Robert le Vavasour

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Edlington, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: 1231

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) de Birkin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maud le Vavasour died before 1226.

Robert married Juliane de Multon in 1208. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John le Vavasour was born between 1212 and 1213; died between 1283 and 1285.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 29 Sep 1189 and 29 Jun 1191

Notes:

"He was a custodian of the lands of the Archbishop of York, 1183-90, a justice itinerant, 1184 and 1187-89, farmed the lands of William Paynel, 1185-88, and levied tallage, 1187-89. He was an advisor of Maud, Countess of Warwick." [Complete Peerage]

"The [Vavasour] family, of which there were several branches, descended from Malger, who at the Domesday survey held land at Hazelwood, par. Tadcaster, Edlington and elsewhere of William de Percy, and who witnessed a charter of Alan de Percy to Whitby, 1100-c. 1115. William le Vavasour, king's justice, held 2 knights' fees of the old feoffment of William de Percy II in 1166, and half a knights' fee also of the old feoffment of the honour of Skipton, the Percy lands having been considerably extended and the Skipton lands in Craven having been acquired. In a charter to Bolton priory, 1175-90, with the consent of Robert and Malger his sons, he confirmed land in Yeadon of the gift of Robert son of Malger his uncle (avunculus). It can be deduced that William was a grandson of Malger the Domeday tenant, but it is uncertain whether this was by maternal or paternal descent. The balance of evidence, including Dodsworth's statement that William's father was named Malger, suggests that Malger of the Survey had two sons Robert and Malger, William being the heir of Robert who presumably died without issue." [Early Yorkshire Families, citation details below.]