• General Notes

  SIR ROBERT DE OGLE, knight, son and heir, was said variously tobe aged 26 and 30 in 1409. In 1400, on some unknown occasion, hehad been made prisoner by the Scots. In February 1402/3 he wasappointed by the Bishop of Durham constable of Norham Castle,and justice, seneschal, sheriff and escheator in Norhamshire andIslandshire for 7 years; and in September for life. He had theKing's writ for livery of his inheritance, 3, and livery 12 May1410, being then a knight (d1). In May 1410 he was one of thecommissioners to treat of a truce with Scotland, and in Julycommissioner of array in Northumberland. Sheriff ofNorthumberland, 1417-18, and Knight of the Shire, 1419-21, 1425and 1435- In 1419 he recaptured Wark from William de Haliburton.In 1422 and succeeding years he was a commissioner of the peace.He was lieutenant of the Duke of Bedford as captain of BerwickCastle in 1423; and in the following year one of the escortappointed to conduct the King of Scots from Durham to Scotland.From 1425 to 1435 he was warden of Roxburgh Castle; in 1426 wasone of the commissioners in Northumberland to arrange ashort-term loan to the King; and in 1435 sheriff of Hexhamshire.He married, on or before 21 May 1399, Maud, daughter of ThomasGREY, lord of Wark. He died 12 or 13 August 1436 (d2). His widowwas living 22 August 1451 (e). [Complete Peerage X:28-9,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (d1) He had, upon his father's death, violently contested thepossession of Bothal with his younger brother John. The Commonspresented a petition on behalf of John in the Parliament thatmet in Jan 1490/10, setting forth that at midnight on the dayafter their father's death Robert came to Bothal with 200men-at-arms, some of whom were hired men, and some 'even Scots'and enemies of the King, and besieged the castle with 'escales,pavises, hurdises et autres orinances de guerre,' till after 4days' siege John was obliged to surrender. Robert remained inpossession, and the Commons prayed that the matter should bereferred to the Council--'considerantz qe les ditz Chastell &Manoir sont sy pres le Est-Marche d'Escoce, qe sufficeantremedie au dit suppliant par cours de la Commune Ley illoeqes nepoet estre fait.' Robert was summoned to answer before theCouncil, and must have made his peace before the issue of hiswrit of livery.
  
  (d2) He had issue: younger sons John and William, and a daughterMargery, m. to Robert, son and heir of Rober Harbottle, Esq.
  
  (e) When her son Robert granted a reversion after her death tohis brother William. She was probably still alive in 1453/4,when Maud Ogle, widow, paid tithes of Newbigging, in Norham.
  
  Note: Maybe somebody can't do simple arithmetic, but I get1379-83 when I compute Robert's birth year from the informationin CP. AR and MCS (who say 1369-73) also refer to a publicationby Clay on the Extinct Peerages of the Northern Counties ofEngland, so maybe he overrode CP. I think I will stick with CPuntil I find different.
  

Details of Robert's family with Maud Ogle