"Robert III. grandson of Jordan, brings into the pedigree what we have been taught to call 'local colour,' and we may say that in Robert's days and long after him the Staffordshire knights and gentry as revealed in the plea rolls are careful that the local colour should be warm and ruddy enough to satisfy the most exacting of our Weyman and Doyles. Robert III. had a mailed finger in the turbulent politics of his day. He was of the faction of Ralph Basset of Drayton, who died at Evesham beside Simon de Montfort. If Robert himself were at Evesham he came safely away, for the rest of his story is pieced together with suits which men of the Royal party, then uppermost, bring against him, relating deeds of wasting woods and sacking houses, spoiling of fishponds and slaying of bucks and does, of which Robert and his fellows had been guilty when Basset's banner was still in the wind. He is in gaol, he is fined, but in the end it is well with him, and he dies the richest man his family had yet bred, marrying Aline, daughter* of Ives de Paunton of Rodlowe, an heiress out of Shropshire."[1]
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Sources
↑ The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities, pg 3 [1]
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