Sir Robert de Plumpton Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸⁵⁸
Sir Robert de Plumpton, son of Nigel, brother of Peter, was only 4 years old when his father died. He died in about the year 1295, and was succeeded by his eldest son also named Sir Robert.
~The History and topography of Harrogate , pp.265-266

• Background Information. ³¹⁹
Robert succeeded his brother Peter and had a son whose name was Nigel de Plumpton who died in the reign of Henry III. A jury sworn to take the inquisition concerning his lands and heirship, found that he held in Plumpton, of the fee of William de Vescy, in demesnes, rents, villenages, and other issues from the land, without the three dowers of three Dominæ, the value of ten marks two shillings and three pence; of the fee of William de Percy, ten marks three shillings, and in the vill of Nessefeild, of Peter de Percy, rendering for his lands there xlii, per annum. They also found him to have held Gersington of William de Percy, rendering one mark of silver per annum, and that it was worth ten marks four shillings and one pence, without the dowers mentioned above. They also found that Robert is his son and next heir, and the age of four years and a half, and that custody of the heir and his marriage of right belongs to Dominus William de Percy. They found that he held Idell of the Earl of Lincoln. The custody of the land in Idle, as not being of the Percy fee, was given by the King to Richard Earl of Cornwall, his brother, to hold until the heir was of age. The writ of this manner was dated 10 Nov Henry III (1244).

Sir Robert de Plumpton had his land released to him under a charter dated February 1274/75. The same Sir Robert de Plumpton, styled Robertus de Plomton, filius et heres Nigelli de Plomton, was confirmed to the noble and religious men, the abbot and convent of the Fountains, a right of way through his land at Grassington, pursuant to the tenor of the grant of one of his predecessors, the first Nigel de Plomton. This charter bears the date of 1275.

This Sir Robert de Plumpton closed his career about 23 Edward I (1295). The eldest son of Sir Robert de Plumpton was also named Robert.
~Plumpton Correspondence, pp. xvi-xx

Robert married Isabella de Westwick, daughter of Serlo de Westwick Lord of Grassington and Unknown ⁸⁵⁷.^,858 (Isabella de Westwick was born about 1255.)