ID: I7277
Name: Robert de Byron 1 2 3 4
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1178 in Horstan Castle, Horsley, Derbyshire, England
Death: BEF 1212 in Clayton, South Mancester, Lancashire, England
Note: Robert de Byron, the eldest, is mentioned in a plea between him and the prior of Lenton, concerning two carrucates of land in Cotegrave, which by a fine (Ped. Fin. A. 1 R. I. Jo. in Scac.) levied at Westminster, in Michaelmas term, in the first year of the reign of King John, was settled on the said Robert and his heirs; who, in consideration thereof, gave to the said priory three bovates of land in Cotegrave, with his moiety of the plowed land called Gelderhrnor; and obliged himself to defend from scutage the whole land of the said priory in Cotegrave, of his fee. He had lands given to him and Cecilia his wife, by Aubert Grelli, in Barnby, to hold by the fourth part of a knight's fee; and had issue by the said Cecilia, daughter and heir of Richard Clayton (MS. St. George præd.), of Clayton, Lancashire. [Collins Peerage VII:91]



Father: Roger de Byron b: ABT 1124 in Horstan Castle, Horsley, Derbyshire, England
Mother: Nichola de Verdun b: ABT 1159 in Staffordshire, England

Marriage 1 Cecilia de Clayton b: ABT 1180 in Clayton, South Mancester, Lancashire, England
Children
Robert de Byron b: ABT 1201 in Clayton, South Mancester, Lancashire, England

Sources:
Title: Collins' Peerage of England, Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, Greatly Augmented, etc.; Sir Egerton Brydges {1812}
Page: VII:91
Title: The Judges of England with Sketches of Their Lives, etc.; Edward Foss {1848-1864}
Page: III:69
Title: Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, 2nd ed; Robert Thoroton {1790-1797}
Page: II:284
Title: Victoria County History: A History of the County of Lancaster: Vol IV; William Farrer & J Brownbill, ed {1911}
Page: 284