Robert Oxenbridge

  General Notes:

The Visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530 , p.14, Oxenbridge Pedigree names Thomas Oxenbridge of Beckley the father of Robert Oxenbridge. This Robert Oxenbride is followed by his son and next his grandson, both whom are also named Robert Oxenbridge.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁹³
Robert Oxenbridge had at least two brothers, William of Beckley and John of Sedlescombe, both bCommissioners of Oaths for the county of Sussex in 1433. Robert, in 1404, owned property in Northiam. On 11 Nov 1430, he was feoffee to uses of the will of John Salerne of Winchelsea; from 1 Dec 1430 to 9 Dec 1431, he was escheator for the county; in 7 Henry VI, he and his brother William were parties to a charter relating to land in Beckenham; and he held from the crown for his life, at a rent of 20s., the manor of Iham. Robert was dead on 6 Sep 1433, and his son, also named Robert, was his executor, by an inquisition taken at Robertsbridge on that day, to inquire into the waste that had been committed at Iham by cutting down thirty oaks, which could not have been of great size, as the value was only 13s. 4d.

~Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. VIII, pp. 215

• Web Reference: Persons Involved in the Sale of Knelle Manor: Oxenbrigge.
Robert, the eldest son (d. before 6th Sept. 1433. IPM) was married to Alice. - He made his will in 1431 (PROB 11/3).- On 24 July Robert Oxebregge was first witness to Sir John Pelham's release to Thomas, abbot of the monastery St. Martin of Battle all the tenements and lands in the Rape of Hastings, which they held of him with services and rents, for his soul and the soul of his father and ancestors [Charles Dawson, Hist. of Hastings].

It is to be assumed that some of the the grants and documents mentioned in his father's name are due to him. In 1414 he was one of the commissioners to oversee the sea defences and land draining between Rye and Bodiham which had become faulty and to see to their repairs [CCA]. In 1422-3 he was a member of commissions of 'walliis et fossatis' in Sussex and Kent in which William Marchaund and Hamo Belknap took part as well. Robert 1428 was tenant of Vincent Fynch and of Roger Fiennes in Herst. In 1430 he was escheator for Sussex and owned property in Northiam. - Roger Fienles, kt., to Robert Oxenbregge, William and John Fynele and others, charter with warranty of the manors of Herstmonceaux, Oldcourt and Batysford and lands and rents in other places. Another charter deals of land in Worthing granted to Robert [CCR]. - For example: In 1403 a Robert Oxenbrigge with John Dalyngrigge, kt., Thomas Sackvill, kt., John Brook, William Makenade and others was tenant of the the manor of Tarring Peverell pertaining to Fletching [SSX FF]. It has been indicated that Robert's wife might have been of the family of Ore.

Robert married Alice.