Robert de Vipont

  General Notes:

~Turton's The Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 137 ⁴⁵⁰

~The Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland, p. 121, Idonea de Buille, or de Busli, married the first Robert de Veteripont, who was lord of Appleby. ⁹⁶⁹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁶
Robert de Vipount, who, 12 Henry II, held eight knights fees of the honor of Torney's and accounted from the farm of the honor of Tickhill brought into this family by his marriage with Idonea, duaghter and heir of John de Buisli; received a grant of the Castles of Appleby and Burgh with the whole bailwick of Westmoreland for his services to the King in France; adhered to King John; had as son and heir

John Vipount, who was Sheriff of Westmoreland and died about 26 Henry III; married, first, Sibilla, daughter of William Ferrers, Earl of Derby; married second Frances de Bohun of Midhurst. By first marriage had

Robert Vipount who married Isabella, second sister and coheir of Richard, son of John Fitz Geffrey, son of Geffrey Fitz Piers, Baron of Berkamstead, Chief Justice of England; died of wounds recived at the battle of Lewes or Evesham.

~ Fenwick Allied Ancestry, pp. 172-173

• Background Information. ⁹⁷¹
Robert de Veteriponte or Vipont, was the head of the great Westmoreland family. His immediate ancestor came to England with Duke William of Normany, and the family first planted themselves in the counties of Devon, Northampton and York. robert, the second or third in descent, flourished in the reigns of Henry II, Richard, John and Henry III, dying in 1228, the twelfth year of the reign of Henry III. This Robert filled many posts of military trust, was custos of many castles, and sheriff of many midland and nothern counties. He was also a just itinerant and of the Common Pleas. In 1293, he had a grant from the king of the Balliewick of Westmoreland and the castles of Appleby and Burh, at first during the pleasure, but afterwards in fee. Possibly the grant was connected with the fact that his mother, Maud, was a member of the great Westmoreland family of Morville, and probably the daughter of Hugh de Morville, one of Becket's assassins. Robert's wife, Idonea de Buisli, was heir of the castle and nonor of Tickhill. He was a man of great power and wealth. His son and heir was John de Vipont.

Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archeological Society, Vol. VI, pp. 38-49

• Background Information. ⁹⁷⁰
Ropbert de Veteri Ponte, son of William de Veteri Ponte and Matidis de Moreville, was married to Idonea, Lady of Essedine, and sole heir of John de Busli. Robert was the Sheriff of Notts and Derby before 1202 when he was was the Sheriff of Westmoreland. On 28 Oct 1203, he had a grant, for his better support in the King's service, of certain lands, to hold to him and his heirs by his then wife [Pat Roll, Ric. II, par ultima, m. 16, per Inspeximus]. In 1208, the constableship of Tickhill and the Castle were conferred upon Robert de Vet iponte. In 1212, Robert de Vipont grants to the Priory of Heppe in Westmoreland the ville of Renefill, as described in the Charters of Matildis, his mother and Yvo, his brother. Dated on the Sabbath Day, 25 May 1212 [Dugdale's Monasticon, ii., p. 595].

Robert seemed to die during the autumn of 1227. Robert's death was made known to the King at Westminster on 1 Feb 1228, when the King issued a close letter to Hubert de Burgo, Earl of Kent, committing him to the custody of the land and heir of Robert de Vipont until full age.

Robert de Veteri Ponte, succeeded to the estates of his father-n-law, John de Busli, in 1213.

~Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldic, Vol. III, Fourth Series, p. 254, 257, 261

Robert married Idonea de Busli, daughter of John Busli and Rohesia Fitz Gilbert.⁹⁶⁹ (Idonea de Busli was born about 1175 in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England and died in Sep 1241 in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, England ⁹⁷⁰.)