General Notes

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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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Seigneur d'Estouteville and de Valmont

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]

Robert called Grundeboef (or rather Fronteboef), Baron of Cottingham, lived during the reign of William the Conqueror. He was made prisoner by king Henry I at the battle of Tenerchebray where he was taken fighting on the side of Robert Curthose, for which his lands were seized and given to Nigel de Albini.