Robert III d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk

Primary Sources

• The Inquisitions Post Mortem held in 1316 for his father state "Robert his son, aged 18 on the eve of St. Lawrence last [b. 9 Aug 1298], is his next heir."
• The Inquisitions Post Mortem held in 1325 for his mother state "Robert de Ufford her son, aged 26 and more [b. abt. 1299], is her next heir."
• Inquisitions Post Mortem for Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, Writ, 8 November, 43 Edward III [1369].
  
• He died on Sunday after All Saints last [4 Nov 1369]. William de Ufford, his son, aged 30 years and more, is his heir.

OTHER SOURCES: NB Conflict about number of children Medlands says they had 7 children, and the Medieval Combat Society records 8 children to the couple. Wikipedia's 16 Aug 2024 update went from 4 to 8 children (see below).

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From MedLands

• ROBERT de Ufford. son of ROBERT de Ufford Lord Ufford & his wife Cecily de Valognes (9 Aug 1298-4 Nov 1369, bur [Campsey Priory]). He succeeded his father in 1316 as Lord Ufford. He was created Earl of Suffolk 16 Mar 1337. The will of "Robert de Ufford Earl of Suffolk", dated 29 Jun 1368, chose burial “in the abbey of Campesse in Suffolk”, bequeathed property to “William my eldest son...Edmund d´Ufford my...brother...my...sister de Brews...Thomas d´Ufford...Edmond my cousin, Robert d´Ufford the lesser...Dame Joan de Loudham...John de Brez my nephew...Giles de Brewz...my niece Doxen”[535].
• m (21 Oct 1329 or before) as her second husband, MARGARET de Norwich, widow of THOMAS de Cailly Lord Cailly, daughter of WALTER de Norwich & his wife --- (-2 Apr 1368).

Earl Robert & his wife had seven children:

1. ROBERT de Ufford (-before 29 Jun 1368). He was summoned to parliament 25 Feb 1342. m (before 20 Aug 1337) as her second husband, ELIZABETH de Botetourt, widow of WILLIAM Latimer Lord Latimer, daughter of JOHN de Botetourt Lord Botetourt & his wife Maud FitzOtes of Mendlesham, Suffolk (-11 Apr 1384, bur Newnham, Priory Church).
2. THOMAS (-before 4 Nov 1369). [424][m ELIZABETH de Beauchamp, daughter of THOMAS Beauchamp Earl of Warwick & his wife Catherine de Mortimer.]
3. CECILY de Ufford (-before 20 Mar 1372). m (before 1349) JOHN de Willoughby, son of JOHN de Willoughby Lord Willoughby & his wife Joan Roscelyn of Edgefield, Norfolk (Eresby Manor before 6 Jan 1329-20 Mar 1372, bur Spilsby, Lincolnshire).
4. CATHERINE de Ufford. m (before 6 May 1335) ROBERT de Scales Lord Scales, son of ROBERT de Scales Lord Scales & his wife Egeline --- (-13 Aug 1369).
5. WILLIAM ([1339]-15 Feb 1382, bur Campsey Priory). He succeeded his father in 1369 as Earl of Suffolk. The earldom of Suffolk reverted to the crown on his death. m firstly (before 3 Feb 1363) JOAN de Montagu, daughter of EDWARD de Montagu Lord Montagu & his first wife Alice of Norfolk (Bungay, Suffolk 2 Feb 1349-before 12 Jun 1376). m secondly (12 Jun 1376 or before) as her second husband, ISABEL Beauchamp, widow of JOHN Lestrange Lord Strange, daughter of [425][THOMAS Beauchamp Earl of Warwick & his wife Catherine de Mortimer] (-29 Sep 1416, bur Campsey Priory). She became a nun 21 Mar 1382. Earl William & his first wife had five children:
   1. ROBERT (-[1 Aug] 1375). m ([28 Oct 1371]) ELEANOR FitzAlan, daughter of RICHARD FitzAlan 10th Earl of Arundel & his first wife Elizabeth de Bohun (-1375).
   2. THOMAS (-1375).
   3. WILLIAM (-1375).
   4. EDWARD (-1375).
   5. MARGARET (-1375).
6. WALTER (-1360). m (1351) as her first husband, ELIZABETH de Montagu, daughter of EDWARD Montagu Lord Montagu & his first wife Alice of Norfolk (1344-1361).
7. MARGARET (-before 1368). m (1344) as his first wife, WILLIAM de Ferrers Lord Ferrers, son of HENRY de Ferrers Lord Ferrers & his wife Isabel de Verdon (1333-1371).
8. MATILDA (-after 11 Jun 1381). The will of "William d´Ufford Earl of Suffolk", dated 11 Jun 1381, bequeathed property to “Isabel my wife...my sister Dame Maud d´Ufford...my nephew Willoghby Lord Eresby...my nephew Scales and my niece his wife...my cousin of Kardeston...my cousin Robert Ufford...Richard le Scroop...”[544].

