Robert de Ros

  General Notes:

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 642 ⁸²¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Robert de Ros, younger son, but made heir by his father, succeeded to Wark. He married Margaret, 3^rd of the 4 sisters and coheirs of Piers de Brus who died in 1272. Robert de Ros died shortly before 20 April 1274. His widow had order for seisin of her inheritance, on taking the usual oath not to marry without the King's license. She was living 28 Feb 1304/5, but died shortly before 30 Jan 1306/7.

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Ros of Wark), Vol., XI, pp. 120-121

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁵⁶
Margaret de Brus had for her share, Kendal Castle, with all Kendal which had been her brother Peter's. She was married to Robert de Roos, the younger son of Robert Lord Roos, by his wife Isabel, daughter of the king of Scots. Robert's elder brother was William Lord Roos, of Hanlake. Margaret's husband, Robert Roos, died before her brother Peter. Margaret was alive in 20 Edward I, and her son William de Roos likely died before his mother since the inquisitiones post mortem is dated 3 Edward III, the same year that Margaret is shown to hold the manor of Melchanthorp. She had a grandson, also named William de Roos, who in 3 Edward III obtained a charter for a market at Stavely and a yearly fair on the eve day and morrow of St. Luke the Evangelist. Thomas de Roos was the son of William de Roos, and he died in 14 Richard II. This Thomas had a son called John, who died before his father, leaving an infant daughter, Elizabeth, who later married Sir William Parr, Knight.

~Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archæological Society, Vol. II, p. 191

Robert married Margaret de Brus, daughter of Piers de Brus of Skelton and Helwise de Lancaster.²²⁰ (Margaret de Brus was born in 1218 and died before 30 Jan 1307.)