Robert de Vallibus of Pentney

  General Notes:

~ The History of the Queens' College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard in the University of Cambridge, Part II, 1560-1662, v.12-15 , "Vaux Pedigree", pg. 106, founder of Petney Abbey, named as Robert de Vaux. ⁷⁹¹

~Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormand and Abeyance, pg. 531, names this Vaux as Harold de Vaux, Lord of Vaux in Normand, came to England, accompanied by his three sons, Hurbert, Ranulph, Lord of Tryermayne, and Robert de Vaux. ⁸²⁹

~The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. I, pg. 295-296, names him Robert de Vaux. ¹⁸⁵

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁸⁵
The Norman Castle of Vaux or De Vallibus is mentioned by Orderic Vitalis: and then Terra di Vallibus continued in the possession of the family to which it gave their name until the time of King John. Two brothers, Robert and Aitard de Vaux, appears in Domesday as mesne-lords in Norfolk. The former was probably the same Robert de Vals or de Vaux who, six years before, gave his Tithes to St. Evrault [orderic Vit. 576]. Both of them held of Roger Bigod. "Robert de Vallibus, who held Pentney of Bigod, founded a Priory there for the souls of Agnes his wife and their children."

Hubert de Vaux, the grandson of the founder of Pentney Priory, Robert Vaux, and son of the second Robert Vaux, received from Henry II, a grant of the barony of Gilsland, one of the three great fiefs into which Ranulph de Meschines had divided the frontier district of Cumberland. Hubert earned his share of the reconquered territory by helping to drive out the Scots. Hubert died in 1164, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert. Robert died without issue and his brother Ralph succeeded him. The line terminated with Ralph's grandson, Hubert II, whose daughter Maud, Landy of Gilsland, carried the barony to the Multons; and her great-great-grand-daughter Margaret again transferred it to the Dacres.

~The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. I, pg. 295-296

• Background Information. ⁸⁸⁸
According to the Domesday Survey of 1086, Robert de Vallibus held Pentney, in Norfolk, under Roger le Bigod, and founded a Priory of Black canons there which he dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. His son, also named Robert de Vallibus, made a grant to the Priory of Castleace in Norfolk, of a mill and meadows in Petney. In this grant he mentions his brothers, Robert Pingui, Gilbert and Hubert.

Robert de Vallibus, the second, is recorded in Norfolk as rendering £4 6s. 8d., that he may have the land of Hocton of the inheritance of his wife. [Pipe roll, 31 Henry]
~Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Vol. IV, p. 454