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Personal data ROGER I CORBET 

• He was born in the year 1047 in Pays de Caux, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France.
• Title: Baron of Caus
• (Known as) : Roger le Corbet, Roger I FitzCorbet.
• (Relationship) : 28th Great Grandfather.
• He died in the year 1134 in Caus Castle, Wattlesborough, Shropshire, he was 87 years old.
• A child of HUGH CORBET and ISABEL de PAYS

Household of ROGER I CORBET

He is married to SYBIL CHEYNE.

They got married in the year 1088 at Caus Castle, Wattlesborough, Shropshire, he was 41 years old.

Child(ren):

1. WILLIAM CORBET  1089-1134 

Notes about ROGER I CORBET

2nd son..

Domesday Book records that "Roger Fitz Corbet" held the manor of Fairley, parish of Pontesbury, Shropshire

Corbet the Norman was dead before 1086: for his son, Roger Fitz Corbet, is the Domesday baron, who built a castle at Alfreton as the head of his honour, which he names Caux, from Pays de Caux, his former home in Normandy. "This was one of the Border castles which, for two centuries after Domesday, served its continuous purposes of aggression and defence." Eyton's Shropshire.

It stood in a strong position, commanding the pass called the Valley of the Rea; for, as a former marcher fortress, "it was exposed to all the turmoil of a hostile frontier"; and was taken and burnt by the Welsh in the time of his successor. Robert Fitz Corbet, the younger brother, held Longden and Alcester; but his line died out in the following generation, and it is Roger who is the ancestor of the numerous families that have planted the name in the county. He constantly appears as a witness to Earl Roger's charters; and continued the faithful liegeman of his two sons, for he and Ulgar Venator were the only Shropshire chiefs that adhered to the last to Robert de Belesme. He held Bridgnorth Castle for his Earl against Henry I for three months; and it is, according to Eyton "A question" whether he forfeited his estate by his rebellion. His son, at all events, peaceably succeeded to the barony in 1121; and the line continued, without a break, for more than two hundred years after that.

These Barons of Caus were assiduous at their arduous post as guardians of the frontier: and an ancient roll that names Robert Corbet among those present with Couer de Leon at the siege of Acre, is discredited by Eyton on the ground (among others) that "a Lord Marcher was little likely to become a crusader," having his hands so full at home. A daughter of this house, however, crossed the hostile border to become the wife of Welshman, Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys. She was the sister of Thomas Corbet, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire in 1248, whose wife Isabel, was sister, and in her issue co-heir, to Reginald de Valletort, a great feudal baron in the west. Their son Peter served in the campaign that closed Llewellyn's career, as well as in Edward I's Scottish wars, and was summoned to Parliament by him in 1293. He was "a mighty hunter," as his father had been before him*, and in 1281 received the King's commission to destroy all wolves, wherever they could be found, in the counties of Salop, Stafford, Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford: one more proof - if another were needed - that the alleged extirpation of wolves in Anglo-Saxon times is a fable.
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