Sir Robert de Swynnerton Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 32:32, Sir Robert de Swynnerton, knight, m. Elizabeth Beke, daughter of Nicholas Beke, knight, and Jane or Joan de Stafford, daughter of Sir Ralph de Stafford, and Kathernine de Hasting. ¹⁶⁰

~ The Parshall Family, A.D. 870-1913, Swynnerton Pedigree, p. 59 ⁷³²

~The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580, p.201, shown as the son of Sir Thomas de Swinerton. The Visitation shows Thomas to also have a son named Robert de Swinerton who married Elizabeth, daughter and heir to Sir Nicholas Beck. ⁵²⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷³²
Sir Robert de Swynnerton succeeded his father in 1361 as Lord of Swynnerton. He was married twice, 1^st to Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Nicholas Beck, Knight and Lord of Tene and hopton, in Staffordshire, who died before 1374. They had one daughter named Matilda who succeeded to her mother's inheritance, consisting of the manors of Hopton and Tene as well as lands in Staffordshire. She was married to Humphrey de Peshale, and 2^nd to William de Ipstones. Sir Robert's second wife was was named Joan, and they had a son named Thomas who became Robert's son and heir, and was the ancestor of future Swynnertons.

~ The Parshall Family, A.D. 870-1913, p. 61

• Background Information. ⁸²¹
Sir Robert de Swinnerton, knight and fourth Lord Swinnerton, son and heir to Sir Roger and Maud de Holland, married Elizaeth de Beke (Beek) daughter and coheir of Sir Nicholas Beke, Knight, of Hopton in St. Mary's, Staffordshire and Tean in checkley, Staffordshire, Sheriff of Staffordshire and his wife Joan de Stafford, daughter of Sir Ralph de Stafford, Knight of the Gater and 1st Earl of Stafford.

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 722

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Robert, was called lord of Swinnerton in 1370 when he obtained a parton for outlawry. In Oct 1374, he had protection while going overseas. He was made a knight of the shire for Staffordshire at the parliament that met at Gloucester on 20 Oct 1374. He married, 1st, in or before 1356, Elizabeth daughter and hier of Sir Nicholas Beck. He married, 2nd, Joan. He died sometime before 12 Nov 1396, when his widown is recorded as having a dower.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition,(Swynerton), Vol. XIIA, p. 588

Robert married Elizabeth Beke, daughter of Sir Nicholas Beke Knight and Joan de Stafford.⁷³² (Elizabeth Beke was born about 1340 in Egerton, Cheshire, England and died in 1415.)