Robert Burdet (Warks MP 1320)

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Sir Robert Burdet
Burdet of Huncote Arms.jpg
Arms of Robert Burdet: Azure, two bars or each charged with three martlets gules [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Knight of the Shire for Warwickshire
Member of Parliament
In office
1320, 1325, 1327
Monarch Edward II
Sheriff of Warwickshire
In office
1329
Monarch Edward III
Personal details
Died1333 [2]
Spouse(s)Elizabeth de Camville
ChildrenSir Gerard Burdet
Sir Robert Burdet
Isabel Burdet
ParentsHugh Burdet [3]

Sir Robert Burdet (died 1333) was a Member of Parliament for Warwickshire and was Sheriff of Warwickshire.

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Origins

He was the son of Hugh Burdet and was a nephew of Sir William Burdet of Loseby who represented Leicestershire in Parliament in 1297.

Career

He was summoned to Parliament for Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1320, 1325 and 1327 and served as Sheriff from 1328 to 1329. [4]

Marriage and children

He married Elizabeth de Camville, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Gerard de Camville, and by the marriage he inherited the manors of Arrow [lower-alpha 2] and Seckington in Warwickshire. [3] By his wife he had children including:

Notes

  1. the martlets were a difference added to the original Burdet arms based on the fact that Robert's father, Hugh Burdet, was a third son, the difference for whom is a martlet.
  2. which had passed to the Camvilles upon their marriage to Albreda, daughter of Geoffrey, Baron Marmion of Llanstephan

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References

  1. ParlWrits 1827, p. 417.
  2. Betham 1884
  3. 1 2 Betham 1884, p. 160
  4. Harleian 1929 , p. 157
  5. 1 2 Betham 1884 , p. 161
  6. 'Parishes: Seckington', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 198-200
  7. Taylor 1996 , p. 95

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