• General Notes

  Notes and Queries, 2nd ser, vol 3 page 413:
  1190 Robert Belet to have restitution of Combe Park,Kingston, which was his inheritence
  
  1192 3 ric 1 National Archives Robert Belet to Henry de Cornhell;Grant of the land of Combe w ith the three tofts which Ralph Postel held, and the mills of Kingston.
  
  Hist of Somerset;
  In 1194 Robert Belet purchased the Wardship of Robert De Newburgh,then a minor,and sequentl y arranged a marriage between his son William Belot, and Margery De Newburgh,Roberts Sister
  
  1227 Robert De Newburgh granted the mesne lordship of the moiety to his sister Margery Belot .
  
  Woodsford page 447 West Woodsford,
  Robert Belet assesed 20s for expidition into Galaway,like sum for one knights fee toward rede mption of King Richard from his captivity in Germany.
  
  Robert holds of the Lord King in capite, Frome,Winterborn,Werdesford,and Lyme in Dorset by on e knights fee from the conquest, and a messuage in the borough of Dorchester which belongs t o his fee
  
  6 ric 1 (1195) paid 1000 marks to the king for his further favors and the wardship of Roger d e Newburgh.
  
  8 ric 1 (1197) on the collection of the third scutage of Normandy, he paid 16 l for eight fe es,the moiety of the honour of Purstoke:
  
  1 john ( 1199) was sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for half the year
  2 john (1200) for the whole year
  
  On general inquisition made 12 and 13 John (1211-1212) John was returned by the sheriff of Do rset and Somerset as holding one knights fee in capite
  
  History Dorset vol 11 p 126 Frome-Belet, parish and manor time of Henry 11 became to Robert B elet.
  
  12 and 13 John (1211 -1212) he held two fees in Frome Winterborne and Werdesford; in Lynn ha lf a fee.
  
  6 hen 111 (1222) held Frome for one fee
  
  This later manor of Frome was mentioned in Domesday as alloted to William Belot was passed t o Robert son michael but returned to Michael his brother and seems to continue in the famil y for several more generations.
  
  
  Foss e.a. Biographical dictionary of judges,England 1870; Robert Belet,of Cumba died 3 henr y 111 (1219)
  
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Details of Robert's family with Mrs Mabel Belet