Robert FitzPaen

His second wife was Ela, who he married on 29 JUN 1319. The place has not been found. They had no known children.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Robert FitzPaen (c1285-1354)	Robert FitzPaen, de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1257-c1315)	William de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1237-c1266)	John de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1215-<1317)	+
		William de Baskerville, de Northwood (c1237-c1266)
		Isabella [Emma] FitzPaen, de Northwood (c1237-?)	Paen de Northwood (c1212-?)	+
		Isabella [Emma] FitzPaen, de Northwood (c1237-?)
	Isabel de Clifford (c1257-?)	John de Clifford (c1232-?)
		John de Clifford (c1232-?)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Note: Robert FitzPaen I [also recorded as de Northwood and de Baskerville], Robert II’s father, 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.

!Note: Raised amid his father’s retinue and the Northwood cousins’ Kentish campaigns, Robert FitzPaen II came of age in the army of Edward I. His knighthood was a foregone conclusion — the crown merely confirmed what birth, service, and lineage had already decided.

Whitstable Northwood Dodeham, Kent - owned land here but Manor belonged to Maud's de Badlesmere's family.

Charlton Mackrell or Cherleton and the advowson of the church of Cherleton' in the county of Somerset

Wrockeshale and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Dorset

Wingate in Stogursey - 1 carucate of land in Wyndeyate, the advowson of the church of Staple in the county of Somerset

Okeford Fitzpaine or Akford and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Dorset.

!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

!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 saUire 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.

[Original PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/The_history_and_topographical_survey_of_the_county_of_Kent_%28IA_b28772155_0008%29.pdf]

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: Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/286/32 https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_286_32.shtml

Parties: Robert fiz Payn and Ela, his wife, querents, and Jordan de Byntre, the parson of the church of Wrockeshale, and Geoffrey de Godemaneston', the parson of the church of Wodeton', deforciants.

Property: The manors of Stokecurcy, Radeweye, Cary [and] Cherleton' and the hundred of Canyngton' and the advowson of the church of Cherleton' in the county of Somerset and the manor of Wrockeshale and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Dorset.

Agreement: Robert and Ela have acknowledged the manors and hundred and advowsons to be the right of Jordan and Geoffrey, as those which Jordan and Geoffrey have of their gift.

For this: Jordan and Geoffrey have granted to Robert and Ela the manors and hundred and advowsons and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Robert and Ela and the male heirs begotten by Robert on the body of Ela, of the lord king and his heirs for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders [1] to Robert, son of Richard de Grey of Codenoure, and the heirs of his body, [2] to Gilbert, brother of the same Robert, son of Richard, and the heirs of his body and [3] to the right heirs of Robert fiz Payn.

Note: [Endorsed: Bew [Bugo] de Knouille puts in his claim. Alice de Eueringham puts in her claim. <<<< Note from source not me - Rex

Thomas le Bret puts in his claim. Peter Helyon and Cecily, his wife, put in their claim. Thomas de Iuethorn' and Sarah, his wife, put in their claim.]

Standardised forms of names. [These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.]

Persons: Robert FitzPayn, Ela FitzPayn, Jordan de Bintree, Geoffrey de Godmanstone, Richard de Grey, Robert de Grey, Gilbert de Grey, Bew de Knoville, Alice de Everingham, Thomas le Brett, Peter Helion, Cecily Helion, Thomas de Ivethorn, Sarah de Ivethorn

Places: Wraxall, Wootton Fitzpaine [in Dorset], Stogursey, Radway Fitzpaine [in Cannington], Cary Fitzpaine [in Charlton Mackrell], Charlton Mackrell, Cannington, Codnor [in Derbyshire]

Summary: Robert II FitzPaen and wife Ela reaffirmed ownership of properties in Somerset and Dorset through a royal court fine in 1324, creating an entail through the Greys of Codnor. It also makes it rather likely that Elizabeth, wife of Richard de Grey was their daughter, and shows likely grandsons Robert and Gilbert.

!Source: Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/286/32 https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_286_32.shtml

Parties: Robert fiz Payn and Ela, his wife, querents, and Jordan de Byntre, the parson of the church of Wrockeshale, and Geoffrey de Godemaneston', the parson of the church of Wodeton', deforciants.

Property: The manor of Staple and 1 messuage and 1 carucate of land in Wyndeyate and the advowson of the church of Staple in the county of Somerset and the manor of Akford' and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Dorset.

Agreement: Robert and Ela have acknowledged the tenements and advowsons to be the right of Jordan, as those which Jordan and Geoffrey have of their gift.

