Robert FitzRoger

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Robert FitzRoger (* around 1170, † 1212 ) was an English nobleman.

Robert was the son of Roger FitzRichard and his wife Alice de Vere, a daughter of Aubrey de Vere . When his father died in 1178 he was still a minor, he came of age in 1191 and was able to inherit from his father, which included Warkworth Castle in Northumberland and Clavering Castle in Essex . He married Margaret, a daughter of William de Chesney, Lord of Horsford in Norfolk, who brought several estates in East Anglia with her as dowry . Under King Richard the Lionheart , Robert therefore initially lived on these estates in Norfolk. Under King John Ohneland , he shifted his interests to Northumberland, where he rebuilt Warkworth Castle, which had been destroyed by the Scots, and provided it with a stone curtain wall . In 1203 he served as Northumberland Sheriff. In 1204 King John gave him Corbridge and in 1205 Newburn and Rothbury .

He founded the Premonstratensian Abbey of Langley Abbey in Norfolk in 1198 . His son John FitzRobert became his heir .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nigel Saul: John Fitz Robert (Magna Carta 800th). Retrieved December 21, 2015 .
  2. ^ The History of Warkworth Castle. Retrieved December 21, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Robert FitzRoger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1170
DATE OF DEATH 1212