Robert Vipont

Robert Vipont

Male Abt 1164 - Bef 1228  (< 64 years)


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  • Name Robert Vipont 
    Birth Abt 1164  Westmoreland, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    FSID L16Y-L8P 
    Death Bef 1 Feb 1228  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1147  footsteps | Ancestors
    Last Modified 21 Apr 2025 

    Father William Vipont,   b. Abt 1140, West Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1203, Northinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Maud Morville,   b. Abt 1144, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1163 
    Family ID F1206  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Idonea Builly,   b. Abt 1175, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sep 1241, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage Jun 1213 
    Children 
    +1. John Vipont,   b. Abt 1212, Westmoreland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 25 Jul 1241, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 29 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1207  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Apr 2025 

  • Notes 


    • Robert de Vipont(d. 1228), administrator and magnate, came of a family t h a t t o o k its name from Vieuxpont-en-Auge (Calvados) in Normandy. He was t h e y o u n ger son of William de Vieuxpont (d. in or before 1203), who beca m e a n i m p ortant Anglo-Scottish land owner, and his wife, Maud de Morvil l e ( d . c . 1210), whose father Hugh ( in 1170 one of the assassins of Tho m a s B e c ket) forfeited the barony of Westmorland in 1173. Robert's elder b r o t h e r, Ivo, inherited their father's estates in Northamptonshire and N o r t h u mberland, while Robert had entered royal service by 1195, and was c u s t o d ian of the honours of Peverel, Higham Ferrers, and Tickhill in the l a t t e r y ears of Richard I' s reign.
      But he achieved much greater eminence under John. At first he was princ i p a l l y employed in Normandy, especially as a paymaster of troops and di r e c t o r of military works, including those on Rouen Castle, and in 1203 h e b e c a m e bailli of the Roumomois. His services were rewarded by the gra nt o f V i e u xpont itself, formerly held by an uncle who had joined the Fr enc h, a n d a l so by grants in England. In February 1203 he was given cust od y o f t h e c astles of Appleby and Brough, to which the lordship of West m or la n d w as added a month later; then in October 1203 custody during pl e a s u r e was changed to a grant in fee simple, for the service of four kn i g h t s , and Vieuxpont had become one of the leading barons in northern E n g l a n d.
      He was also to be given a number of valuable wardships, while his wife , I d o n e a , the daughter of John de Builli, whom he married before June 1213 , b r o u g ht him lands in Bedfordshire and a claim to the Yorkshire honour o f T i c k h ill. After leaving Normandy with John in December 120 3 Vieuxpon t w a s i n f r equent attendance on the king until the end of 1205, when he b e c a m e i ncreasingly involved in northern administration.