NOTES AND HYPOTHESES (Ken Shelley 18 Oct 2024)
Note A: Owing to a reasonable marriageable age for both Robert and Margaret to be parents, and with the marriage years sourced or posited by Cawley for some children, I think Medland's showing Robert and Margaret's marriage at "ca. 21 Oct 1329 or before" is quite off target...IF the marriage ages for the children are nearly correct.
Note B: I think Robert and Margaret married ca. 1316/17. Consequently, for my personal tree, I assigned circa birth years for the following children as follows:—
1. Catherine b. ca. 1317 – m. before 6 May 1335
2. Robert b. ca.1319 – m. before 20 Aug 1337, and almost certainly firstborn son named after his father
3. Walter b. ca. 1321 – m. 1351
4. Margaret b. ca. 1323 – m. 1344
5. Cecily b. ca. 1326 – m. before 1349

[6. Maud (b. btw. 1328 and 1337) – whom Cawley does not list but Wikipedia shows as a daughter who became a nun. — Citing: Ormrod, W.M. (2004). "Ufford, Robert, first earl of Suffolk (1298–1369)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27977].
7, Joan Ufford b. c 1333, d. b 3 Sep 1347 ... per website "Our Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" – supposedly citing Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 540. Without access to this book and not knowing the source that affirms her as a daughter, this entry should be deemed baseless unless proven otherwise, especially as the website's 2020 update doesn't show all known children.

8. Matilda b. btw. 1328 and 1337 – no further record.
9. Thomas b. btw. 1328 and 1337 – no further record.
10. William b. ca. 1339 (Cawley's entry) + 1st m. before 3 Feb 1363

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Links

• Our Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins: Sir Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl Suffolk, 2nd Lord Ufford
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  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. II (2nd ed.)
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  • Beltz, George. Memorials of the Order of the Garter (William Pickering, London, 1841)
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  • Lodge, E. (n.d.) The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family ... (n.p.); Harris, N. & Courthope, W. (n.d.) The historic peerage of England: exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement ... (n.p.)
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From Wikipedia

• Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk, KG (9 August 1298 – 4 November 1369) was an English peer. He was created Earl of Suffolk in 1337.
• Born 9 August 1298, Robert Ufford was the second but eldest surviving son of Robert Ufford, 1st Baron Ufford (1279–1316), lord of the manor of Ufford, Suffolk, who was summoned to Parliament by writ of the king dated 13 January 1308,[1] by which he is deemed to have become a baron. His mother was Cecily de Valoignes (died 1325), daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert de Valoignes (died 1281[2]%29 and Eva, widow of Nicholas Tregoz of Tolleshunt Tregoz.[3][4] He had a younger brother, Sir Ralph Ufford (died 1346), Justiciar of Ireland, an energetic and capable but rather unpopular viceroy. His attitude to the Irish is said to have been influenced greatly by his wife, the King's cousin Maud of Lancaster. [5][6]
• On 19 May 1318 he had livery of his father's Suffolk lands. He was knighted and received some official employments, being occupied, for example, in 1326 in levying ships for the royal use in Suffolk, and serving in November 1327 on a commission of the peace in the eastern counties under the statute of Winchester. In May and June 1329 he attended the young Edward III on his journey to Amiens.[7]
• He was employed on state affairs down to the end of the rule of Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and, on 1 May 1330, received a grant for life of Orford Castle in Suffolk, which had been previously held by his father; he also obtained grants of other lands. On 28 July he was appointed to array and command the levies of Norfolk and Suffolk summoned to fight "against the king's rebels". Nevertheless, in October he associated himself with William de Montacute in the attack on Mortimer at Nottingham. He took part in the capture of Mortimer in Nottingham Castle, and was implicated in the deaths of Sir Hugh de Turplington and Richard de Monmouth that occurred during the scuffle; that on 12 February 1331 he received a special pardon for the homicide. He was rewarded by the grant of the manors of Cawston and Fakenham in Norfolk, and also of some houses in Cripplegate that had belonged to Mortimer's associate, John Maltravers, succeeding Maltravers in some posts. He was summoned as a baron to parliament on 27 January 1332. From that time he was one of the most trusted warriors, counsellors, and diplomats in Edward III's service.[7]

Earl of Suffolk

• On 1 November 1335 Ufford was appointed a member of an embassy empowered to treat with the Scots. He then served in a campaign against them, and was made warden of Bothwell Castle. On 14 January 1337 he was made Admiral of the North; Ufford ceased to hold this office later in the year. In March he was created Earl of Suffolk, and was granted lands. During his absence in parliament the Scots retook Bothwell Castle.[7]

Hundred Years' War

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Poitiers campaign

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Last years

• Now 58 years old, Suffolk took part in the expedition into the County of Champagne in 1359. After that he was employed only in embassies, the last of those on which he served being that commissioned on 8 February 1362 to negotiate the proposed marriage of Edmund of Langley to the daughter of the Count of Flanders.[7]
• In his declining years Suffolk devoted himself to the removal of Leiston Abbey, near Saxmundham, to a new site somewhat further inland. In 1363 it was transferred to its new home, where some ruins remain.[7]

Death

• Suffolk died on 4 November 1369.[7] By his will he requested burial beneath the arch between the chapel of St Nicholas and the high altar of the church of Campsey Priory, where his wife was also buried.[8] His monument, much mutilated, is believed to have survived the destruction of the priory and to have been rediscovered in nearby Rendlesham churchyard in 1785 by the Rev. Samuel Henley.[9]

