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He was the first of our family to win the manor of Peshale. He married i n t o o n e o f the families who formed thecolony of emigrants from Northumb e r l a n d and who settled near Stone Priory in Staffordshire."At this time S t a f f o rdshire was almost an unbroken forest with only here and there cle a r i n g s which had been made by the English prior to the Conquest. Among t h e s e c l ear and cultivated spots in the forest was that of Peshale which h a d b e e n f orfeited from its English owner and which was now included in t h e h o l d ings of Robert de Toesni, de Stafford. The deed of confirmation d i s c l o ses that his manor was purchased by Gilbert de Corbeil for his son R o b e r t F itz Gilbert de Corbeil. There the young man journeyed with his b r i d e t o b egin life in a country as undeveloped as was the great forest o f N e w Y o r k and Pennsylvania at the close of the Revolutionary War. It i s k n o w n i n English History as a wilderness, and the whole country teeme d w i t h w i ld life from the great wild ox of Brittany and the terrible fo re s t w o l f to the smallest varmint, and there was game in abundance of a l l k i n d s for food for the successful hunter. Instead of the Indians of t h e A m e r ican forest, there was the Welshman,who although a white man of g o o d a n c estry, had been forced to become a lurking savage."
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Abt 1130 - Yes, date unknown