Roger Arundel

References -

Parish of Charlton Mackrell at www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66491

Parish of Penselwood at www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18752

Robert I Fitzpayn, who died between 1217 and 1222, is the first confirmed of the male line of this family group, though there is much speculation, most of which is nothing more than wild guessing accepted as fact by the compilers of the “Family Histories” on the Internet. This includes descent from Payn fitzJohn [slain 1137], despite the fact that Payn's heirs were his daughters with the only common denominator between them, the given name of Payn, a name that was fairly common in the twelfth century. At the time of his death in 1281, Robert Fitzpayn was holding half the barony of Peverel of Powerstoke as heir of his grandfather's half brothers, Roger, who died at Acre in 1190 and Robert de la Pole in 1198, who both died without heirs of their bodies. They in turn were the sons of Maurice de la Pole, and Payn or unnamed Fitz Payn, the husbands of Sibyl de Percy, the eldest daughter and Alice de Percy, the younger daughter of Gerbert de Percy and Matilda Arundel and coheir of their parents. Matilda was the heir of her brother Roger II Arundel who died in 1165 and grandchildren of Roger I de Arundel, whose origins are unknown, who held the Honour and barony of Peverel of Powerstoke in 1086.