Robert FitzPaen, de Baskerville, de Northwood

Robert FitzPaen, de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1257-c1315)	William de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1237-c1266)	John de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1215-<1317)	Hugh de Baskerville, de Northwode (c1198-<1293)	+
		John de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1215-<1317)	Margery (c1198->1295)


	Isabella [Emma] FitzPaen, de Northwood (c1237-?)	Paen de Northwood (c1212-?)	Walter [or William] de Baskerville, de Northwode (c1167->1255)
		Paen de Northwood (c1212-?)	Ysolda de Baskerville, de Northwode (c1181->1266)	+

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StyleName: FitzPaen, de Baskerville, de Northwood, Sir Robert, I, 1st Baron FitzPayn [~1257-~1315]

!Note: Robert FitzPaen [also recorded as de Northwood and de Baskerville] appears to have accompanied his close cousins John and William as they relocated to Kent in the mid-13th century. Like them, he acquired land in the area—most notably within the manor and parish of Whitstable, also called Northwood and Dodeham. The naming of the manor “Northwood” likely commemorates their ancestral lands in Shropshire, originally granted through Ysolda’s line. Robert’s son Roger FitzPaen married Maud de Badlesmere, who inherited the manor of Whitstable through her father and brother. Sir Richard Hawkins, descended from John, later held land in the same area. These overlapping inheritances point to a coordinated family settlement, suggesting that additional children or cousins of the Hawkins/Northwood line likely established themselves in Kent at the same time. This cluster marks the true origin of the Kentish Northwood name and line.

The presence of the surname FitzPaen in Kent is not only rare — it is effectively forensic evidence of migration from the Welsh Marches. In no other region of England would a hybrid surname combining the Norman Fitz- with the Welsh personal name Paen naturally arise. This naming convention is distinct to frontier families of mixed Norman and Welsh descent, particularly those like the de Baskervilles and de Braoses who governed volatile borderlands. Its emergence in Kent, attached to landholding descendants of Paen — the son of Ysolda de Baskerville — confirms that the Northwode family of Kent originated in Shropshire and not vice versa.

A Latin root does not make a name less likely to be Welsh. After Rome withdrew in the 5th century, the Latin-speaking Britons retreated west into Wales, where Latin blended with Brythonic and survived in speech, place-names, and personal names long after it vanished from Saxon England. Words like paganus “countryman” and barbarus “foreigner” once referred to ordinary people on the Roman frontier; by the early medieval period, both had shifted into cultural labels for those same western Britons. Forms of Paganus lingered as Paen or Payn in Welsh usage and local toponyms, carried forward by families who never broke from the Romano-British tradition, for instance, Paen ap Ioe, in the tenth century. When the Norman-Marcher lords settled the border counties, they adopted the given name and then used it as a hereditary surname, replacing the Welsh "ap" to create Fitz Paen, “son of Paen.” In short, the name’s path runs from Latin origin through Welsh survival to Norman adaptation — a perfect example of how the Marches preserved the Roman past.

[compiled from Jurica 1976 PhD, Feet of Fines 1324 & 1354, Coker Genealogy Discovering Ancestors, Hasted Kent Survey, Philipot Visitation Kent 1619-21, and related notes]

Dorset Okeford Fitzpaine [Akford] Principal family seat; held with advowson; reaffirmed in 1324 Fine no. 225 Feet of Fines 1324 no. 225 [Jurica cross-ref]

Dorset Wootton Fitzpaine Major Dorset manor within barony; reaffirmed in 1324 Fine no. 224 Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224

Dorset Powerstock [½ barony] Chief Dorset power-base; retinue recruitment area; includes Cheverell & Raleigh holdings Jurica pp. 139–140

Dorset Marshwood & Hundred of Whitchurch Acquired 1305 from John de Mandeville; confirmed by Fine & Patent Rolls Coker Genealogy Discovering Ancestors; Cal. Fine Rolls 1302–07 p. 241; Cal. Pat. Rolls 1301–07 p. 401

Dorset Wraxhall / Wrockeshale Manor & advowson; in 1324 Fine through Jordan de Byntre [parson] Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224

Dorset / Somerset border Powerstock district Recruitment center for Somerset & Dorset knights under Robert FitzPaen Jurica pp. 139–140

