Robert Fitz Richard
- Marriage: Maud de St. Liz Lady Bradham 160,829
- Died: 1134, Little Dunmow, Essex, England. 160,829
 Another name for Robert was Robert de Clare Lord of Little Dunmow, Essex.
General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Robert Fitz Richard, steward of Henry II, lord of Little Dunmow, Essex, son of Richard Fitz Gilbert, married Maud de St. Liz. He was the son of Richard I Fitz Gilbert, seigneur of Bienfaite & Orbec, Normandy as well of Clare, Suffolk by his first wife, Rohese Giffard. he was also the grandson of Gilbert, comté de Brionne in Normandy. 160
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 829
Robert, fifth son of Richard of Tonbride, Earl of Clare, being steward to King Henry I, obtained from that monarch the Barony of Bunmow in Essex as also the Honor of Baynard's Castle, in London. Both had come into the possession of the corwn by forfeiture of William Baynard. This Robert married Maud de St. Liz, Lady of Bradham and daughter of Simon de St. Liz, first Earl of Huntingdon. They had at least two sons, Walter, his successore and Simon, to whom Robert gave Daventre, in Northamptonshire. Robert died in 1134 and was succeeded by his eldest son Walter.
~ A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland: Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, 1831 edition, p. 208
Robert married Maud de St. Liz Lady Bradham, daughter of Simon de St. Liz Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbia and Maud Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria 160.,829 (Maud de St. Liz Lady Bradham was born about 1094 and died about 1140 in England 160.)
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