Surdeval
The first known ancestor of the family of Routh was Norman Knight, Richard de Surdeval, or Surdus,whose name is given in the Battle Abbey Roll and who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in the train of the Earl of Mortain. Richard, born about 1030, was a cadet of the House of Verdun and bore the family name of Le Moigne.
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York (1848) : Among the mesne-tenants of Robert, Count of Mortain, in Yorkshire, mention is made of Richard de Surdeval, who will have had this surname from the commune of Sourdeval-la- Barre, chef-lieu of a canton in the arrondissement of Mortain, departement of La Manche. At the time of the survey recorded in Domesday Book, Richard de Surdeval had in York the two dwellings, which had been these of Turchil and Ravechil Of the count of Mortain, in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, anciently Barkston, a manor in Hooton (Levet) and Bilham, those of Todwick, Great Houghton in Darfield, Thurnscoe with lands in the same parish and in Deightonby and in Clayton in Frickley and in Stotfold soke of Shippen in the parish of Hooton, Whiston and soke in Handsworth, Treeton, Aughton, Aston, Ulley in the parishes of Treeton and Aston, Brampton-en-le-Morthen in the parish of Treeton, and Wales.
Matilda Surdeval inherited the Manor of Hooton Pagnell in 1089 from her father Richard Surdeval who received it from the King in 1088: Matilda married Ralph Paganel(Paynel) and the manor passed to their second son Jordan, then to the fourth son Alexander.
William Paganel, son of Alexander, succeeded c. 1154 and died c. 1203. This ended the male line of the Paganels or Paynels and the barony was divided between two sisters, Isabella and Frethesenthe Paganel, the latter of whom was already married to Geoffrey of Luterel, the first of a long line of Luterels who retained possession of Hooton until 1484.
It is recorded that in 1086, Oubrough, with other land in Holderness was held by the heir of Amand's daughter Hawise de Surdeval.
In 1252 the butler's fee at Benninghome, was held by Beatrice and John de Surdeval, presumably Hawise's heir. The Surdeval share seems to have descended to John de Surdeval, Lord at Benningholme in 1316, and then to his son Amand.
Amand de Surdeval, who by 1286 had married Cecily of York, descended from William of York.
In 1240 a John de Surdeval had a share of Hilston Manor, and by 1252, presumably as heir of another daughter, Hawise, wife of Alan de Surdeval.
John de Surdeval granted the advowson of Hilston Church to William of Routh (or Rue) in 1252. The Rouths later had the whole advowson and presented rectors from c. 1275
It is recorded that Peter de Surdeval's estate was divided in 1346 between Richard of Aldefield and his wife Alice, probably Peter's widow, and Peter's son Robert. It included a chief house, an ovenham or intake, 2½ bovates, 13½ tofts, and 20 acres of land.