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Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk

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On 19 May 1318 he had livery of his father's Suffolk lands. He was knighted and received some official employments, being occupied, for example, in 1326 in levying ships for the royal use in Suffolk, and serving in November 1327 on a commission of the peace in the eastern counties under the
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Coat of Arms of Sir William de Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby d'Eresby, KG. HOPE, W. H. St. John, The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485: A Series of Ninety Full-Sized Coloured Facsimiles with Descriptive Notes and Historical Introductions,
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Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company LTD, 1901. "Sir William Willoughby, Lord Willoughby d’Eresby…the arms, which are quarterly: 1 and 4, sable a cross engrailed gold (for Ufford); 2 and 3, gules a mill-iron or miller’s cross silver (for Willoughby).
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which resulted from it, where he commanded, with Salisbury, the third "battle" or the rearward. The Prince's attempted retreat over the Miausson, threw the brunt of the first fighting on Suffolk and Salisbury. On the march back to
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defeated a French force. Suffolk was one of those who advised Edward to select the field of Crécy as his battle-ground; in the English victory he fought in on the left wing. Next morning, 27 August, he took part in the
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The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485: A Series of Ninety Full-Sized Coloured Facsimiles with Descriptive Notes and Historical Introductions
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in 1359. After that he was employed only in embassies, the last of those on which he served being that commissioned on 8 February 1362 to negotiate the proposed marriage of
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On 1 November 1335 Ufford was appointed a member of an embassy empowered to treat with the Scots. He then served in a campaign against them, and was made warden of
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Cecily Ufford (born c. 1327 – died before 29 March 1372), who married William, Lord Willoughby of Eresby. Their son Lord Robert and grandson Lord
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Walter Ufford (born 3 October 1343), third son, who married, before February 1359, Elizabeth de Montagu (c. 1344 – before July 1361), daughter of
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in Suffolk, which had been previously held by his father; he also obtained grants of other lands. On 28 July he was appointed to array and command the levies of
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Suffolk died on 4 November 1369. By his will he requested burial beneath the arch between the chapel of St Nicholas and the high altar of the church of
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Joan Ufford, eldest daughter, who was contracted to marry her father's ward, John de St Philibert; however the marriage did not take place.
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Suffolk's diplomatic activity went on. He was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with France on 25 September 1348, and with
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and others on an embassy to France, and left England along with the two cardinals sent to treat for peace. He attended the king in
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Born 9 August 1298, Robert Ufford was the second but eldest surviving son of Robert Ufford, 1st Baron Ufford (1279–1316),
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It is debated whether Eva was Eva Pecche or Eva Criketot. See 'Prioratus de Ixworth' in W. Dugdale and C. Dodsworth,
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summoned to fight "against the king's rebels". Nevertheless, in October he associated himself with
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held a joint command. On 15 November of the same year he was appointed joint ambassador to
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to make an Anglo-French reconciliation. Next year, on 1 July, Suffolk was associated with
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Margaret Ufford (born c. 1330 – died before 25 May 1368), who married Sir
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quartered the arms of Ufford (Q1 and Q4) and Willoughby (Q2 and Q3). Thenceforth the
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J.M. Blatchly, 'Two fourteenth century Ufford family memorials by Isaac Johnson',
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Fisher, George, Companion and Key to the History of England, Lonndon, 1832, p.674
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and other allies, and on 7 October they were also commissioned to treat with
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Monastici Anglicani, Volumen Alterum, De Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis
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Ormrod, W.M. (2004). "Ufford, Robert, first earl of Suffolk (1298–1369)".
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of the king dated 13 January 1308, by which he is deemed to have become a
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In 1314 he married Margaret de Norwich (died 2 April 1368), daughter of
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contributed, that Suffolk was freed. He took part in a tournament at
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In his declining years Suffolk devoted himself to the removal of
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Now 58 years old, Suffolk took part in the expedition into the
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He was employed on state affairs down to the end of the rule of
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Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
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Katherine Ufford (born c. 1317, date of death unknown) married
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After Edward's return to England, Suffolk stayed behind with
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Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004).
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Maud Ufford, who became a nun at the Augustinian priory in
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Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
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Robert Ufford, who predeceased his father without issue.
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Suffolk served through the English intervention in the
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in September 1344. he was one of the early members of
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adopted the arms of Ufford in lieu of their own arms.
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Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk

KG
Earl of Suffolk
lord of the manor
Ufford, Suffolk
writ
baron
Tolleshunt Tregoz
Justiciar of Ireland
Maud of Lancaster
statute of Winchester
Edward III
Amiens
Isabella of France
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Orford Castle
Norfolk
Suffolk
William de Montacute
Nottingham
Nottingham Castle
Cawston
Fakenham
Norfolk
Cripplegate
John Maltravers
Edward III's
Bothwell Castle
Admiral of the North

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