High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1396.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 21 July 1403.
Place of Death: slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury.
The date is given in some of Sir Robert’s inquisitions post mortem (CIPM 18:9, nos. 911, 912, 920, 921). (Others give 20 July).
Date of Burial: unknown.
Place of Burial: possibly Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire.
Thoroton (pp. 61- 64) describes the tomb. (Photographs are linked to in the References section below.) The Complete Peerage (9:604 fn f) notes that the tomb “is said to be that of Sir Robert and the Duchess of Norfolk” (my italics).
Relationships
Father: Sir Nicholas Goushill.
This relationship is recorded in a pedigree from the plea rolls (Wrottesley, p. 250). Foulds (p. cxlv) makes Robert the son of Nicholas II de Goushill.
Mother: Joan.
Douglas Richardson cites DDK/1404/22 41 Edward III., A.D. 1367 at the Lancashire Record Office as evidence that the name of Sir Nicholas’s wife was Joan.
Spouse: Joan, the widow of Sir Ralph de Bracebridge.
This relationship is recorded in the inquisition post mortem of Ralph de Bracebrugge (CIPM 18:4 no. 317). The name Joan is recorded in the 1397 fine linked to below.
Spouse: Elizabeth Arundel. Married between 23 February 1400 and 19 August 1401.
This relationship is given by the Sussex VCH (7:sub Lewes). It is recorded in some of Robert’s inquisitions post mortem (CIPM 18:9, nos. 908-926).
Children (by Elizabeth):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Joan Goushill (1400 or 1401 - after 1460) married Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley.
Elizabeth Goushill (born 1401 or 1402) married Robert Wingfield.
Joyce Goushill probably died young. (This is some question as to whether she is in fact a child of this marriage.)
Evidence
Fines (abstracted by Chris Philips):
Property:
(according to inquisitions post mortem, all in the dower of his wife Elizabeth)
Sussex
the manor of Knepp
the borough of Shoreham
the manor of Findon
the manor of West Grinstead
a meadow at Southease
assize rent for Washington
assize rents for Lower Beeding
assize rent for Bramber
Nottingham
10 marks rent from Nottingham castle
Derby
the castle and manor of Bretby
the manors of Rosliston and Coton in the Elms
messuages and bovates in Repton, Linton, Milton, Willington, Ashbourne, and “Howes”
Bedford
the manor of Haynes and a third part of the park of the manor
the manor of Stotfold
Buckingham
the manor of Penn
the manor of Linslade
the manor of Southcott
the manor of Wing
Huntingdon
a third part of the manor of Alconbury
Cambridge
the manor of Kennett and Kentford
a third part of the manor of Cherry Hinton
Lincoln
a third part of the manor of Epworth
Leicester
the manor of Witherley
land in the hundred of Goscote
a third part of the manor of Melton Mowbray
Essex
the manor of Chesterford
a third part of the manor of Harwich
the manor of Romford
the manor of Prettlewell
Rutland
a third part of a toft and two virgates in Alesthorp by Burley
Northampton
a third part of the manor of Chalcombe
rent from various tenements in Northampton
Norfolk
the manor of Kenninghall
Suffolk
a third part of the manor of Walton
the manor of Earl Soham
the manor and borough of Bungay
the manor of Earl Stonham
the manor of Dunningworth
the manor of Kelsale
the manor of Peasenhall
the manor of Staverton
the manor of Hollesley
the manor of Hoo with the hundred of loes
rents from Cratfield, Stow Park, and Berwick
a meadow called “Londmedwe”, part of the manor of Kennett and Kentford
York
a third part of the manor of Thirsk
a third part of the manor of Hovingham
a third part of the manor of Kirkby Malzeard
Hereford and the adjacent march of Wales
a third part of the castle of Swansea
a third part of the lordship and manor of Kilvey
a third part of the lordship of Gower
Shropshire
the manor of Stottesdon
the manor of Kingswood
References
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
'Hoveringham', Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: volume 3: Republished with large additions by John Throsby (1796), pp. 61-64. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76929 Date accessed: 10 September 2014.
Institute of Historical Research. Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 18.
The Thurgarton Cartulary (Trevor Foulds, ed.) (Stamford, 1994).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office. (1905).