[1] Roger succeeded his father after Miles died in a hunting accident on 24 December 1143 while under excommunication by the church in an edict issued by the Bishop of Hereford.
[3] Roger, who bore hatred to the church for his father's excommunication, and compelled the prior of Llanthony, as a friend of the Bishop of Hereford, to resign.
[6] Subsequently, however,[7] he founded Flaxley Abbey, a Cistercian house, within the Forest of Dean,[8] possibly on the spot of his father's death.
[1] On the accession of Henry (1154) he resisted his authority, but was persuaded around March 1155 by the Bishop of Hereford to surrender his castles,[12] and thereupon received a charter confirming him in almost all his father's possessions.
[1] Roger married Cecily Fitz John, the daughter of Pain fitzJohn in January 1138, who inherited the bulk of her father's possessions.