Robert de Turnham

• Preferred Name: Robert de Turnham
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1214 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.4856 LONG: E0.6154 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1140 in Kent, England with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: GNSM-NFL
  
• Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Baron
  
• Notes:

  === Robert de Turnham, who was Steward of An ===
  Robert de Turnham, who was Steward of Anjou in 1199, and Steward of Poitou in 1204, had m. c 1194/97, Joan, daughter and heir of William Fossard. Piers thus acquired in right of his wife the numerous lands comprising the Fossard fee in Yorkshire, which in 1166 had amounted to 33 1/2 knights' fees. [Complete Peerage VIII:555 note (c)]
  
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  He was steward of Anjou in 1199 and steward of Poitou in 1204. He was one of the heroes of King Richard's crusade. His feats of arms are chronicled by Peter de Langtoft, a rhyming Yorkshire monk: " Robert de Turnham se mene noblement, La terre souz maryne ad conquis nettement." He was one of the commanders of the fleet at the siege of Cyprus in 1191, and afterwards governor of the island. The King, on his arrival at Jaffa, despatched him and five other of his best knights with a challenge to the Soudan, inviting the infidel to come out to meet him in the open field, and cross swords in single combat. In June, 1191, he was appointed governor or justiciar of Cyprus, with Richard de Camville. "When the King was in prison in Germany, Sir Robert was sent with the King's harness to England, and for his good service in this journey was discharged of his share of the levy for the King's ransom. On January 6, 1193/94, he was one of the hostages at Worms for the ransom of the King. On the death of King Richard he delivered up to John the castle of Chinon, where the treasure lay. He and his brother Stephen founded an abbey at Bayham, Kent. He was one of the ringleaders of the massacre of the Jews of York.

1. Stephen of Thornham , b. ABT 1165 in Shropshire, England     d. MAR 1214 in Artington, Surrey, England

1. Robert de Turnham III III, b. 1176 in Kent, England     d. in Kent, England
2. Beatrice de Turnham, b. 1160 in Shropshire     d. BEF 18 AUG 1244
3. Stephen of Thornham , b. ABT 1165 in Shropshire, England     d. MAR 1214 in Artington, Surrey, England

1. Robert de Turnham III III, b. 1176 in Kent, England     d. in Kent, England
2. Beatrice de Turnham, b. 1160 in Shropshire     d. BEF 18 AUG 1244
3. Stephen of Thornham , b. ABT 1165 in Shropshire, England     d. MAR 1214 in Artington, Surrey, England