Robert de Ros († 1285)

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Robert de Ros (* unknown; † 1285 ) was an English nobleman .

ancestry

Robert de Ros came from an English noble family from France. Robert's father, Sir William de Ros , and his grandfather Robert de Ros had fought against King John Ohneland during the Barons' First War , but after the war they had their possessions back.

Political career

Sir Robert de Ros's first known state office was in 1258 the office of chief commissioner of the county of Hereford . In the same year he took part in the campaign against Scotland under the name Robert de Ros of Belvoir, because he had married the heiress of Belvoir, Isabel d'Aubigny, in 1243 or 1244. In the same year he also took part in the campaign against Wales and again in March 1260 and October 1261. Against the express orders of the king, he took part in a tournament at the end of 1261, but was not punished by the king.

In March 1263 he joined Simon von Montfort and received a Writ of Summons for De Montfort's Parliament on December 24, 1264 . That is why he was considered the first hereditary baron in England for a long time. Since he was appointed in the name of the king, but by his opponent Montfort, this was revoked from the Barons de Ros in 1949.

On May 18, 1265, the heir to the throne, Eduard, who had been imprisoned by Simon de Montfort, escaped from his custody in Hereford and Robert de Ros then handed Gloucester Castle over to the fled on June 29, 1265 . At the request of Edward, who had defeated Simon de Montfort's army ten days earlier in the Battle of Evesham and in which Simon had died, Robert de Ros received from King Henry III on August 4, 1265 . full pardon. He was appointed Commissioner of the North and was one of the greats of the empire who voted in the Council of Westminster against Llywelyn ap Gruffydd , the Prince of Wales, and was therefore summoned to campaign against Wales . He finally received on June 28, 1283 from King Edward I a writ of summons to the council in Shrewsbury .

family

He married Isabel d'Aubigné , daughter and heiress of William d'Aubigné, Lord of Belvoir , around 1243/44 . The marriage had eight children, among others

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Cokayne, George Edward: The Complete Peerage , edited by Geoffrey H. White XI. St. Catherine Press, London 1949. pp. 95 f.
  2. Cracoft's Peerage: de Ros, Baron (E, 1298/9). Archived from the original on November 16, 2010 ; Retrieved July 10, 2013 .