Robert was born in year 1105 in Cottingham, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.1 Robert's father was Robert de Stuteville II and his mother was Erneburga FitzBaldrick. His paternal grandparents were Robert de Stuteville and Blanche de Rieux; his maternal grandparents were Hugh FitzBaldrick and <Unknown>. He was the oldest of four children. He had three brothers named John, Patrick and Osmund. He died, at the age of 78 years, in year 1183 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England.1
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From Robert were descended the territorial lords of Cottingham, whose male line terminated in the 17th of Henry III [1233]. [John Burke & John Bernard Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Second Edition, Scott, Webster, & Geary, London, 1841, p. 486, Skipwith, of Newbold Hall]
The family of Skipwith, originally written Schypwyc, denominated from a town and lordship so called in the East Riding of York, descends from Robert de Estoteville, Baron of Cottingham, in the time of the Conqueror, of whom and his descendants, the feudal lords of Cottingham, Dugdale treats at great length in the Baronage. [John Burke & John Bernard Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Second Edition, Scott, Webster, & Geary, London, 1841, p. 486, Skipwith, of Newbold Hall]
# Note: # Note: Note: The above source has Patrick de Skipwith descending from Robert's father (also Robert). Burke's Peerage indicates that Patrick was a younger son of this Robert. # Note: # Note: Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 # Note: Page: 88-26 # Note: # Note: Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 # Note: Page: 2633 # Note: # Note: Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 # Note: Page: XII/2:275