1477536.
Lord Robert Howard & 1477537. Margaret de Scales
1342, Robert born in England, heir & s/o 2955072. John Howard & 2955073. Alice
de Boys.
1347, Margaret born in England, d/o 2955074. Robert de Scales & 2955075. Katherine de Ufford.
6/1349, The Plague reached Dorset, and had spread across
England by the end of 1349.
1350, Robert’s father died.
1352, William Carbinel released to Dame Alice Howard all his
right in the manor of ‘Howard and Strange’ with remainder to her son Robert
Howard. (S) Essay Topo. Hist. Norfolk, Blomefield, 1808, P146.
[––Margaret &
Walter––]
1358-61, Margaret 1st married Walter de
Bermingham of Ireland. [7/28/1358, Walter was still a minor.] Acquiring rights
to lands in Ireland.]
8/10/1361, Sir Walter de Bermyngham died without heirs.
4/1362, Robert went beyond seas with Thomas de Ufford. They
crusaded in Prussia. (S) Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade, Guard, 2013, P239.
[They supported the Teutonic Order, Catholics, in the siege of Kaunas castle,
against pagans. The castle fell on 4/17/1362.]
1362, Pleading in English Act: "All Pleas which shall
be pleaded … shewed, defended, answered, debated, and judged in the English
language.” [Formerly conducted in French – the common person having no
knowledge of what was being said.]
[––Robert &
Margaret––]
By 1363, Robert married Margaret. (S) Topo. Hist. of
Norfolk, V5, 1806, Forncet.
3/10/1363, Robert Howard and Margaret, his wife, staying in
England, have letters nominating … as their attorneys in Ireland for 2 years.
(S) CPRs.
7/1/1364, IPM of John de Haveryngton, Lincoln. Multon. A
third part of the manor, in Multon, Weston, Spaldyng and Quappelade (except a
third part of the said third part which is held in dower by Margaret late the
wife of Walter de Bermyngham the younger. …) (S) CIsPM.
Bef. 1367, Robert knighted.
1367, “Manor of Felbrigg, advowsons of Felbrigg and Runton,
and rents and services in Letheringsett, Baconsthorpe, Metton and Thorpe Market
… Conveyed by Roger de Felbrigg and Elizabeth his wife [Elizabeth is the sister
of Margaret, wife of Robert Howard] to Sir Robert de Scalys, Sir Robert Howard,
Sir John de Seckford et al.” (S) UKNA.
1368, Robert brought suit against Edward de Saint Omer and
others regarding a tenurial and prescriptive duty for tenements in Tilney,
Norfolk to repair and sustain a wall against sea storms and freshwater
flooding. (S) English Law, Palmer, 2000, P401.
9/6/1372, Robert’s mother Alice died.
12/7/1374, IPM of Alice late the wife of John Howard,
knight. Norfolk: taken at Garboldecham. … Robert Howard, her son, aged 30 years
and more, is her heir. (S) CIsPM.
6/6/1374, John granted the premises, and all other his lands
&c. in the county of Suffolk, to John Playce, Robert Howard and Roger Boys,
knights, … he put them in full seisin thereof by his own hands … [he also
enfeoffed the same persons with most of his lands in Norfolk]. (S) IPM of John
de Norwico, Knight. [John de Norwico died the following Christmas.]
9/1376, Writing of Katherine de Brewese, cousin and heir of
John de Norwico knight the younger, being a quitclaim to Sir John de Playce
(Plays) Sir Robert Howard, Sir Roger de Boys knights, John de Boys, … [multiple
manors and lands] in Suffolk … Witnesses : Sir John de Brewes, Sir William de
Herdeston knights, … (S) CCRs.
2/6/1377, Commission de walliis et fossatis to Robert
Howard, … John de Rocheford, … along the sea-coast in Merskland and the
adjacent parts, co. Norfolk. (S) CPRs.
7/16/1377, Richard II crowned king of England.
Bef. 6/26/1378, [Date of royal grant of protection for
Margery de Nerford], John Brewes, Sir Robert Howard, John le Heyr, clerk, and
“Richard, that was the ladys cook Nevil,” abducted Margery, age 20, to keep her
from her grandmother Lady Alice Nevill, who was seeking a divorce for Margery
from John de Brewes [to whom she was married by 1375.] The divorce petition
states “that she fears injury from the said John and his accomplices.” (S)
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England, Erler, 2006, P49.
Aft. 6/26/1378, Robert imprisoned in the Tower for detaining
Margery de Nerford from her grandmother Lady Alice Nevill.
7/30/1378, The oath of Robert Howard to bring Margery de
Nerford before the Council, or to deliver her to Isabel, Madame de Bedeford [eldest
daughter of King Edward III]. (S) UKNA, SC 8/18/889.
8/2/1378, Memorandum of order in council for the release of
Robert Howard, kt, on his undertaking to produce Margery Nerford before the
council. (S) UKNA. [Robert was not released until he was mainprised in December
for his £1000
bail.]
12/13/1378, Margery de Nerford was brought before the
council on 10 December, and delivered to Alice de Nevill her grandmother. (S)
UKNA.
1379, A fine levied of the manor of Howards in Tirrington,
Norfolk, between William Ufford, earl of Suffolk, Sir John Lovel, Sir John
Tudenham, Kts., querents, and Sir Robert Howard and Margaret his wife
deforciants. (S) Essay Topo. Hist. Norfolk, V4, 1775, P697. [This was
associated with South Wotton, Norfolk, which was held by Robert’s paternal
grandfather.] (S) Hist. of Norfolk, V9, 1808, South Wotton.