For this: Jordan and Geoffrey have granted to Robert and Ela the tenements and advowsons and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Robert and Ela and the male heirs of their bodies, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders [1] to Robert, son of Richard de Grei of Codenoure, and the heirs of his body, [2] to Gilbert, brother of the same Robert, son of Richard, and the heirs of his body and [3] to the right heirs of Robert fiz Payn.

Note: [Endorsed: Bew [Bugo] de Knouill' puts in his claim. Alice de Eueringh[a]m puts in her claim. <<<< Note from source not me - Rex

Thomas le Bret puts in his claim. Peter Helyon and Cecily, his wife, put in their claim.]

Standardised forms of names. [These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.]

Places: Wraxall, Wootton Fitzpaine [both in Dorset], Staple Fitzpaine, Wingate [in Stogursey], Okeford Fitzpaine, Codnor [in Derbyshire]

!Source: Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/286/32 https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_286_32.shtml

Parties: Robert fiz Payn and Ela, his wife, querents, and Jordan de Byntre, the parson of the church of Wrockeshale, and Geoffrey de Godemaneston', the parson of the church of Wodeton', deforciants.

Property: The manor of Whisshele in the county of Surrey and the manor of Stourton' and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Wiltshire.

Agreement: Robert and Ela have acknowledged the manors and advowson to be the right of Jordan, as those which Jordan and Geoffrey have of their gift.

For this: Jordan and Geoffrey have granted to Robert and Ela the manors and advowson and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Robert and Ela and the male heirs of their bodies, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders [1] to Robert, son of Richard de Grey of Codenoure, and the heirs of his body, [2] to Gilbert, brother of the same Robert, son of Richard, and the heirs of his body and [3] to the right heirs of Robert fiz Pa[yn].

Standardised forms of names. [These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.]

Persons: Robert FitzPayn, Ela FitzPayn, Jordan de Bintree, Geoffrey de Godmanstone, Richard de Grey, Robert de Grey, Gilbert de Grey

Places: Wraxall [in Wiltshire], Wootton Fitzpaine [in Dorset], Wisley, Stourton, Codnor [in Derbyshire]

Summary: Robert II FitzPaen and wife Ela reaffirmed ownership of two Wiltshire manors through a royal court fine in 1324, creating an entail through the Greys of Codnor. . It also makes it rather likely that Elizabeth, wife of Richard de Grey was their daughter, and shows likely grandsons Robert and Gilbert.

Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/287/45 https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_287_45.shtml

Parties: Thomas Wygod', the parson of the church of Wotton', and Robert de Sambourn', clerk, querents, and Robert Fytzpayn and Ela, his wife, deforciants.

Property: The manors of S[tap]le, Ceden', Cary and Cherleton' Makerell' and the advowsons of the churches of the manors of Staple, Ceden' and Cherleton' Makerell' in the county of Somerset and the manor of Wrockeshale in the county of Dorset.

Agreement: Robert Fytzpayn and Ela have acknowledged, to wit, the manors of Cary and Cherleton' Makerell' and the advowson of the church of the manor of Cherleton' Makerell' to be the right of Thomas [and] Robert de Sambourn' and the manors of Staple, Ceden' and Wrockeshale and the advowsons of the churches of the manors of Staple and [Ceden'] to be the right of Thomas, as those which Thomas and Robert de Sambourn' have of their gift.

For this: Thomas and Robert de Sambourn' have granted to Robert Fytzpayn the manors and advowsons and have rendered them to him in the court, to hold to Robert Fytzpayn and the male heirs of his body, [to wit], the manors of Cary and Cherleton' Makerell' and the advowson of the church of the manor of Cherleton' Makerell' of the lord king and his heirs and the manors of Staple, Ceden' and Wrockeshale and the advowsons of the churches of the manors of Staple and Ceden' of the chief lords, for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders [1] to Robert, son of Richard de Grey of Codenore, and Elizabeth, his wife, and the heirs of the body of Robert, son of Richard, and [2] to the right heirs of Robert Fytzpayn.

Note: This agreement was made by the command of the lord king. <<<< Note from source not me - Rex

Standardised forms of names. [These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.]

Persons: Thomas Wigod, Robert de Sambourne, Robert FitzPayn, Ela FitzPayn, Richard de Grey, Robert de Grey, Elizabeth de Grey

Places: Wootton Fitzpaine [in Dorset], Staple Fitzpaine, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Cary Fitzpaine [in Charlton Mackrell], Charlton Mackrell, Wraxall, Codnor [in Derbyshire]

Robert and Ela FitzPayn acknowledge these manors as belonging to Thomas Wygod and Robert de Sambourn [their apparent trustees or feoffees to uses].

