Robert de Morley, 6th

Baron Morley Baron Morley was a title in the peerage of England. On 29 December 1299 William Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned to Parliament, regarded as the creation of a hereditary barony. At the death of the sixth ...

(20 November 1418 – 25 September 1442) was a baron in the

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, Lord of Morley, Hingham,

Hockering Hockering is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Hockering is located east of Dereham and north-west of Norwich, along the A47. History Hockering's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English fo ...

, &c., in

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. He was the son of Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley and Lady Isabel de la Pole. He married prior to May 1442, Elizabeth, daughter of

William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros ( – 1 November 1414), was a medieval English nobleman, politician and soldier. The second son of Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron Ros, and Beatrice Stafford, William inherited his father's feudal barony and estates ( ...

.Complete Peerage, Vol. IX, p. 219 and died at age 23 without male issue. At his death in 1443, the barony was inherited by his daughter Alianore de Morley. She became the wife of Sir William Lovel, who was summoned to parliament as Baron Morley jure uxoris and died in 1476, shortly before her. Their son became

Henry Lovel, 8th Baron Morley Henry Lovel (or Lovell), 8th Baron Morley (died 1489) was an English peer and translator, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk. He was the son of Alianore Lovel, 7th Baroness Morley, née Morley, (1442–1476) and her husba ...

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