Family

• In 1314[10] he married Margaret de Norwich (died 2 April 1368), daughter of Sir Walter de Norwich (died 1329), Treasurer of the Exchequer, and Katherine de Hedersete, by whom he had a large family, including:[6]
  • Robert Ufford, who predeceased his father without issue.[6]
  • William Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (died 15 February 1382), second son, who married Joan Montagu (2 February 1349 – before 27 June 1376), daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (died 14 July 1361) and Alice of Norfolk, by whom he had four sons and a daughter.[11]
  • Walter Ufford (born 3 October 1343), third son, who married, before February 1359, Elizabeth de Montagu (c. 1344 – before July 1361), daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (died 3 July 1461) and Alice of Norfolk, by whom he had no issue.[11]
  • Joan Ufford, eldest daughter, who was contracted to marry her father's ward, John de St Philibert; however the marriage did not take place.[6]
  • Katherine Ufford (born c. 1317,[citation needed] date of death unknown) married Robert de Scales, 3rd Baron Scales.[6][12]
  • Cecily Ufford (born c. 1327 – died before 29 March 1372),[13] who married William, Lord Willoughby of Eresby.[6] Their son Lord Robert and grandson Lord William quartered the arms of Ufford (Q1 and Q4) and Willoughby (Q2 and Q3).[14] Thenceforth the Willoughby family adopted[dubious – discuss] the arms of Ufford in lieu of their own arms.[15]
  • Margaret Ufford (born c. 1330 – died before 25 May 1368),[citation needed] who married Sir William Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby.[6]
  • Maud Ufford, who became a nun at the Augustinian priory in Campsea Ashe, Suffolk.[6]

Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 58, page 9-13.

