Robert de la Haye

  General Notes:

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XI, (St. John), p. 342, Robert de la Haie and Muriel (probably daughtter of Colswegen, tenant-in-cheif in Lincolnshire in 1086), had another daughter named Cecily who married Roger de St. John. ¹⁴¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁹⁷³
From the Red Book of the Exchequer, i. pp. 390-391:
"Isti sunt milites Richard de Haia, et serviunt ad servitium Regis per carucatas. Et v carucatae faciunt j militem, et milites tenaent eas, quidam plus quidam minus" or "These are the knights of Richard de la Haye, and they serve in the service of the King by carucates. And five carucates make a knight, and the knights hold them, some more, some less."

Richard de la Haye was the son of Muriel, daughter of Colswein of Lincoln. Colswein was one of the two Englishmen holding estates of baronial dimensions directly of the king at the time of the Domesday Survey. Colswein was succeeded by his son, Picot, around 1101. Picot was succeeded by his brother-in-law, the husband of Muriel, Robert de la Haye. Muriel and Robert de la Haye were the parents of Richard de la Haye.

~Colonial England, p. 104

• Background Information. ⁹⁷²
Robert de la Haye was likely living in 1131 and 1135. Robert was a Norman with estates in Normandy. Richard was the son of Robert. Richard's maternal uncle was named Picot and his maternal grandfather was Colswein. Both Picot and Colswein were native to England, and their families lived there before the conquest.

~ Medieval Lincoln, pp. 87

• Background Information. ⁹⁷⁴
In documents issued by King Henry while in Normandy, a Robert de la Haye's name appears as a justice, a 'baron of the exchequer' and as a 'dapifer.' The Robert de la Haye in Henry's documents may be the same Robert de la Haye from La Haye-du-Puits in the Cotentin, who was the son of Ranulf, seneschal of Robert count of Mortain, and grandson of Turstin (Richard) Haldup, lord of la Haye-du-Puits who with his older son, Eudes-au-Capel, Robert's uncle, founded Lessay Abbey. This same Robert de la Haye married Muriel, daughter and heiress of her brother, who was the heir of her father, Colswein of Lincoln. Because Robert de la Haye married Muriel, he became one of the greater barons of Lincolnshire and the constable of Lincoln Castle.

~ Feudal Empires: Norman and Plantagenêt, p. VII 35

• Background Information. ¹²²
Roger de St. John married Cecily, daughter of Robert de la Haie, by Muriel, probably daughter of Colswegen, tenant-in-chief in Lincs in 1086 with whom he received the honor of Halnaker in Sussex. Roger died in or before 1130. His widow, Cecily, was living in 1162 and dead in 1177.

~Cokayne's The Complet Peerage, Vol. XI, p. 342

Robert married Muriel of Brattleby, daughter of Colswein of Brattleby and Unknown ^141,973.^,974 (Muriel of Brattleby was born about 1085 in Brattleby, Welton, Linconshire, England.)