Background
Roger de Busli was born in or around 1038.
Roger de Busli was born in or around 1038.
His surname comes from the town now known as Bully (near Neufchâtel-en-Bray, mentioned as Buslei ar 1060, Busli 12th century) in Normandy, and he was likely born there. After the Conquest, Busli was given lands in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Strafforth wapentake of Yorkshire. These had previously belonged to a variety of Anglo-Saxons, including Edwin, Earl of Mercia.
By the time of the Domesday survey de Busli was tenant-in-chief of 86 manors in Nottinghamshire, 46 in Yorkshire, and others in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, plus one in Devon.
They became the Honour of Blyth (later renamed the Honour of Tickhill), and within it, de Busli erected numerous castles, at Tickhill, Kimberworth, Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Mexborough. Much of the de Busli"s family"s leverage came from their familial relationships with the crown through the Counts of Eu.
The de Buslis had one son, also called Roger, who died as an infant, thus leaving no heirs. De Busli died in the last years of the 11th century without an heir.
The male line of the de Busli family ran out in 1213, and the de Busli family holdings passed into the family of Vipont through the marriage of Idonea de Busli with Robert de Vipont (Vieuxpont).