{{confused|Robert fitz Richard (Grand Prior)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} __NOTOC__ {{Infobox noble | name = Robert Fitz Richard | title = Baron of Little Dunmow | spouse = Maud de Senlis | spouse-type = | issue-type = | issue = Walter Fitz Robert<br>Maud Fitz Robert | issue-link = | issue-pipe = | full name = | noble family = de Clare | house-type = | father = Richard fitz Gilbert | mother = Rohese Giffard | birth_name = | birth_date = 1064 | birth_place = | christening_date = | christening_place = | death_date = 1136 | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = }}
'''Robert Fitz Richard''' (1064–1136) was an Anglo-Norman noble.
==Life== He was the son of Sir Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Lord of Clare and Tonbridge, and Rohese Giffard, daughter of Sir Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville.
Robert was steward to English kings Henry I and Stephen of Blois. In 1110, he became a baron after Henry I granted him the village of Little Dunmow, in Essex, forfeited by its previous owner, William Baynard, in the same year. Robert also became constable of Baynard’s Castle, a property that was built buy Ralph Baynard, William’s grandfather.{{sfn|Sanders|1960|p=129-130}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=British History Online - Baynard's Castle and Doctors' Commons |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp281-293 |access-date=2021-06-01 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref>{{sfn|DNB|1889|p=19:219}}{{sfn|Amt|1993|p=66}}
Around 1114, Robert married Maud de Senlis, daughter of Sir Simon de Senlis, Earl of Northampton, and Maud, Countess Huntingdon. They had two children: Sir Walter FitzRobert (b. c. 1124) and Maud FitzRobert (b. c. 1132). A son of Walter (Robert FitzWalter) and a son of Maud (William d’Aubigny) were surety barons of the Magna Carta.
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==References== * {{cite book | last = Amt | first = Emilie | authorlink = Emilie M. Amt | title = The Accession of Henry II in England: Royal Government Restored, 1149–1159 | publisher = Boydell & Brewer | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-85115-348-8 | page = 66 }} * {{cite book | last =Butler | first =Edward | authorlink =Edward F. Butler | title =The Descendants of Thomas Pincerna, Progenitor of the Butler Family | publisher =E.F. Butler with assistance by GenPub | year =1997 | page =570 }} *{{cite book | last = Sanders | first = I.J. | title = English Baronies, Little Dunmow | publisher = Oxford | year = 1960 | pages=129–130 }} *{{cite DNB |wstitle=Fitzwalter, Robert |volume=19 |page=219 |ref={{sfnref|DNB|1889}}}}
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{{short description|11th and 12th-century Norman nobleman in England}}
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