Robert Drury (1155 - 1230)

Born 1155 in Horningsheath, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1230 at about age 75 in Thurston, Suffolk, England

Notes

Campling calls him "ROBERT fil. RICHARD fil. Drieu, who was to carry on the family at THURSTON" and found much more information about his wife Mathilda de Thurston, who was an heiress in her own right:

He is probably the Robert Dreu who is cited in the Castleacre Priory as witness to a grant of William de Waunci, knight, and certainly the Robert fil. Richard, and brother of Humphrey, who with Herbert, prior of St. Edmund’s (1200-20), witnessed a grant to Castleacre, and the Robert de Thurston so called in a Curia Regis suit as to dower claimed by his widow Matilda, Easter 1230.

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Robert de Thurston, younger son of Richard fil. Drieu, was dead before July 1203 when her said father-in-law was concerned in her dower in Horningsheath as by the fines as follows:

In the Octave of Trinity 1203. Suffolk. Final agreement between Matilda de Sapiston by Alexander her son and Richard fil. Drieu (by Norman de St. Edmund) of reasonable dower of Matilda contingent on a free tenement which was Alexander de Wridewell formerly her husband in Horningsheath. Matilda quit claims to Richard who gives five marks silver.

His wife had children with three sons, as Campling found in legal records:

Matilda, as has been said, had married firstly Alexander de Wridewell (or Wordwell) one of the knights of St. Edmund, who had held previous to 1204 a half fee in Horningsheath, and by him had a son Alexander fil. Matilda de Sapiston, who in 1203 was a party to his mother’s claim for dower, and later party to a Fine in Whelnetham 1223. By her third husband Robert fil. Richard fil. Drieu she had four sons, Richard fil. Robert, who, as Richard fil. Matilda, had been concerned in a Fine in Hedenham co. Norfolk 1209, Nicholas fil. Robert de Thurston, witness to a grant in 1257, John fil. Robert de Thurston and Jordan.

Sources

• Arthur Campling, (1937), The History of the Family of Drury, Ch II "Drury of Thurston". Available on wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20120717074110/http://www.genealogysource.com/druryhistpt2.htm
• J. Muskett, 1899, Suffolk Manorial Families, Vol. 1,"Drury Pedigrees" page 346 gives an old manuscript pedigree. Available on wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20140130035720/http://www.genealogysource.com/muskett346.htm

Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.