The trustees then re-grant the same manors back to Robert FitzPayn and the male heirs of his body, creating an entail.

Failing such heirs, the reversion passes [1] to Robert son of Richard de Grey of Codnor and his wife Elizabeth, and [2] to the right heirs of Robert FitzPayn.

The fine was issued by the king’s command — suggesting royal oversight or direct approval, likely because these lands were held in chief.

This was a formal entail and reconfirmation of title for Robert II FitzPaen and Ela his wife in 1354 — not a sale or surrender, but a legal reinforcement of inheritance rights.

The inclusion of the Greys of Codnor as contingent heirs indicates an intermarried or politically allied family connection.

It firmly establishes that Robert II FitzPaen was still alive and managing his estates in 1354, with Ela also surviving and named as co-holder.

Summary: Robert II FitzPaen and wife Ela reaffirmed ownership of multiple Somerset and Dorset manors through a royal court fine in 1354, creating an entail through the Greys of Codnor. This confirms both were living and active at that date. It also makes it rather likely that Elizabeth, wife of Richard de Grey was their daughter.

!Source: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant

G.E.C. Cokayne, New Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged, ed. The Hon. Vicary Gibbs & H.A. Doubleday.

https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n238/mode/2up

Keeper of the Forest South of Trent [during pleasure] 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 [livery of joint manors] 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 [5 Nov 1315] Fine Roll 9 Edw II m. 12 Succession to father’s lands confirmed

Marriage — 2nd [licence 29 Jun 1319] 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 [14 Edw II] Settlement in tail male to heirs of their bodies [1320]

Summary of Held Manors [1315 Inq.] Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw II file 48 no. 5 Chelborough [½ fee], Okeford [2 fees] Dorset; Cheddon,

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

Sir Robert FitzPaen I [d. 22 Aug 1315] 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 [1306], performed feudal service [1310], and succeeded formally 5 Nov 1315. He later married [2nd] Ela le Mareschal, widow of John le Mareschal of Hingham, and settled the manors of Worth and Okeford to their heirs male [Feet of Fines 14 Edw II].

This portion of The Complete Peerage [pp. 450–451] 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: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant,

Extinct, or Dormant G. E. Cokayne; new edition rev. Vicary Gibbs & H. A. Doubleday

Vol. V [Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat]. London: The St Catherine Press, 1926 [cancelling 1921 issue]

https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n239/mode/2up

Lands temporarily seized & later restored Close Roll 15 Edw II m. 6; Patent Roll 16 Edw II p. 1 m. 11 For adherence to Bartholomew de Badlesmere during baronial revolt; restoration provisional 1322–1323

Conveyance of major manors to self & wife Ela Writ 10 Dec 16 Edw II; Inq. a.q.d. 15 & 17 Jan 1322/3 Cary, Charlton, Rodway, Stogursey, Wraxall, Wootton, Marshwood, Stourton + hundreds of Cannington &

licence 25 Feb 1322/3 [Pat. Roll 16 Edw II p. 1 m. 3]; Settled same estates on self & Ela — heirs male; remainders to Robert de Grey & brother Gilbert in tail general

Entail to Greys of Codnor [17 Edw II = 1323/4] Writ 12 Sep 17 Edw II; Inq. a.q.d. 7 Oct 1323 [file 165 no. 7];

Supplementary entail Feet of Fines case 199 file 19 no. 42 Same remainders; reflects broad consolidation of Somerset estates

New conveyance including reversion of Licence 15 Oct 1 Edw III [Pat. Roll p. 3 m. 14];

dower lands [1327–1328] Feet of Fines case 49 file 34 no. 7; case 254 file 40 no. 13 Wootton, Frome Whitfield, Marshwood, and reversions of Worth & Poole Keynes to self & Ela to

Military service Writs 20 Feb 9 Edw II [1315/6] – 27 Mar 9 Edw III [1335] Summoned for wars in Scotland and the March of Wales — in retinue of Earl of Arundel 1322

Council summons May 1324 [17 Edw II] – 18 Feb 1346/7 [21 Edw III] Continuous royal service as baron; indicates sustained favor after restoration

Parliamentary summons 3 Dec 1326 [20 Edw II] – 15 Nov 1351 [25 Edw III] — Establishes hereditary barony of FitzPayn by writ

Ela le Mareschal convicted of adultery [1331] Ep. Bath & Wells to Canterbury Metropolitan, 5 Jan 1331/2 Ecclesiastical record of conviction; likely precipitated later land transfers

Sir Robert FitzPaen II [b. c. 1290 – d. aft. 1339] inherited the Somerset–Dorset barony from his father, continuing the family’s prominence through the turbulent reigns of Edward II and III.