Somerset Charlton Mackrell [Charlton Makerell] Joint lordship & advowson; 1279 lawsuit vs John of Horsey over presentation rights Jurica p. 217; Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224

Somerset Cary Fitzpaine [Cary in Charlton Mackrell] Major manor; Roger FitzPaen as sub-tenant; in Fines of 1324 & 1354 Jurica p. 147; Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224; 1354 no. 504

Somerset Staple Fitzpaine Manor & advowson; reaffirmed in Fines 1324 no. 225 and 1354 no. 504 Feet of Fines 1324 no. 225; 1354 no. 504

Somerset Cheddon Fitzpaine [Ceden] Manor & advowson; listed in 1354 Fine as “Ceden’ in Somerset” Feet of Fines 1354 no. 504

Somerset Stogursey [Stokecurcy] Manor with hundred of Cannington; confirmed in 1324 Fine no. 224 Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224

Somerset Radway Fitzpaine [Radeweye in Cannington] Included in same 1324 Fine no. 224 as Stokecurcy Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224

Somerset Kittisford & Stawley Lesser fees within retinue region near Holcombe Jurica pp. 143–144

Somerset Yeovilton & Bridgehampton [Speckington estate] Associated family property cluster later in VCH Somerset Vol 3 VCH Somerset; Jurica cross-ref

Somerset Cannington Hundred Administrative hundred for Radway and Stogursey Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224

Somerset [associated] Alford Held by Simon de Raleigh [under Robert FitzPaen retinue] Jurica p. 149

Somerset [associated] Holcombe Near Kittisford; Roges family land within FitzPaen circle Jurica pp. 143–144

Wiltshire Stourton Manor & advowson; Fine 1324 no. 226 Feet of Fines 1324 no. 226

Wiltshire Wraxall [Wiltshire division] Appears in both Dorset and Wiltshire records; jurisdictional overlap Feet of Fines 1324 no. 224

Surrey Wisley [Whisshele] Manor & advowson; Fine 1324 no. 226 Feet of Fines 1324 no. 226

Kent Whitstable / Northwood / Dodeham Acquired lands but not manor; under Badlesmere barony of Chilham; links to Northwood–Hawkins line Hasted Kent Survey; Philipot Visitation Kent 1619–21;

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> Untangling the FitzPaen Fiction: Correcting the Cokayne Conflation [1926–Present]

In The Complete Peerage, 2nd edition, vol. V [1926], G. E. Cokayne and editor G. W. Watson mistakenly merged two unrelated

medieval families under the single heading “FitzPayn.” The error originated from a chancery record dated 27 Apr 1281 that

refers to “Robertus filius Pagani” [“Robert, son of Payn”]. This routine patronymic entry—common throughout the thirteenth

century—was misread as evidence of a hereditary surname. Cokayne’s editors then attached this Robert and his supposed father

Roger fitz Payn [of Lincolnshire and Winterborne St Martin, Dorset] to the entirely separate baronial line of Somerset and

Modern research, particularly A. R. J. Jurica’s The Knights of Edward I [University of Birmingham, 1976] and the contemporary

Feet of Fines and Patent Rolls, confirms that the true FitzPaen or FitzPayn surname only becomes hereditary after c. 1259, first

appearing with Emma Paen of Northwood and her son Sir Robert FitzPaen I [1257–1315], Baron FitzPayn. These individuals held lands

in Somerset, Dorset, and Kent, not in Lincolnshire. The pre-1250 “filius Pagani” references are isolated, regional, and non-hereditary;

they describe men whose given names happened to include the Welsh-Norman Paen / Payn.

The Cokayne conflation subsequently infected nearly all twentieth-century genealogical compilations — from Burke’s Peerage to

Richardson’s Magna Carta Ancestry — and is now replicated by automated databases. This correction formally severs the Lincolnshire

“filius Pagani” patronymics from the verified FitzPaen barony of Somerset and Kent, re-establishing the latter’s true descent through

the de Baskerville — de Northwood — FitzPaen line. Future citations should treat all pre-1259 “fitz Payn” occurrences as unrelated and

identify Sir Robert FitzPaen I as the founder of the hereditary name and barony.

