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Robert Constable (abt. 1340 - bef. 1400)

Sir Robert Constable
Born about in Flamborough, Yorkshire, Englandmap
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Died before before about age 60 in Flamborough, Yorkshire, Englandmap
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Biography

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]

Research Notes

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]

Sources

  1. History of Parliament.
  2. Rosemary Horrox, ‘Constable family (per. c.1300–1488)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  3. “The Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584-85 by Robert Glover to Which Is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612, by Richard St. George” (Joseph Foster ed. 1875, London) "Constable, of Flamborough, Everingham, etc." p. 197.
  4. Ellis, A.S. "Notes on some Ancient East Riding families and their Arms; Constable of Flamborough" in The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, Vol. XII (A. Brown & Sons, Hull, 1905) pp. 6-7.
  • Horrox, Rosemary. "Constable family (per. c.1300–1488)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. [1]
  • Foster, Joseph. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire. Vol. 2, Pt. 2, "Pedigree of Constable of Flambrough Family", 1874. [2]
  • Clay, J.W. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions. Vol. 2, 1907, pp. 288-290. [3]
  • Foster, Joseph. The Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584-85 by Robert Glover to Which Is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612, by Richard St. George London, 1875, p. 612.
  • The Visitations of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564, Made by William Flower, Esquire. Vol. 16, Harleian Society, 1881, p. 342. [4]
  • Testamenta eboracensia; or, Wills registered at York, illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, &c., of the province of York, from the year 1300 downwards. Vol. 1, J.B. Nichols and Son, London, 1836, p. 264. [5]




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Test. Ebor. 1, ed. Raine, Surtees Soc. 4 (1836), p. 264, CXCIV. Will (Latin), 1400, proved Jan 1400/1.

(The editorial footnote about his parentage merely follows the conventional wisdom of 1836, ie Glover = God)

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