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Lord of Dunmow Robert FitzRichard

Lord of Dunmow Robert FitzRichard

Male Abt 1075 - 1134  (59 years)

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  • Name Robert FitzRichard 
    Title Lord of Dunmow 
    Birth Abt 1075  Tunbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 1134  Little Dunmow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Priory of St Neot, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I37021  Bob Juch's Tree
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2022 

    Family Maud de Senlis,   b. 1093, Tunbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1140, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years) 
    Marriage 1119  Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Maud FitzRobert,   b. 1134, Little Dunmow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1185, Little Dunmow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)  [natural]
     2. Lord of Dunmow Castle Walter FitzRobert,   b. Abt 1130, Little Dummow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1198 (Age 68 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F13644  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2022 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1119 - Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1134 - Little Dunmow, Essex, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Robert, 5th son of Richard FitzGilbert, Earl of Clare (ancestor of the Earls of Hertford), being steward to King Henry I, obtained from that monarch the Barony of Dunmow in Essex, as also the honor of Baynard Castle, in the city of London, both of which came into the possession of the crown by the forfeiture of William Baynard. This Robert m. in 1112, Maud de St. Liz, Lady of Bradham, dau. of Simon de St. Liz, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, and by her, (who d. in 1140, m. 2ndly, Saer de Quincy) had two sons, Walter, his successor, and Simon, to whom he gave Daventre, in Northamptonshire. He d. in 1134, and was s. by his elder son, Walter FitzRobert. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 212, FitzWalter, Barons FitzWalter]

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      Robert, steward to King Henry I, m. Maud, dau. of Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon, and had Walter Fitz-Robert, whose son, Robert Fitz-Walter, was one of the most distinguished of the barons who rebelled against John, and was styled, Marshal of the Army of God and Holy church.[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 118, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

  • Sources 
    1. [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition.

    2. [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, 157.