Sir Robert de Braybrook

Robert de BRAYBROOK was born 1168 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England, and died 1214

Robert de Braybroke, High Sheriff of Bucks, Beds, Northants and Rutland, also Master of the Great Wardrobe. He accumulated large amounts of land in Northants, Leics, Beds, Bucks and Essex, mainly by buying the mortgages of people who could not pay them back. One such debt he paid off was that of Wischard Ledet, who owned Chipping Warden, and as a result Ledet's daughter and heir married his son Henry. He died 1211.

• parents: Albreda de NEWMARCHE (Ivo de NEWMARCHE , Lord of Braybrooke1) was born ABT 1146 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England. She married Ingebaldus de BRAYBROOK, son of Ingelbaldus and Awbreia. He was born ABT 1146 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England, and died ABT 1167.

Ref:

1. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=jweber&id...
2. http://mauriceboddy.org.uk/Ledet.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_of_Braybrooke