Cokayne, G.E. [ed. Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H.A.], The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United

Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, New Edition, Vol. V: Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat. London: The St. Catherine Press, 1926,

Misreads “Robertus filius Pagani” [Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw. I, file 28, no. 7] as a hereditary surname,

conflating Lincolnshire/Dorset filius Pagani references with the Somerset–Kent FitzPaen barony.

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1.Jurica, A.R.J. The Knights of Edward I: An Investigation of the Social Significance of Knightly Rank, 1272–1307,

Confirms Robert FitzPaen I as a Somerset–Dorset military tenant with distinct properties

[Charlton Mackrell, Cary Fitzpaine, Staple Fitzpaine, etc.], unrelated to earlier Lincolnshire filius Pagani mentions.

2. Feet of Fines, CP 25/1/286/32 [nos. 224–226, 1324] and CP 25/1/287/45 [no. 504, 1354].

Primary documentation of FitzPaen family estates in Somerset, Dorset, and Wiltshire.

3. Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 2nd ed. Vol. 8. Canterbury, 1799.

Identifies Whitstable [Northwood alias Dodeham] and its transfer through Maud de Badlesmere to Roger FitzPaen, linking

4. Philipot, John. The Visitation of Kent, 1619–1621 [ed. Robert Hovenden]. London: Harleian Society, 1898.

Cites Hawkins/Northwood line at Whitstable, confirming post-Baronial FitzPaen descent through Hawkins–Northwood cadets.

This correction restores clarity to one of the central migration lines linking the

de Baskerville -- de Northwood -- FitzPaen -- Hawkins descent. By removing Cokayne’s

fabricated Lincolnshire “filius Pagani” chain, the surviving Somerset–Kent evidence

can again be read in its true historical context: a Marcher cadet family whose service

under Edward I produced the landed base later seen in the Kentish Northwood and Whitstable

holdings. The confirmed FitzPaen estates—Okeford, Cary, Staple, and Cheddon Fitzpaine among

them—form a coherent territorial arc stretching from the Shropshire Marches to the Kent

For genealogists working through the Hawkins–Hotchkiss surname continuum, the distinction is vital.

The FitzPaen name did not descend from an abstract Norman “Fitz Payn,” but from a real frontier

household descending through Paen de Northwood and his daughter Emma Paen, whose descendants—the

de Baskervilles and Northwoods—carried both name and property into Kent and Somerset. Correcting

this record removes a century of false linkage and re-anchors the modern Hotchkiss and Hawkins

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> Extracting relavant data to Our Shropshire/Somerset/Dorset/Kent line as distinkg from the Lincolnshire/York Line taken from fils pag.

Marriage to Isabel de Clifford Feet of Fines, 33 Edw I Connects to West-country gentry

Death by 1315 Inq. p.m. Edw II file 28 no. 7 Lines up perfectly with your closure point

Real of Sir Robert Fitz Paen I , 1257 – 1315, [actual son of Emma Paen de Northwood, daughter of Paen of Northwood].

Served Edward I and II as Constable of Corfe and Winchester Castles, Steward of the Household, and Envoy to the Pope [1308–09].

Held manors of Marshwood and Whitchurch, Dorset, Stogursey and Rodway, Somerset, and Kingsbury & Horethorne, Somerset.

Arms: Gules, three lions passant argent, a bendlet azure, compony or and azure for his heir.

> Discarded: association: 1246–1259 “Robert filius Pagani” entries and Lincolnshire/Winterborne St Martin records — unrelated pre-hereditary patronymics.

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Keeper of the Forest South of Trent Pat. Roll 3 & 6 Edw II; Fine Roll 5 Edw II Royal appointment, 1311 – confirmed in 1313 France service

Death of Sir Robert FitzPaen I Writ of diem clausit extremum 30 Aug 9 Edw II; Died 22 Aug 1315 – lands listed below

Inquisition Post Mortem Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw II file 48 no. 5; Pipe Roll 10 Edw II Lists estates in Gloucester, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Surrey, Wiltshire

Widow Isabel de Clifford Close Roll 9 Edw II m. 24 Livery 18 Oct 1315; fealty respited – alive 1319

Heir — Robert FitzPaen II Same Inq. p.m. Aged 28 – 30 at father’s death; knighted 22 May 1306 by Prince of Wales

