Robert de Gresley

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁰⁷
The manor of Swadlincote or Swartlincote (Sivardingescote) was one of the manors of Nigel de Stafford at the time of the Domesday Survey. His grandson, Robert de Gresley, gave it to his brother Eugenol.

~Magna Britannia,Volume V, Derbyshire, pp. 165-172

• Background Information. ²³⁴
On the Pipe Roll of 1173, Billingford is mentioned as belonging to Geoffrey de Tregoz. In 1175, the sheriff of Essex accounts for the issues of "the land of Geoffrey de Tregoz," who was dead already for some four years. [Pipe Roll of 1171, p. 124]. The Rotulus de Dominabus of 1185 tells us that his widown, Amabilia, daughter of Robert de Gresley was then living, and that his son, William, then 17 or 18 years old, had married a daughter of Robert de Lucy, to whom he had been in ward.

~ Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. VII, New Series, pp. 330-331

• Background Information. ¹³⁹⁵
Robert, son of William Fitz Nigel de Gresley, doe not appear often in records. He name is foundfrom 1166 until about 1183. In 1166, Robert hold one knight's fee [R.S. xcix i. 263, Red Bk. of Exch.; Salt Soc. i. 147, 153] under the Bishop of Coventry in Morton, Tamhorn and Wolseley, and also Robert hold four knight's fee [R.S. xcix i. 336] in Ferrers Derbyshire fief, as his father William Fitz-Nigel had done in the time of Henry I. There is also a grant to Robert from the abbot and convent of Burton [Chartul. p. 22, and Salt Soc. v. I. 40] of Dartlaston. There was a deed, written after 1166, consisting of a quit-claim [Gresl. Chartul. p.22, Bodl. MS Dodsw xcvi. 13; Brti. Mus. M.S. Harl. 1077, fol. 8] to Robert by William Earl of Ferrers of the service of one knight to writ of Hethdra and Ravenstone, which Ralph, brother of Robert, held of the Earl, so that Robert's service was reduced to three knight's fees instead of four.

Robert de Gresley died in or bofore 1184, and his son William succeeded him in that year. From the deeds that have mentioned we know that Robert's wife was named Basilia.

~The Gresleys of Drakelowe, pp. 29-32

Robert married Brasilia.¹³⁹⁵