Robert Pygot
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Gilbert Pygot.
This relationship is given by Omerod (2:666), who states (2:665) that Dr Williamson notes that Gilbert died seized of Butley before 1267 and was great-grandfather to a William living 19 Edw. II).
Mother: Margaret, daughter of Robert Rullos.
Margaret is given as Gilbert’s wife by Ormerod (2:324, 2:787, 2:791), and by Fletcher.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Evidence
from the St Werburgh Chartulary:
[The notes to the charters are Tait’s.]
no. 567.
Grant by Robert Pigot to Roger Hurne (Roger de Molendino in the Lat. heading) in free marriage with his sister Isabel of a croft on his demesne at Chelford, outside the field of Crakemers, surrounded by an ancient ditch, with all the liberties of the vill. c. 1230-50.
R[obertus] Pigot dedit Rogero Hurne in libero maritagio cum Ysabella sorore sua vnum croftum de dominico suo de Chelleford extra campum de Crakemers, veteri quadam fossa circumdatum, cum omnibus libertatibus uille.
no. 561.
Grant by Robert Picot (Pigot) to Robert de Worth, of the whole vill of Chelford, with the lordship and rent of Astle and (Old) Withington, paying to him and his heirs ys. yearly and a pair of spurs (gloves ?) for all secular service, saving entertainment for the Serjeants of the peace, and that part of the duty of enclosing the hays of the forest (of Macclesfield) which falls to Chelford. 1245-50.
Sciant, etc., ego Robertus Picot dedi, etc., Roberto de Worth pro homagio et servitio suo totam villam de Cholleford, cum dominio et redditu de Asthull et de Whithinton, cum pertinentiis suis, infra dictas villas et extra ; tenendum et habendum, etc., reddendo inde annuatim 7s. argenti et unum par calcarium in festo Omnium Sanctorum pro omni servitio, etc., salvo pouturo servientium pacis et clausura hay arum de forest a de Macclesf [eld] quantum pertinet ad terram de Cheleford faciend[a],.sicut de iure debet et solet, etc. Hiis testibus : domino Johanne de Gray tunc iusticiario Cestrensi, domino Radulfo de Vernon, domino Roberto de Mascy, Benedicto de Coudray tunc ballivo de Macclesfeld, Viviano de Davenport, Thoma de Orreby, Sewall de Tidderington, Adam de Sutton, Ricardo de Mottram, Adam de Aldridell[ea] , Adam de Brishell, Rogero de Aldridell[ea] clerico, et aliis.
The grantor is presumed to have been of the family of Pigot of Waverton, Butley, etc. The grantee was son of Jordan de Worth (Orm. iii. 687, 711).
The attestation of John de Gray supplies the date. Most of the witnesses belonged to Macclesfield hundred. Thomas de Orreby was of Gawsworth.
no. 562.
Grant by Robert Pigot to Robert de Worth, for his homage and service, of the mill of Chelford and (Old) Withington, with all its suits and appurtenances and a supply of water and a site for the mill anywhere within the bounds of Chelford and Withington, paying to him yearly therefor one barbed arrow for all secular service, the grantee being entitled to distrain upon the lord and the suitors to the mill for the repair of the pool, the making of sluices and millstones, the rebuilding of the mill, when necessary, and the carriage of timber and millstones thereto by the suitors in accordance with previous custom. ? 1245-50.
Robertus Pigot dedit Roberto de Worth pro homagio et seruicio suo molendinum de Chelleford et de Withington, cum omnibus sectis suis et pertinenciis, et agistiamento aque et attachiamento molendini vbicunque voluerit infra diuisas de Chelleford et de Withington, cum piscaria aque, reddendo inde annuatim sibi vnam sagittam barbatam in festo Omnium Sanctorum pro omni seruicio seculari ; ita quod predictus Robertus de Worth et heredes sui possint distringere se et heredes suos cum secta dicti molendini per terras et possessiones et catalla sua ad stagnum reparandum, exclusas et molas faciendas, et ad molendinum reficiendum cum necesse fuerit, et ad meremium et molas cariandas ad predictum molendinum, sicut aliquando dicta secta facere consueuit.
no. 563b.
Injunction by Robert de Worth to John de Astle and the guardian of the land and heir of Gilbert Pigot to render to the abbot and convent (to whom he has quitclaimed Chelford, etc.) the homage and service which they had been accustomed to render to him. June 20, 1267.
