Robert de Muscegros

Abt 1252 - 1280  (~ 28 years)

• Name	Robert de Muscegros
  Born	Abt 1252	of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Dec 1280
  Person ID	I7221	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Agnes de Ferrers,   d. Bef 1297
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F3082	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROBERT DE MUSCEGROS, Knt., of Charlton Musgrove, Norton, and Stowell, Somerset, Boddington and Kemerton, Gloucestershire, Great Finborough, Suffolk, etc., Constable of Bristol Castle, son and heir, born about 1252 (aged 23 in 1275). He fought in Wales in 1272 and 1277. He had livery of his father's lands 4 June 1275. He married (1st) before 1276 an unidentified wife, ___. They had one daughter, Hawise. In October 1275 Robert handed over his castle of Bunratty in Ireland to the king, on condition that as soon as the contention between the king and his subjects in Ireland is settled, and the said Robert has paid all expenses for its repair, munition, upkeep, and custody while in the king's hand, it shall be restored to him or his heirs. In 1276-7 John Herreward arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Thatcham, Berkshire. In July 1276 Thomas de Clare granted him the manors of Aldworth, Compton, and Hampstead Norris, Berkshire, Alvescot, Oxfordshire, and Cottesmore, Rutland, in exchange for Bunratty Castle, Tradree cantred, and Ui-Corbmaig, all in County Clare, in Ireland. In 1277-8 Robert Gobald arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him touching a messuage and land in Sowell, Somerset. He married (2nd) AGNES DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, by his 2nd wife, Margaret (or Margery), daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincy, Knt., 2nd Earl of Winchester, hereditary Constable of Scotland [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Chinnor, Oxfordshire. They had no issue. In 1278-9 John Bochenel arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and Thomas de Clare regarding common of pasture in Hampstead Cyfrevast, Berkshire. Sometime before 1279, he and Sir Robert de Tibetot witnessed a charter of Pain de Chaworth to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire. SIR ROBERT DE MUSCEGROS died 27 Dec. 1280. His widow, Agnes, had dower assigned to her 9 May 1281. In her widowhood, Agnes issued a charter naming her husband, Robert de Muscegros, and her grandfather, Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. Sometime before October 1283, Richard de Bois, custodian of Corfe Castle, Dorset bought the land late of Robert de Muscegros at Gotowre super Mare [in Studland] and in the nearby warren of Corfe, Dorset for the king's uses. Agnes had license to remarry for a fine of 200 marks 17 April 1287. She died without issue before 1297. Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 4 (1879-80): 313-319. Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 300; 47 (1886): 353; 48 (1887): 83. Dickinson Kirkby's Quest for Somerset (Somerset Rec. Soc. 3) (1889): 24, 26. C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 80, 217. Giffard & Bowett Regs. of Walter Giffard & Henry Bowett Bishops of Bath & Wells (Somerset Rec. Soc. 13) (1899): 26. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 79. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 107, 136, 189, 426, 441, 448. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford 1 (1905): 122-125. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 32-33. C.P. 4 (1916): 308, footnote c; 5 (1926): 307-310. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 3-8. Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Notes of Some Somerset Manors (Somerset Rec. Soc. Extra Ser. 1) (1931): 379-387. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 64. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 205: 6; 393: 4 (sub Muscegros). Stone Oxfordshire Hundred Rolls of 1279 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 46) (1968): 53. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward 12 (1997): 316 (arms of Robert de Musgrove: Or, a lion rampant gules). VCH Somerset 7 (1999): 170-177. National Archives, SC 8/1/39; SC 8/32/1576 (petition dated c.1276 by William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick to King's council, requesting that although he holds Cottesmore in Rutland in chief of the king, Thomas de Clare has given him to understand that he holds it, and has exchanged it with Robert de Mucegros, who has done homage to the king for it. He requests justice); SC 8/181/9024 (petition dated c.1321 by Edmund de Keynes and Joan, his wife to the king, seeking remedy re. a court case between them and John and Hawise de Bures, seemingly over the manor of Alvescot, Oxfordshire. Following a writ of cosinage, Hawise appeared and showed the charter of the gift of various manors and lands in England and Ireland to her father, Robert de Musgros, by Thomas de Clare) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Child of Robert de Muscegros, Knt., by i. HAWISE DE MUSCEGROS, married (1st) WILLIAM DE MORTIMER; (2nd) JOHN DE FERRERS, Knt., 1st Lord Ferrers of Chartley [see FERRERS 9]; (3rd) JOHN DE BURES, Knt., of Boddington, Gloucestershire [see FERRERS 9].”