See also
| Husband: | Robert * of TIBETOT (1228-1298) | |
| Wife: | Eve * of CHAWORTH (1252-bef1300) | |
| Children: | Hawise TIBETOT (1270- ) | |
| Alice of TIBETOT (1274- ) | ||
| Paine * of TIBETOT (1279-1314) | ||
| Eve of TIBETOT (1281- ) | ||
| Auda of TIBETOT (1283- ) | ||
| Marriage | bef 18 Oct 1269 | |
| Name: | Robert * of TIBETOT | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Henry * of TIBETOT (1220-1298) | |
| Mother: | Alda* (1200-1242) | |
| Birth | 1228 | Wymondham, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England |
| Occupation | Baron of Tibetot1 | |
| Death | 22 May 1298 (age 69-70) | Nettlested, Suffolk, England |
| Name: | Eve * of CHAWORTH | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1252 | Stoke Bruern, Northamptonshire, England |
| Death | bef 30 Aug 1300 (age 47-48) | Nettlested, Suffolk, England |
| Name: | Hawise TIBETOT | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1270 | |
| Name: | Alice of TIBETOT | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1274 | |
| Name: | Paine * of TIBETOT | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Agnes * of ROS (1295-1328) | |
| Birth | 11 Nov 1279 | Carmarthen Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales |
| Death | 1314 (age 34-35) | Bannockburn, Sterlingshire, Scotland |
| Name: | Eve of TIBETOT | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1281 | |
| Name: | Auda of TIBETOT | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1283 | |
Robert de Tibetot, who, in the 50th Henry III [1266], was made governor of the castle of Porchester, and having attended Prince Edward to the Holy Land, was high in favor after he had ascended the throne as Edward I, being then constituted governor of Nottingham Castle, justice of South Wales, and governor of the castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan. In the 13th of the same reign [1285], he had a grant from John, the son of Gerard de Rodes, to himself, his wife, and his son, in fee, of the manors of Langar and Berneston, in Nottinghamshire. In the 20th [1292], being then the king's lieutenant for Wales, he fought and defeated Rhys ap Maredudd in a great battle wherein 4,000 Welshmen were slain and Rhys, himself having been made prisoner, was conveyed to York and there executed. Robert de Tibetot was subsequently in the wars of Gascony and Scotland. He m. Eve, dau. (or granddau.) of Pain de Chaworth, and had issue, Pain, his successor, Hawyse, and Eve. Robert d. in the 26th Edward I [1298] and was s. by his son, Pain de Tibetot. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerage, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 532, Tibetot, Barons Tibetot]
"[O]r let us take two very different men, Pain de Chaworth and Robert Tybetot. (They were brothers-in-law). Pain was born about 1244 and died childless in 1279. He was Lord of the barony of Kempsford in Gloucestershire, and he inherited through his mother (Hawise de Londres) the still greater lordship of Kidwelly. He served Edward in the Welsh war. Robert Tybetot, on the other hand, was, compared with his father-in-law Pain de Chaworth (killed in battle in 1258), a new man. His manors lay in Essex, Suffolk, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire. He succeeded his father in 1250. He was one of those knights who held Bristol for Edward at a critical time, etc. No man did greater service, or won more confidence than he did during the Welsh wars." [King Henry III and the Lord Edward, Powicke, Vol 2, Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1947]
He was given seisin of his lands in Essex. On 3 May 1254 he was granted protection to go to Gascony, but is not further mentioned until 13 May 1260, when he was granted a rent in Eston, near Grantham, by the Lord Edward, who also gave him, 10 May 1263, all the manor of Nettlestead, Suffolk . In April 1262, he was ordered to return Shopland to the heir of Baldwin de Ostewic and he witnessed a deed of John de Burgo, 4 July following.
During the conflict between the Crown and Simon de Montfort Robert Tybotot was a staunch supporter of the Lord Edward. After the defeat of the King at Lewes on 14 May 1264, he was among those supporters of the Crown who held Bristol against the Earl of Leicester. His name appears, in July 1264, among those who were said to be coming to aid the King, he joined in a raid to rescue the Lord Edward from imprisonment in Wallingford Castle and in September 1264 he and others were ordered to surrender control of the castles of Marlborough and Ludgershall. In December 1264, Simon de Montfort and the Earl of Gloucester led an army against Bristol, but when the town surrendered, Robert and his associates were allowed to establish themselves in Salisbury Castle, and the Earl of Leicester was forced to compromise with the garrison of Salisbury.
In February 1264/5, Robert Tybotot and a companion were granted safe conduct to come to the King's household, and in the following March, Robert and other persons were granted protection, provided that they did not join the King or the Lord Edward unless requested to do so by the King's Council which was controlled by Simon de Montfort.
