Robert Chalons

From his father he inherited small properties in Devon, including Challonsleigh and the manors of Buckerell and Awliscombe, which yielded only about 5 pounds a year.^[1]

On his marriage, Duke Henry awarded the couple an income of 20 marks (over 13 pounds) from the manor of Brecon. Once king, in 1399 Henry granted him the forfeited estates of Sir John Cary and of Sir Thomas Shelley. The Cary holdings included the castle and manor of Great Torrington, four and a half other manors and over 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of land in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, together producing about 230 pounds a year. These were however gradually lost to legal and illegal challenges by Sir Robert Cary and associates so that by 1445 he held none. The Shelley properties in Middlesex he seems to have kept for some years.^[1]

He also enjoyed grants by King Henry IV's nephew, John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, who in 1420 gave him and his wife and their male heirs the manor of Flete Damarell in Holbeton, which in 1447 reverted to the Hollands.^[1]

After the death of his father-in-law in 1409, he and his wife received 400 marks (267 pounds) as their share of his wealth, together with a part of the manor of Eaton Tregoes in Foy, Herefordshire. In Wiltshire he had an income from Upavon worth 60 pounds a year and property at Fonthill Gifford.^[1]

Around 1393, he married Blanche, daughter and later coheiress of Sir Hugh Waterton and his first wife Ellen, daughter of a Lincolnshire landowner Robert Mowbray. A trusted member of the royal household, her father at the time was chamberlain to King Henry IV and her stepmother acted as guardian to the king's daughter Philippa.^[3]

Blanche herself was granted an income by the crown in 1407, with an addition for life in 1410 after the death of her father.^[1] Their children were:

Thomas,^[4] whose history is unknown.^[5]

Henry, who is said to have married Margaret Clifton, and was survived by a son John, who died childless in 1447.^[1]

Elizabeth, who after 1412 married John Ferrers, of Churston Ferrers,^[6] but seems to have had no children.

Catherine (died 1420), who married John St Aubyn (died 1418), of Combe Raleigh. They left two daughters, who became heiresses to the Chalons lands on the death of their cousin John in 1447:^[1]

Joan, who married first Otto Bodrugan, son of William II Bodrugan, and secondly William Dennis,^[4] with him having a daughter Alice who married John Bonville (died 1491).^[4]

Margaret (born 1415), who married Reginald Tretherf, of Trethurffe in Ladock, and had a son John who married Elizabeth Courtenay, sister of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon.^[7]