Lord Robert de Scales (1372–1402) was involved in an expedition to

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. He was Commissioner of the Peace for Norfolk from 1399 to 1401, and was the steward of the son and heir of

Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG (22 March 136622 September 1399) was an English peer. As a result of his involvement in the power struggles which led up to the fall of King Richard II, he was banished and died in exile in Venice. B ...

due to his minority. He was one of the Peers who voted for

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to be crowned King of England.House of Lords, ''Supplemental Case of the House of Lords 1857'' Due to poor health, Robert died at the age of 30 on 7 December 1402.Philip Morant, ''The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex''

Residences

Robert held Rivenhall in

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, Newsells in

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,Patent Rolls Wylton in

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

and Dalham in

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.Feudal Aids 1284-1431

Family

Robert married Elizabeth, daughter of

William, 4th Baron Bardolf William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf and 3rd Baron Damory (21 October 1349 – 29 January 1386) of Wormegay, Wormegay, Norfolk, was an extensive landowner in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Surrey. He was the son of John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Ba ...

. They had the following children:- * Richard de Scales, held Wetherden, Suffolk from 1401 to 1402 *

Robert de Scales, 6th Baron Scales Robert de Scales (c. 1395–1418) died unmarried, and at an early age, and was succeeded by his brother Thomas.Philip Morant, ''The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex'' On 8 May 1410 an order to seize Robert and deliver him to the Tre ...

(died 1418) * Lord

Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales Thomas Scales, 7th Baron Scales (9 October 1399 – 20 July 1460) was an English nobleman and one of the main English military commanders in the last phase of the Hundred Years' War. The son of Robert de Scales, 5th Baron Scales (c. 1372–1402 ...

(1397–1460)

References

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