General Notes

BARONY OF UFFORD (I)

ROBERT DE UFFORD, son and heir by 1st wife, is said to have been born 11 June 1279. He was frequently summoned for service against the Scots, 1301-16. On 4 May 1304 he had a grant to himself and his heirs of free warren at Parham and Wickham, Suffolk. He was summoned to Parliament from 4 March 1308/9 to 19 December 1311, by writs directed Roberto de Ufford, whereby he is held to have become LORD UFFORD. On 12 September 1309 he was about to go to Ireland.

He married, before 1298, Cecily, younger daughter and coheir of Robert DE VALOINES (e), by Eve, widow of Nicholas TREGOZ (died shortly before 2 June 1279), of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex. He died on or before 9 September 1316, aged 37. His widow, who was aged 1 in 1282 and was going on pilgrimage beyond the seas in February 1318/9, died 16 July 1325, aged 44.  [Complete Peerage XII/2:150, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(e) Cecily and her sister and coheir, Rose, wife of Edmund de Pakenham, were also coheirs of their paternal great-grandmother, Isabel, wife of John de Valoines, sister and (in her issue) coheir of Bartholomew de Creke, of North Creake, Norfolk, and Combe, Suffolk, daughter of Robert de Creke, of the same.

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Sir Robert de Ufford, Knt., was summoned to parliament as a Baron from 13 January, 1308, to 19 December, 1311. His lordship was in the expedition made into Scotland in the 34th Edward I [1306]. He m. Cecily, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Sir Robert de Valoines, Knt., Lord or Walsham, and had issue, Robert, his successor; John, archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1318; Ralph, Justice of Ireland; and Edmund. He d. in 1316, and was s. by his eldest son, Robert de Ufford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 543, Ufford, Barons Ufford, Earls of Suffolk]