1. Robert, held of William Peverel I. (who died in 1113) “in Stapleford 2 carucates”.
1.1. Geoffrey de Heriz donated to the said William Peverell’s foundation of Lenton (between 1103-1108), two-thirds of his tithes in Stapleford (Mon. Anglic. v. 111b), as one of his feudatories in Avranches. (Société d’archéologie et d’histoire de la Manche, p.56, 1992).
1.1.1. Robert de Heriz, sans issue.
1.2. Robert de Heriz, ob. ante. 1128, who held Stapleford, Tibshelf, Wingfield, and Oxcroft, was mesne tenant of William Peverel I. “There is land to 8 ploughs. William has in the demense there (Robert holds of him) 3 ploughs and 6 villeins with 6 ploughs and two bondmen”. Robert was Sheriff of Nottingham, 1110-1122. (Judith A. Green, The Government of England under Henry I., p. 221, 1989). He was a King’s Commissioner who witnessed charters of Robert de Ferrers, 1st. Earl Derbys.
The family of Heriz continued to hold in Stapleford (that is, the descendants of Agnes de Heriz, sister of her childless brother, Robert, who m. … de Eccleston), untill 11 Edward III., when Richard de Heriz settled his estate on John de Bughton, his brother-in-law, but, he dying of the plague,the estate eventually descended to Idonea de Heriz, his sister, wife of John de Furmery.
1.2.1. Ivo de Heriz I, m. Emma de Bilborough, dau. of Herbert de Bilborough. “Erbert, a knight of William Peverel’s, held this Manor (of Gonalston) in the time of King Henry I. and left it to Emma his eldest daughter, and one of his co-heirs, who, marrying to Ivo de Heriz, brought this manor into his family” (Thomas Cox, Anthony Hall, Robert Morden, Magna Britannia, p. 104, 1738). Herbert may have been synonomous with Herbert, “the king’s servant”, who held of Henry de Ferrers in Derbyshire.
Gonalston remained in the ownership of the family of Heriz until 18 Edward II., when John Heriz left his estates to Roger Beler, his daughter Margaret’s son.
The last generations of this branch of the Heriz are buried at Gonalston, in the north aisle, near the chantry they founded. Three effigies are extant, one being of the aforesaid John Heriz.
1.2.1.1. Robert de Heriz, m. Agnes, the dau. and co-heiress of Gilbert Alcher, who held land in Sudbury, Derbyshire: “Gilbert de Sub(er)ia”, who witnessed a grant of Robert de Ferrers to Tutbury in 1135-1139. (C.D.F. 580). Robert held Mundham in Sussex in right of his wife. Gilbert Alcher was the grandson of the Saxon thegn Ealhhere (Alcher), who held (under earl Roger Montgomery) 9 hides in Mundham. (lb. I. Sx. 4266). In Runcton, I mile distant from Mundham, its church was granted to the Priory of Boxgrove by Robert de St. John, elder son of Roger de St. John and Cicily, only dau. and heir of Roger de la Haia. Roger de St. John was the son of William de St-John, of St-Jean-le-Thomas, near Avranches, and Olivia, dau. of Raoul de Fougeres.
In 1162, William de St. John confirmed to the abbey of Holy Trinity, Luzerne (founded by Hasculf de Soligny), the gift of 6 quarters of wheat by Robert de Heriz, with the consent of his sons, Robert and Andrew, “for the weal of his soul and that of Agnes his wife”. The latter Robert had married a dau. of Roger-le-Pauvre, the younger, noted here: “Robertum abbatem et conventum concessisse W. de S. Johanne universam terram nostram … Nous avons donné deux gerbes de dîme de la terre Cornart à la Pommeraye; l’église de la Rochelle avec ses dépendances, du consentement de Roger-le-Pauvre”. (MS. Lat. 17,049, in Bibliotheqice Rationale).
Their son, Roger (“Rogeriis de Rochella”), donated to Holy Trinity, Luzerne, considerable lands in la Rochelle and in Crollon. Witnesses to this deed included “Ricardo de Haia“; “Rogero de Sancto Johanne“; “Willelmo de Filgeriis“. (ibid.).
Crollon was a fief of Hasculf de Subligny, whose dau., Lesceline, m. Fulk Paynel. She granted the Church of Crollon to Hambye, her husbands’ foundation.
The Heriz family held the fief of La Hérissiere in La Rochelle, also named La Rochelle-le-Hericiere (D.N. vol. xi. p. 379, 1776; Revue de l’Avranchin et du pays de Granville, vols. 27-28, 1934), situated six miles from Avranches, in the canton of Haye-Pesnel, from whence also came the Paynels.
In 1172, Fulk Paynel’s tenant held a messuage in La Hérissiere. (Déclaration des fiefs de fabbaye du Mont-Saint Michel).
The Heris name is a contraction of (Héris)sière, and their armorial of three hedgehogs was a pun of Hérissière, a fort with defensively angled wooden spikes that resembled the spines of a hedgehog; Fr. hérisson being an hedgehog.
The other co-heiress of Gilbert Alcher married Ralf (de Montgomery, according to Keats-Rohan, D.D. P. 598), who held Cubley and Snelston in Derbys., of Henry de Ferrers, in 1086.
The dau. of Roger de Montgomery (le Poitevin), overlord of Alcher, married William Peverel, the younger.