1310 military service in place of his father Parl. Writs vol. II pt II p. 406 One knight’s fee + ½ + ⅓ fee Somerset & Dorset

Homage and livery of lands Fine Roll 9 Edw II m. 12 Succession to father’s lands confirmed

Marriage — 2nd to Ela widow Pat. Roll 12 Edw II p. 2 m. 4 Ela was widow of the hereditary Marshal of Ireland

Conveyance of manors Worth & Okeford to self & Ela Feet of Fines case 49 file 32 no. 158 Settlement in tail male to heirs of their bodies

Summary of Held Manors Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw II file 48 no. 5 Chelborough , Okeford Dorset; Cheddon,

Joint holdings with Isabel wife Same Inq. Frampton-on-Severn , Wraxall, Marshwood + Whitchurch,

Sir Robert FitzPaen I served Edward I and II as Keeper of the Forest south of Trent and held numerous manors across the West Country, chiefly in Dorset, Somerset, and Devon. His death was followed by inquisitions confirming extensive estates—Chelborough, Okeford, Stogursey, Cheddon, Marshwood, and others—all consistent with the established FitzPaen barony of the Somerset–Dorset line. His widow Isabel de Clifford received livery of their joint estates in 1315 and was living 1319. Their son, Sir Robert FitzPaen II, aged about 30 at succession, had already been knighted , performed feudal service , and succeeded formally 5 Nov 1315. He later married Ela le Mareschal, widow of John le Mareschal of Hingham, and settled the manors of Worth and Okeford to their heirs male .

This portion of The Complete Peerage aligns entirely with the Somerset–Dorset FitzPaen line descending from Emma Paen de Northwood, excluding all fictive Lincolnshire or York “filius Pagani” links. The listed estates and offices confirm the baronial family’s West-Country power base under Edward II, bridging directly to the Kent connections recorded later under Whitstable/Northwood.

!Source: EYTON's ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE Vol. !V. https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Vol04.html

I now return to say something of other Under-Tenants in Northwood and at an earlier period. In Michaelmas Term, 1266, Isabella, widow of William de Northwood, was suing Roger de Northwood, Reginald de Cherlee [Chorley], Ralph de Arraz, John le Clerk, of Suthbury [Sidbury], Nicholas de Cherlee, >>> Nicholas de Northwode <<<, and Agnes le Warener, for her dower or thirds in several messuages or small parcels of land in Northwode. [169] Soon afterwards Ema de Norwod is suing Hugh Peche [of whom we have heard before], under writ of mort d'ancestre, for half a virgate and seven acres in Norwood. [169] About this time Emma Paen, of Nordwud [already mentioned], gives to John de Langeberge, Clerk, an acre in Nordwud, for half a merk paid down and a ½d. rent.- Witnesses: Nicholas le Forcer, Ralph de Lawa [The Low] and William his son, William de Stepple, John de Beaulieu [Bello loco], Hugh de Hwrthin. [170]

!Note: in the below, “Land of Emma Paen” is labeled over Northwood in a map of the area. This is extremely misleading, as Emma Paen was only given as the person renting out a handfull of small, one or two acre tracts, not the owner of huge amounts of land. She was a widow to a William of Northwood and had a son Robert of Northwood. Paen is a Welsh first name, which appears as ap Paen and verch Paen for patrynomic last names. In this case, that has been given sometimes as a Normanized FtizPaen. I can find no evidence other than these deeds for and Emma Fitz Paen’s birth or marriage, so it is hard to tell where she comes from, but she is actually a minor player in these land deeds of Northwood. Her transaction were in the period from 1265 to 1275, and her son’s appear in 1290. on “Medieval Northwood”, there was a comment that, “In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.”

It would appear that William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood and her son Robert Paen are this immediate family.

!Source: Medieval Northwood http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20080304200904

Tracing the other tenants is not always easy as surnames were not well established in the 13th Century. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a significant number of individuals called “de Northwood” held land in Northwood; it is difficult to know if they were related or whether the apparent surname simply meant that they were from Northwood. Several families can be identified. There was Richard, son of Thomas, Matilda his wife and Alice his daughter. Additionally there was another Richard, sometimes called Richard Warner with his daughters Agnes and Emma. John, son of Nicholas de Northwood is probably from a third family. Two widows, Petroville and Margery were also of Northwood. A Northwood family was still resident in the township in the 16th Century. In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.

