Robert, temp. William II. and Henry I. (?1100 - ?1135) who (in a charter in 1316) is named with his son as the joint founders of the Cistercian Abbey of Swineshead co. Lincoln (a daughter house to Furness), and who in 1131 gave to the abbey his mill at Mamecestre. He is supposed to have died about 1135, and to have been buried in his Lincolnshire Abbey. But this account in at variance with the Annals of Peterborough and Parco Lude, which state that Robert de Greslei founded the abbey in 1134; while the Book of Furness places its foundation nine years later, in 1143. Such is the uncertainty as to early facts and dates. Robert was succeeded by his son...
