ID: I7274
Name: Robert de Byron 1 2 3 4
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1201 in Clayton, South Mancester, Lancashire, England
Title: Sir
Death: BEF 1274
Note:
Robert de Byron, the eldest son, was lord of the manor of Clayton, Robert de Heston releasing to him and his heirs all his right in the said manor, and in all his lands within these bounds; viz. from Hardene, ascending by the --------- the little brook next Drulsden, as far as the ditches, and from them to the little rill next to the land of Sinderland, so descending by the said rivulet as far as the demesne lands of Hardene; in consideration whereof, the said Robert gave him three marks and a half of silver: and, by another deed, he remises to Sir Richard, his brother (aforesaid) and to his heirs, all his right and title in Clayton, Failesworth, and Drylesden, in the country of Lancaster; also by another deed, all his right in the whole town of Drylesden.

King Richard I. in the first year of his reign, confirmed to the prior and monks of Royston, in Cambridgeshire (inter alia), the grant of this Robert de Byron to that convent, of two acres and a half of land in Burley.

This Robert was also a witness to a grant, made by Theobald Walter, of Pyling-Hay, in Lancashire, to the monks of Cockersand, for the souls of King Henry II. and Richard I.

Maud his wife, was living in the 2d year of the reign of Edward I. and had issue by him two sons, William and John. [Collins Peerage VII:92]




Father: Robert de Byron b: ABT 1178 in Horstan Castle, Horsley, Derbyshire, England
Mother: Cecilia de Clayton b: ABT 1180 in Clayton, South Mancester, Lancashire, England

Marriage 1 Maud b: ABT 1205 in Lancashire, England
Children
John de Byron b: ABT 1226 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:92
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