Robertus filius Jordani de Worth dilectis sibi in Christo Johanni de Asthull et custodi terre et heredis Gilberti Pigot salutem in Domino. Quia villam de Chelleford cum dominio de Asthull et de Whythinton cum omnibus suis pertinentiis dedi et in perpetuum per cartam meam quietam clamavi, in liberam, puram et perpetuam elemosinam, domino S. abbati sancte Werburge Cestrensis et eiusdem loci conventui eorumque successoribus in perpetuum, ideo vobis mando quatinus homagia et servitia que mihi facere consuevistis et debuistis eisdem abbati et conventui facietis. In cuius rei testimonium has literas sigillo meo signatas vobis mitto patentes coalt (sic). Dat[as] apud Macclesfeld die lune proximo ante festum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste anno Domini 1267.
[Correcting an error in Ormerod/Helsby]:
no. 565.
Perpetual licence by Robert de Mugebroc to the abbot and convent to dig and remove turf and to take heath and earth anywhere in his waste of (Old) Withington, outside his arable land, for the upkeep of the mill and (mill) pool of Chelford, saving a green plot in front of his house and his other approvements (from the waste).
Robertus de Mugebroc dedit monachis Cestrie, uel suis assignatis villam uel molendinum de Chelleford tenentibus, perpetuam licenciam fodiendi et asportandi turbas et capiendi brueram et terram vbique in vasto suo de Withington extra terram suam arabilem ad sustentacionem molendini et stagni de Chelleford. Salua tamen sibi quadam placea viridi ante domum suam et aliis approuiamentis suis, ita racionabiliter habendis quod nee monachi nee homines eorum de Chelleford a predicta libertate et communis et aysiamentis suis pristinis ibi impediantur.
But for the name of the grantor, this might be an abstract of the charter which follows (No. 565a), and as the latter is not entered in the Chartulary and does not profess to be a confirmation, it is possible, indeed probable, that the scribe has assigned the son's deed to the father.
no. 565a.
Similar licence by William, son and heir of Robert de Mugebrooke (see the note to No. 565). 1283-88.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus, etc. Willelmus filius et heres Roberti de Magebrooke (sic) salutem, etc. [Sciatis] me dedisse, etc., Deo et ecclesie Sancte Werburge Cestrensis .et domino S. abbati et conventui eiusdem loci, dominis ville de Chelford, et eorum successoribus uel assignatis quibuscumque villam vel molendinum de Chelford de eis tenentibus, licentiam meam et perpetuam libertatem fodiendi et asportandi turbas et capiendi brueram et terram ubicumque sibi melius viderunt expedire in toto vasto meo de Whythinton, scilicet extra sepes camporum meorum arrabilium, ad sustentacionem et reparacionem predicti molendini sui de Chelford et stagni, pro libitu suo quotiescumque volueri[n]t sine impedimento vel reclamacione mei vel heredum meorum seu quorumcumque assignat(orum) ; saluis tantum mihi et heredibus meis uel assignatis quadam viridi placea ante domum meam in Whythinton iacente et alijs appro viamentis meis in eadem ita rationabiliter factis et faciendis quod nee ipsi abbas et conventus nee eorum successores vel assignati a predicta libertate et licencia presenti scripto eis concessis nee homines eorum de Chelford a liberis communis et aysiamentis predictis consuetis et rationabiliter usitatis minime impediantur. In cuius rei testimonium presens carta mea inter me ex una parte et dictos abbatem et conventum ex altera est cyrografata et sigilla nostra alternatim eidem sunt appensa. Testibus : domino Reginaldo de Gray tunc iusticiario Cestrie, dominis Petro de Ardena, Ricardo de Sondbach militibus, Roberto Grosso-venatore tunc vicecomite Cestrie, Thoma clerico tunc balliuo de Macclesfeld, Willelmo Pigot, Henrico de Byrchells, Ricardo de Swettenham, Rogero de Vernon, Ricardo de Mottram, Ricardo filio eius, et mult is alijs.
The grantor was a grand-nephew of Robert Pigot (Nos. 566-7), not his son as supposed by Ormerod's editor Helsby (iii. 711), who also was in error in regarding this grant as one of the lordship of Chelford.
no. 566.
Quitclaim by William, son and heir of Robert de Mugebroc, to the monks of all his land in Chelford, viz. a croft outside the field of Crakemers, called Puttes, formerly given to Roger Hurne, his grandfather, by Robert Pigot. Late 13th century.
Willelmus filius et heres Roberti de Mugebroc dedit et quiete clamauit monachis Cestrie totam terram suam in Chelleford, videlicet vnum croftum extra campum de Crakemers quod uocatur Puttes, datam quondam Rogero Hurne auo suo a Roberto Pigot.
Earwaker (2:263) gives a mid-13th century grant of a rent of 4s. from Robert de Hude to William Pigot [of Butley] and his heirs.
References
The Chartulary or Register of The Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester (ed. James Tait) Part I (Chetham Society, 1920), Part II (Chetham Society, 1923).
Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).
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).