"Rog La Zuche" made a fine for "terra que fuit Wille fratris sui" in Devonshire, dated 1199. The Rotulus Cancellarii records "Rogerus la Zuche…pro terra Willelmi fratris sui" owing in Devonshire, dated [27 May 1201/26 May 1202]. “Willielmus la Zouche, filius Rogeri la Zouche” confirmed donations to Swavesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire by “Rogeri patris nostri ac…Alani Zouche avi nostri quondam comitis Britanniæ” by undated charter. The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Rogerus la Zuche" holding "Normanitone" in Devonshire in [1210/12]. Henry III King of England granted "maneriis de Mapeldureham et Petrefeld" to "Rogero la Szuche", as granted by King John except for the dower of "Milesentie que fuit uxor comitis Ebroici", dated 14 Mar 1217. The Testa de Nevill includes a list of landholdings in Devon, dated 1219, which includes "Rogerus de la Suche" holding "Blaketorrintun…in hundredo de Blaketorrintun" in Devonshire. A document dated 15 May 1227 records, among thirteen other donations, the donation “of Roger la Suche, a half-virgate in Tudeuurth...” to Maiden Bradley priory.
An order dated 14 May 1238 ordered inquisitions into “terre Rogerus de la Zusch” to identify “propinquor heres eius”. 1
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Roger la Zusche who, for his fidelity to King John, had a grant from that monarch of the manors of Petersfield and Maple Durham, co. Southampton, part of the lands of Geffrey de Mandeville, one of the rebellious barons then in arms. In the next reign he was sheriff of Devonshire and had further grants from the crown. By Margaret, his wife, he had issue, Alan, his successor, and William, who left an only dau., Joice, who m. Robert Mortimer, of Richard's Castle, and had issue, Hugh Mortimer, summoned to parliament as Lord Mortimer, of Richard's Castle; and William Mortimer, who assumed the surname of Zouche, and was summoned to parliament as Lord Zouche, of Mortimer. He was s. by his elder son, Sir Alan la Zouche. 2
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ROGER LA ZOUCHE, brother and heir, paid £100 to have William's lands in 1199. Those in England were seized, before 1204, while he was in Brittany, because of the war in Normandy, and he proffered 100m. to regain possession of them in that year. He served in Poitou, 1204-05 and 1214; was in Ireland, 1210; and swore to support the Barons who were enforcing Magna Carta in 1215. However, he soon joined the King, for he witnessed a royal charter, 11 June 1216, and was rewarded, both at the end of John's reign and during the opening years of Henry III, with numerous grants of land. He had licence to go on pilgrimage to Santiago, 6 August 1220; was given money as a royal messenger, October 1224; was going to Brittany, with the King's leave, May 1228; Sheriff of Devon, 10 November 1228-April 1231. In May 1229 he, with Philip Daubeney and Godfrey de Crawcombe, was allowed 100m. to cover the costs of a mission across the seas for the King. He served in Brittany, 1230; was ordered to find one knight at the King's cost to aid the Duke of Brittany, 1234; and was among those who witnessed Henry III's confirmation of Magna Carta at Westminster, 28 January 1236/7. He married Margaret, who was living in 1220 and presumably 1232. He died shortly before 14 May 1238. 3
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22 Aug 1219, Leicestershire
Roger la Zouche gives the king a palfrey for having an annual fair at his manor of Ashby on the eve and feast of St. Helen, and for having a weekly market there on Wednesdays, unless that fair and the aforesaid market are to the damage etc.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 3 Hen. III, 375
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2 May 1227
The king has granted that, of the 60 m. which Roger la Zouche owes him for pledging Thomas of Erdington , he may render 3 m. per annum, namely 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and 20s. at the Exchequer of Easter.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 11 Hen. III, 220
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1 Feb 1228, Westminster
The king has given respite to Roger la Zouche, until 15 days after Easter in the twelfth year, from the 40s. that he promised him before the justices last itinerant for having their judgement in a plea between him and the abbot of Shrewsbury concerning the advowson of the church of Tong , and that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 12 Hen. III, 70
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6 Feb 1230, Westminster
The king, for the custody of the county of Devon in the thirteenth year, has granted £30 to Roger la Zouche from the profit of the county of the same year, so that he answers for the remainder of the profit at the Exchequer and, henceforth, for as long as that county will be in his hand, the king has also granted him £20 each year from the profit of the county for the custody of the same, so that he answers for the remainder at the Exchequer.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 14 Hen. III, 195
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21 Feb 1235, Westminster
To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted to his beloved and faithful Roger la Zouche that he may render 16½ m., which they exact from him by summons of the Exchequer for a prest made to him in Poitou in the time of King John, the king’s father, together with his other debts that he owes the king for which he has made fine at the same terms granted to him and under the same fine, so that nothing more be exacted from him by reason of the aforesaid debt at any of the aforesaid terms than is contained in the aforesaid fine.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 19 Hen. III, 144
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21 Jan 1236, Chawton
The king has granted to his beloved and faithful Roger la Zouche that, of the great debt which he owes him and of which he is accustomed to render 40 m. to the king every year at the Exchequer, and of the 33 m. 3s. 1d. that he owes him for one of the heirs of Brian de Lisle , he may render 45 m. every year to the king at the Exchequer at the same terms at which he previously used to render 40 m., until the aforesaid 33 m. 3s. 1d. have ben paid. Once Roger has rendered those 33 m. 3s 1d., as aforesaid, the king has granted him that he may afterwards render 40 m. to him each year at the Exchequer of the aforesaid great debt at the same terms at which he was previously accustomed to render them, until the aforesaid is paid to the king.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 20 Hen. III, 122
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3 Nov 1238, Woodstock
The king has granted to Alan la Zouche that, of the debts which Roger la Zouche, his father, owed the king for himself and for Ralph of Stopham, one of the heirs of Brian de Lisle , who was in his custody , of which he was accustomed to render 45 m. to the king per annum at the Exchequer, Alan may similarly render 45 m. at the same terms at which they were previously accustomed to be rendered until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 23 Hen. III, 8
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