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
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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 |