Sir Robert Corbet (c. 1354 – 5 July 1417) was an English landowner,

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(MP) and High Sheriff. He was born the son and heir of Sir Robert Corbet (c. 1330 – 1404) of Kings Bromley, Staffordshire and Hadley, Shropshire. He was knighted by July 1372, after military service in France under the command of Thomas of Woodstock from June to September 1378. His chief place of residence was Assington in Suffolk. His Berkshire home was at

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. During his lifetime he accrued several estates by marriage. He was made Constable of Berkhampstead castle in 1399 for life. He was a

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(J.P.) for Hertfordshire from 1401 to 1407. He was appointed

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and

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for 1406–07 and 1410–11,

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for 1408–09, and

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for 1413–15. During the latter term of office he was, somewhat unusually, also an MP for Suffolk. He was elected MP for

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in 1385 and 1397, for

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in 1402 and 1404 and twice for

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in 1414. He died in 1417. He had married three times: firstly Alice, the daughter and heiress of Sir John Langton of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire; secondly Joan, daughter and coheir of Ralph Broc of Northchurch, Hertfordshire and the widow of Sir Peter Scudamore of Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire; and thirdly another Joan, the daughter of Sir John Thornbury and widow of both William Peyto of Chesterton, Warwickshire and John Knightley of Gnosall, Staffordshire. He was succeeded by his daughter Sibyl, wife of John Greville of Sezincote, Gloucestershire. After Greville's death in 1444, his estates passed to the son of Sir Robert's half-brother, Sir Guy Corbet.

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#737-741, dated 1417. {{DEFAULTSORT:Corbet, Robert 1417 deaths High Sheriffs of Berkshire High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire High Sheriffs of Shropshire High Sheriffs of Wiltshire English MPs 1385 English MPs January 1397 English MPs 1402 English MPs January 1404 English MPs April 1414 English MPs November 1414 Members of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire 15th-century English politicians Year of birth uncertain Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Wiltshire