Robert de Pirou

• Preferred Name: Robert de Pirou
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GJ1P-CSQ
  
• Birth: 1100 in England with note: OF Warminster, Wiltshire Don't know if he was born there
  
• Death: 1173 in England with note: last known place living was Derbyshire in 1150s-1160s
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pirou-2
  
  Robert de Pirou was the earliest known tenant of the manor of Furnax or Avenel's Fee in Warminster, Wiltshire, under the Malet family.
  
  It was said late in thje 12th century that he had received land in Warminster and the church there by gift of Henry I. (1100)[1]
  
  Robert de Pirou, an under-tenant to the Malets, received by way of gift from Henry I. in the late 12th century, the manor and church of Warminster. [2]
  
  Kilve, Somerset
  Kilve is a village in the west of Somerset County. It had been held by Beorhtric and in 1086 by Roger de Courcelles. The church is St. Mary's. His estates passed mostly to the Malet family who became overlords, but a tenancy was established in the early 12th century, held by Robert de Pirou.[3]
  
  Steward to Earl Ferrers
  Robert was steward to the Earl Ferrers early in the reign of Henry II, [4]and a tenant under him in Derbyshire. [5]
  
  1172 Death
  He was still living in 1172, [6] but probably died soon after.
  
  Robert died shortly after 1172, [2]
  
  Issue
  He left a son William. [7]
  
  Robert left a son William. [2]
  
  Sources
  ↑ Hist. MSS. Com. Wells, i. 58; since the grant was made by Hen. 1, what was later the Malet barony was probably in royal hands at the time; the Malets are not known to be connected with any part of the barony before 1130: Sanders, op. cit. 38. Cited by 'Warminster: Manors', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (London, 1965), pp. 96-103. British History Online accessed 9 March 2018 jhd
  ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Michael Linton. Medieval Mosaic. Le Chevalier de Pirou Accessed March 15 2018 jhd
  ↑ The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland St Mary Kilve Accessed March 15, 2018. jhd
  ↑ Sir Chr. Hatton's Bk. of Seals, ed. Lloyd and Stenton, p. 104. Cited by 'Warminster: Manors', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (London, 1965), pp. 96-103. British History Online accessed 9 March 2018 jhd
  ↑ Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 339. Cited by 'Warminster: Manors', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (London, 1965), pp. 96-103. British History Online accessed 9 March 2018 jhd
  ↑ Cal. Doc. France, ed. Round, 440. Cited by 'Warminster: Manors', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (London, 1965), pp. 96-103. British History Online accessed 9 March 2018 jhd
  ↑ Darley Cart. ed. Darlington, pp. iii, 412. Cited by 'Warminster: Manors', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (London, 1965), pp. 96-103. British History Online accessed 9 March 2018 jhd