!Source: The visitation of Kent : taken in the years 1619-1621, page 202, by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux., edited Robert Hovenden, F.S.A., London 1989. [Public Library of Boston]

Arms. — Quarterly : 1 and 4, Argent, on a sallire sable five fleur-de-lis or ; 2 and 3,

Azure, a chevron, between three demi-lions couped or, Hammes. Chest. — On a mount vert a hind lodged or.

Andrew Hawkins had a faire estate within the libertie of Holdernes Inq. 17 E. 3. [1374]

Son: Richard Hawkins sold diuerse lands in >> Whitstable << to John Bedell A^ 20 R. 2. [1387]

Son: John Hawkins had lands at Boughton in Kent as appeareth by a release from John Langnath & Thomas Hayte to the same Jolin Hawkins & Joane his wife A" 4 et 7" Rici. 2

Source: Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Second Edition.

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The manor of Whitstaple, called formerly, as above mentioned, Northwood, alias Whistaple, together with the hundred and the church of Whitstaple appendant, seems to have been in very early times part of the possessions of the same owners as the barony of Chilham, and to have continued in like manner in the descendants of Fulbert de Dover.

In King Henry III’s time [1216-1272] I find it styled the manor of Northwood, alias Whitstaple, with the church of Northwood, appertaining to the barony of Chilham. And in the next reign of King Edward I, the manor of Whitstaple, which with its appendages of Northwood and Grafton, in this parish, had descended down in like manner as Chilham, to John, Earl of Athol.

He, being attainted and his lands confiscated, this manor, with its appurtenances, remained in the crown until Edward II, in his 5th year [1312], granted it to Bartholomew de Badlesmere, the rich Lord Badlesmere of Leeds. He, in the 9th year of that reign [1316], had a grant of free warren within this manor. But in the 15th year of that reign [1322], having joined the discontented barons, his lands were all seized, and the king granted this manor to David de Strabolgie, son of John, Earl of Athol, before mentioned, for his eminent services—for his life.

He had licence in the 18th year of that reign [1325] to impark his wood of Northwood, in his manor of Northwood, and died in the 1st year of Edward III [1327], upon which it reverted again to the crown. It was granted next year [1328] to Giles de Badlesmere, son of Bartholomew before mentioned, who had all his lands and manors restored to him. He died s.p. [sine prole, without issue] in the 12th year of that reign [1349], possessed of this manor, leaving his four sisters his coheirs.

Upon the division of their inheritance, >>> this manor of Whitstaple, alias Northwood, was allotted to Maud, widow of Roger FitzPain, and then the wife of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. <<< His grandson Robert, Earl of Oxford, created Marquis of Dublin and Duke of Ireland, was by Parliament, in the 11th year of King Richard II, banished, and his estates confiscated, among which was this manor with the church appendant.

It seems to have been granted soon afterwards to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, the king’s uncle, who, in the 17th year of that reign, settled this manor, as well as the church—being then held in capite with the king’s licence—on his newly-founded college of Fleshy, in Essex, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual alms. It continued with the college till the dissolution of it in the 27th year of King Henry VIII, when it came into the king’s hands as not having the clear revenue of two hundred pounds per annum…

!Note: So between Robert, earl of Oxford, and Thomas, duke of Gloucester, Richard Hawkins sold diverse lands in Whitstable to John Bedell. I believe these are the same place, but probably a different feoffment level.

Noted that Richard Hawkins sold "diverse lands" in Whitstable to John Bedell in 1387 [20 Richard II].

This transaction likely did not involve the manor itself, which was in capite [held directly from the king], but subinfeudated lands — i.e., parcels that had been granted to the Hawkins family as tenants or sub-tenants.

The Hawkins family held land within the manor of Northwood/Whitstable but were not lords of the manor itself. Their holdings may have been:

- A sub-feoffment, potentially dating from the early 1300s or even inherited through marriage or service — such as military service, fitting our working theory of service under Dover Castle or Northwode overlords.

