Robert de Ros, 1st Baron Ros of Wark

Robert de Ros, 1st Baron Ros of Wark (* before 1274; † 1296 or 1297) was an English nobleman.

Robert was a son of his father of the same name, Robert de Ros, the heir of Robert de Ros of Wark . His father died in 1274, after which Robert Wark Castle in Northumberland inherited, which he held as a vassal of his uncle Robert de Ros of Helmsley . On June 24, 1295 Ros was as Baron Ros of Wark in the Parliament appointed. Presumably out of love for a Scottish woman, however, he fought on the Scottish side in the conflict between the English King Edward I and the Scottish King John Balliol and in March 1296 undertook a treacherous attack on English troops in Pressen near Wark . This attack is considered to be one of the earliest fights in the First Scottish War of Independence . His brother William de Ros of Kendal then occupied Wark Castle and secured it for the English. As a result, Robert had to flee to Scotland, where he died impoverished a few months later.

Confiscated by the king, Wark Castle was given to Robert's cousin William de Ros of Helmsley in 1301 . Its inheritance gave it to the king in 1317 in exchange for other lands in England.

Web links

Robert de Ros, 1st and last Lord Ros of Wark on thepeerage.com , accessed February 20, 2016.

Individual evidence

^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 97.
↑ Nicholas Vincent: Ros, Robert de (dc1270). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
↑ Colm McNamee: Ros, William de, first Lord Ros (c.1255-1316). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

personal data
SURNAME	Robert de Ros, 1st Baron Ros of Wark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ros, Robert de Ros, Baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1274
DATE OF DEATH	1296 or 1297

[1] Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 97.

[2] Nicholas Vincent: Ros, Robert de (dc1270). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

[3] Colm McNamee: Ros, William de, first Lord Ros (c.1255-1316). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004