• UFFORD, ROBERT DE, first EARL of SUFFOLK of his house (1298-1369), was the second but eldest surviving son and heir of Robert de Ufford (1279–1316), and of his wife, Cicely de Valognes.
• His grandfather, Robert de Ufford (d. 1298), was the founder of the greatness of the family. A younger son of a Suffolk landowner, John de Peyton, Robert assumed his surname from his lordship of Ufford in Suffolk, and attended Edward I on his crusade. Between 1276 and 1281 he acted as justice of Ireland. He was instructed by Edward I to introduce English laws into Ireland (Fœdera, i. 540), and practised skilfully but unscrupulously the policy of sowing dissension among the different Irish septs (Gilbert, Viceroys of Ireland, pp. 108–10). He also built the castle of Roscommon ‘at countless cost’ (Cal. Documents, Ireland, 1302–7, p. 137).
• On 21 Nov. 1281 Stephen de Fulburn, bishop of Waterford, was appointed justice in his place, since Ufford ‘by reason of his infirmities could not perform his duties’ (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1281–92, p. 1). He died in 1298.
• His son Robert, who was born on 11 June 1279, further increased the family possessions and importance by his marriage to the heiress Cicely de Valognes. He was summoned to parliament as a baron between 1308 and 1311, and died in 1316. Of his six sons, William, the eldest, died without issue before his father.
  • The fifth son, Sir Ralph de Ufford (d. 1346), became justice of Ireland like his grandfather, having married Maud, daughter of Henry, earl of Lancaster [q.v.], and widow of William de Burgh, earl of Ulster.
  • Appointed justice in February 1344, Ralph held office until his death on Palm Sunday, 9 April 1346. He had the reputation of a vigorous and energetic but not very popular ruler (Gilbert, pp. 197–204)….
• The second but eldest surviving son, Robert, was born about 10 Aug. 1298, and succeeded to his father's estates. On 19 May 1318 he received livery of his father's Suffolk lands, which are enumerated in ‘Calendarium Inquisitionum post mortem,’ i. 146 (cf. Cal. Close Rolls, 1313–18, p. 542).
• He was knighted and received some subordinate employments, being occupied, for example, in 1326 in levying ships for the royal use in Suffolk (ib. 1323–7, p. 644), and serving in November 1327 on a commission of the peace in the eastern counties under the statute of Winchester (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1327–30, p. 214).
• In May and June 1329 he attended the young Edward III on his journey to Amiens, receiving letters of protection on 10 May (ib. p. 388).
• He was employed on state affairs down to the end of the rule of Isabella and Mortimer, and on 1 May 1330 received ‘for his better maintenance in the king's service’ a grant for life of the royal castle and town of Orford, Suffolk, which had been previously held by his father (ib. p. 522; Cal. Inquis. post mortem, i. 146).
• He also obtained grants of other lands in special tail, including the manors of Gravesend, Kent, Costessy and Burgh, Norfolk (Dugdale, ii. 48).
• On 28 July he was appointed to array and command the levies of Norfolk and Suffolk summoned to fight ‘against the king's rebels.’ Nevertheless in October he associated himself with William de Montacute (afterwards first Earl of Salisbury) [q.v.] in the attack on Mortimer at Nottingham. He took personal part in the capture of Mortimer in Nottingham Castle, and was so far implicated in the deaths of Sir Hugh de Turplington and Richard de Monmouth that occurred during the scuffle that on 12 Feb. 1331 he received a special pardon for the homicide (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1330–4, p. 74).
• He was rewarded by the grant of the manors of Cawston and Fakenham in Norfolk, and also of some houses in Cripplegate that had belonged to Mortimer's associate, John Maltravers [q.v.] (ib. pp. 73, 106).
• He also succeeded Maltravers as keeper of the forests south of Trent and as justice in eyre of the forests in Wiltshire, receiving on 3 Feb. 1331 a similar appointment for Hampshire (ib. pp. 66, 69). He was summoned as a baron to parliament on 27 Jan. 1332. Henceforth he was one of the most trusted warriors, counsellors, and diplomatists in Edward III's service.
• On 1 Nov. 1335 Ufford was appointed a member of an embassy empowered to treat with the Scots (Fœdera, ii. 925).
• He served against the Scots and was made warden of Bothwell Castle (Chron. de Lanercost, p. 288).
• On 14 Jan. 1337 he was made admiral of the king's northern fleet jointly with Sir John Ros (Fœdera, ii. 956; Ufford ceased to hold this office after 11 Aug.)
• On 16 March he was created Earl of Suffolk (cf. Lords' Reports on the Dignity of a Peer, v. 31; Rot. Parl. ii. 56; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1334–8, p. 418).
• On 18 March he received ‘for the better support of his dignity’ letters patent conferring on him and his heirs male lands and rents worth a thousand marks a year (Cal. Rot. Pat. 1334–8, pp. 418, 479, 496; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1338–40, pp. 14, 265).
• He also received a grant of 20l. a year from the issues of his shire (Rot. Parl. Iii. 107).
• On 25 June he was released from all his debts to the crown (Cal. Pat. Rolls 1334-8, p. 561.
• During his absence in parliament the Scots retook his charge, Bothwell Castle (Chron. de Lanercost, p. 288).
• On 3 Oct. 1337 Suffolk was sent, with Henry Burghersh, bishop of Lincoln, the Earl of Northampton, and John Darcy, to treat for peace or truce with the French (Fœdera, ii. 998). Further powers were given them to treat with the Emperor Louis and Edward’s other allies (ib. ii. 999), and on 7 Oct they were also commissioned to treat with David Bruce, then staying in France (ib. ii. 1001), and were credited to the two cardinals sent by the pope to effect a reconciliation (ib. ii. 1002).
• On 4 Oct. Suffolk had letters of attorney until Easter and many of his followers received letters of protection (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1334-1338, pp. 527, 532, 535, 537).
• His occupation on this embassy seems to confute Froissart’s statement (FROISSART, ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove, ii. 430, 432, 434) that he took part in Sir Walter Manny’s attack on Cadsand on 10 Nov. [see MANNY]. New year on 1 July, Suffolk was associated with Archbishop Stratford and others on an embassy to France, and left England along with the two cardinals sent to treat for peace (Fœdera, ii. 1084; G. LE BAKER, p. 61).
• He either accompanied Edward III to Antwerp (FROISSAART, ii. 443) or soon followed him, for on 10 Nov. he attested a charter at Antwerp (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1338-40, p. 193), and on 10 Dec. the same embassy was again empowered at the instance of the two cardinals (ib. p. 196).
• After this Suffolk remained in attendance on the king in Brabant, serving in September 1339 in the expedition that invaded the Cambresis and besieged Cambrai, and being in the army that prepared to fight a great battle at Buironfosse (FROSSART, iii. 10-53), where he and the Earl of Derby commanded the right wing of the second ‘battle’ (HEMINGBURGH, ii. 347).
• On 15 Nov. of the same year he was appointed joint ambassador to Count Louis of Flanders and the Flemish estates, to treat of an alliance (Fœdera, ii. 1097; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1338-40, p. 397).
• After Edward’s return Suffolk stayed behind in the Low Countries with Salisbury. The two earls remained in garrison at Ypres (FROISSART, iii. 129).
• In lent 1340 they attacked the French near Lille, a town which upheld Philip of Valois. Rendered rash by their easy success, they pursued the enemy through on of the gates into the town. But their retreat was cut off, and they were made prisoners and despatched to Paris, which they reached on Palm Sunday. The English chroniclers was eloquent on the indignities to which they were exposed on the road (G. LE BAKER, p. 67).
• Philip VI, it was said, wished to kill them, and they were spared only through the entreaties of King John of Bohemia (ib. pp. 67-8; MURIMUTH, pp. 104-5; WALSINGHAM, i. 226; Chron. Angliæ, 1328-88, p. 10; Cont. G. de Nagis, ii. 167, calls him ‘Comes Auxoniæ;’ FROISSART, iii. 122-31, gives a very different account of the capture; DUGDALE, Baronage, ii. 48, and BARNES, Hist. of England III, pp. 168-70, say that Robert Ufford, Suffolk’s eldest son, and not Suffolk himself was takes prisoner, but this is disproved by Fœdera, ii. 1170, and Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1338-1340, p. 531).
