Events
Date of Birth: probably by 1120.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Robert witnessed a charter in 1130.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Richard de Rullos.
Clay (p. 96) gives this relationship. I am assuming that the Robert of Charter no. 129 below is the Robert of this page.
Mother: Emma, daughter or granddaughter of Enisan Musard.
Clay (p. 96) shows Emma was Richard’s wife.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Margaret married Gilbert Pygot.
Evidence
from the Calendar of documents preserved in France:
no. 540.
[Circ. 1130]
Charter of Richard de Rollos, giving the canons regular of Plessis, in the presence of Richard bishop of Bayeux, with the assent and consent of his sons Richard and Robert, the church of St. Martin of Rollos, and a hundred acres of land there ; and granting the canons the tithes of his wood and his mill at Rollos, also the tithe of all his demesne in the Bessin and 30 shillings sterling (estellingorum) [of rent] in England ; all to be free of secular service.
Hiis testibus : Willelmo Nyobe ; Roberto decano de Baace ; Rogero sacerdote de Rollos; Zacharia de Burce, et celebrum (sic) fratre suo Ricardo de Vaudare ; Hosmundo de Waspre ; Pagano le Fauc ; Radulfo de Camp-espme ; Hosmundo de Flory ; [Galtero de Rocher] : Reginaldo Chastel, et multis aliis.
from the Charters of the earls of Chester:
no. 129
Confirmation of the gift of Greasby in Wirral to St. Werburgh’s abbey by Richard de Rullos. [1154-1160]
Hugo comes Cestrie constabulario, dapifero, baronibus, iustic(iario), vic(ecomiti), famulis, hominibus suis omnibus tam clericis quam laicis, salutem. Vos vero scire volo, me in perpetuam elemosinam concessisse, in quantum ad me pertinet, Gravesbiam, ecclesie sancte Wereburge de Cestria in villa, in nemore, in pascuis, in aquis, in omnibus, quam Ricardus de Rullos eidem ecclesie in elemosinam dedit, carta sua confirmatam. Quapropter hominibus meis omnibus firmiter precipio, ne quis inde ecclesiam illam vexet, nec placitando nec alio modo ullo, set unusquisque pro sui posse elemosinam illam prefate ecclesie absque molestia ratam consistere faciat. Teste Matillde matre mea, Ricardo de Rullos et Roberto fratre suo, Roberto Basseat, Rogero capellano, Wiilelmo superbo, Alano Silvestri, et aliis multis.
For the family of Rullos, from Roullours, near Vire, Calvados, see E.C.C., p. 12. One branch was established in Waverton (Broxton hundred), but it is not known how or when it came into possession of Greasby. The Richard who gave the township to St. Werburgh’s appears to have survived until c. 1150, and was succeeded by Richard II, who witnesses the present charter. [Barraclough’s note]
from the Chartulary of St Werburgh:
nor 23.
Confirmation by Richard de Rullos and his brother Robert of their father’s grant of Greasby to the abbey. [ 1153-1160.]
In nomine Domini Ihesu Christi notum sit tam illis qui sunt quam illis qui futuri sunt quod ego Ricardus de Rullos et Robertus frater meus concedimus Deo et sancte Wereburge et fratribus ibidem Deo seruientibus unam villam in Wirhale, scilicet Grauesbi solam et quietam et in liberam elemosinam pro animabus nostris et pro anima patris nostri qui predictam terram libere et honorifice absque censu et seruicio predictis fratribus concessit pro anima sua cum moreretur, et pro animabus parentum suorum. Quare precamur amicos nostros, et homines nostros precipimus quatinus hanc elemosinam pro amore Dei et nostro manuteneant. Nos enim in predict a villa nichil in manu nostra retinemus preter oraciones et elemosinam. T[estes] Andreas capellanus, Turstanus sac[erdos], Willelmus sac[erdos] filius Steinolfi, Hugo filius Oli[uer]i, Ricardus Lancellpn], Paganus vic[ecomes], Willelmus Superbus et filii eius, Willelmus Crist’, Hugo filius Walant, Hardmer, Hugo Freg', Morice.
References
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071 - 1237. (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 126; 1988).
Calendar of documents preserved in France illustrative of the History of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I A.D. 918-1206 (J.Horace Round, ed.) (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1898).
The Chartulary or Register of The Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester (ed. James Tait) Part I (Chetham Society, 1920), Part II (Chetham Society, 1923).
Early Yorkshire Charters (William Farrer and Charles Travis Clay eds.) v. 5, pt. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1936).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People. (1999).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).