Robert Fossard Baron of Mulgrave

  General Notes:

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p. 358 ¹⁰²⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Frethesant Paynell was the daughter and heir of William Paynell. William was the son of Alexander, the youngest son of Ralph Paynel. Lands in co. York, including the manor of Hooton (Paynell), had been acquired by Ralph through his married with Maud, presumed to be daughter of Richard de Surdeval. These were passed to Jordan Paynell, their son, and after his death to Alexander. Ralph's own holding as a Domesday tenant in chief, which included Drax, co. York, Irnham, co. Lincoln, and manors in Somerset and Devon, passed to his son William, presumably by an ealier marriage, from whom was descended Maurice de Gaunt. Alexander Paynel's marriage to Agnes, daughter of Robert Fossard, brought him land in Bramham. The heirs of his son William Paynel (of the younger branch) were two daughters, Frethesant Luterel and Isabel Bastard.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, p. 284, footnot (d)

• Background Information. ⁸⁶⁷
Besides the entry for Nigel Fossard in theDomesday Survey, there are few records for the early Fossard family. Besides the mention in Domesday, there is an authenticated entry of for Robert Fossard during the reign of Henry I. From this record it seems that the manors of Doncaster, etc, were conveyed by Robert Fossard to King Henry I, as repayment of fifty marks of money which Robert owed the King.

~Yorkshire: Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of the Ancient State of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill; With Ample Account of Doncaster and Conisbrough. pp. 4-5

• Background Information. ⁸⁶⁷
Besides the entry for Nigel Fossard in theDomesday Survey, there are few records for the early Fossard family. Besides the mention in Domesday, there is an authenticated entry of for Robert Fossard during the reign of Henry I. From this record it seems that the manors of Doncaster, etc, were conveyed by Robert Fossard to King Henry I, as repayment of fifty marks of money which Robert owed the King.

~Yorkshire: Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of the Ancient State of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill; With Ample Account of Doncaster and Conisbrough. pp. 4-5

• Background Information. ⁸⁶⁹
~Select Civil Pleas: Volume I A.D. 1200 - 1203, p. 18, in the case between Robert de Turnham's suit against the Abbot of York refers to "Robert Fossard the great-grandfather" of the wife of Robert de Turnham's wife, and that "Robert Fossard was seised in the time of King Henry, when he pledged the whole of the town of Doncaster, with the advowson of the said church, and all other appurtenances . . ." Later in the suit it refers to him against with "Nigel Gossard, father of the said Robert," and "William fossard, son of Robert, who confirms the gift that Nigel his grandfahter. . ." *

~Select Civil Pleas: Volume I A.D. 1200 - 1203, p. 18-19

*For the rest of the translated text of this suit, see Robert de Turnham.