Sir Robert Burdet (died 1333) was a

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for

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

and was

Sheriff of Warwickshire This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of the English county of Warwickshire. The High Sheriff, Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the c ...

Origins

He was the son of Hugh Burdet and was a nephew of Sir

William Burdet Sir William Burdet (died pre-1309) of Lowesby Hall, Lowesby in Leicestershire, England, was a Member of Parliament for the county seat of Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency), Leicestershire. Career and Life The Burdet family had been d ...

of Loseby who represented Leicestershire in Parliament in 1297.

Career

He was summoned to Parliament for Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1320, 1325 and 1327 and served as Sheriff from 1328 to 1329.

Marriage and children

He married Elizabeth de Camville, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Gerard de Camville, and by the marriage he inherited the manors of

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and

Seckington Seckington is a village and civil parish in North Warwickshire, about northeast of Tamworth. The B4593 road between Tamworth and Appleby Magna runs through the parish, passing about north of the village. Seckington shares a parish council wi ...

in Warwickshire. By his wife he had children including: *Sir Gerard Burdet (d. abt 1349), of Arrow, Warwickshire, eldest son and heir apparent, predeceased his father. *Sir Robert Burdet (born Seckington, 1345 'Parishes: Seckington', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 198-20

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Bourton-on-Dunsmore Bourton-on-Dunsmore is a small village in Warwickshire, England. It is within the civil parish of Bourton and Draycote, along with the nearby hamlet of Draycote. Bourton is part of the borough of Rugby and is located around south-west of the tow ...

, Warwickshire, eldest surviving son and heir. Ancestor of the

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of Bramcote, Warwickshire (cr.1619). *Isabel Burdet who married Sir John Berkeley of

Wymondham, Leicestershire Wymondham (pronounced, phonetically, ) is a village in the Borough of Melton in Leicestershire, England. It is part of a civil parish which also covers the nearby hamlet of Edmondthorpe. The parish has a population of 623, increasing to 632 ...

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* * * * * Year of birth unknown 1333 deaths English MPs 1325 Anglo-Normans English MPs 1320 Members of the Parliament of England for Leicestershire English MPs 1327 {{14thC-England-MP-stub