Sir Robert de la Warde Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁷⁸
When Robert de la Warde died in or before 1307, his heirs were his two daughters Joan, wife of Hugh de Meynill, and Margaret. [Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, pp. 289-90] Both obtained portions of their father's holding at Burton Overy. [Farnham, Leics. Notes, i. 277; Cal. Inq. p.m. vii, p. 362] The lands inherited from Robert de la Warde by his daughter Joan continued to be held by her descendants, the Meynill family, until the death in 1376 of Richard Meynill. [Cal. Inq. p.m. vii, p. 362; viii, p. 317; xiv, p. 272]

~A History of the County of Leicestershire, Volume V, pp. 66-76

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Robert de la Warde held 1½ knights' fees in Burton Overy and Upton, the manor of Newhall by service of ¼ knight's fee, and lands in Kingsley, Staffs. He mainperned Stephen de Wasteneys, 12 May 1267; was granted by Roger de Mowbray lands in Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, shortly before 12 Jul 1284; had free warren in his demesne lands in cos. Derby and Leicester, 9 May 1285; had licence, 22 Oct 1290, to enclose and divert the highway from Burton to Ashby-de-la-Zouche between his park of Newhall and his foreign wood; and in the same year he complained to Parliament of being unjustly imprisoned by Ralph de Hengham. He was staying in Gascony on the King's service with Robert-FitzWalter, December 1396; was summoned for service in Scotland, 1297-1303, and in Flanders, 1297; and fought in the 4th division at the battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 November 1299 to 3 November 1306, by writs directed Roberto le Warde, or la Warde, whereby he is held to have become Lord Warde. He was at the siege of Carlaverock, July 1300; was sent hastily as envoy to the French King, January 1300/1; joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1, as Robertus la Warde, Dominus de Alba Aula; Steward of the Household, 20 February 1302/3 till his death; served again in Scotland, 1303-04, being at the siege of Stirling in 1304; Chief Justiciar, appointed 30 July, for the "trial" of Scottish prisoners of war at Newcastle, 4 Aug 1306. He also witnessed the King's grant to his younger sons at Newbrough in Tynedale, 31 August, and the homage of James, the Steward of Scotland, at Lanercost, 23 October 1306.

Robert de la Warde , 1stly, before 1275, an unknown woman, who died s.p.m. He married, 2ndly, before 1298, another unknown, who died s.p.m. He married, 3rdly, in 1305, before 2 Octobe, at "Haltwell," Ida, daughter of Robert, 1^st Lord Fitz Walter, by his 2^nd wife, Alianore, daughter of Sir Robert de Ferrers, of Chartley, co. Stafford, sometime Earl of Derby. He died s.p.m. shortly before 25 January 1306/7, when any Barony which may be held to have been created by the writ of 1299 fell into abeyance between his two daughters and coheirs. His widow, by whom he had no issue, married, probably before 21 October 1309 and certainly before 4 July 1310, as his 2^nd wife, Hugh de Neville, 1^st Lord Nevlle of Essex, who died shortly before 27 May 1335. She died 7 or 12 Nov 1361.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XIIB, pp. 350-352