FAMILY
Our proposed ancestor, Robert de Hales, was most likely one of Walter and Eleanor de Hales' grandsons or great grandsons.
Roger de Hales inherited the manor around 1250 and died by 1268/69, at which point his widow Matilda sold their son Walter lands in Lodnes, Hales, Kyrkeby, Elyngham, Brom, Raveningham, Hardele, Hadesco, and Thurwerton. She also granted her son a moiety of the advowson with Lands in Hales and Lodden.
References to yet another Roger, son of Walter de Hales start a decade later. One of the most interesting, from around 1280, mentions the 15d per annum rent he paid for the whole messuage of the chapel of St Andrew of Hales, with lands he and his wife Alice held of him ..."(Rev Charles Parkin, TOWARDS A TOPICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, page 22) I suspect this Roger de Hales is the father of the Hales mentioned in transactions 2,3 and 4 below.
The four Hales in turn of the 14th century records:
Roger de Hales, who appears to have held the manor of Loddin Hales between 1290 and 1313.
Robert de Hales, who purchased properties in Hales and Tytleshale between 1295 and 1304.
Robert's brother John de Hales - a clerk who purchased land in Hales during the regal year 1295/6.
Robert and John's brother - Henry de Hales, who purchased land in Hales during the regal year 1299/1300.