Robert de Chacombe was recorded as holding a third of Strubby by 1210/12 as an escheat owing to felony. Strubby, Lincoln, as held by Adam de Welles in 1311 was identified as being held in chief for the service of castle guard at Dover, Kent. Reginald de Cornhill was king's justiciar and also sheriff of Kent (the caput of the shrievalty being at Dover castle) from 1192-98 and for the latter part of king John's reign. Hugh de Chaucombe, Robert's father, served as a king's justiciar in the 1190s, so this would most likely be the key to the marriage between the families. Reginald's father, Gervase, had been sheriff of Kent in 1170-74, and his brother, Henry, in 1189-92, so it is undoubtedly through this family that William de Cornhill obtained Strubby and is likely to be the same William de Cornhill who in 1205/06 gave his property in Maidstone, Kent, worth 83 pounds annually to Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury, and his successors [Hasted, 2nd ed. v.4 p.286]. 2
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7 Jul 1221
Alan of Barcheston gives the king half a mark for having a pone before the itinerant justices against Robert of Chalcombe , concerning a carucate of land with appurtenances in Aspley Heath. He has the writ.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 5 Hen. III, 231
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13 Aug 1227, Brackley
Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to cause the corn that Peter de Crabbeden’ has in his land of Kirby to be arrested for the debt that he owes the king of the amercement made before the justices who were last itinerant in those parts, for which Robert of Chalcombe was his pledge, so that the king need not betake himself to the same Robert for the aforesaid debt as long as his corn will suffice.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 11 Hen. III, 325
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In 15 Hen. III [1231] by a Fine levied between Gilbert de Segrave and Annabil his wife, plaintiffs, and Robert de Chaucombe, deforciant, the said Robert having given her the said Annabil, his eldest daughter, in marriage to the same Gilbert; and Milicent, the other daughter, to Raph Basset, settled his lands lying in the counties of Northampton, Warwick, Leicester and Lincoln so as if he should fortune to have any other heir besides them two, the said Gilbert and Annabil, and the heirs of Annabil, to enjoy the moitie only of this Mannour of Aspele, and the other moitie to go unto the said Raph Basset, and Milicent, and the heirs of Milicent for ever. 3
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