• The truce of 25 Sept 1340 provided for the release of all prisoners, but it was only after a heavy ransom, to which Edward III contributed 500l., had been paid that Suffolk obtained his freedom. He took part in a famous tournament at Dunstable in the spring of 1342 and at great jousts in London (FROISSRT, iv. 127-8).
• He was on of the members of Edwards ‘Round Table’ at Windsor, which assembled in February 1344 (MURIMUTH, p. 232), and fought in a tournament at Hertford in September 1344 (ib., p. 159).
• Though not a ‘founder’ of the order of the Garter, he was one of the earliest members that afterwards joined it (BELTZ, Order of the Garter, ci., 98).
• Suffolk served through the Breton expedition of 1342, and was conspicuous at the siege of Rennes (FROISSART, iv. 137, 168).
• In July 1343 he was joint ambassador to Clement VI at Avignon, receiving further powers to treat with France on 29 Aug. and 29 Nov. On 8 May 1344 he was appointed captain and admiral of the northern fleet (Fœdera, iii. 13; NICOLAS, Royal Navy, ii. 83).
• He busied himself at once in collecting vessels for a new expedition, and on 3 July accompanied Edward on a short expedition to Flanders. He continued admiral in person or deputy until March 1348, when he was succeeded by John Howard (Fœdera, iii. 111; for his activity see ib. iii. 57, 70).
• On 11 July 1346 Suffolk sailed with the king from Portsmouth on the famous invasion of France which resulted in the battle of Crecy. On the retreat northwards, a day after the passage of the Seine, Suffolk and Sir Hugh le Dispenser defeated a considerable French force (AVESBURY, p. 368).
• Suffolk was one of those who advised Edward to select the field of Crecy as his battle-ground (FROISSART, v. 27).
• In the great victory he fought in the second ‘battle,’ stationed on the left wing. Next morning, 27 Aug., he took part in Northampton’s reconnaissance that resulted in a sharp fight with the unbroken remnant of the French army (NORTHBURGH in AVESBURY, p. 369, speaks of the Earl of Norfolk, but there was no such earl at the time, and Suffolk is probably meant).
• Suffolk’s diplomatic activity still continued. He was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with France on 25 Sept. 1348 (Fœdera, iii. 173), and with Flanders on 11 Oct. (ib. iii. 175).
• The negotiations were conducted at Calais. On 10 March 1349 (ib. iii. 196), he had similar commissions. On 29 Aug. 1350 he fought in the famous naval victory over the Spaniards off Winchelsea (FROISSART, v. 258, 266).
• In May 1351 and in June 1352 he was chief commissioner of array in Norfolk and Suffolk.
• In September 1355 Suffolk sailed with the Black Prince, Edward, prince of Wales (1330-1376) [q.v.] to Aquitaine. Between October and December he was engaged in the prince’s raid through Languedoc to Narbonne, where he commanded the rear-guard, William de Montacute, second earl of Salisbury [q.v.] son of his old companion in arms, serving with him. After his return he was quartered at Saint-Emilion, his followers being stationed round Libourne (CHANDOS HERALD, p. 44) Thence in January 1356 he led another foray that lasted over twelve days, towards Rocamadour (‘Notre-Dame de Rochemade,’ WINGFIELD in AVESBURY, p. 449).
• Suffolk also shared in the Black Prince’s northern foray of 1356, and in the battle of Poitiers which resulted from it, where he commanded, jointly with Salisbury, the third ‘battle’ or the rearward (G. LE BAKER, p. 143).
• The reversal of the position of the host, caused by Edward’s attempted retreat over the Miausson, threw the brunt of the first fighting upon Suffolk and Salisbury, who had singlehanded to withstand the French assault (OMAN, Art of War in the Middle Ages, pp. 623-5).
• Suffolk distinguished himself greatly, running from line to line, checking the imprudent ardour of the young soldiers, and posting the archers in the best positions (G. LE BAKER, p. 148; WALSINGHAM, i. 282).
• On the march back to Bordeaux, he led the vanguard. He drew three thousand florins as his share of the ransom of the Count of Auxere (DEVON, Iseue Rolls of the Exchequer, p. 167).
• Poitiers was his last great exploit, and even there he was a little effaced by Salisbury. He was fifty-eight years old, and his hair was grey (CHANDOS HERALD, p. 57).
• He still, however, took part in the expedition into Champagne in 1359 (FROISSART, vi, 224, 231).
• After that he was employed only in embassies, the last of those on which he served being that commissioned on 8 Feb. 1362 to treat of the proposed marriage of Edmund of Langley to the daughter of the Count of Flanders (Fœdera, iii. 636).
• In his declining years Suffolk devoted himself to the removal of the abbey of Leiston, near Saxmundham, to a new site somewhat more inland. This convent was a house of Premonstratensian canons, founded in 1182 by Ranulf de Glanville [q.v.], and now become decayed. In 1363 it was transferred to its new home, where the picturesque ruins still remain, though they are mostly of more recent date than the buildings which Suffolk set up.
• Suffolk died on 4 Nov 1369. His will dated 29 June 1368, is given in Nicolas’s ‘Testamenta Vetusta’ (i. 73-4; cf. G. E. C.[OKAYNE], Complete Peerage, vii. 302).
• In it he directed that his body should be buried at the priory of Campsey, or Ash, under the arch, between the chapel of St. Nicholas and the high altar. Campsey was a house of Austin canonesses, of which the Uffords were patrons, and where Suffolk’s wife had been buried in 1368, and his brther, Sir Ralph de Ufford, the justice of Ireland in 1346 (Monasticon, vi. 584).
• To Ralph’s widow, Maud, ‘the lady of Ulster,’ Suffolk left twenty marks towards the rebuilding at Bruisyard, Suffolk, of a chantry-college for five secular priests, which she had originally founded at Campsey, but which she now transferred to a new site (ib. Vi. 1468), where it was afterwards handed over to Minorite nuns (ib. vi. 1555).
• A summary of Ufford’s extensive fiefs in Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and London is given in ‘Calendarium Inquisitionem post mortem’ (ii. 300). The Eye, and Orford with extensive estates in Central Suffolk, gave him an exceptionally strong position in that country.
• It has generally been said that Suffolk had two wives, but there is no evidence oof the existence of his alleged first wife, Eleanor.
• In 1324, he married Margaret, daughter of Sir Walter de Norwich [q.v.] and widow of Thomas de Cailey (Cal. Close Rolls, 1323-7, pp. 147, 236, show that the date was between 2 July and 13 Nov. 1324). Margaret had promised a find of 23l. to the crown for license to marry at will, but five years afterwards she and Ufford obtained, on 21 Oct. 1329, a release from its payment (ib. 1327-30, p. 497).
• Ufford and Margaret had two sons and three daughters. The eldest son, Robert, was distinguished at the siege of Lochmaben in 1341, and took considerable part in the French wars and, though commonly distinguished as ‘Robert de Ufford le fitz,’ is not seldom confused with his father. He married Elizabeth, widow of William de Latimer, without royal license, but on 29 Aug. 1338 was pardoned for the offence (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1334-8, p. 495). He died before his father, so that titles and estates passed to the younger son, William de Ufford, second earl of Suffolk [q.v.]
• The five daughters were: (1) Joan, betrothed in 1336 to John, son and heir of John de St. Philibert, an East Anglian landowner. But he was a boy under six, of whose lands Suffolk had the cust7ody (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1330-4 p. 176, 1334-8 p. 176). The marriage was not carried out, and John at last wedded another lady (DUGDALE, ii. 150). (2) Cicely, married to William, lord Willoughby de Eresby. (3) Catharine, married to Robert, lord Scales. (4) Margaret, married to William, lord Ferrers of Groby; and (5) Maud, a canoness at Campsey.
  • [Rymer%E2%80%99s 'Fœdera, vol. ii. and ii. Record ed.; Rolls of Parliament; Calendars of Patent and Close Rolls; Cal of Documents relating to Ireland; Lords’ Reports on the Dignity of a Peer; Galfridus le Baker, ed. Thompson; Walsingham’s Historia Anglicana, Chron. Angliæ 1328-88, Murimuth and Avesburu and Knighton (these last four in Rolls Ser.); Chronicle of Lanercost (Bannatyne Club); Chandos Herald’s Le Prind Noir, ed. F. Michel; Froissart, ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove; Heminghurgh, vol. ii. (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Dugdale’s Baronage, ii. 47-8; Dugdale’s Monasticon, vi. 584, 1468, 1555; Beltz’s Memorials of the Garter, pp. 98-101; Nicolas’s Royal Navy, vol. ii.; Gilbert’s Viceroys of Ireland; Doyle’s Official Baronage, iii. 431-2; Nicolas’s Hist. Peerage, ed. Courthope, pp. 459, 483; Barnes’s Edward III. A very full and detailed summary is in G. E. C[okayne]’s Complete peerage, vii. 301-2]