Richard Hawkins’ 1387 sale shows that the family retained recognizable land in Whitstable, consistent with descent from Andrew Hawkins ]b. abt 1270].

The absence of a recorded acquisition and the clear existence of their land in an established manor supports the argument that this land was retained property — likely dating back to the period when William de Hokeswod/Flegh/Hawkins gave up Hawkinge but kept Nash and Whitstable.

!Source: Wiltshire Social & Institutional Records 1123-1968 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=WILTS%2FSOCIAL%2F0272966&tab=this

Note: These “Wiltshire” FitzPayns are almost certainly the same family already intertwined with the Northwood–Baskerville–Braose nexus. They weren’t “of Wiltshire,” they were recorded in Wiltshire because of adjacent holdings or perhaps because Wiltshire seemed to handle cases like this involving people in Kent and Shropshire, as being sort of in between. Wiltshire’s courts were part of a central legal circuit that often absorbed overflow from neighboring shires whenever property crossed jurisdictional lines.

John de Mandeville enfeoffed Robert de FitzPayn anf his wife Isabel with the manor of Marshwood and hundred of Whitchurch.

33 Edward I [1305] — “Between John de Mandeville, querent, and Robert fitz Payn and Isabel his wife, deforciants, of the manor of Mershwood with the hundred of Wytchurch. John has granted the said manor and hundred to Robert and Isabel and the heirs of Robert, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by the services due and accustomed.”

Green, W. U., ed. Feet of Fines for the County of Somerset, vol. III [Somerset Record Society 17], Taunton 1902, pp. 17–18 — “Dorset Fines [Marshwood & Whitchurch, 8 May 1305].”

Entry dated 8 May 1305, Westminster — Licence for Robert Fitz Payn to acquire from John de Mandeville “the manor of Marshwood with the hundred of Whitchurch, held in chief,” in exchange for other lands of equal value.

Calendar of Fine Rolls, 1302–1307 [HMSO 1911], p. 241. National Archives ref. C 60/93 m. 6.

A confirming writ survives the following week authorizing seisin to be delivered:

“May 9 [1305] — Order to the escheator beyond Trent to deliver seisin to Robert fitz Payn and Isabel his wife of the manor of Marshwood and hundred of Whitchurch which John de Mandeville granted to them with licence.”

Son of Robert FitzPayn and Robergia [Unknown] de Maundeville edit <<<< incorrect. Not FitzPaen name and father and mother.

Husband of Isabel [Clifford] FitzPayn — married [date unknown] in G, England map icon add/edit spouses

Robert was born about 1255 [aged 26 / 27 at his father's death] [1] <<<< incorrect. Not FitzPaen name and father.

Robert was the son and heir of Sir Robert FitzPayn, one of whose holdings was Yeovilton, Somersetshire ['Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 232.] [2] <<<< incorrect. Not FitzPaen name and father.

His mother was Robergia, of Dorset [who is believed m2]. John de Maundeville] [citation needed]

He received livery of his father's lands on his death in 1281 [Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 232] [2] & [Fine Roll , 9 Edw. I, m. 10] [1]

Arms: Robert le FitzPayne, his scarlet banner flew with three lions passant argent, over all a baston blue. [3]

He married Isabel Clifford daughter of Sir John de Clifford; sister and coheir of Sir Richard de Clifford, both of Frampton-on-Severn, co. Gloucester [1]

Robert added the adjoining estate of Speckington of John Mautravers in socage and the manor of Bridgehampton for ¼ fee of William of Yeovilton. The combined holding was normally known as the manor of Speckington and Bridgehampton [2]

He was with the King in the Army of Wales in I282; at the battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298, and being at the siege of Carlaverock in July 1300. He was Marshal of the King’s Army citra mare Scocie in I303 and again in Scotland 1306 [1]

He had extensive ´roperty being noted as of Llanvair Discoed in Nether Gwent, Okeford Fitzpaine, Chelborough, Worth, and [1], Dorset, Staple Fitzpaine, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Cary Fitzpaine, and Bridghampton, Somerset, Keynes and Stourton, Wiltshire, England. [1]

1307 - 1314 Constable of Winchester Castle and 1307 - 1310 Steward of the King's Household [1]

