Sir Robert SCALES, 3rd Baron Scales

Sir Robert SCALES, 3rd Baron Scales

Male - 1369

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  • Name Robert SCALES 
    Prefix Sir 
    Suffix 3rd Baron Scales 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1369 
    Person ID I19749  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 26 Oct 2021 

    Father Sir Robert SCALES, 2nd Baron Scales,   d. 1324 
    Mother Egelina DE COURTNAY 
    Family ID F6159  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Katherine UFFORD 
    Children 
     1. Margaret SCALES,   d. 1416
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F6158  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Sir Robert de Scales was engaged in several military expeditions. In 1337 he went on the Kings Service overseas with Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Peter de Scales (presumably his brother or son).[1] He was summoned to Parliament from 1343 until his death in 1369.[2]

      Residences
      Robert's main residence was at Rivenhall in Essex but also held Newsells and Berkway in Hertfordshire, Magna Leigh in Essex, Haslingfield in Cambridgeshire, Wrethlington and Tremeleye in Suffolk, Wilton, Barton Bendish, Hickling, Ilsington, Howe, Middleton, Pudding Norton, Gateley, Tylney, Herewych and Reinham in Norfolk and Berton in Gloucestershire.[3]

      Family
      Robert married Katherine,[1][4] sister and co-heir of William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, by whom he had three sons and two daughters:

      Peter de Scales, who married Johanna[5] held Wetherden in Suffolk in 1330[5] and 1346.[3]
      Robert de Scales, who went on the King's service overseas in 1337 with Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk.[1]
      Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales (1354–1387).
      Margaret de Scales, who married Sir Robert Howard (-1388), son of Sir John Howard, and had one son Sir John Howard, of Wiggenhall, ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk.[6]
      Elizabeth de Scales, who married Sir Roger Felbrigg and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg.[6]
      References
      Patent Rolls
      Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex
      Feudal Aids 1284–1431
      UFFORD, ROBERT DE, first Baron of Suffolk of his house (1298 - 1369). Dictionary of National Biography, Ubaldini - Whewell (Vol 20), p. 13.; accessed via ancestry.com paid subscription site, January 2019.
      Suffolk Feet of Fines
      House of Lords, Supplemental Case of the House of Lords 1857