ROBERT DE INSULA (d), son and heir of Robert DE INSULA (e), by Beatrice DE CORMEILLES, daughter and coheiress of Ralph, the Sewer to the Earl of Richmond (living 1166 (f)), held Rampton, Cottenham, Westwick and Nedging of the Bishop of Ely in 1212. He married, 1stly, Sarah, daughter of Eborard DE AUNUS or DANYS (b), and, 2ndly, circa 1213, Roese, widow of Robert DE TATESHALL, and sister and heir of John DE WAHULL, by whom he had no issue. [Complete Peerage VIII:69-70
(d) This family appears to have taken its name from the Isle of Ely. Their arms, a fesse between two chevrons, differed in tinctures only from those of Pecche, who also held immediately of the Bishop. Rougemont is in Harewood, Yorks. The castle and manor came to the first Lord Lisle as part of his share of the inheritance of Isabel, Countess of Aumale, who had held as heiress of FitzGerold, de Curcy and Romelli.
(e) This Robert was probably son of Robert de Insula by Galiena, daughter of William Blund. Geoffrey Ridell, Archdeacon of Canterbury, gave the said Galiena on her marriage to Robert, the land that was Mainer the Porter's at Exning. Confirmed by Henry II.(f) In 9 John [c 1208] Robert claimed the advowson of Wimpole, co. Cambridge, under charter of Conan, lord of the Honour of Richmond, to his grandfather Ralph, sewer of the said Conan. (b) Chanc. Miscellanea, 9/22; De Banco Roll, Mich. 15 Edw. II, rot:352. Here Robert de Lisle claims the manor of Combes, Suffolk, as next of kin of Sarah, wife of Roger son of Piers FitzOsbern--viz. son and heir of Warin, son and heir of Robert, son and heir of Robert, son and heir of Sarah, sister of Geoffrey, father of Margery, mother of Sarah FitzOsbern.
Note: Rampton, Cottenham & Westwick are all in the census registration district of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, being very close together.
Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
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