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Personal data Robert 2nd Baron de Morley , of Roydon, Sir 

• He was born before 1295 in Roydon, Norfolk, England.Source 1
• He died on March 23, 1359/1360 in Bourgogne, France (of Hockering, Norfolk).Source 1
• A child of William 1st Baron de Morley and Isabel de Mohaut
• This information was last updated on April 5, 2023.

Household of Robert 2nd Baron de Morley , of Roydon, Sir

(1) He is married to Hawise Marshal.

They got married at 1st wife.

Child(ren):

1. William 3rd Baron de Morley  1319-1379 

(2) He is married to Joan de Tyes.

They got married before September 1334 at 2nd wife.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. John Morley  ± 1334-???? 

Notes about Robert 2nd Baron de Morley , of Roydon, Sir

Marshal of Ireland from July 1324; fought at sea Battle of Sluys in thelead ship 1340; fought at Crecy 1346.

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BARONY OF MORLEY (II) 1302

ROBERT [DE MORLEY), LORD MORLEY, son and heir by 1st wife, was a minor inJanuary 1304/5. In 1316 he was returned as lord of Morley, Norfolk, andin the same year obtained livery of his wife's lands, havIng done fealty;in 1317 and later years he was summoned for military service against theScots. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 November 1317 to 15 December1357, and in 1317 was called one of the "major barons." In 1321 he wasrequested to appease disturbances, and was ordered not to attend themeeting at Doncaster of the "Good Peers" summoned by Thomas, Earl ofLancaster. In the foIlowing spring he was ordered to raise men for theKing and come to the muster at Coventry; and probably fought atBoroughbridge, his arms being on the roll. In July 1322 he took part inthe King's unsuccessful campaign in Scotland. He was styled a knight in1324. In May 1324 he was summoned to a Great Council of Magnatcs, and inAugust and December was summoned for military service in Gascony, and toa colloquium of the magnates and clergy upon the King's proposedexpedition there. In July 1324 order was made to put him in possession ofthe Marshalcy of Ireland. On 26 October 1326 he was a member of theCouncil at Bristol which elected Prince Edward custos of the kingdom,upon the flight of Edward II. In 1327 he was summoned for service againstthe Scots; and from that year onwards was on a number of commissions inNorfolk to make arrests, inquiries, oyer and terminer, &c. In 1330, as"cosyn" and heir of Robert de Mohaut, he asked for an inquiry as to thefees Mohaut had held. On 16 June 1331 he held a tournament at Stepney,and with twenty-four others defended himself against all comers. In 1332he was ordered to choose archers in Norfolk; next year, he served inScotland, where he fought at Halidon Hill, 19 July 1333, and apparentlywas employed until the middle of 1335. In June 1335 he gave a quitclaimof the Mohaut inheritance to Queen Isabel, the manor of Framsden beinggranted to him out of it. In August 1335 he was about to go on apilgrimage to Santiago; but it is unlikely that he went, because he wassummoned to a Council in London, probably on Scottish affairs, which thenand in the following year --- when he was summoned again --- causedapprehension. Attacks by French and Scottish vessels were anticipated,and in May 1336 Morley was a commissioner to guard the coast of Norfolk.In January 1336/7 he was in Scotland again, but in July 1338 he was backin Norfolk, guarding the coast. On 18 February 1338/9 he was appointedcaptain and admiral of the fleet of all the ships of Great Yarmouth andall other ports from Thames' mouth northwards. In 1339 he sailed with thefleet to Normandy and burnt many ports. On 24 June 1340 his ship led theattack on the French fleet at Sluys, which was overwhelmed, and manyEnglish ships were recaptured from the enemy. In November 1341 he wassetting out for service in Brittany. In January 1342/3 he was ordered tobe at Portsmouth, with 20 men, to sail for France on 1 March. On 18 June1345 protection was granted to Robert de Morley, chivaler, going abroadwith Hugh Despenser, in the Earl of Northampton's expedition to Brittany.He had a similar protection, 7 July 1346, on joining Edward III's summercampaign in France; and on 26 August took part in the victory of Crécy asone of the bannerets of the King's division, continuing to serve inFrance with 30 men, himself, as banneret, 5 knights, 9 esquires and 15archers. When the King began the siege of Calais, he brought round hisfleet and blockaded the port so that no relief could come to the townfrom the sea. He was present at the tournament at Lichfield, 9 April1347. He fought under the Earl of Lancaster in the naval action offWinchelsea, 29 August 1350. In 1351 he was again guarding the Norfolkcoast; and, in 1354 was a justice in'the same county under the Labourers'Act. In August of that year he was one of the peers who (as such)appointed proxies to give their consent to the informal submission to thePope of the articles of peace between England and France. In 1355 he wasappointed Constable of the Tower, and held this office till his death.

He married, 1stly, in or before 1316, Hawise, sister and coheir of JohnMARSHAL [LORD MARSHAL], of Hingham, Norfolk,and daughter of WilliamMARSHAL, [1st Lord Marshal], by Christian, daughter of Robert[FitzWalter], 1st Lord FitzWalter, hereditary Marshal of Ireland, who, asRobert's feudal superior [of the Barony of Rye], had been his guardian.She, who on the death of her sister Denise s.p., 14 September 1316,became, according to modern doctrine, Baroness Marshal, may have diedbefore 1327. He married, 2ndly, by September 1334, Joan, who, it has beensuggested, was daughter of Sir Piers de Tyes (j). She died 24 December1358. He died 23 March 1359/60, in Burgundy. [Complete Peerage IX:213-4,XIV:486, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(j) His lands lay in Norfolk, Lincs, Essex, Herts, Northants, and Bucks.Knighton, vol ii, p. 112, says that he and a son of his both died thesame year. Possibly this was his son Henry, who is not heard of againafter the mention of him in the Inq.p.m. on his father, where he is saidto be heir to his brother Thomas.

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