Robert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus

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Robert de Umfraville
Earl of Angus
Arms of Robert de Umfreville.
Gules, crusily and a cinquefoyle or, a bendlet azure".
Died1325
Resting placeNewminster Abbey
Spouses
  • Lucy de Kyme,
  • Eleanor
Parents

Robert de Umfraville, 8th Earl of Angus, of Prudhoe, Chollerton, Harbottle, and Whelpington, Northumberland (c. 1277 – 1325) was an Anglo-Norman baron in Northumberland and the eighth Earl of Angus.

Life

Robert was the second son of Gilbert de Umfraville and Elizabeth Comyn, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan.[1] Umfraville was more than thirty years old at his father's death.

Umfraville adhered to King

Robert Bruce, but soon released. In 1316 he was commissioned to treat with the Scots for a truce.[3]

Though formerly in opposition to the Despensers, he sat in judgment on

House of Stewart, from whom it passed in 1389 to a branch of the Douglases. Robert died in 1325 and was buried at Newminster Abbey
, Northumberland, England.

Marriages and issue

Robert married twice. His first wife was Lucy, sister and heiress of William of Kyme, whose considerable estates in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, including the castle of Kyme, passed thus to the Umfravilles. They had the following known issues:

  • Gilbert (d.c.1380), married firstly Joan de Willoughby and secondly Maud de Lucy; had issue.
  • Elizabeth, married Gilbert de Boroughdon.

By his second wife, Eleanor, the widow of Richard Fitz Marmaduke of Horden, they had the following known issue:[1]

  • Robert (d.1379), married Eleanor de Widdrington; without issue.
  • Thomas (d.1387), married Joan de Roddam; had an issue.
  • Annora, married Stephen le Waleys, 2nd Lord Waleys.

See also

Citations

  1. ^ a b Tout 1885, p. 22.
  2. ISBN 9781841588049
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  3. ^ Burke, J. pp.527–529
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Tout, Thomas Frederick (1899). "Umfraville, Gilbert de (1244?-1307)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

References

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