Hamo de Crevecoeur

Hamo de Crevecoeur (also de Crevequer, de Creuker; de Crepito Corde in Latin) (died 1263) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman of Kent who held the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. He bore for arms "Or, a cross voided gules".

Hamo de Crevecoeur, Lord of the Barony of Chatham, Kent, with its appurtenant capital manors of Leeds, and of Bockingford, Farleigh and Teston (near Maidstone), Kent, and (by his marriage to Matilda (Maud) de Averenches, Lady of Folkestone) progenitor of the heirs to the Kentish Barony of Averenches, died in 1263. He was the father of a younger Hamo ("junior"), who died shortly before his father, and was less notable. They were descended from Robert de Crevecoeur who founded Leeds Priory in Kent in 1119, and it is in the continuing patronage of that family towards the Priory in successive charters, reviewed in confirmations by Edward I in 1285 and Edward III in 1367, that their descent is shown.

The recurrence of the name Hamo commemorated their forebears Hamon Dentatus and his son Hamo Dapifer, who was steward to both William I and William Rufus, and a Justiciar and Sheriff of Kent. The name Crevecoeur is said to derive from the latter's title Sire de Cregrave-Vecœur. Crevecoeur power was originally centred upon the manor of Chatham, beside Rochester, held from the king in capite, by barony, but the seat was removed to Leeds in Kent, where Leeds Castle became the principal residence. The manor of Leeds was also held in capite, but pertained to the Barony of Chatham. Robert the founder of Leeds Priory was not Hamo's distinguished son Robert fitz Hamon, founder of Tewkesbury Abbey, since fitzHamon died in 1107 leaving only one son. FitzHamon had a brother Hamo who inherited his father's lands in England, and J.R. Planché thought him likely to be the father of Robert of Leeds.

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