Robert de Vieuxpont, Lord of Appleby

https://archive.org/details/cu31924027999014 Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke & Montgomery, 1590-1676. Her life, letters and work, extracted from all the original documents available, many of which are here printed for the first time byWilliamson, George Charles, 1858-1942 pg; 39 of 648 Robert de Veteripont died in Henry III.'s time in about 1228, and he appears to have had at least two children, a girl named Christian, who married Thomas Fitz-Ralph, the owner of Graystock Castle, and John, who succeeded him, and who was buried in Shap Abbey, the old Veteripont bur5dng place, in the 26th year of Henry III. John married SibiUa, the daughter of William, Lord Ferrers, and brought the horse-shoes into the heraldic achievement. He was the father of Robert de Veteripont, whose eldest daughter Isabella, already mentioned, became the wife of Roger de Clifford. Isabella had a sister, Idonea, who was co-heiress with her, and between them the two sisters owned the castles of Appleby and Brougham, and a very large portion of the county of Cumberland. Idonea married twice, and when she died, without issue, she left to the grandchild of her sister Isabella, Robert, Lord Clifford, all her estates. The whole of the vast property which had belonged to the Veteriponts, fell therefore to the Cliffords, and with it the Hereditary Sheriffdom of West