Sir Robert de Brewes, Baron of Stinton

Please see Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. 2nd ed. (2011). p. 390-391.

Please see The Complete Peerage, Vol. 2, 2nd. ed., page 306. FMG updated its "English Lords A - C" webpage on 9 Mar 2022. At the bottom of the family names listed, it shows "BREWES Family of STINTON"[955]. The footnote defers to The Complete Peerage Vol. 2. All pages from this work, associate with the surname, are posted as a document in Sources.

The above Project/Medlands only follows the eldest son of John Tadody de Braose(pronounced Brews or Brew{French way} namely continuing the William de Braose line which then became extinct in the male line of William son of John and taken over by the wealthiest lines of England like Bohun. "Tadody's" younger son Sir Richard de Braose d1292 and buried Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk found his own way of continuing the Braose lordships by marrying Alice le Rus(from Norman family) heiress of Stinton and Ludborough. Stinton Hall and lands were in Sall(e) 5 miles west of Aylsham, 12 miles NW of Norwich. They later also held Topcroft,12 miles South of Norwich. They were then heirs to Ludborough also which was in Lincolnshire just south of the River Humber estuary, near Louth.

Project/Medlands does not follow this lineage of Stinton plus other lands [footnote 918 says source is CP II p304ff]. So we found through named Lords of Stinton, next Sir Giles de Braose d.1310 at Ludborough. He married Joane Beaumont heiress of Woodbridge, Suffolk. Their son was Sir John de Braose , Lord of Stinton (still). Born 1306, John married Agnes de Ufford and died 1370 again in Ludborough continuing to show the extent of their land holdings. And he was buried like his father at Woodbridge Priory in Suffolk. The next heir and son was John de Braose (Brewse) b1332 Stinton and d1394 in Suffolk.. He married Agnes de Shardelowe (probably again Norman). Their son and heir was the subject of this profile, Sir Robert de Brewes/Braose of Stinton b1370 at Topcroft by Norwich d1424 in Suffolk. So these are the successors to the Lordship of Stinton Hall which we have found through the researchers of the Brewer family who are persistent especially now through their YDNA Brewer Project. The next generation which is proven is through Sir Thomas de Braose. He was b1407 at their Topcroft home and died there also in 1492. He had many children by 2 wives and Mary Calthorpe had the son once again after centuries of absence named Sir William Braose of Stinton Hall b1441 at Stinton, Salle, Norlfolk d1489 in Suffolk. He married Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Hopton of Suffolk. ACCORDING TO OTHER SOURCES WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH (HOPTON) HAD TWO DAUGHTERS AND THAT ENDED THE BREWER OWNERSHIP OF THE EAST ANGLIA ESTATES of LUDBOROUGH, STINTON, AND FRESSINGFIELD. The line which leads to America is another William but now taking the Brewe spelling and finally adding an R at the end to be more English rather than French Norman. William Brewer now seen as born in 1482 lived in Gloucestershire and Somerset establishing a new prominent family, the Brewers of Chard, Somerset with son Edward being born in exactly the year 1500 in Chard, Somerset. His son there was the well known Dr. William Brewer, Physician of Chard who is memorialized in the Anglican church in Chard. But they were soon to re-establish themselves in London and finally on to the new Virginia Colony by the James River.

“Sir John de Brewes was lord in the 20th of Edward III. He married Agnes, daughter of Sir Robert Ufford, earl of Suffolk, by whom the genealogists say he had Sir Jon de Brewes, his son and heir; but it appears that a fine was levied in 1355, the myth of Edward III. between Sir William de Thorpe and Sir John de Brewes, and Eva his wife, of the manor of Lutheburgh in Lincolnshire, conveyed to William; and in 1370, mention is made in the will of William de Ludthborow, rector of Sall, of Sir John de Brewes and Eva his wife, and Sir John de Brewes, jun. and Giles his brother: he was lord of Topcroft, and resided there.

“Sir John de Brewes his son, in the 4th of Richard II. was one of the gentlemen seized by the Norfolk rebels, and sent by them, with Sir William Morley and three of their party, to the king, to obtain a charter of manumission and pardon, with a great sum of money, the better to obtain it, which had been received of the citizens of Norwich, to preserve their city from fire and plunder; but were released by Henry Spencer, bishop of Norwich, who routed them and cut off the heads of three of the rebels. He was lord of this manor, and of Heydon,... &c. and married Joan, daughter of Sir John Shardelow, and was father of Sir Robert Brewes, who was lord in 1406.

“Sir Thomas Brewes succeeded his father Sir Robert, and in the 11th of Henry VI. was found heir to Sir John Shardelow, being son of Sir Robert, who was son of Sir John Brewes and Joan his wife, sister of Sir John Shardelow, knt. father of Robert Shardelow, who died without issue,...“

Source: The History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk: North Erpingham, South Erpingham, and Eynsford. (1781) United Kingdom: J. Crouse. pp. 81-83.

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