Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between 1100 and 1114.
The date is given by Sanders (p. 139).
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Robert fitz Wimarc, staller of King Edward the Confessor.
This relationship is given by Sanders (p. 139) and by Keats-Rohan (Domesday People p. 424).
(probable) Mother: 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.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Keats-Rohan.)
Robert married Gunnora Bigod.
William.
Evidence
“Swein of Essex” 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).
Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).