General Notes

In the 14th Henry III, Robert de Everingham m. Isabel, dau. of John de Birkin, and sister and sole heiress of Thomas de Birkin, (feudal lords who flourished to nearly the middle of the 13th century) and paid a fine of 200 marks to the crown for livery of her lands, and likewise for livery of the Bailiwick of the forest of Sherwood, that being also part of her inheritance. This Robert held then five knights' fees and a half in the county of Nottingham, and one in Lexinton. He had issue, Adam, his successor; John, to whom his mother gave the manor of Birkin; and Robert, a clergyman, rector of the church of Birkin. He d. in the 30th Henry III, and was s. by his eldest son, Adam. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 193, Everingham, Barons Everingham]