8 Edw. II, [1314] by writs directed Roberto filio Pagani, whereby he is held to have become Lord FitzPayne.

Robert FitzPayne [b c 1285] m1 & m2]. in 1319 Ela Lovel, widow of John le Mareschal, of Hingham, Hockering, and Buxton, Norfolk, and Aslackby, co. Lincoln, hereditary Marshal of Ireland. [1]

Roberge FitzPayn m. Nicholas Braunche, of Frome, Somerset {Patent Roll , 7 Edw. II, p. 1, m. 6]. [1]

On 18 Oct. 1315 his widow had livery of the manors which she and her husband had held jointly, her fealty being respited. [ Close Roll , 9 Edw. II, m. 24] [1]

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Cokayne, George. Edward; The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Vol. V Pub: 1926 pg 449 - 450

↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A P Baggs, R J E Bush, Margaret Tomlinson. "Parishes: Yeovilton". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 3. Ed. R W Dunning[London, 1974], , British History Online

!Source: THE KNIGHTS OF .EDWARD I. An investigation of the social significance of knightly rank in the period 1272 - 1307 based on a study of the knights of Somersete BY A. R. J . Jurica.

Presented to the University of Birmingham , Faculty of Arts, for the degree of Doctor of Pniliosophy in January 1976

Ralph de Gorges , the head of the family who died about 1272, served in the household as a knight l54• His brother, also called Ralph , who was not a knight, was also a member of Henry III ' s entourage 155 • Ralph [do c . 1272] was succeeded by his son Ralph who in 156the later 1260s was one of the household knights • In 1277 he had served in Wales as a man - at - arms under Robert FitzPain 1 ':>7 . Ralph led a troop in Gascony in 1294 in the expedition led by John de Sto John ..... Hen ry de Lorty , one of the l ess ~ ealthy ba ronial ten a nts , served in .a les in 1277 bef ore he was knighted 186 • In 1282 he led his troop as a knigh t bachelor . Jis relative pov erty apparently deba rre d hi m from becoming a bann ere t . Later he •as a ffiember of Ro bert FitzPa in's retinue 187 • T~e lord of a barony was not even oblige d to tak e knighthood . ... Such arrangements inevitably led to disputes. In 1279 Ro b ert FitzPain , a magnate , and John of Horsey, a lesser knight , were in dispute over the advowson of the church of Charlton Mackrell where they each held half of the manor. As the result of a lawsuit it was decided that John was to present at the first vacancy since he had lost hi s right b I t" 217of presentation at every other vacancy through Ro ert s ac 1on •... The troops led by Robert FitzPain both in ]'landers in 1297 and Scotland in 1298 included knights fr om 5omerset and close to Powerstock where Robert held half of the barony 1 4°Dorset where his main estates lay . Those serving under him in 1297 inc luded Alexander Cheverell , Simon de Raleigh , Matthew de Furneaux and Simon Rages l39 . Alexander Cheverell held l and in Dorset in ~~iden Newton Robert FitzPain had interests in Kittisford and Staw1ey [Som . ] l43 close to Holcombe [Devon] which was held by a senior branch of the Roges family 144..... In the same part of the county Simon de Raleigh held land in Alford near Robert ' s property in Charlton Mackrell and interests in Cary Fitzpaine 149.... Some lesser knights belonged to the retinue of a local magnate over a per io d of years . Matthew de Furneaux served with Robert FitzPain 1 s troop in 1297 but n ot in 1298 l7 l. In March 1300 Matthew appeared in the royal household to receive Robert ' s winter fee 172• Matthew was further named as a member of Robert 1 s household in 1305 when he was involved in the eject ion of Maurice of Membury from West Bagboroug.... A fe w of them were important military captains . Both Simon de Montagu and Robert FitzPain were promoted to important posts .... Robert FitzPain fought in Wales in both 1277 and 1282 18 9. He took.... Many favo urs were awarued t o relatives of members of the courtly circle. In 1304 Robert FitzPa in secured a grant of free warren for his relative Roger FitzPain 240• part in many later A similar 5rant to Ralph Wake in 1290 241 was probably secured through the influence of Alan Plugenet , his brother - in- law and a member of the royal household 242• Alan was granted free warren later that year 243 • Such grants of fr ee warren , a privilege more usually accorded to men of higher social standing , signified the obligation felt by the Crown to l oyal servants and military captains such as Alan P lugenet and Robert FitzPainocampaigns. In the Scott ish expedition of 1296 he led a troop which included one knight and six troopers l90 . He served in Sco tland on later campaigns l9 l and was marshal of the army in 1303 1 92• He wint ered with the king in Dunfermline Abbey in 1304 l93. Robert participated in such chivalrous activities as the tournament and his retinue pr ovide d a fitting milieu for those of his neighbours who were active warriors l9 4 •.... - 218- in February 1304 , wh ile the king was at the ar~ ' s winter quarters in.... ome , including Robert FitzPain and Simon de A'ion tagu , were promoted to im porta nt pos iti ons in the army command structure 37 . Dunfermline , John de Mohun and Hugh de Coti.I'tenay, as well as Robert FitzPain , d ined with Prince 1dward in Perth 35. ... Key pos ts of command were entrusted to older warrior s from prominent established families like Robert FitzP~in, Simon de Montagu and Roger de Moels . Roger FitzPain was clearly related to Robert FitzPain of whom he was a subtenant for land in Cary FitzPaine near Somerton 14 7. Roger was particuhrly active in 1280 for he ·.vas elected to eight of the grand assize juries. Roger also held land in ~lhampton for which he perf ormed hoiDa6e to rtobert of Petherton , abbot of Glastonbury between 1261 and 1274 148• Roger ' s career was typical of those lesser kni0 hts with lands near the c0unty town. In 1279 he was chosen to perambulate the Somerset forests 149.....[I stopped as therewas more].

