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Robert de Abrincis, Earl of Devon, holder of the Feudal Barony of Okehampton
Dates: fl. late 11th–early 12th century
Nephew of Richard de Moels who received the Okehampton barony and was created Earl of Devon by Henry I.
View historical person →Robert de Acton
Dates: Flourished before 1224 to before 1240
Son and heir of Reyner de Acton, recorded in Haughmond-related deeds concerning pasture in the fee of Acton.
View historical person →Robert de Aguillon, Knight, Crown tenant, former sheriff of Surrey and governor of Guildford Castle
Dates: died 15 February 1286
Robert de Aguillon was a thirteenth-century royal administrator and landholder who held estates in several southern and eastern counties. In 1278 Henry III licensed him to fortify his…
View historical person →Robert de Aguilon, Lord of the manor of Addington, sheriff of Surrey and Sussex and governor of Guildford Castle according to later accounts
Dates: Died 1286, according to the cited antiquarian account
Robert de Aguilon was a major thirteenth-century landholder associated with Addington and other estates. In 1278 he obtained royal permission to fortify his house at Addington and free…
View historical person →Robert de Aldham, Lord of the manor of Aldham
Dates: fl. 1291
A medieval Essex landholder recorded in 1291 as lord of Aldham in a court of the Honour of Hedingham.
View historical person →Robert de Alfreton, Lord of Alfreton and Norton
Dates: Thirteenth century; died before the death of his son Thomas in 1269 according to one local account.
A de Alfreton lord who held lands in Alfreton and made documented grants to Beauchief Abbey.
View historical person →Robert de Bayeux, Feudal tenant of Covington, Sheriff of Huntingdonshire, 1310
Dates: fl. c. 1300–1310
A member of the Bayeux family who did homage to the Earl of Cornwall for Covington at the beginning of the fourteenth century and served as sheriff in…
View historical person →Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Dates: died 1118
Anglo-Norman nobleman who received major English and Norman estates and was the father of Robert Bossu.
View historical person →Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, Anglo-Norman baron
Dates: died 1142
Anglo-Norman nobleman who received lands from Henry I in 1106 and obtained the lordship of Annandale from David I of Scotland in 1124. He was an ancestor of…
View historical person →Robert de Bulmer and the Bulmer family, Bulmer landholders, mesne lords of Airton
Dates: twelfth to fourteenth centuries, dates for the Airton holding not securely established
The Bulmers were a major Yorkshire landholding family. The consulted county history specifically places Airton among their mesne holdings before its transfer by marriage to the FitzHughs.
View historical person →Robert de Bures, Esquire, lord of Acton Manor
Dates: Died 10 July 1524
A later member of the Acton branch of the Bures family who held Acton Manor and other Suffolk and Essex properties. His estate was recorded in an inquisition…
View historical person →Robert de Cardinan, Described in the registry as the earliest Norman lord of Mylor.
A Norman-era landholder identified by the supplied history as the grantor of Mylor to Richard Dangeroes or D'Angers.
View historical person →Robert de Clifford, Baron Clifford, Lord of the Barony of Skipton, 1st Baron Clifford, Lord of Brough under Stainmore, 1st Baron de Clifford, Lord of Skipton, Baron of Westmoreland, Lord Marcher, Admiral of England, Baron of Skipton
Dates: 1274–1314
Robert de Clifford was an English baron who received the Barony of Skipton in 1312. Eshton is identified in the supplied account as one of the baronial lands…
View historical person →Robert de Colville, Lord Colville in the cited genealogical account
Dates: Died 1369 or 1370 according to the cited accounts
A Colville heir whose Northamptonshire estates included Abington.
View historical person →Robert de Dreux, Feudal landholder by marriage
Dates: fl. early 13th century
Husband of Annora, heir of Thomas de Walery. His interest connected Covington with the de Dreux family before the property was seized by Henry III.
View historical person →Robert de Ewyas, Lord of Ewyas Harold, founder and patron of Dore Abbey
Dates: Died 1147
Robert de Ewyas founded Dore Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Herefordshire, in 1147. The foundation became the principal institutional holder of the Dore estate and accumulated lands in…
View historical person →Robert de Ferrers II, Earl of Derby
Dates: died 1162
Robert de Ferrers II was earl of Derby and lord of the de Ferrers estates in Staffordshire. The Newborough entry in the historical gazetteer directly associates him with…
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