Robert (Warkworth) Clavering (abt. 1168 - bef. 1214)

Born about 1168 in Clavering, Saffron Walden, Essex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before 22 Nov 1214 before about age 46 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England [uncertain]

Biography

Robert de Clavering, Robert FitzRoger, Robert de Eure, Robert FitzRichard, Robert de Warkworth ^[1]

Sanders, writing about Roger, and having mentioned that the king granted the honour of Whalton to him, wrote:

Henry II granted Warkworth to Roger fitz Richard father of Robert fitz Roger, for the service of 1 knight in 1157; this grant was confirmed for Robert fitz Roger in 1199. Robert was granted Newburn for the service of 1 knight's fee. In the thirteenth century scutage was paid on 3 knights' feesfor these three places [Whalton, Warkworth, Newburn]. Sometimes Warkworth and Newburn were called baronies.

Robert Fitz Roger, 2nd Baron of Warkworth (father of John Fitz Robert). [Ancestral Roots] who married Margaret, only child and heiress of William de Cheney, by whom he acquired the Barony of Horsford, county Norfolk, had an only son, John, and a daughter, Alice.^[2] This Robert obtained a confirmation, upon the accession of King John, of the castle and manor of Warkworth, of the manor of Clavering, in Essex, and of the manor of Eure, in Buckinghamshire, to hold by the service of one knight's fee each. And in that monarch's reign he served the office of sheriff for Northumberland, Norfolk, and Suffolk, for each county thrice. In the conflict between John and the barons, this powerful person, although indebted to the crown for immense territorial possessions, took part in the first instance with the latter, but under the apprehension of confiscation, and the other visitations of royal vengeance, he was very soon induced to return to his allegiance. He was succeeded by his son, John Fitz-Robert. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., (London, 1883), p. 121, Clavering, Barons Clavering]

Occupation

Occupation: Sheriff of Northumberland, Lord of Clavering

Robert Fitz Roger, 2nd Baron Warkworth, Lord Clavering, died shortly before 22 Dec 1214, and his widow Margaret died in 1230.^[2]

Research Notes

Alternative information:

Birth:

• c1161, Warkworth, Marston St. Lawrence, Northumberland, England
• c1168, Clavering, Saffron Walden, Essex (place [Uncertain])

Death:

• c1217, Clavering, Essex, England
• before 22 November 1214, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (place [Uncertain])

Surname: Stokes

Barony of Stokesley

John, his son, married Ada Balliol, whose maritagium included the barony of Stokesley, Yorkshire.^[3]

The 1958 1000 Years of Stokes apparently took "Stokesley" to be the same as Stokes and gives the Claverings the surname "Stokes". It also includes the family in Northumberland who apparently were Stokes (see John Stokes).

Sources

1. ↑ John Walker Ord, The History and Antiquities of Cleveland: Comprising the Wapentake of East and West Langbargh, North Riding, County York. Chapter X. (n.p.: Simpkin and Marshall, 1846); digital image: (https://books.google.com/books?id=qPsnAAAAYAAJ).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Richardson, Royal Ancestry, II:219 CLAVERING 3.
3. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, II:219-221 CLAVERING 4.

See also:

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Sanders, Early English Baronies, p. 150.
• Lewis, Marlyn. Robert FitzRoger, entry in "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" database online.
• The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, Page: 156-2
• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, Page: 262-29, Page: 246d-27
• Ancestry.com