Thus, the marriages of the land owning class were a deadly game of political chess – the fear of going from knight to pawn was the underlying impetus.

Not all Harris were the offsping of Henrys (pet form, Harry).

1. Ivo I. de Heriz, Sheriff of Notts. and Derbys., 1128-30, as above.
1.1. Robert de Heriz.
1.1.1. Ivo II. de Heriz, ob. 1225, m. Hawise Briwiere.
1.1.1.1. William de Heriz, ob. 1242, of Wiverton, Justice Itinerant of Notts., m. Maud Basset.
1.1.1.1.1. Robert de Heriz (Hoblyn’s MS.). At the 1201 Launceston eyre, Robert was a plaintiff for seizin of land taken “by reason of the king’s service” in 1199 (He was probably a Crusader). He held land in Landegai (Caerhays) and Ebbeford (Efford), Cornwall (Pipe Roll, 1201)
1.1.1.1.1.1. ‘John Heris’, m. Joan Vivian, da. of Richard Vivian and Constance Peverel, descendant of William Peverel I. (See Visitations of Cornwall, Comprising the Heralds’ Visitations of 1530, 1573, & 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian, 1887, p. 17).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. etc., etc.
1.1.1.1.2. Henry de Heriz. Assise Roll, Launceston, 1201: “The assize of novel disseisin betweeen Robert de Heriz, complainant, and Henry (de Heriz) son of William stands over because Robert has had seisen by fine which he has had made with the King. Between 1221 and 1242 Henry de Heriz donated land in Bradford Heriz to Launceston Priory for his soul and that of his wife and his ancestors. Richard Carew’s ‘survey of Cornwall’ states that the Herys family of Caerhays were of his stock.

If Herries is allowed in Scotland for Heriz, and Herys in Cornwall/Devon, then what difference Herryes? Bond in £10 (today $5,000). For quiet possession of 3 pieces of land in the fields of Frome; Henry Wayfere son and heir of Robert Wafer of Rodden to Thomas Herryes of Frome, weaver. July 12, 1437. (Somerset Heritage Centre.ref. T\PH\pls/1/17).

Likewise Harreis: Carter v Harreis. Plaintiffs: John Carter. Defendants: John Harreis, Elizabeth, his wife, William Andrew and Margaret, his wife, and Alice Trymlet, single woman. Subject: A tenement called `Suthome,’ in Glastonbury, held on lease from defendants by plaintiff, Isabel, his wife, and John, their son, for their lives. Somerset. 1515-1518. (Nat. Arch., ref. C 1/400/2).

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