Sir Robert de Plumpton Knight, Lord of Plumpton

  General Notes:

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, pg. 826 ⁸²¹

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 170:28, notes that the Plumpton family was an ancient family settled in Yorkshire since the time of the Conquest, 1066. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸⁵⁸
Sir Robert married Lucy, daughter of Sir William de Ros, to whom Sir Robert gave in frank marriage, land to the value of one hundred shillings, in Middleton and Langbar, with common of turbary and right of tray in the pasture and wood of Nessfield, under a quit rent of a root of ginger to Sir Patrick de Westwick, in lieu of all suit and secular service, save that the tenants were to grind at the mill of Nessfield. Sir Robert died in 1324, and was succeeded by his second son, Sir William Plumpton. His eldest son, Robert, died during his father's lifetime.
~The History and Topography of Harrogate , p. 266

• Background Information. ⁸⁵⁷
Sir Robert was the eldest son of his father, also named Sir Robert de Plumpton. To Robert "filio meo primogenito," and to Lucy, daughter of Sir William de Ros, and to the heirs of their bodies, he (Sir Robert the father) gave in frank marriage land to the value of c. rent in Midleton and Langber, with common of turbary and right of stray in the . . . "

Robert and Lucy had a son named Robert de Plumpton who married Joan, the daughter of sir John Mauleverer, Knight, but he died before consummation in his father's lifetime, and his brother, Sir William de Plumpton succeeded to the family property before Monday next after the feast of St. martin in Winter, 14 Apr, 15 Edward II (1322).
~Plumpton Correspondence , p. xx

Robert married Lucia de Ros, daughter of Sir William de Ros and Eustache Fitz Hugh ^160,857.^,858