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Books

• A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct.. , p..543.
• Waters, Robert Edmond Chester. Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley... Vol. 1, p. 329.

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Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord Ufford 1298-1369
Also known as Robert De Ufford or Robert D' Ufford

Born: 10 August 1298
Died: 4 November 1369
Buried: Campsey Priory, Campsey, Suffolk, England

Parents: Robert D' ufford (born in 1279 Thurston, Suffolk, England, died 1316) married Cecily Devaloines/de Valoines (born about 1281, died 16 Jul 1325)

Siblings:
William Ufford (born about 1300, Thurston, Suffolk, England, died 1382)
Ralph De Ufford, Justiciar of Ireland, (born about 1302, died 9 April 1346, buried Campsey Priory, Suffolk) married (before 8 Aug 1343) Maud "Of Lancaster" Plantagenet (born 1298 Lancaster, Lancashire, England, died 5 May 1377, buried Priory, Campsey, Suffolk, England)
Edmund Ufford (born about 1304 Thurston, Suffolk, England, died 3 October 1375, buried in Lanley, England) married (about 1312, Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England) Sibilla De Pierrepont
John Ufford (born about 1306, Thurston, Suffolk, England, died in 1348)
Agnes Ufford (born about 1308, Thurston, Suffolk, England)
Eve/Agnes Eva Ufford (born about 1314, Thurston, Suffolk, England, died after May 1370, buried Woodbridge priory married John Braose/ John de Brewes (born 10 August 1306 died after May 1370)

