Gilbert de Noyers witnessed a charter of Duke Richard to Fontanelles, 1024 (Neustria Pia, 166). William De Noiers or De Nuers was an under-tenant in Norfolk, 1086 (Domesday); and “the manor of Gothurst, or, as it is now called, Gayhurst in Buckinghamshire was, at the time of the Norman Survey, held under the Bishop of Bayeux by Robert de Nodariis, or Nowers, whose family not long afterwards became possessed of it in their own right”— Lysons. Almaric de Noers, in the time of Henry III., held one knight’s fee of William de Say, “being (as it may be presumed) the same which Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, 12 Hen. II., then certified that Hugh de Nuers held of him in that county.”—Banks. His son William married the heiress of Stoke- Goldington, and was the father of another Almaric, who is included by the above writer in his Barones Pretermissi. “In 24 Ed. I., he was one of those eminent persons who had summons to attend the great council then ordained to assemble at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In the year following, his name is mentioned as one of the knights of the shire for the county of Bucks, being then written Amary de Nowers. He died 2 Ed. II., seized of the manors of Gothurst, Weston, and Stoke Goldington in Buckinghamshire, and of Cestre Parva, in the county of Northampton. Joan his wife died shortly after, 4 Ed. II., being then seized of the manor of Lathebury, and of a part of the manor of Cainho, in the county of Bucks.” - Ibid. His son John acquired a great Bedfordshire estate through his wife Grace, daughter and heir of Robert Fitz Neale, or Nigel, the last Lord of Salden, who brought him four sons. Yet the line ended with his grandson Almaric, who died in 1408, without issue. Three grand-daughters remained. “Agnes and Grace died nuns; and Joan Nowers became heir to her father and brother; she married Sir Robert Nevill, who had Gothurst in her right, and died possessed thereof in 1426, leaving issue; in whose heirs-general (if legitimate) is vested the representation not only of Almaric de Nodariis, who flourished temp. Ed. I., but of the co-heirship of the ancient barony of Albini, of Cainho; together with that of the old and famous barony of Percy.” —Ibid.

The William de Noers of Domesday had the custody of thirty-three of the Conqueror’s manors in Norfolk, and is said to have stood high in his favour. “Ralph de Nuers held Swanton-Nuers (Nowers) of the Bishop of Norwich, and witnesses a deed of Robert Fitz Ralph in the time of Hen. II. He was probably the same Ralph who held at that time of William de Abrincis in Kent one fee of the old feoffment. Milo de Nuers, 10 Ric. I., conveyed part of his interest there to Roger de Kerdeston. Simon de Nuers was living 35 Hen. III.: Sir Robert de Nuers held in 1327; and his son John in 1361. The manor of Nuers came to Sir William Oldhall, living 1437.”—Blomfield's Norfolk. This must have been through John de Noer’s grand-daughter Margery, who is mentioned in Nichol's Leicestershire. The De Nuers held in Knossington, in that county, of Robert de Tateshall.