• General Notes

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  Custom Field:<_FA#> Built Lacy Castle at Clitheroe.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-11 7living in 1031
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Banished from his English estates abt 1114 , but kept those in Normandy.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-117living in 1031
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  ---  W E Wightman, *The Lacy Family in England and Normandy, 1066-1194*,
  genealogical chart following p 260.  Besides the three children A ubrey,
  Ilbert II and Henry I entered here, Wightman has "Robert (o.s.p.)" and "a
  knight (ob. 1138)", of whome he says "These two may be one and the same
  person", and also "Jordan (ob. ante 1166)".
  From same, p 59:  "Robert I succe eded his father Ilbert as head of the
  family,
  probably between 1091 and 1100 .  Almost as little is known about his
  career as
  about that of his father. The date of his birth cannot even be guessed,
  and the
  date of his death is uncertain.  He was alive during the time of Thomas
  II,
  archbishop of York (1 108-13).  He was dead by 1129, when Robert de
  Lisours paid L12. 9s. 4d. for p ermission to marry Robert de Lacy's
  daughter Aubrey.  ...
  Robert's wife was called Matilda.  She surviived into Stephens's reign,
  and
  perhaps even until 1155.  They had three sons whose existence can be
  proved, as well as a daugh er, Aubrey.  Ilbert II suceeded Robert I, and
  Henry
  succeeded Ilbert when th e latter died apparently childless.  A third
  unnamed
  son was killed at the b attle of the Standard, 22 August 1138, and was the
  only Anglo-Norman knight ki lled. Robert also had a son of his own name."
  From same, p 60, 61, 63:  "Rober t I was the first member of the family to
  found a monastery of his own.  .... .  Robert I was responsible for the
  foundation of the Cluniac priory of St. J ohn, Pontefract, at some time
  during the reign of William I. Robert I seems t o have been an energetic
  founder and builder, for in addition to his ecclesia stical foundations he
  was probably responsible for the building of the Lacy c astle at
  Clitheroe.  There is no real evidence whatever for the suggestion
  sometimes advanced that Roger of Poitou built it."
  From same, p 66, 67, 68, 72 :  "Round about 1114 Robert I was banished
  from his English estates, though a pparently not from those in Normandy,
  since his son was still in possession o f his share of the lands there in
  1133.  The honour was granted to Hugh de La val not later than 1118 .....
  Although there is no
  evidence to connect him w ith England before he received Pontefract, Hugh
  seems to have regarded himself as the heir of the Lacy family and to have
  behaved much like any ordinary ten ant-in-chief, unlike his immediate
  successor [William] Maltravers.  .....  Ma ltravers was nothing more than
  an
  efficient lay administrator and financier who had risen in the service of
  the king in much the same way as Payn fitz Jo hn in the West Midlands.
  Payn was, however, a member of the lesser nobility; of Maltravers's
  origin nothing is known.  He owed his position entirely to hi s abilities
  and to the king's recognition of them, to such an extent that by 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.  A s soon as Henry I
  was
  dead, Maltravers was killed by a knight of the honour, and the way was
  open
  for the return to Pontefract of Ilbert II de Lacy.  As an upstart who
  took no interest in the affairs of his barony save for what h e could
  extract to recoup the sums he had paid for it, Maltravers must have
  incurred the dislike of established honorial barons like William Foliot
  and Roger Peitevin.  They were the men who would suffer in pociket from
  his deman ds, and who would despise a man who could not be regarded as
  their lord and l eader in the same way as a genuine member of the
  baronage."

Details of Robert de Lacy's family with Maud de Perche