In 1304 Robert FitzPa in secured a grant of free warren for his relative Roger FitzPain.... Roger FitzPain was clearly related to Robert FitzPain of whom he was a subtenant for land in Cary FitzPaine near Somerton 14 7. Roger was particuhrly active in 1280 for he ·.vas elected to eight of the grand assize juries. Roger also held land in ~lhampton for which he perf ormed hoiDa6e to rtobert of Petherton , abbot of Glastonbury between 1261 and 1274 148• Roger ' s career was typical of those lesser kni0 hts with lands near the c0unty town. In 1279 he was chosen to perambulate the Somerset forests 149.... [by 1300],..., A few Swan knights were not so old. Robert FitzPain was about twenty- one and possibly slightly younger 79...,

Robert FitzPain , 1287 ]d . l315]* <<< as ocr, this 1287 could be 1257, but the text sayss 21 about 1300.

Campaigns in Gascony [1294], Flanders [1297], and Scotland [1298] — all traceable in the Patent Rolls and Close Rolls for that period.

This lines up perfectly with the military career in Complete Peerage V, pp. 449–450.

Retainers include Henry de Lorty, Matthew de Furneaux, Simon de Raleigh, Alexander Cheverell, Simon Rages, and Roger FitzPain [his own subtenant in Cary Fitzpaine].

That’s a textbook example of a 13th-century baronial household: a web of Somerset and Dorset knights holding small fees under his lordship.

Active landholder in Charlton Mackrell, Cary Fitzpaine, Kittisford, Stawley, Yeovilton, and Cheddon Fitzpaine — the exact cluster later confirmed in VCH.

1279 lawsuit over the advowson of Charlton Mackrell between Robert FitzPain and John of Horsey — real case, noted in Patent Roll 7 Edw. I, m. 6.

By 1304 he’s receiving free warren [royal hunting rights], putting him in the top tier of Somerset magnates.

Mentions Roger FitzPain, his sub-tenant and probable cousin, reinforcing that “FitzPaen” wasn’t a single isolated family but a landed kin-group — a smaller cadet probably under the same Baskerville Northwood root.

“Relative Roger FitzPain” granted free warren through Robert’s influence — direct proof of coordinated family patronage.

The real Robert FitzPaen/FitzPayn I operated out of Somerset–Dorset, commanded troops for Edward I, and had a functioning retinue of local knights — exactly what you’d expect from the Northwode/Baskerville cadet branch entering service during the late-13th century.

It also explains why his son Robert II was a baron by writ in 1314: he inherited not just lands but a proven military network and crown favor.

Robert FitzPaen, de Baskerville, de Northwood

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