Married: 13 November 1334

Spouse: Margaret De Norwich, Countess of Suffolk (born 1286 Mettingham, Suffolk, England, died 3 September 1375, buried in Campsey Priory, Suffolk, England) daughter of Walter de Norwich (died before 20 February 1329, buried Norwich cathedral) married Catherine de Hendersete (died before 1343), Widow of Piers Braunche. Margaret De Norwich married first Thomas de Cailly Lord Cailly, 1st baron, died before 30 July 1316)

Offspring:

Catharine/Katherine De Ufford, Baroness Scales, (born about 1317 Suffolk, England) married (before 6 May 1335, Suffolk, England) Robert De Scales, 3rd Baron Scales (born before 1314 died 13 August 1369 Newcells, County Hertsfeld)

Joan (betrothed to an East Anglian landowner)

Cecily/Cicely Ufford (born about 1327, Eresby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, died before 29 Mar 1372) married (1343 Suffolk, England) John Willoughby, Baron Willoughby (born about 6 January 1328, Eresby manor, Lincs, died 29 March 1372)

Margaret D' Ufford, Baroness Ferrers (born about 1330, died 2 September 1375, Buttsbury, Essex) married (before 25 Apr 1344) William De Ferrers, Baron Ferrers 3rd Baron Groby, (born about 28 Feb 1332/1333 in Newbold Verdon, England, died 8 January 1371, Stebbing)

Maud Canoness of Campsea Ashe priory

William Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, (Born about 1339, died 15 February 1382) married 1: Joan Montacute (born 2 February 1349, Bugnay, Suffolk, died before 12 June 1376) married 2: Isabel de Beauchamp (died 29 September 1416)

Robert Ufford (died before 29 June 1368) married Elizabeth de Botetourt (died 11 April 1384)

Thomas Ufford (born after 1339, died 1368)

Heraldic Coat of Arms: Sable a cross engrailed or

Knight of the Garter, 1348, Stall 16, became a member of the order of the garter after the death of Richard Fitzsimon

Robert Brandon

Robert was granted title to his fathers lands in 1318 although he was under age, Edward II granted them after homage and his mothers in 1325, although he was in Gascony. Robert fought at the battle of Boroughbridge 1322. Robert also obtained a grant for life of the town and castle of Oreford. Robert was involved with the capture of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer in 1330 at Nottingham Castle, by entering through a secret passage. Edward III rewarded him with £200 of lands, by appointing him keeper of the forests south of Trent and later he was made steward of the royal household. He was summoned to Parliament by Edward III, from 1331-1336. Robert took part in the Dunstable Tournament, 1334. Edward III made Robert 1st earl of Suffolk 16 March 1336 with the grant of £20.00 per annum from the revenues of Suffolk. Edward III also gave the Manor of Base court, in the parish of S. Giles without Cripplegate of London, commonly called the Barbican to Robert in 1336.

In January 1337 Robert was appointed an Admiral. Robert was one of the principal commanders of Edward III and went on a diplomatic mission to the King of France in 1338 and with the Count of Flanders in 1339. In an ambush near Lille in 1340 Robert was captured with the Earl of Salisbury and taken to Paris as a prisoner, but was back in England that year, apparently tyhe release was obtained with the help of King John of Bohemia. Robert was back serving in France in 1341. Robert was Admiral of the Fleet north of the Thames, and he may have played a part in the great naval victory of Sluys in 1340. In 1343, Brandon was one of the envoys appointed to treat with the Pope and from 1344 - 47 Robert was frequently in France. Robert provided a Banneret, 36 Knights, 58 Esquires and 63 Archers for the King’s army. Robert was a Marshal of the army, and fought at Crecy 1346, the capture of Calais in 1347. At the siege of Calais in 1346-47 Richard Scrope had his right to bear the family crest of a crab issuing from a ducal coronet was challenged and Robert defended Scrope's honour by stating that this was his right, as Scrope was descended from an ancient family and had every right to bear arms. Robert was appointed to treat for peace with the French in 1350 and Robert fought at Poitiers in 1356. An indenture dated at Westminster 10 July 1355, between the King and Prince Edward, stipulated that the Prince's retinue would be paid by the king for 6 months in advance from the day of their embarkation and should conisist of the Earls of Warwick, Suffolk, Oxford and Salisbury, Sir John de Lisle and Sir Reginald de Cobham, 433 men-at-arms and 700 archers, of whom 400 should be mounted and 300 on foot; which force, as well as the men-at-arms and archers. During the campaign of 1355 he led the Rearguard with the Earl of Salisbury and spent the winter at Saint-Emilion. In 1356 he again campaigned with Prince Edward and at the battle of Poitiers led the rearguard with the Earl of Salisbury.

The church of All Saints in the parish of Thorndon, in the hundred of Hartismere, Suffolk, was built by Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, in 1358. In 1369 Robert de Ufford died, according to his will he was buried in Campsey Priory. To his son William he left his sword with which Edward III had created him the Earl of Suffolk.

