RobertVavasour

Name Prefix: Sir

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{British Isles 742-1499}

== Biography ==He was of Addingham, Hazlewood, Stutton, Coc
ksford, Sicklinghall, Yeadon, Rawdon, Edlington and Bolton by Bowland, co. Yorks.
He was a witness to charter of his father-in-law Adam de Birkin, making gift by a charter of a buck or doe every year from his park of Birkin to Pontefract : "Hiis testibus, Roberto le Vavasur, Thoma filio Petri, Johanne f[ilio] Petri, Petro et Rogero fratribus suis,..." [Chart.St. John II:427, No. CCCXXV[4] ]
'Roberto le Vavassur ', witness to grant of Roger de Lascy, constableof Chester, to his burgesses of Pontefract of free burgage and the liberties and free laws which the king's burgesses of Grimsby enjoy, 6 June, 1194 [Boynton, citing EYC I:209-211 - original in the possession of the mayor and corporation of the borough of Pontefract]
He served as deputy for Theobald Walter, Sheriff of Lancashire in 1197.
He sought restoration of the manor of Edlington, co. Yorks. (his daughter's maritagium): '... in 1208 he sued Fulk [fitz Warin] for novel disseisin. In 1210 Fulk find £ 100 and a warhorse for having a quickdecision of this suit, but the suit seems to have dragged on at leastuntil 1223, when three justices were assigned to hear the case between "Robert le Vavasur, petitioner, and Fulk Fitz Warin, defendant." ' [Meisel, pp. 98-99].

=== Sources ===* Gen-Medieval - 23 Sep 2004 posting of John Ravilious re: de Birkin of Laxton, co. Notts.

• The History of the Parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, with Notices ofWistow, Saxton, Towton, Etc., by William Wheater, publ. London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1882.
  
• The History of the Parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, with Notices ofWistow, Saxton, Towton, Etc. ..., by William Wheater, 2nd Edition, publ. by Longmans, Green, & co., 1882 (Original from the New York PublicLibrary, digitized Mar 19, 2007 GOOGLE BOOKS, 328 pages)
  
  :: «b»VAVASOUR OF HAZLEWOOD.«/b»
  :: Arms : Or, a fess dauncette sable.
  :: «b»Sir Mauger le Vavasor«/b», mentioned in Domesday, had issue
  :: «b»Sir Mauger le Vavasor«/b», who had issue:: «b»Sir William le Vavasor«/b», one of the just1ces 30 Hen. II., 1184. He was lord of Hazlewood, and stands witness to Matilda Percy Countess of Warwick's re-foundation charter of Sallay Abbey. He had issue
  :: Robert.:: «b»Sir Robert Vavasour«/b», knight, s. and h. of Sir William, mar. «b»Juliana«/b», d. of Gilbert Ross, of Steeton, esq., and hadissue
  :: «b»John«/b».:: «b»Maud«/b», mar. «b»Theobald Walter«/b», bro. to Herbert,Archbishop of Canterbury.
  :: «b»Jane«/b», mar. «b»Patrick Sacheverel«/b».: Note: p. 160 Identifies Jane Vavasour as wife of Patrick Sacheverel. Mentions royal grant to Janes's brother Robert dated 1203. So this places Patrick as living about 1200.
  ::
  :: The genealogy of Patrick's wife is also provided/
  
  

=== Note ===: Deputy for Sheriff of Lancs 1197; allowed York Minster a right of way to transport quarried stone across his land at Hazlewood, Yorks, ca1225; married 1st ? and had Maud. Robert le Vavasour married 2nd 1208Juliane, daughter of Thomas de Multon and widow of Thomas de Rie, anddied by 1227, having by her had [John], with perhaps another son Henry.Burke's Peerage] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, p 2876



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