Robert de Weare (or de Were) as he was often styled was the son of Robert Fitzharding and Eva [1]
Robert Fitzharding notified his grant of land of Combe to his brother Helyas by charter dated to [1150/60], witnessed by “Domina Eva, Maurice, Nicholas and Robert his sons...Otho son of William...[2]
He held his fathers manors of Billeswyck near Bristol, Kingsweston, Redwick and Beverston Gloucestershire by his older brother Robert[1] [3]
Robert of Weare, enjoyed a demesne income of about £31 from his estates in Bristol and Gloucestershire. Though he made a bad financial decision by loaning the borough's lord and son, William of Gloucester, 60 marks. The earl never repaid it, and John Lackland, William's successor as earl of Gloucester, squeezed 20 marks more from Robert for the alleged privilege of being freed from rendering the service due from his lands until the loan was repaid [4][5]
He married two women of importance [4]
He died c1195 (Gurney has 1230, Patterson 1171)[1] [3] [4]
Usually called Robert de Weare, he received generous treatment from his father. FitzHarding granted to him the manors of Beverston, King's Weston and Elberton in Berkeley Herness, those of Over, Redwick and Northwick elsewhere in Gloucestershire, and in Somerset the manors of Weare and Pawlett, with the three hundreds. [BCM/A/2/84; Smyth, i. 50-1.] Robert married, first, Hawise, the twice-widowed but still childless daughter and heir of Robert de Gurney, who brought him the Somerset manors of Barrow and Englishcombe. She had a daughter Eve but was dead by 1168. [Smyth, i. 52; Ellis.] By 1182 Robert had bought the wardship of his second wife, Avice, daughter of Robert de Gaunt and heir of her mother Alice Paynel. [Smyth, i. 52; Sanders, English Baronies, 55.] Avice died in 1192 in the lifetime of her father, and in 1193-4 and 1194-5 Robert was paying 33 marks to have the lands of Alice Paynel. [Ellis; Smyth, i. 52.] Robert died in 1195 leaving as his heir his son by Avice, [6]
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