Robert lll de Cardinham

Robert de Cardinham

• Birth: Circa 1175 - Blyngton, Devon, England
• Death: 1230 - Cardinham, Bodmin, Cornwall, England
• Parents: Robert Fitz William de Cardinham, Agnes de la Haye
• Wife: Isabella de Hastings

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English Baronies -I J Sanders, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed, 1963- Cardinham barony, p. 110

By 1193 both Cardinham and Bodardle had passed to Robert de Cardinham. Robert was one of the King's Justices. Robert had died by 1227 when the estates passed to his son Andrew. Upon Andrew's death the estate passed to his only daughter and heiress, Isolda, wife of Thoms de Tracy.

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St. Austell in Domesday Book:

The survey begun about 1068 (it took some years to complete it), but then that book treats of manors only: it takes no account of parishes. Three manors in this neighbourhood are referred to Bewingtone [i.e,, Tewington], which belonged to the king, and Treverbin, and Trenant, which were held by the powerful Earl of Moriton, the king's half-brother, as his vassal. But even if the name of Austell was then unknown, and if there was no village to speak of, it is nevertheless not at all unlikely that a chapel or sanctuary then stood where our St Austell Church now stands. Domesday Book mentions no Church in Cornwall and only two in Devon. Such a building there certainly was about a hundred years later, for in a.d. 1169 we find Robert Fitzwilliam,* together with Agnes his wife and Robert his son, freeing the sanctuarium de Sancto Austolo from all imposts and obligations. The Confirmatio Cartas Roberti Filii Willielmi et uxoris ^yws, asalso a Confirmatio donationis Roberti filii Willielmi, and other similar documents, may be seen in Oliver's Monasticon Diocesis Exotiiensis, p. 38. From the former we gather that the original deed was dated in 1169. It may be as well to give a brief extract :

" Henricus Dei gratia rex Anglie, etc. . . . salutem. Inspeximus cartam Roberti filii Willielmi et Agnetis uxoris sue et Roberti, filii sui, in hec verba : Sciant

He held 253 manors as lord paramount and 25 more under the king, the prior of Bodmin, etc. 293 in all out of the 340 in the county. Hals, in his CompUat History of Cornwall, p. xo, says that St. Mewan. St. Blazey, and Menacuisey were taxed as parts of Earl Cadoc's Manor of Tewington, but this 1 have been unable to verify ; indeed, the record says expressly that " the king holds Bewingtone." The Domesday Survey was so complete that it was commonly said they omitted nee lucum, nee lacum, nee locum neither wood, nor water, nor waste.

• lliis Robert Fitzwilliam was in 1165, the date of the LUer Niger Scaccarii (the Black Book of the Exchequer), one of the greatest landowners in the county, for he held 51 knights' fees, as against 59 held by Reginald de Valletort. These would seem to have passed by marriage to Robert de Cardinham, who figures in the scutage rolls of 1200 as by far the greatest landowner in Cornwall. He held 71 knights' fees (including those held by Robert Fitzwilliam), as against 51 (or 59) held by Reginald de Valletort.

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Notes

http://www.oldcornwall.net/download/i/mark_dl/u/4011819032/46369917...

Charter made by Robert ‘III’ of Cardinan [original spelling of Cardinham], great grandson of William fitz Richard, confirms a grant ‘allegedly made by William to the monks of Tywardreath of a tithe (tenth share) of the provisions of William’s household, excluding luxury items. Such a grant suggests the presence of a community able to use such provisions.’
In a charter [same one?] Robert ‘II’ gave the mill at Cardinham and the manorial milling rights to ‘the church of St Mary and the monks of Tywardreath’. By early 13th century St Mary was served by one of the monks and ‘between 1200 and 1225 Robert III added 9s. per annum from his mills at Luxulyan to fund a second monk there, praying for the souls of Robert, his wife, and their family.’

1227 Death of Robert ‘III’ who was succeeded by Andrew (possibly his second son). The latter’s daughter Isold married Thomas de Tracy, then William de Ferrers. Orme, N, 2010, 284

1230s-1240s St Mary Vale at its most flourishing while Andrew of Cardinan was lord of the manor.

Penhallam is the site of a fortified manor house near Jacobstow in Cornwall, England.

Penhallam Manor: Robert's son, Andrew de Cardinham, inherited the family's estates around 1226 and carried on expanding Penhallam. Andrew gave the manor to Emma, his widowed sister-in-law, for the remainder of her life in 1234; Andrew left no male heir, and on his death the manor passed to his daughter, Isolda de Cardinham. Isolda then gave the manor to Sir Henry de Champernowne, a member of a powerful Devonshire family, at some point before 1270. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penhallam

https://www.aaprideaux.com/ancestry/tywardreath-priory/

Robert FitzWilliam who died sometime between 1169 and 1177, is recorded in 1166 Cartae Baronum as the holder of the lands which had been formerly been held by Richard FitzTurold. In 1169, he and his son Robert made a gift to Tywardreath Priory. Following his death, his son Robert de Cardinham was forced to pay a large feudal relief in Devon in order to gain his inheritance. He owned at least 71 Knight’s fees in Cornwall, from the successor of the Count of Mortain. One of his holdings was a mill at Cardinham which serviced the Tywardreath Priory. It was his son, Robert de Cardinham (died 1230) – heir of Robert FitzWilliam (de Cardinham) – who made gifts to the already established priory at Tywardreath, written of in the Monasticon Anglicanum.

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Descent http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps34/ps34_289.html===

Notes for Robert Fitz William Lord of Cardingham

He is highly probably the ancestor of Andrew de Cardingham whose dau and heir Isolda m. Oliver de Dinham. See Sanders' Baronies.

The line may have been:

• Robert fitz William (this Robert), d. bef 1177
  • N. N. filius Robert, d. c. 1194
    • Robert heir to Robert filii William who may have also been Robert de Cardinham d. c. 1230
      • Andrew de Cardinham, d. 1252-4
        • Isolda de Cardinham m. (1) Thomas de Tracy, (2) William de Ferrers.