Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Bridgeman (p. 4) states that Robert was living in 1173-74 and dead in 1185.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Eva de Longford.
This relationship is given by Bridgeman (p. 3) and by Eyton (p. 104).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir Adam de Brumpton (died before 26 January 1236)
John de Brumpton.
Evidence
from Bridgeman:
As Lord of Longford jure uxoris, Robert de Brinton became a tenant in capite. Hence in the Feodary of 1165 he acknowledges himself to hold one knight's fee, of old feoffment, which he asserts that the King gave him with a certain gentlewoman (liberâ muliere) named Eva, who is heir thereof, by the service of one knight, the service being to be performed at the King's charges. This carta must be taken to allude to Longford and its adjuncts, and as it is repeated in duplicate under Staffordshire and Shropshire, it is probable that some portions of the manor of Longford or its appurtenances were situated in Staffordshire.
In the same Feodary he also occurs as holding one-fourth of a knight's fee under Robert de Stafford. This doubtless alludes to his tenure of Eaton and Orslow.
Mr. Eyton considers the passage to be self-contradictory and probably corrupt, believing that his service thereon amounted to a whole knight's fee. But it is quite probable that, though he afterwards made good his title to hold the whole manor as chief lord under the Baron of Stafford, he was then in full seisin of but one-fourth as the husband of the eldest co-heiress, who may have had three younger sisters still in their minority and unmarried. We have some intimation of there being two such younger sisters, and there may well have been a fourth who died unmarried or entered into a convent.
It appears that Robert de Brinton gave the Church of Longford to Shrewsbury Abbey. His gift is the last and perhaps the most recent of those enumerated in Henry II.'s confirmation of 1155. As the King had been only a few months on the throne, and Eva's ancestors are said to have held Longford in the time of King Henry II., it is hereby proved that Robert de Brinton's marriage with Eva must have taken place in that interval.
He also gave, with consent of Eva his wife, as heir of Edelina, the Church of Eiton to the Abbess and Convent of Polesworth in Warwickshire.
This grant became a fruitful source of litigation between the nuns and the heirs of Robert and Eva. The dispute was at length determined by a compromise which reserved to the Ladies of Polesworth a considerable pension or rent charge on the income of the benefice.
Robert de Brinton was living in 1173–74, but dead in 1185. He left at least two sons, Adam and John.
References
Bridgeman, G.T.O. “The History of the Parish of Church Eaton and its members, Wood Eaton, Orslow, High Onn, Little Onn, Shushions, and Marston” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire v. 4 p. 2. (1883)
Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Public Record Office, generally available online at British History Online, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, or Mapping the Medieval Countryside).
Eyton, Robert William. Antiquities of Shropshire v. 8 (1859).