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Birth:          ABT 1214 Thwing, Yorkshire, England
Death:          AFT 1256 Kilton Castle, Cleveland, Yorkshire, England
Burial:         Thwing Church, Yorkshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I07728
ROBERT DE THWENG, son and heir, was leader in 1231, under the name William 
Wither, of the attacks on the alien clergy who were appointed to livings by the Pope. 
Negotiations with the papacy continued long after the unrest had ended, and in 1239 
Robert took to Rome a letter of protest from the lay patrons. Nothing is known of his 
activities in Rome, but the mission was successful; for in the same year Pope Gregory 
IX wrote to Richard, Earl of Cornwall, recognising the rights of English lay patrons. 
Robert accompanied the Earl on crusade in 1240, and in September 1240 he went, as 
Richard's envoy, from Marseilles to the Emperor Frederick II, bearing information about 
the quarrel between the Earl and the papal legates, who were trying to stop the 
crusade. Robert returned to England in 1242, possibly with Richard of Cornwall, and in 
1245 his lands were seized by the Crown, because in the royal hall of Windsor he 
attacked Richard de Sarr', a clerk of the Archbishop of York. During 1246 he was an 
attorney in pleadings and he witnessed charters; and he is last mentioned in a final 
concord dated 17 June I246.

He married, before January 1228/9, Maud, widow of Richard DE AUTREY, possibly 
daughter of Roger DE KILTON, niece and heir of William DE KILTON. She brought to 
the Thwengs the manor and castle of Kilton, together with lands in Kilton Thorpe, 
North Riding, and Kirkleatham, East Riding, held of the Percies (a). The dates of the 
deaths of Robert and Maud are not known (b). [Complete Peerage XII/1:737-8, 
(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(a) The Thwengs now moved from the East Riding to Kilton Castle, in the Cleveland 
district of North Riding.

(b) L'Anson says that he d. in 1247 at Thwing, where he was buried in the church, but 
no authority is cited. A Robert de Thweng is mentioned in 1253/4 and 1256.

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A knight - Sir Robert de Thweng

1232-Took the name Will Wither while harrying the clergy who were farming the 
benefices granted to them by the Pope.
1239-Duputized by the Barons to go to Rome and plead their case to the Pope
1240-Accompanied Richard, Earl of Caronwall and brother of King Henry III, on 
Crusade
1240-Envoy of Richard, Earl of Cornwall to Emporer Frederick II

Inherited Kilton Castle through his wife who as the heiress of William de Kilton. Held 
Thweng, Lund

Parents
DE THWENG Marmaduke (BEF 1178 - AFT 23 Nov 1233)
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Siblings
DE THWENG Robert (ABT 1214 - AFT 1256)

Marriage To DE KILTON Maud (ABT 1215 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE KILTON Roger (1194 - AFT 1255)
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Children by DE KILTON Maud ABT 1215 - 
DE THWENG Marmaduke (ABT 1234 - AFT 1294)

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