Although many East Anglian gentry families listed in the Norfolk and Suffolk roll of arms are represented by more than one individual, the Ufford family from Suffolk is represented by eight separate coats of arms. The identification of these individuals is complicated by the fact their coats of arms were differenced from each other with small brisures and marks. The arms blazoned Sable a cross engrailed Or in dexter chief a fleur-de-lys Argent are labeled as belonging to Sir Walter Ufford, although heraldic reference sources also give the exact coat to his kinsman Sir Ralph Ufford. Similarly, the shield given as belonging to Thomas Ufford, differenced with the addition of an annulet Argent rather than Sir Walter’s fleur-de-lys, was also borne by one Sir Rauf Ufford. Secondary sources suggest that Thomas Ufford was also known to have used a shield bearing an annulet Or, so perhaps either the compiler of the Norfolk and Suffolk roll or the seventeenth century copyist either painted the annulet in the incorrect tinctures or misattributed the annulet Argent to Thomas rather than Rauf.

Robert is mentioned in the book, Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle "It was the famous Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, who had fought without a break from Cadsand onward through the whole Continental War"

Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk

About Robert de Ufford, Justiciar of Ireland
Was also known as Robert D'Ufford.

1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord of Ufford Robert was granted title to his fathers lands in 1318 although he was under age, Edward II granted them after homage and his mothers in 1325, although he was in Gascony. Robert fought at the battle of Boroughbridge 1322. Robert also obtained a grant for life of the town and castle of Oreford. Robert was involved with the capture of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer in 1330 at Nottingham Castle, by entering through a secret passage. Edward III rewarded him with £200 of lands, by appointing him keeper of the forests south of Trent and later he was made steward of the royal household. He was summoned to Parliament by Edward III, from 1331-1336. Robert took part in the Dunstable Tournament,

1334. Edward III made Robert 1st earl of Suffolk 16 March 1336 with the grant of £20.00 per annum from the revenues of Suffolk. Edward III also gave the Manor of Base court, in the parish of S. Giles without Cripplegate of London, commonly called the Barbican to Robert in 1336. In January 1337 Robert was appointed an Admiral. Robert was one of the principal commanders of Edward III and went on a diplomatic mission to the King of France in 1338 and with the Count of Flanders in 1339. In an ambush near Lille in 1340 Robert was captured with the Earl of Salisbury and taken to Paris as a prisoner, but was back in England that year, apparently the release was obtained with the help of King John of Bohemia.

Robert was back serving in France in 1341. Robert was Admiral of the Fleet north of the Thames, and he may have played a part in the great naval victory of Sluys in 1340. In 1343, Brandon was one of the envoys appointed to treat with the Pope and from 1344 - 47 Robert was frequently in France. Robert provided a Banneret, 36 Knights, 58 Esquires and 63 Archers for the King’s army. Robert was a Marshal of the army, and fought at Crecy 1346, the capture of Calais in 1347. At the siege of Calais in 1346-47 Richard Scrope had his right to bear the family crest of a crab issuing from a ducal coronet was challenged and Robert defended Scrope's honour by stating that this was his right, as Scrope was descended from an ancient family and had every right to bear arms.

Robert was appointed to treat for peace with the French in 1350 and Robert fought at Poitiers in 1356. An indenture dated at Westminster 10 July 1355, between the King and Prince Edward, stipulated that the Prince's retinue would be paid by the king for 6 months in advance from the day of their embarkation and should conisist of the Earls of Warwick, Suffolk, Oxford and Salisbury, Sir John de Lisle and Sir Reginald de Cobham, 433 men-at-arms and 700 archers, of whom 400 should be mounted and 300 on foot; which force, as well as the men-at-arms and archers.

During the campaign of 1355 he led the Rearguard with the Earl of Salisbury and spent the winter at Saint-Emilion. In 1356 he again campaigned with Prince Edward and at the battle of Poitiers led the rearguard with the Earl of Salisbury. The church of All Saints in the parish of Thorndon, in the hundred of Hartismere, Suffolk, was built by Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, in 1358. In 1369 Robert de Ufford died, according to his will he was buried in Campsey Priory. To his son William he left his sword with which Edward III had created him the Earl of Suffolk. Although many East Anglian gentry families listed in the Norfolk and Suffolk roll of arms are represented by more than one individual, the Ufford family from Suffolk is represented by eight separate coats of arms.

The identification of these individuals is complicated by the fact their coats of arms were differenced from each other with small brisures and marks. The arms blazoned Sable a cross engrailed Or in dexter chief a fleur-de-lys Argent are labeled as belonging to Sir Walter Ufford, although heraldic reference sources also give the exact coat to his kinsman Sir Ralph Ufford. Similarly, the shield given as belonging to Thomas Ufford, differenced with the addition of an annulet Argent rather than Sir Walter’s fleur-de-lys, was also borne by one Sir Rauf Ufford. Secondary sources suggest that Thomas Ufford was also known to have used a shield bearing an annulet Or, so perhaps either the compiler of the Norfolk and Suffolk roll or the seventeenth century copyist either painted the annulet in the incorrect tinctures or misattributed the annulet Argent to Thomas rather than Rauf. Robert is mentioned in the book, "Sir Nigel" by Arthur Conan Doyle "It was the famous Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, who had fought without a break from Cadsand onward through the whole Continental War"

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ROBERT D'UFFORD
BIRTH: 10 Aug 1298 Thurston, Suffolk, England
DEATH: 4 Nov 1369 (aged 71) Thurston, Suffolk, England
BURIAL: Campsey Priory Campsey Ashe Suffolk, England
MEMORIAL ID: 88439070