Staller of King Edward the Confessor
Sheriff of Essex
Robert was a kinsman to both Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror. Keats-Rohan (p. 424) identifies him as Robert de Moyaux, Calvados, Lisieux.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between 1075 and 1086.
The date is given by Keats-Rohan (Domesday People p. 424).
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Van Houts (p. 263) notes that William of Poitiers implies that Robert's father was Norman.
Mother: Wimarc.
John Horace Round states that her name suggests a Breton origin. Van Houts (p. 263) states that her name is linguistically Breton, but that she could have lived in Normandy.
(probable) Spouse: Beatrice of Essex.
Keats-Rohan (Domesday Descendants p. 449) notes that Beatrice is named in a grant as Robert’s grandmother, and is more likely Robert fitz Wimarc’s wife than Robert fitz Swein’s mother’s mother. Keats-Rohan also notes that it has been suggested that Beatrice was the daughter of Hugh de Montfort. Van Houts (p. 263) calls her an anonymous English woman.
Children:
Evidence
“Robert son of Wiuhomarch” on the Open Domesday site.
References
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday People (1999).
Round, John Horace. “Robert the Staller” in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900) volume 48.
Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).
Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England” in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011), pp. 237-270.