derivation from the island of Bute has also been suggested. The family supported Robert the Bruce, Duncan Boyd being hanged by the English in 1306 and Sir Robert de Boyt fighting at Bannockburn. Click here for the History of Scotland.
Scotland Ragman Rolls: 1296 AD
One of the signatures on the Ragman Roll of 1296 was Robert Boyt. In 1291, there were a number of claimants to the Scottish throne and King Edward I of England "volunteered" to hear their case and decide who had the most valid claim. Those involved met Edward at Norham on Tweed in 1291. Edward insisted on all the nobles signing an oath of loyalty to him. Some declined but many signed what was the first (and smaller) of the "Ragman Rolls"
When Balliol began to resist the demands of Edward in 1296, the English King over-ran Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. He then marched across Scotland as far as the Moray Firth, capturing castles and removing such precious items as the Stone of Destiny, the Scottish crown and huge archives of Scotland's national records.
On 28 August, 1296, Edward held a "parliament" at Berwick. All the prominent Scottish landowners, churchmen and burgesses were summoned to swear allegiance to Edward and sign the parchments and affix their seals, many of which had ribbons attached. In addition to such prominent people as Robert Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale, his son, the 2nd Earl of Carrick and William Wallace's uncle, Sir Reginald de Crauford, 2,000 signatures were inscribed, making it a most valuable document for future researchers.
It is suggested that the term "Ragman Rolls" derived from the ribbons attached to the seals on the parchments but the name may also have been derived from an earlier record compiled for the purposes of Papal taxation by a man called Ragimunde, whose name was corrupted to Ragman.
The list of names is based on those published by the "Bannatyne Club" in Edinburgh in 1834.
England: Land Grant Record 1561 AD
Sir Richard Boyte, Knight & Clement Boyt
This record was located in the Harvard Law Library, Deed Number 623.
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