Sir Robert Constable was the son and heir of Sir Marmaduke Constable and his first wife Joan. [1]
Robert married by Jan. 1384, Margaret, daughter of William Skipwith, wid. of Alexander Surteys (1355-80) of North Gosforth, Northumb., at least 3s. 2da.
He was a justice of the peace for the East Riding and sheriff of Yorkshire in 1385–6 and 1394–5. He was Knighted by Feb. 1375, and was returned to parliament in 1388.
He acquired land in Butterwick in Ryedale, Yorkshire, in 1395, and it may also have been Robert who forged the links with the Percy family that were to be of such importance to the family in the next century. By 1405 (but not in 1378) the Constables held land of the earl of Northumberland in Nafferton, Yorkshire, and elsewhere.
He campaigned in Brittany in 1373 with John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. His military activity continued as head of the family (he served in Brittany under Thomas of Woodstock in 1380 and in Scotland under Gaunt in 1383) alongside involvement in local government. [2]
Glover's Visitation[3] spliced together the pedigree of the Constables of Flamborough with the totally seperate family of Constable from Halsham.
A 1904 article by A S Ellis which showed conclusively that the earlier visitations of the Constable family were erroneous, and that the family was settled at Flamborough as early as 1139. [4]
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(The editorial footnote about his parentage merely follows the conventional wisdom of 1836, ie Glover = God)