5/1380, Robert granted an exemption for life from being put
on assizes, juries or recognizances, and from being made a mayor, sheriff,
escheator …
1381, Peasant Revolt against new Poll tax. [Aka Wat Tyler’s
Rebellion.]
7/10/1381, Empowered to resist and punish insergents … Roger
de Scales, William de Thorp, Robert Howard, … co. Norfolk. (S) CPRs.
7/18/1380, “Alice de Nevill states that John Brewes and
other malefactors broke into her lodging in London and forcibly abducted
Margery, … Robert Howard received and hid her, …. Robert Howard was sent to the
Tower of London, …. However, he was later released by decision of the Council,
provided that he made every effort to bring Margery before the Council in
London … or to surrender himself to the Tower at that date, on pain of paying
£1000 to the king. He pledged himself to do this, but has not done so; ….” (S)
UKNA.
1381-82, Robert Carbonell, knight, and his wife Margery gave
to Robert Howard, … the manors of Burstone and Metton in Norfolk, on condition
that they should enfeoff him and Margery his wife thereof for a term of 18
years … Badyngham … [5 manors] in Suffolk [same conditions]. (S) CIsPM, IPM of
Robert Carbonell.
7/5/1382, Licence, for £866 13s 4d paid … by John
Plays, Robert Howard, and Roger de Boys, knights, … for them to transfer a
chantry of 8 chaplains, lately founded at Ravenyngham, to Metyngham castle and
to increase the number of chaplains to 13, … for the souls of John de Norwico,
knight, … (S) CPRs.
3/16/1383, Sir Robert Howard named as a feoffee in the will
of 7605684. Lord Robert de Willoughby.
5/4/1383, The saga involving Robert Howard and Margery de
Nerford ended. She had been granted an annulment by the Pope and took a vow of
chastity before the bishop of London. [Margery died 12/21/1417.]
2/20/1384, Commission of oyer and terminer to William
Bardolf … Roger Scales … Robert Howard … on complaint by Robert Knolles … (S) CPRs.
1384-5, “John Le Strange to Sir Robert Howard and others
George's Marsh.” [Norfolk] (S) UKNA.
2/20/1386, “Robert Howard requests that the king order
Morley and his colleagues to stay all proceedings in an assize of oyer et
terminer into an alleged trespass by Howard and others at Bressingham. … for a
long time he has been ill at East Winch, over twenty leagues from Bressingham.”
(S) UKNA.
1386, Manors of Felbrigg, Aylmerton, Banningham, Stirston
next Stanford in Norfolk, Brisworth in Suffolk, and Sharpenhowe cum Streatley
in Bedfordshire and all other lands formerly of the late Sir Roger de Felbrigg,
except manor of Howe iuxta Brooke in Norfolk leased by Lord Roger de Scalys,
Sir Robert Howard, … for 2 years. (S) UKNA.
11/6/1387, 1. Edmund de Thorpe, kt. 2. John Plays, kt, Robert
Howard, kt, Roger Boys, kt. … Licence to
alienate … transferring Rauenyngham
chantry to parish church of Norton Soupecors … (S) UKNA.
7/18/1388, Robert, knt., died. (S) UKNA. [The monument to
Robert had the arms of Sir Robert, of Margaret his wife, daughter of Scales of
Newcells, and of Edward the Confessor.]
6/6/1389, Order to the escheator in the counties of Norfolk
and Suffolk to take into the king’s hand all the lands whereof Robert Howard, '
chivaler ' held of the king in chief on the day of his death. (S) CFRs.
[––Margaret––]
1394-95, William Bolt and others were outlawed on an action
by Margaret, widow of Robert Howard, Knt., for one third of a whale stranded at
Terrington, Norfolk. (S) List & Index Soc., 105, 1974, P 286.
11/12/1396, William Bolt, … to answer Margaret, late the
wife of Robert Howard, knight, touching trespass. (S) CPRs.
1396-97, Sir John Howard confirmed to Margaret, late wife of
Sir Robert Howard, Sir Simon de Felbrigg, Knt. ... 3 parts of a fee in Tilney,
Wigenhale ... (S) BHO, Freebridge Hundred and Half: Clenchwarton.
1399, Margaret widow of Robert Howard knight sued Walter son
of Henry Baldyng and three others in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a
trespass at Terrington, Norfolk. (S) Court of Common Pleas, CP40/555, Im292d.
9/30/1399, Henry IV succeeded Richard II as King of England.
2/10/1401, Grant for life to Margaret late the wife of
Robert Howard, knight, … which she holds in Ireland in dower of the endowment
of Walter Bermyngham, knight, sometime her husband, … (S) CPRs.
5/1/1401, Margaret Howard, late the wife of Walter Bermyngham,
knight, staying in England … (S) CPRs.
9/7/1415, Will of Elys de Caston, priest. Margaret, late
wife of Sir Robert Howard, Knt. (S) BHO, Hundred of Giltcorss.
5/8/1416, Margery wrote her will.
1416, Margery died; buried with Robert in the south side
chancery at East Winch, Norfolk – a partial inscription read “… animabus Domini
Roberti Howard militis et Margerie uxoris sue …”.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P436. (S) The Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1910, P830.
Children of Robert
and Margery:
i. John Howard (738768), born 1366 in Norfolk, England.
ii. Margaret Howard (1477507), born ~1377 in Norfolk, England.
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