Robert Clere (abt. 1368)

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Biography

Robert Clere was a member of parliament and has an article on the history of parliament website. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/clere-robert-1420

Robert Clere married Elizabeth Reade, daughter of John Reade. They married 1409. Robert was himself born into the older Ormesby branch and founded the Stokesby branch of the Cleres.

Will: Clere (Clere), Robert, of Stokesby 1420 NCC will register Hirning 63. Note above how Blomefield called Elizabeth, Isabel. (See Bulwer^[1])

The History of Parliament biography says:

Clere was descended from a family long settled at Ormesby St. Margaret, about four miles north of Yarmouth, and himself maintained a tradition of parliamentary service dating back from before the middle of the 14th century, for his grandfather Robert (d.c.1358) had represented Norfolk in four Parliaments, and his father had done so once in 1372. The family’s extensive estates, comprising no fewer than seven manors in the east of the county, were held as jointure by Robert’s mother Denise, who lived on at least 33 years after his father’s death, which occurred in 1384, when Robert and his four brothers were all under age. By his father’s will he received a bequest of £20, the same amount as was left to three of his brothers, while the other, Edward, had 200 marks. The heir to the bulk of the estates was the eldest, John Clere, in whose line they long remained, but Robert was to acquire certain holdings by dint of surviving the others. In 1386 his mother obtained a royal licence to entail two parts of the manor of Runham, which she held for life, in reversion on her sons, with Robert being named fourth in succession. Then in 1415 he and his brother William, the only two left alive, received from the feoffees of Runham a reversionary interest in lands in Thrigby, Herringby, Stokesby and Mautby (all near Yarmouth) and at Rackheath and Crostwick to the north of Norwich, which were to fall to them in tail after the death of their mother, who in that same year settled on the two of them a messuage in Ormesby and lands at Scratby and Filby. It was not until February 1417, following William’s death, that Runham was granted in reversion to Robert alone and to his issue, and not until his mother died that he actually secured possession, no more than three years before his own demise. Runham was held of the Crown in socage by the unusual service of rendering two muids (modia) of wine and 200 pearmain pears to the King whenever he visited the city of Norwich.

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1. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/visitationnorfo01dashgoog#page/n359/mode/1up

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