During the period of unrest after the battle of Evesham, 4 August 1265, Robert seized many lands which were later restored to their rightful tenants. However, when peace was finally restored, his faithfulness to the Crown was rewarded. In October 1265, he was given the house of Philip le Taylur in the City of London, in the following month he became lord of Carbrooke, Norfolk, and in January and August 1266 the manors of Allesley and Fillongley, co. Warwick, Carlton Castle and Caenby, Lincs, passed under his control. Constable of Porchester Castle, November 1265 to April 1266. He was granted timber in 1267, received rights of free warren on his demesne lands, March 1268/9, and obtained control of Kingsbury, co. Warwick, October 1269. In February 1269/70, he became guardian of the lands of Geoffrey Lutterelin in place of the £30 annual rent which he had been receiving from Bristol; and the manor of Streethall, Essex, also passed to his control.
On 13 July 1270, he was among those who were granted protection for 4 years to accompany the Lord Edward on the Crusade, arrangements were made for the care of his heirs if he should die and attorneys were appointed to act during his absence. When he returned, the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered by the Pope, 29 April 1273, to pay him 600 silver marks towards his Crusade expenses. In January1274/5, he was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle and Keeper of the forest of Bestwood, offices which he held until his death, and in September 1279 he became Keeper of the town of Nottingham.
King Edward granted him many favors. In May 1275, he became guardian of the lands and heirs of John de Moese, and in September of the lands of Lucy de Meinill; he was granted the marriage of the heir of John de Mohun, July 1279, and obtained possession of the manors of Langar and Barnston, Notts, in 1285. He was named in October 1275 to supervise the collection of the fifteenth in Norfolk and Suffolk; was one of the Keepers of the Bishopric of Norwich in 1278; and in July1279, he was ordered to enquire in Norfolk and Suffolk concerning those who were spreading evil rumors about the King.
He was one of the key men of the conquest and administration of Wales. In November1276, he attended the Council which decided to declare war against Llewelyn; and in November 1277 he was one of the English representatives to negotiate the peace of Conway, to swear to the English observance of the peace and to conduct Llewelyn to meet Edward at Rhuddlan. He was summoned for service in Wales in 1277 and 1282; was at Westminster, September 1278, when Alexander, King of Scotland, did homage to Edward I; and was at Acton Burnell, Salop, Michaelmas 1283,when the Statute of Acton Burnell was promulgated. From 8 June 1281 till his death, he was guardian of the King's lands and castles in West Wales and Justice of West Wales. He was nearly captured in March1282, when the castles of Llandovery and Carreg Cennen, co. Carmarthen, fell to the Welsh. In the same month, he was appointed captain of West Wales, but on 10 April 1282, he was placed under the command of the Earl of Gloucester there and in March 1283 he was ordered to serve against the Welsh in Merionethshire.
The rebellion of Rhys ap Maredudd of Dryslwyn and Dinefwr in 1287-88 was crushed by Robert, who captured Newcastle Emlyn in January 1287/8. After the rebellion, Maredudd ap Richard ap Maredudd of Elfed appeared before him to submit to the King. In June 1288 or 1289, Robert resisted the attempt of the Earl of Pembroke to seize the commote of Ystlwyf and in 1292, he granted the commote of Mallaen and Kylsaen to the sons of Madoc ap Arandor.
Although there is no evidence of him being summoned to Parliament, he was present in pleno parliament on 29 May 1290, when consent was given for the levy of an aid, and he was at parliamentum to which the men of Yarmouth complained in the same year. In 1291, he was one of the mainperners for the Earl of Hereford in the dispute with the Earl of Gloucester and he was summoned for service against the Scots, 1291 and 1297. He attended the meeting at Berwick- Upon-Tweed, October 1292, to decide the claims of Bruce or Balliol to the Scottish throne, was at Tuggrall, Northumberland, December following, when the Great Seal passed to the care of John de Langton, and witnessed the homage, of Balliol to Edward I at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 December 1292.
In June 1294, he was granted protection to proceed with the King to Gascony and mustered at Portsmouth, August following. During the expedition, he was director of finance and one of the councillors of John of Brittany, King's Lieutenant in Gascony. He acted with John de St. John, Seneschal of Gascony, on diplomatic missions and was appointed to conduct negotiations with the King of Castile. In 1295, he just managed to escape from the town of Risonces, when it was captured by the French, and he remained in royal service in southern France until the end of1297.
He married, some time before 18 October 1269, Eve (b), an d died at Nettlestead, 22 May 1298, aged about 70. Eve died shortly before 30 August 1300. [Complete Peerage XII/2:8 9-93, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
| 1 | G.E. Cokayne, "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Brittain and the United States, Extant, Extinct, or Domant" (Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000). |