Robert FitzWilliam

• Preferred Name: Robert FitzWilliam
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1185 in Ashington Manor, Somersetshire, England at LATI: N0.9905 LONG: E2.6307 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: GZY7-QW2
  
• Birth: ABT 1150 in Warminster, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.1784 LONG: E2.1285 with note: estimated birth AND estimated place of birth
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/FitzWilliam-391
  
  Robert FitzWilliam, father of Joan, was born about 1150. [1] One World Tree gives Robert's place of birth as Ashington, Somersetshire, England. This was the manor of Robert's daughter in law's family; Robert would more likely have been born at one of his own family's manors.Day-1904 14:37, 9 March 2018 (EST)
  
  Parents
  Robert FitzWilliam was a son of William FitzRobert, born, say 1125, who in turn was a son of Robert de Pirou. [2]
  
  Sibling
  Ralph FitzWilliam was brobably also the son of William FitzRobert. Ralph gave the church of Warminster to Wells Cathedral, [3]
  
  Manor of Furnax or Avenel's Fee
  Robert FitzWilliam was mentioned as a former tenant in a lawsuit of 1243. [4]
  
  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.[5]
  
  The tenancy of Kilve was held later by Robert de Pirou's grandson, Robert, son of William. [5]
  
  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.[5]
  
  1185 Death
  He died after 1185. [1]
  
  Robert Fitz-William died about 1185/1186. [6]
  
  In 32 Henry II [1185/1186], Robert Fitz-William died seized of Ashington manor. [6]
  
  1186 Ashington Manor
  Ashington Manor was one of the many which William the Conqueror bestowed upon Roger de Curcelle; it is written in Domesday Essentone, and in modern records Aslington, Ashenden, and Ashington. [7]
  
  Soon afterwards the Estate was in the possession of the family of Fitzwilliam; for Robert of that name died seised of it 32 Henry II (1186), from which family, in the reign of King John, it passed by inheritance to that of de Furnellis, or Furneaux; and from the latter to the St. Barbes, about the year 1400 [7]
  
  Issue
  Robert left a son who died without issue, and three daughters and coheirs.
  
  Reginald. Robert Fitz-William left issue Reginald Fitz-William, who was of age 3 John [1201/1202], but it seems died without children. [6]
  Daughter #1, born, say, 1175, married Nicholas Avenel. Robert's Warminster property passed to this daughter's husband, Nicholas Avenel, [8]who held it in 1242-3. [9] His relationship to the Nicholas Avenel, who married Mabel Malet and was dead by November 1223, is not clear. [10] The second Nicholas Avenel died c. 1246, [11]and was succeeded by his son William who died without issue in 1253.
  Daughter #2 (Joan) , born, say, 1180, married Henry de Furneaux. [12]They were the ancestors of Matthew de Furneaux, [13]. who was the heir of William Avenel, above, who died without issue in 1253. This Matthew was dead by 1284-5, (fn. 153) and was succeeded by another Matthew. For 15 Joh. Henry de Furnellis paid a fine to the King, that a reasonable partition might be made of the lands which he claimed in right of Joan his wife, daughter and coheir of Robert Fitz-William. [6]
  Daughter #3 not mentioned.
  Sources
  ↑ 1.0 1.1 OneWorldTree. www.ancestry.com
  ↑ 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
  ↑ 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
  ↑ K.B. 26/128 rot. 11. 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
  ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland St Mary Kilve Accessed March 15, 2018. jhd
  ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 John Collinson. “The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset” Vol. III. (1741) page 213 cited by Grantley Hutchens. Grantley's Rellies. Robert Fitz-William Updated Nov 18, 2018. Accessed 5/2/2019 jhd
  ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1820. Volume 90, Part 2: Volume 128, p. 17. Accessed March 8, 2018 jhd
  ↑ Misc. Gen. et Her. 3rd ser. iii. 272-3; all 3 coheirs and their husbands held Robert's Devonshire property in 1212 (Bk. of Fees, 96) Cited by Warminster Manors.
  ↑ Bk. of Fees, 717, 737. Cited by Warminster Manors
  ↑ Sanders, English Baronies, 39. Cited by Warminster Manors.
  ↑ Ex. e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii. 2. Cited by Warminster Manors.
  ↑ The pedigree of this family in Cussans, Hist. Herts. Edwinstree Hundred, 138, is apparently incorrect. If Hen. de Furneaux died in 1214 his son Matthew must have been of age by 1235, when he was engaged in a lawsuit: Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Some Somerset Manors (Som. Rec. Soc. extra series), 316. Yet a second Matthew, who was under age in 1243, was said to be the son of Hen. de Furneaux: ibid. It seems more likely that Nicholas had the wardship of two successive Matthews, and the document quoted by Maxwell Lyte refers to the first. The succession would then be 1. Henry d. 1214, 2. Matthew d. 1235-43, 3. Matthew, aged 28-29 in 1253, and so under age in 1243. 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. Inq. p.m. i, p. 71; Close R. 1253-4, 8. Cited by Warminster Manors M