Robert de la Mare1

M, d. 1193
FatherRichard de la Mare
     Robert de la was born. Robert married Aliza (?). Robert's wife, Aliza, died between 1174 and 1190, leaving him a widower.2 Robert joined the third crusade leaving England either in 1188, or more likely with King Richard in 1190. After the failures in the Holy Land, Richard, his queen and many of his knights left Palestine aboard ship and retreated arriving at Sicily where some chose to take the overland route home. Robert is one that chose to do so. Robert died in 1193 in Benevento, Italy, where he fell mortally ill. He wrote a will while on his death bed giving grants to Haughmond Abbey where he was to be buried with his wife. It is presumed that Sir Alan de la Mare, his cousin, who carried the document back to England, saw that his wishes were granted.

Family

Aliza (?) d. bt 1174 - 1190
Child

Citations

  1. [S1016] Robert William Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, pages 57-58 - Robert de la Mare was one of those Anglo-Normans, who fought under the banner of Caeur de Leon, in Palestine. Upon the abandonment by the Christian forces of the third crusade, in journeying homewards, dele Mere was seized with mortal sickness in Benevento, Italy, when his last act was to grant his vill of Uffington to Haughmond abbey, by a deed in which the particulars of his illness being recited, is attested by the preceptor and one of the brethren of a house of Knights Hospitllers at Benevento. It was Thomas Mauduit, grandson of the deceased crusading knight, who, on coming of age in 1203, became lord of Castle Holgate. Accordingly, in regard to this Shropshire barony, he stands as aquitted on the fifth, sixth, and seventh scutages of John, leived respectively in the years 1204-5-6. Thomas Mauduit, lord of a great fief in Hampshire, as well as Castle Holgate, accompanied King John over to Ireland in 1210. . .
  2. [S1387] Robert William Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire,, pages 57-58 - Robert de la Mare was one of those Anglo-Normans, who fought under the banner of Caeur de Leon, in Palestine. Upon the abandonment by the Christian forces of the third crusade, in journeying homewards, dele Mere was seized with mortal sickness in Benevento, Italy, when his last act was to grant his vill of Uffington to Haughmond abbey, by a deed in which the particulars of his illness being recited, is attested by the preceptor and one of the brethren of a house of Knights Hospitllers at Benevento. It was Thomas Mauduit, grandson of the deceased crusading knight, who, on coming of age in 1203, became lord of Castle Holgate. Accordingly, in regard to this Shropshire barony, he stands as aquitted on the fifth, sixth, and seventh scutages of John, leived respectively in the years 1204-5-6. Thomas Mauduit, lord of a great fief in Hampshire, as well as Castle Holgate, accompanied King John over to Ireland in 1210. . .