Sir Roger Corbet

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Thomas Corbet, of Moreton was born in 1281 or 1285, and died in 1310, leaving son and heir Robert. Robert* was born was born in 1304 and died 3 Dec 1375, his son and heir was Sir Robert *Corbet of Moreton, who married Margaret. Margaret died 14 Nov 1395, and was the daughter of Sir Giles de Erdington. The son of Sir Robert **Corbet and Margaret de Erdington was Robert, who was aged 12 or more in 1395/6, and died 12 Aug 1429. This Robert's second son and eventually his heir was Sir Roger, who died 5 Jun 1467. Sir Roger Corbets's son and heir was Sir Richard Corbet, of Moreton and Shawbury, aged 19 or older in 1667, and died 6 Dec 1492, and left descendants.


~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, (Erdington), p. 88, footnote (a)

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 29:A30-31, 29B:31-33, calls **Sir Robert, Sir Roger, married t o Margaret de Erdington and gives his parents as * Robert Corbet married to Elizabeth le Strange, daughter of Fulk le Strange and Eleanor Giffard

Roger married Margaret de Erdington Heiress of Shawbury, daughter of Giles de Erdington Lord of Shawbury and Unknown. (Margaret de Erdington Heiress of Shawbury was born in 1353 in Shawbury, Shropshire, England and died 14 Jan 1395 or 14 Jan 1396 in Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England ¹⁶⁰.)