Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbeil de Peshale1,2 M, b. after 1077 Father Gilbert de Corbeil b. c 1052 Mother Isabella de Lupus d'Avranches b. c 1062

    Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbeil de was born after 1077 in Northumberland, England. He was the son of Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbeil. Robert married Ormunda de Lumley, daughter of Osbert de Lumley de Stafford, circa 1100 in Staffordshire, England. Robert’s father, Gilbert de Corbeil made arrangements with Robert de Stafford for the Manor of Peshale as a feoffment for a fee one knight’s service, his son Robert to fulfill the feoffment. This agreement was confirmed by a deed that has an erroneous date of 27 December 1068, between Robert de Stafford and Robert. It is very likely that the date should have been 1098 as it is known that Robert did migrate to Staffordshire around 1100 and took up his residence at the Manor of Peshale at that time. He was a soldier and spent much of his time fighting for his overlord against the Welsh. He married after his arrival in Staffordshire, into one of the families who had formed the colony of immigrants from Northumberland & settled near Stone Priory. He was the first of this line to take on the surname "Peshale" from that of his manor.3 A deed was signed by Robert & Ormunda that granted their land in Lumley to their son, John.4 Family 1 Ormunda de Lumley b. c 1178 Child	 John de Lumley de Peshale b. c 1101 Family 2 Children	 Hugh de Peshale b. c 1105 William de Peshale+ b. c 1159 Citations [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume I: chapter 11, section 1, page 197 - …being Harlein Manuscript No. 1985, appears the following deed,… (Translation:…Robert de Peshale gave to John his son and heir all that land of Lumley which received through his marriage with Ormunda, daughter of Osbert de Lumley, mother of this same John, and also the hereditary rights. Witnessed by William de Lumley, Mathew de Lumley, Robert de Clifford, etc.)… Ormunda de Lumley de Stafford was descended from and of the blood of all the Bernician-Northumbrian kings. Osbert de Lumley de Strafford, father of Ormunda and her brother, another Osbert, were at one time secular priests at Silverton or Swynnerton Church, Pirehill Hundred, Staffordshire. This church was tributary to Stone Priory about which gathered most of the Northumbrian emigrants to Stafford,… Osbert de Lumley de Stafford the elder of these two priests was the son of Ligulph who married Ealdgyth, daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Northumberland. Both Liguth and his wife Ealdgyth, who were cousin german, were descended from the kings of Bernicia and the Earls of Northumberland. When this kingdom of Bernicia-Northumberland was merged into the Saxon kingdom of England, the royal line of Bernicia became the earls of Northumberland. Lyguph and Ealdgth had four sons, -- namely, Uhtred, Morkere, Osbert, and Adam. Uhtred remained in Durham where he had two sons William and Mathew, who, becoming possessed of Lumley, called themselves of that manor. William thereby became the ancestor of the De Lumley family. Morkere became a Monk. Osbert and Adam emigrated to Staffordshire along with the other Northumbrians and settled in the parish of Stone where Osbert was known as de Stafford and Adam as de Audley. William and Mathew de Lumley were witnesses to the deed…. [S238] Herbert F. Seversmith & Arthur S. Wardwell, The Fabulous Pearsalls. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume I: Chapter 10 Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbiel, section 1, pages 176-. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume I: Chapter 11, pages 197, 199

…being Harlein Manuscript No. 1985, appears the following deed,… (Translation:…Robert de Peshale gave to John his son and heir all that land of Lumley which received through his marriage with Ormunda, daughter of Osbert de Lumley, mother of this same John, and also the hereditary rights. Witnessed by William de Lumley, Mathew de Lumley, Robert de Clifford, etc.)… Ormunda de Lumley de Stafford was descended from and of the blood of all the Bernician-Northumbrian kings. Osbert de Lumley de Strafford, father of Ormunda and her brother, another Osbert, were at one time secular priests at Silverton or Swynnerton Church, Pirehill Hundred, Staffordshire. This church was tributary to Stone Priory about which gathered the most of the Northumbrian emigrants to Stafford,… Osbert de Lumley de Stafford the elder of these two priests was the son of Ligulph who married Ealdgyth, daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Northumberland. Both Liguth and his wife Ealdgyth, who were cousin german, were descended from the kings of Bernicia and the Earls of Northumberland. When this kingdom of Bernicia-Northumberland was merged into the Saxon kingdom of England, the royal line of Bernicia became the earls of Northumberland. Lyguph and Ealdgth had four sons, -- namely, Uhtred, Morkere, Osbert, and Adam. Uhtred remained in Durham where he had two sons William and Mathew, who, becoming possessed of Lumley, called themselves of that manor. William thereby became the ancestor of the De Lumley family. Morkere became a Monk. Osbert and Adam emigrated to Staffordshire along with the other Northumbrians and settled in the parish of Stone where Osbert was known as de Stafford and Adam as de Audley. William and Mathew de Lumley were witnesses to the deed….

