Robert Corbet (died 1417)

Sir Robert Corbet (c. 1354 – 5 July 1417) was an English landowner, Member of Parliament (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 Tubney. During his lifetime he accrued several estates by marriage.

He was made Constable of Berkhampstead castle in 1399 for life. He was a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Hertfordshire from 1401 to 1407. He was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire for 1406–07 and 1410–11, High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1408–09, and High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1413–15. During the latter term of office he was, somewhat unusually, also an MP for Suffolk.

He was elected MP for Wiltshire in 1385 and 1397, for Hertfordshire in 1402 and 1404 and twice for Suffolk in 1414.^[1]

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.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Woodger, L. S. "CORBET, Sir Robert (c.1354-1417), of Hadley, Salop, Berkhampstead, Herts. and Assington, Suff". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 March 2023.

External links[edit]

Inquisition Post Mortem #737-741, dated 1417.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Thomas Hungerford Unknown	Member of Parliament for Wiltshire 1385 With: Unknown	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Hungerford Sir Ralph Cheyne
Preceded by Sir John Lilborne John Gawen	Member of Parliament for Wiltshire 1397 With: Sir John Roches	Succeeded by Sir Henry Green Sir Thomas Blount
Preceded by Sir Thomas de la Barre Robert Newport	Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire 1402–1404 With: Sir John Poultney	Succeeded by Sir John Poultney William Parker
Preceded by John Spencer John Lancaster	Member of Parliament for Suffolk 1414 With: Sir William Phelip	Succeeded by Unknown
Political offices
Preceded by Sir William Langford	High Sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1406–1407	Succeeded by John Wilcotes
Preceded by Walter Beauchamp	High Sheriff of Wiltshire 1408–1409	Succeeded by William Cheyne
Preceded by Sir Peter Bessels	High Sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1410–1411	Succeeded by Sir William Lisle
Preceded by John Brugge	High Sheriff of Shropshire 1413–1415	Succeeded by Sir Richard Lacon

[HoP-1] Woodger, L. S. "CORBET, Sir Robert (c.1354-1417), of Hadley, Salop, Berkhampstead, Herts. and Assington, Suff". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 March 2023.

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