General Notes

Sir Robert de Ros, of Belvoir, summoned 24 Dec 1264 to "a Parliament"convened by Simon de Montfort, an event which prompted the legal decisionof 1616 (also accepted 1806) assigning precedence in the barony of de Rosof Helmsley to 1264, although the "Parliament" in question was convokednot by the King but by a noble in opposition to him; by subsequentevolutions in peerage law doctrine no sitting in what can only be termeda council of that date could be held to confer peerage; ChiefCommissioner to investigate excesses in Herefs 1258; sided with Simon deMontfort in the Barons' War, surrendering Northampton to Henry III April1264 and Gloucester to Prince Edward (later Edward I) June 1265; pardoned14 Aug 1265 for his opposition to Henry III; Commissioner in North ofEngland 1268 to ensure Aid (a tax) was yielded up to the King.  [Burke'sPeerage]

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Robert de Ros m. in the lifetime of his father, Isabel, dau. and heiressof William de Albini, feudal lord of Belvoir, in Leicestershire, by whomhe acquired Belvoir Castle, co. Lincoln, and other extensive landedpossessions. This great heiress was in ward to the king and a mandateupon her marriage, bearing date at Windsor, 17 May, 1244, was directed toBernard de Savoy and Hugh Giffard, to deliver her to her husband, thesaid Robert: "but not," says Dugdale, "without a round composition, forit appears that both he and his wife, in the 32nd Henry III [1248], weredebtors to the king in no less than the sum of £3,285 13s. 4d., and apalfrey; of which sum the king was then pleased to accept by 200 marks ayear until it should all be paid." In the 42nd of the same reign [1258],he had two military summonses with his father to march against the Scotchand Welsh--but afterward rearing, with the other barons, the standard ofrevolt, he had a chief command at the battle of Lewes, so disastrous tothe royalists; and to his custody in the castle of Hereford wasespecially committed the person of Prince Edward. He was at the same timesummoned 24 December, 1264, as Baron de Ros, to the parliament thencalled in the king's name by the victorious lords. But the fortune of warchanging at the subsequent battle of Evesham, his lands were all seizedby the crown and held until redeemed by his lordship under the Dictum ofKenilworth. In two years after this he must, however, have regainedsomewhat of royal favour for he had then permission to raise a newembattled wall around the castle of Belvoir. He d. 16 June, 1285, leavingissue by the heiress of Belvoir, William, his successor;

Robert (Sir), knighted 1296; and Isabel, m. to Walter de Fauconberge. Hislordship was s. by his elder son, William de Ros, 2nd Baron. [Sir BernardBurke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage,London, 1883, p. 458, Ros, or Roos, Barons Ros]