Born in Mereworth Manor, Tonbridge, Kent
1190. William de Mereworth is recorded in the Dering Roll among those
Kentish Knights who assisted King Richard I at the Siege of Acre in
Palestine.
1202. The heirs of William de Mereworth hold two Knights' Fees.
Armorial:--A chevron gules between ten crosses potent sable. The cross
potent is also described as a Jerusalem Cross. It is also called Crouch.
It formed part of the Insignia of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by the
Crusaders. The Coat was worn by Godfrey Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine,
after his conquest of the Holy Land. Jerusalem was captured on 15th July
1099. Godfrey became Protector of the Holy Sepulchre; he died in July
1100, poisoned by an Arab Emir.
1199-1216 reign of King John. Dering Roll. The heirs of William de
Mereworth hold two Fees there late of Richard Earl of Gloucester 10th
Aug. 1202.
1216-1272. The Manor of Cheriton, Folkestone, Kent, was anciently held of
the Barons of Averencher, by a family which there derived its name, and
one Walter of Ceritone possessed this property, under King Henry III and
on the extinction of that name, in the reign of King Edward I it went to
Roger de Mereworth.
1216-1272. Dering and Howard Rolls. William and John de Mereworth bore
argent Crusilly sable and a Chevron gules.
Sir William granted an addition to the Cross Crosslets. He holds two
Knights' Fees in Kent.
Prince Louis of France in the reign of Henry III besieged Lincoln Castle.
The Barons took the side of their young King. The result of this military
operation ended in the French being defeated and driven out in 1217, by
the Earl of Pembroke.

Born in Mereworth Manor, Tonbridge, Kent

Born in Mereworth Manor, Tonbridge, Kent
1227. John, the son of William of Mereworth was granted by King Henry the
third, a Bovate of Land at Owmby with Normanby in Lincolnshire.
Other documents translate as John Son of Merewam Meranwyrthe.
Bovate \Bo"vate\ , n. [LL. bovata, fr. bos, bovis, ox.] (O.Eng.Law.) An
oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure
of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen
acres.Websters=1913
Note; with such a grant would have come common rights ie grazeing of
cattle often running into many hundred of acres.
Founder of the Lincolnshire line of Merryweathers. ?