Robert de Montfort

Vital Statistics (Source is FMG)

• Born sometime after his parents' marriage which FMG gives as 1120. Died in 1178.
• Married Clemence de Fougeres, daugher of Henri Seigneur de Fougeres.
• They had two sons

1. Hugues de Montfort died after 1189. He succeeded his father in 1178.
2. Robert de Montfort died after 1189.

• Burke's Peerage says "This feudal lord having in 1163, charge, Henry de Essex, the King's Standard Bearer, with cowardice, in fleeing from his colours, vanquished him in a subsequent trial by battle. He does not appear to have had any issue, for he was succeeded at his decease, by his brother, Thurstan de Montfort ..."

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Geoffrey Murdac had a daughter, Juliana, who married Thurstan de Montfort, to whom she brought Great Ayton and other lands in Yorkshire in dower, so that in 1166 Thurstan held 3¾ kinght's fees of Roger de Mowbray [Red Bk., 420], besides what he held of Robert de Meinil II.. Thurstan had issue, Robert and Henry, the last named being a father of another Thurstan. In Michaelmis term, 1209(?), this Thurstan demanded a moiety of the town of Langton (E.R.) against Eustace de Vescy as his right and inheritance, taking vestures thereof to the vaule of 100s. and more, to Juliana his daughter, who held that land as her reasonable share which belonged to her, and from Juliana to Robert her son, and from Robert to Henry, brother of the said Robert and father of the said Thurstan, and from him to Thurstan [R. de Fin., 346]. ~Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. II, p. 358