General Notes

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---  W E Wightman, *The Lacy Family in England and Normandy
, 1066-1194*,
genealogical chart following p 260.  Besides the three chil
dren Aubrey, Ilbert II and Henry I entered here, Wightman h
as "Robert (o.s.p.)" and "a knight (ob. 1138)", of whome h
e says "These two may be one and the same person", and als
o "Jordan (ob. ante 1166)".
From same, p 59:  "Robert I succeeded his father Ilbert a
s head of the family,
probably between 1091 and 1100.  Almost as little is know
n about his career as
about that of his father.  The date of his birth cannot eve
n be guessed, and the
date of his death is uncertain.  He was alive during the ti
me of Thomas II,
archbishop of York (1108-13).  He was dead by 1129, when Ro
bert de Lisours paid L12. 9s. 4d. for permission to marry R
obert de Lacy's daughter Aubrey.  ...
Robert's wife was called Matilda.  She surviived into Steph
ens's reign, and
perhaps even until 1155.  They had three sons whose existen
ce can be proved, as well as a daugher, Aubrey.  Ilbert I
I suceeded Robert I, and Henry
succeeded Ilbert when the latter died apparently childless
.  A third unnamed
son was killed at the battle of the Standard, 22 August 113
8, and was the
only Anglo-Norman knight killed. Robert also had a son of h
is own name."
From same, p 60, 61, 63:  "Robert I was the first member o
f the family to found a monastery of his own.  .....  Rober
t I was responsible for the foundation of the Cluniac prior
y of St. John, Pontefract, at some time during the reign o
f William I. Robert I seems to have been an energetic found
er and builder, for in addition to his ecclesiastical found
ations he was probably responsible for the building of th
e Lacy castle at Clitheroe.  There is no real evidence what
ever for the suggestion sometimes advanced that Roger of Po
itou built it."
From same, p 66, 67, 68, 72:  "Round about 1114 Robert I wa
s banished from his English estates, though apparently no
t from those in Normandy, since his son was still in posses
sion of his share of the lands there in 1133.  The honour w
as granted to Hugh de Laval not later than 1118 ..... Altho
ugh there is no
evidence to connect him with England before he received Pon
tefract, Hugh
seems to have regarded himself as the heir of the Lacy fami
ly and to have
behaved much like any ordinary tenant-in-chief, unlike hi
s immediate successor [William] Maltravers.  .....  Maltrav
ers was nothing more than an
efficient lay administrator and financier who had risen i
n the service of the king in much the same way as Payn fit
z John in the West Midlands. Payn was, however, a member o
f the lesser nobility; of Maltravers's origin nothing is kn
own.  He owed his position entirely to his abilities and t
o the king's recognition of them, to such an extent that b
y 1130 he had become a man of considerable substance.  ....
.  The manner of his death has long been
known, since the tale was told by Richard of Hexham.  As so
on as Henry I was
dead, Maltravers was killed by a knight of the honour, an
d the way was open
for the return to Pontefract of Ilbert II de Lacy.  As an u
pstart who took no interest in the affairs of his barony sa
ve for what he could extract to recoup the sums he had pai
d for it, Maltravers must have incurred the dislike of esta
blished honorial barons like William Foliot and Roger Peite
vin.  They were the men who would suffer in pociket from hi
s demands, and who would despise a man who could not be reg
arded as their lord and leader in the same way as a genuin
e member of the baronage."