CLAVERING 275 siege of Carlaverock. He was sum. to Pari, from 2 Nov. (1295) 23 Edw. I to 26 Oct. (1309) 3 Edw. II, by writs directed Roberto filio Rogeri, whereby he is held to have become LORD FITZROGER-O He was one of the barons who, in Feb. 1 300/1, took part in the celebrated letter to Pope Boniface VIII, being therein described as Robertus filiiis Rogeri dominus de Claveryng. He ;«. Margery de la Zouche. He d. 13 10. Writ for Inq.p. m. 29 Apr. 13 10. II. 1299 2. John FiTzRoBERT, of Costessey, Norfolk, afterwards to DE Clavering (which name he assumed), s. and h., aged 1332. 44 at the time of his father's death, distinguished himself in the French and Scottish wars. He was sum. to Pari. v.p., from 16 July (1299) 27 Edw. I to 20 Nov. (1331) 5 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Johanni de Clavering^ whereby he is held to have become LORD CLAVERING-O Subject to his own hfe (and in the case of the Lordship of Clavering, to that of his br. Edmund Clavering) he alienated nearly all the estates of the family. He w., in 1278 (he aged 12, she under I3),() Hawise, da. of Robert de Tibetot. He d. s.p.m. in 133 1/2, before 23 Jan., at Aynhoe, Northants, and was bur. at Langley, Norfolk, when Warkworth Castle and his other lands in Northumberland, passed by grant (1328) of the King to Henry de Percy [2nd Lord Percy]. () After this date no one was ever sum. to Pari, in right of any Barony which may be held to have been cr. by any of the above writs. ('^) His widow d. 1345, before 14 Apr. [Eve, da. and h., who was aged 40 and more at her mother's death, w., istly (when very young) Thomas Audley (s. and h. ap. of Nicholas Audley), who d. v. p. and s.p., 16 Jan. 1307/8. She wz., 2ndly, before 2 Dec. 1308, Sir Thomas de UfFord, who was slain at Bannockburn 24 June 13 14. She then lived with, but did not marry (possibly owing to some difficulty (*) As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. C") Agreement between their parents that they should marry "before the quinzaine of Martinmas next," dat. 2 Dec. 1277. She then under 13. [Cloie Roll). V.G. (<^) The lands at Aynhoe, Northants, at Horsford, Norfolk, and the reversion of Clavering, fs'c., Essex, passed, 14 Apr. 1345 (his br. Edmund, and his widow, Hawise, being then dead) to Ralph Nevill. (<^) It is'conjecturcd by Banks (Bar. Angl. Cone, vol. i, p. 155) that " it may be considered that Warkworth being the Barony, from the tenure whereof the writs of summons to Robert FitzRoger were first directed to him, they were writi of service, ^nA not of created nobility Atszcn^M^
blood, unAYe.ste.d {query "when divested"]
of the /fl«a' territory; in which respect, Warkworth ceasing to be possessed by his heirs, the Barony became extinguished ; a point which may apply to many other ancient Baronies, wfhereof the tenants in capite who were first sum. had not the like summons continued to their descendants." Warkworth was held in capite by Clavering's ancestor in 1166 [Liber Niger), while Clavering was only held of the King ut de honore, and was derived (with Aynho, an under-tenancy) from his ancestress, Alice of Essex. See an article on " Who was Alice of Essex ? " by J. Horace Round, in the Essex Archieol. Transactions.
