Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameSir Robert Manners 
[76, p.341], [54, His co-article], [56, Yorks of 1563-4, pub Harleian 1881, Ogle, p. 233]
[76, p.341], [54, His co-article], [56, Yorks of 1563-4, pub Harleian 1881, Ogle, p. 233]Birthca 1430
Death1461
GeneralOf Etal, Northumberland. Sheriff of Norhtumberland. MP
FatherSir John Manners (-ca1460)
MotherAnne Middleton
Notes for Sir Robert Manners
Either grandson or great-grandson of the main DNB article on Sir Robert Manners who died in 1355. The inheritance of Etal is certain but the number of generations is not!
DNB Main notes for Sir Robert Manners
Co-subject: Manners, Sir Robert
Dates: 1408-1461?
Active Date: 1448
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law, Politics, Government and Political Movements
Occupation: Sheriff, 1454, and MP for Northumberland, 1459
The second Sir Robert Manners 1408-1461? was probably grandson of Sir John Manners and great-great-grandson of the first Sir Robert. He was a justice of the peace for Norhamshire in 1438, when he succeeded to the family property, was sheriff of Northumberland in 1454, and M.P. for Northumberland in 1459. He died about 1461, and was buried in the church of the Austin Friars, London. He married Johanna, daughter of Sir Robert Ogle, and sister of Robert, first lord Ogle [q.v.], and by her, who died in 1488, left four sons: 1. Sir Robert Manners, sheriff of Northumberland in 1463, 1465, when he was knighted, and 1485, who married Eleanor, daughter of Lord Roos, and so brought that title into the Manners family; he was grandfather of Thomas Manners, first earl of Rutland [q.v.]. 2. John Manners (d. 1492). 3. Gilbert Manners, a retainer of the Earl of Warwick. 4. Thomas Manners of Etal.
Sources
Raine's North Durham, pp. 211, &c.; Cal. of Docs. relating to Scotland, 1307-1509; Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, vol. i.; Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense, ed. Hardy (Rolls Series), vols. iii. and iv.; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. 41.
Contributor: W. A. J. A.
published 1893
Dates: 1408-1461?
Active Date: 1448
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law, Politics, Government and Political Movements
Occupation: Sheriff, 1454, and MP for Northumberland, 1459
The second Sir Robert Manners 1408-1461? was probably grandson of Sir John Manners and great-great-grandson of the first Sir Robert. He was a justice of the peace for Norhamshire in 1438, when he succeeded to the family property, was sheriff of Northumberland in 1454, and M.P. for Northumberland in 1459. He died about 1461, and was buried in the church of the Austin Friars, London. He married Johanna, daughter of Sir Robert Ogle, and sister of Robert, first lord Ogle [q.v.], and by her, who died in 1488, left four sons: 1. Sir Robert Manners, sheriff of Northumberland in 1463, 1465, when he was knighted, and 1485, who married Eleanor, daughter of Lord Roos, and so brought that title into the Manners family; he was grandfather of Thomas Manners, first earl of Rutland [q.v.]. 2. John Manners (d. 1492). 3. Gilbert Manners, a retainer of the Earl of Warwick. 4. Thomas Manners of Etal.
Sources
Raine's North Durham, pp. 211, &c.; Cal. of Docs. relating to Scotland, 1307-1509; Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, vol. i.; Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense, ed. Hardy (Rolls Series), vols. iii. and iv.; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. 41.
Contributor: W. A. J. A.
published 1893