After brief forfeiture for his association with Badlesmere, he regained royal favor and reaffirmed his estates by a series of fines and inquisitions between 1322 and 1328, often settling lands jointly with his wife Ela le Mareschal. These conveyances — especially those to the Greys of Codnor and John Mautravers — demonstrate deliberate estate management to secure heirs and alliances.

He was repeatedly summoned for military and parliamentary service for over 35 years, confirming his standing as an active baron. The 1331 record of Ela’s adultery is one of the few personal details surviving.

The holdings listed align precisely with the FitzPaen power base in Somerset, Dorset, and Devon, with occasional Surrey and Wiltshire parcels — matching the descent from Emma Paen de Northwood and Sir Robert FitzPaen I.

!Source: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant,

Extinct, or Dormant G. E. Cokayne; new edition rev. Vicary Gibbs & H. A. Doubleday

Vol. V [Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat]. London: The St Catherine Press, 1926 [cancelling 1921 issue]

https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n239/mode/2up

False report of death [March 1339/40] Pat. Roll 15 Edw. III p. 1 m. 3 Rumor of death; confirmed living 1340

Excused from Parliament 20 May 1341 Pat. Roll 15 Edw. III p. 1 m. 3 Formal royal excuse due to infirmity

Final property settlements [1354] Pat. Roll 28 Edw. III p. 2 m. 3; Conveyed Staple, Cheddon, Charlton Mackrell, Cary, Wraxall to self & heirs male;

Feet of Fines case 287 file 45 no. 504 remainders to Robert de Grey of Codnor and wife Elizabeth

Additional fines [earlier] Feet of Fines case 199 file 24 no. 36; case 200 file 25 no. 41 Granted Kingston by Mudford Terry and Allownshay to John de Chidiok in fee

Death [30 Nov 1354] Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw. III file 127 no. 14 Died Feast of St. Andrew; heir Isabel [FitzPayn] aged 30+, wife of John Chidiok

Escheator account [Dec 1354] Close Roll 28 Edw. III m. 8 Widow Ela took possession of manors

[Stogursey, Rodway, Tatworth, Marshwood, Wootton, Okeford, hundred of Cannington]

Death of Ela [FitzPaen] [16 Feb 1355/6] Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw. III file 127 no. 14 Widow died Feb 1356; no heir of her body identified

Sir Robert FitzPaen II [ ~1290 – 30 Nov 1354 ], 2nd Baron FitzPaen, continued the Somerset–Dorset FitzPaen line.

He was active in royal service under Edward II and Edward III, appearing in Parliament and military summons [1316–1351].

1354 – Executed a final entail of his estates to Robert de Grey of Codnor and wife Elizabeth, with remainders to his own right heirs.

The same year he granted Kingston and Allownshay to John de Chidiok, whose marriage to his daughter Isabel carried the line forward.

Death 30 Nov 1354 – His inquisition post mortem names Isabel FitzPaen, wife of John Chidiok, aged 30+, as sole heiress.

Widow Ela FitzPaen [le Mareschal] – Held joint estates under previous fines; died 16 Feb 1355/6 without issue of her body.

Page 453 completes the authentic male Somerset–Dorset baronial FitzPaen line, although we shall see the name finds a way to continue. Note that lands are already distributed to Elizabeth and her heirs.

This establishes that by mid-14th century the hereditary FitzPaen male line ended with Sir Robert II, whose daughter Isabel FitzPaen married Sir John Chidiok, transferring family’s estates not already spoken for into the Chidiok line, while the family’s arms went to the heirs male of his body. Unfortunately, he had no living sons, and the Baronly had possible heirs from both daughters and went into abeyance. No mention appears of any Lincolnshire or Yorkshire “filius Pagani” branch, confirming that Cokayne’s reliable West-Country material [ pp. 450–453 ] aligns with our Shropshire–Somerset–Kent continuum descended from Emma Paen de Northwood.

Note: Upon his death, leaving only daughters Isabel FitzPaen wife of John Chidiok and Elizabeth FitzPaen wife of Richard de Grey, the barony fell into abeyance between their heirs. No later summons revived the title.

Robert FitzPaen

Personal and Family Information

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1