Compiler: Kathy and Larry McCurdy https://mccurdyfamilylineage.com/ancestry/p3266.htm

Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil was the first of our ancestors who owned the Manor of Peshale. He married into one of the families who formed the colony of emigrants from Northumberland and who settled near Stone Priory in Stafford-shire. At this time Staffordshire was almost an unbroken forest with only here and there clearings which had been made by the English prior to the Conquest. Among these clear and cultivated spots in the forest was that of Peshale, which had been forfeited from its English owner and which was now included in the holdings of Robert de Toesni, de Stafford. The deed of confirmation discloses that his manor was purchased by Gilbert de Corbeil for his son Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil. Thither the young man journeyed with his bride to begin life in a country as undeveloped as was the great forest of New York and Pennsylvania at the close of the Revolutionary War. It is known in English History as a wilderness, and the whole country teemed with wild life from the great wild ox of Brittany and the terrible forest wolf to the smallest varmint, and there was game in abundance of all kinds for food for the successful hunter. Instead of the Indians of the American forest, there was the Welsh-man, who although a white man of good ancestry, had been forced to become a lurking savage. Therefore life was filled with continued and bloody encounters between the newcomers and the Cymry, the latter being a foeman much more formidable than the Indian ever was. Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil was a soldier and held his land of Robert de Stafford by military service, particularly as to the wars against the Welsh, so that his time was largely occupied by attendance with de Stafford in active warfare.

13. Robert Fitz Gilbert8 de Corbeil (Gilbert7, Regnault6, Guillaume surnamed5 Werlac, Mauger4 de Normandii, Richard I the Fearless,3 , Guillaume I, William Longsword2, Robert (Rollo)1 Rognavaldsson) was born on (birth date unknown).

He was the first of our family to win the manor of Peshale. He married into one of the families who formed the colony of emigrants from Northumberland and who settled near Stone Priory in Staffordshire.

"At this time Staffordshire was almost an unbroken forest with only here and there clearings which had been made by the English prior to the Conquest. Among these clear and cultivated spots in the forest was that of Peshale which had been forfeited from its English owner and which was now included in the holdings of Robert de Toesni, de Stafford. The deed of confirmation discloses that his manor was purchased by Gilbert de Corbeil for his son Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil. Thither the young man journeyed with his bride to begin life in a country as undeveloped as was the great forest of New York and Pennsylvania at the close of the Revolutionary War. It is known in English History as a wilderness, and the whole country teemed with wild life from the great wild ox of Brittany and the terrible forest wolf to the smallest varmint, and there was game in abundance of all kinds for food for the successful hunter. Instead of the Indians of the American forest, there was the Welsh-man, who although a white man of good ancestry, [sic] had been forced to become a lurking savage." (Pearsalls v. 1 p.177)

"It was a principle of the English law down to the reign of Charles II that a feoffment of land need not be in writing and that its transfer might be effected by the symbolical delivery of a piece of turf or twig or a stone and by many other ways and this was the method followed by Robert de Stafford in granting the manor of Peshale to Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil." (Ibid. p.179) The confirmatory deed was dated 1068 in this record, but in other sources, was more probably in 1168. (Ibid p.181) He may not have come to Staffordshire until as late as 1100.

Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil had the following child:

+ 14 i. Robert9 de Peshale was born on (birth date unknown).

ROBERT FITZ GILBERT DE CORBEIL

Eighteenth in Ancestry

Section 1, Family of Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil-Section 2, Robert de Stafford-Section 3, History.

SECTION 1.

• 18. ROBERT FITZ GILBERT DE CORBEIL, son of Gilbert de Corbeil, Chapter 9, Section 1, and his wife Isabella Lupus, daughter of Richard de Goz and his wife Emma, half-sister to the Conqueror. Married . Child

1. *17. ROBERT DE PESHALE DE LUMLEY, Chapter 11, Section 1.

In the Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom, by Mark Anthony, M.A., F.S.A., it appears that Pearsall is an estate in Co. Stafford, now written Pearshall or Pershall. The family is of Norman origin, having been founded at the place referred to by Robert a follower of Robert of Stafford, early in the reign of the Conqueror. He was son of Gilbert, son of a Count of Corbeil in Normandy.

Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil was the first of our ancestors who owned the Manor of Peshale. He married into one of the families who formed the colony of emigrants from Northumberland and who settled near Stone Priory in Stafford-shire. At this time Staffordshire was almost an unbroken forest with only here and there clearings which had been made by the English prior to the Conquest. Among these clear and cultivated spots in the forest was that of Peshale, which had been forfeited from its English owner and which was now included in the holdings of Robert de Toesni, de Stafford. The deed of confirmation discloses that his manor was purchased by Gilbert de Corbeil for his son Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil. Thither the young man journeyed with his bride to begin life in a country as undeveloped as was the great forest of New York and Pennsylvania at the close of the Revolutionary War. It is known in English History as a wilderness, and the whole country teemed with wild life from the great wild ox of Brittany and the terrible forest wolf to the smallest varmint, and there was game in abundance of all kinds for food for the successful hunter. Instead of the Indians of the American forest, there was the Welsh-man, who although a white man of good ancestry, had been forced to become a lurking savage. Therefore life was filled with continued and bloody encounters between the newcomers and the Cymry, the latter being a foeman much more formidable than the Indian ever was. Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil was a soldier and held his land of Robert de Stafford by military service, particularly as to the wars against the Welsh, so that his time was largely occupied by attendance with de Stafford in active warfare.