Research Notes:
Complete Peerage states, [1]
Robert de Ufford, s. and h [of Robert de Ufford], by 1st wife, is said to have been b. 11 June 1279.(a) He was frequently sum. for service against the Scots, 1301-16.(b) On 4 May 1304 he had a grant to himself and his heirs of free warren at Parham and Wickham, Suffolk.(c) He was sum. to Parl. from 4 Mar. (1308/9) 2 Edw. II to 19 Dec. (1311) 5 Edw. II, by writs directed Roberto de Ufford, whereby he is held to have become Lord Ufford. On 12 Sep. 1309 he was about to go to Ireland.(d) He m., before 1298, Cecily, yr. da. and coh. of Robert de Valoines (e) by Eve, widow of Nicholas Tregoz (d. shortly before 2 June 1279), of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex.(f) He d. on or before 9 Sep. 1316, aged 37.(g) His widow, who was aged 1 in 1282 and was going on pilgrimage beyond the seas in Feb. 1318/9, d. 16 July 1325, aged 44.(h)
(a) His father's inq. p.m. The King had taken his homage before 18 July 1302, but he is still described as a minor, 10 July 1301 and 5 Aug. 1302 (Cal. Close Rolls, 1296-1302, pp. 532, 544; Cal. Docs. [I.], 1293-1301, no. 820).
(b) Parl. Writs.
(c) Cal. Charter Rolls, vol. iii, p. 41.
(d) Cal. Patent Rolls, 1307-13, p. 189.
(e) Cecily and her sister and coh., Rose, wife of Edmund de Pakenham, were also coheirs of their paternal great-grandmother, Isabel, wife of John de Valoines, sister and (in her issue, 1306) coh. of Bartholomew de Creke, of North Creake, Norfolk, and Combs, Suffolk, da. of Robert de Creke, of the same. See Cal. Close Rolls, 1302-07, pp. 393-95, 465, 467-70; Cal. Fine Rolls, vol. i, p. 539; Copinger, Manors of Suffolk, vol. vi, pp. 150-51; ante, vol.-xii, pt. 1, p. 717, note sub Thorpe (of Norfolk).
(f) Cal. Inq. p.m., vol. ii, nos. 432, 468; vol. iii, no. 150; Cal. Fine Rolls, vol. i, pp. 112,319; Cal. Close Rolls, 1279-88, p. 168; Top. and Gen., vol. ii, p. 126; Morant, Hist. of Essex, vol. i, p. 395. She is commonly described as Eva Criketot, presumably of the family of Criketot of Ousden, Suffolk (cf. Copinger, op. cit., vol. i, p. 333; vol. v, p. 274).
(g) Cal. Fine Rolls, vol. ii, p. 299; Cal. Inq. p.m., vol. vi, no. 58. From the arms displayed on a tomb at Rendlesham, Suffolk, discovered in 1785, Gough suggests that he and his wife were bur. there (Sep. Mon., vol. i, pt. 2, p. 217).
(h) Cal. Inq. p.m., vol. ii, no. 432; vol. vi, no. 686; Cal. Fine Rolls, vol. iii, p. 354; Cal. Patent Rolls, 1317-21, p. 272.
(i) When Sir Robert de Ufford and Cecilia, his wife, settled the manor of
Roughton, Norfolk, on William, their s. and h. (Blomefield, Hist, of Norfolk, vol. viii, p. 156; cf. Rye, Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk, pt. ii, p. 231).
[1] George E. Cokayne and Geoffrey H White, ed., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 12, part 2, Tracton to Zouche (London: St Catherine Press, 1959), 150.