Thomas Corbet

Lord of Caus

Events

Date of Birth: probably not before 1195.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Lieberman (p. 150).

Date of Death: 1274.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Lieberman (2008, p. 150) and by the Complete Peerage (3:417).

Relationships

Father: Robert Corbet.

Mother: Emma.

These relationships are given by Lieberman (2010, p. 93).

Spouse: Isabel de Vautort. Married between 1225 and 1228.

This relationship is given by Lieberman (2008, p. 150 n.) and by Julian-Jones (p. 109). 

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Peter Corbet (died about July 1300) married (1) Joan; married (2) Alice.

Alice Corbet married Robert Stafford.

Emma Corbet (died 1284) married Sir Brian de Brompton.

Evidence

from the Fine Rolls: 

1222

17 Oct. Westminster. Shropshire. To the sheriff of Shropshire. Thomas Corbet, son and heir of Robert Corbet, has made fine with the king by £100 for his relief of the lands that Robert held of the king in chief and which fall to Thomas by hereditary right, and the king has thus taken his homage and fealty. Order that, having accepted security from Thomas for rendering the aforesaid £100 to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of his aforesaid lands with their appurtenances in his bailiwick. Witness H. etc. 

1235

Cornwall. Amerced before Andrew of Cardinham , Henry of Bodrugan , Richard de Lankecker and Odo Archdeacon , justices assigned to take the assize of darrein presentment that Thomas Corbet and Isabella, his wife, arraigned against Peter de Saint-Melaine , Nicholas Chancellor and William of Englefield

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).

Eyton, Rev. R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire. Vol. IV. (1857).

Julian-Jones, Melissa. The land of the raven and the wolf: family power and strategy in the Welsh March. 1199-c. 1300, Corbets and the Cantilupes. (PhD Thesis, Cardiff University; 2015). 

Lieberman, Max. The Medieval March of Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Lieberman, Max. “Striving for Marcher liberties: The Corbets of Caus in the thirteenth century” in Liberties and Identities in the Medieval British Isles (Michael Prestwich ed.) (The Boydell Press, 2008).