William FitzRobert

• Preferred Name: William FitzRobert
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GJ1P-7HQ
  
• Birth: 1125 in Warminster, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.1784 LONG: E2.1285
  
• Death: in Warminster, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.1784 LONG: E2.1285
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/FitzRobert-132
  
  Pirou. [1]
  
  Parents
  Robert de Pirou, born, say, 1100, was the earliest known tenant of the manor of Furnax or Avenel's Fee in Warminster, Somerset, under the Malet family. It was said late in the 12th century that he had received land in Warminster and the chuch there by gift of Henry I. (1100-[2]
  
  Robert was steward to the Earl Ferrers early in the reign of Henry II, [3]and a tenant under him in Derbyshire. [4]
  
  Robert was still living in 1172, [5] but probably died soon after.
  
  He left a son William. [1]
  
  William was the son of Robert de Pirou.[6]
  
  Warminster
  Some popular genealogies refer to "Warminster, Somerset. Note that " there's also Worminster (pronounced Warminster) near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, which is not far from Milton Clevedon." (G2G)
  
  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.[7]
  
  The tenancy of Kilve was held later by Robert de Pirou's grandson, Robert, son of William. [7] At Robert's death, perhaps about 1200, Robert's heirs were his three daughters. The usual disputes followed, and Kilve was held by the Furneaux family, then the Avenels, then the Furneaux again who remained in possession until the failure of the male line in 1359. Thus Matthew de Furneaux was granted a market and a fair in 1296, and Simon de Furneaux established a chantry of five chaplains there in 1329.[7]
  
  Death
  The suggestion by the crsbi site that at the death of Robert de Pirou, Kilve was held by his grandson, suggests that Robert's son William died before his father, and that Robert FitzWilliam, the grandson, was thus the heir of Robert de Pirou.
  
  Issue
  William FitzRobert had two sons.
  
  Ralph FitzWilliam was brobably the son of William FitzRobert. Ralph gave the church of Warminster to Wells Cathedral, [8]
  Robert FitzWilliam. Apparently the heir, who inherited the Kilve manor from his grandfather Robert de Pirou.
  William, the father of Ralph FitzWilliam, gave the church of Warminster to Wells Cathedral. [6]
  
  Sources
  ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
  ↑ 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
  ↑ 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
  ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Linton. Medieval Mosaic. Le Chevalier de Pirou Accessed March 15 2018 jhd
  ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland St Mary Kilve Accessed March 15, 2018. jhd
  ↑ Darley Cart. ed. Darlington, pp. iii, 117. 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