 Abt 1224 - Bef 1277 (< 52 years)
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| Name |
WYTTENEYE Robert |
| Birth |
Abt 1224 |
England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Bef 1277 |
Herefordshire, England |
| Notes |
- WRG Biographical Information
The following information is from the Whitney Research Group's page on Robert. See that page for source citations.[1]
Robert de Whitney, parentage unknown, was born before 1224 (and perhaps much earlier), perhaps at Whitney, Herefordshire, and died after 1242. He was probably a 4th or 5th generation descendant of Eustace.
He had a brother Eustace, parson of Pencombe.
Nothing is known of his wife.
Research Notes
In 2015, a EuroAristo leader attached Robert (Whitney) de Whitney (abt.1195-) as father (marked as Uncertain), adding the WRG source at the same time.[2]
The profile had been created in 2012 with the nickname "the Fleming" - and birth in Belgium. Subsequent edits changed birth location to England; I deleted "the Fleming" in 2021. ~ Noland-165, 31 May 2021
One of the WRG source citations was Melville, page 15,[3] which includes a discussion of two deeds, 175 years apart, that had been conflated:
From these it clearly appears that there was a Sir Eustace de Wytteneye in the days of Reginald the Abbot, 1263-84; that he had an ancestor Eustace; that the latter was the son of Turstin, a Fleming, by his wife Agnes; and that said Agnes either owned or had some special interest in the land at Pencombe.[3]
They do not justify the statement that the first Eustace had the name of De Wytteneye. For reasons stated later, it is not improbable that either he or his son bore it; but there is nothing by which to prove it conclusively. Domesday Book, however, gives considerable interesting information about Turstin and Agnes.[3]
Sources
↑ The Whitney Reseach Group (WRG): Robert de Whitney (b1210-a1242), accessed 28 August 2022).
↑ WRG: Eustace de Whitney (b1256-a1301), accessed 28 August 2022.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 15.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I15905
http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Robert_de_(b1210-a1242)
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| Person ID |
I60225 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Family |
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| Children |
| | 1. WYTTENEYE Eustace, b. Abt 1256, Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England d. 1301, Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England (Age 45 years) [Father: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F347647 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
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