husband of Richenda daughter of Humphrey of Berkeley; landholder in the Mearns (Kincardineshire)

FLORUITS 1195 × 1242

RELATED PLACE Lanark

See https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/person/915/ for abstracts of 85 documents in which his name appears.

DISAMBIGUATION: He is apparently not the same Robert son of Wernebald as this man bearing the same name, who was progenitor of the Cunninghams of Glencairn, according to James Balfour Paul in The Scots Peerage: Fife-Hyndford (1907) p. 223:

Robert, Son Of Wernebald, who gave in alms to the monks of the Abbey of Kelso the patronage of the church of Kilmaurs, with a half carucate, or about fifty acres, of land belonging thereto, for the benefit of his own soul,1 and that he might be received into the fraternity of the house; if he wished to change his life before his death, he would change it by their counsel, and he further gave to them two parts of such goods as belonged to him at his death. This grant was confirmed by the overlord Richard de Morville, and also by Ingelram, Bishop of Glasgow.3 The latter died in 1174, and the grant by Robert must therefore be earlier. It does not appear when he died, but his name occurs in at least one charter after 1196, by King William, confirming a charter by the [deceased] William de Morville to James de Loudoun of the lands of Loudoun.3 His wife is unknown. He is usually said to have married Richenda, daughter of Sir Humphrey de Berkeley of Garntuly, but this is very doubtful. The Robert, son of Wernebald, who was husband of Richenda, must have been of later date, as the charters granted by them are in the time of King Alexander Ii., and are confirmed by that King in 1238 when the husband of Richenda was still alive, she herself surviving till 1245 or later.4 Richenda and her husband do not appear to have had children. Robert, son of Wernebald had a son.