Robert Pantulf (

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1130) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. Pantulf was the son of

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and Lescelina.Keats-Rohan ''Domesday Descendants'' p. 1059 Robert was the second son. His father was the first Baron of Wem and the family was originally from

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in the

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region of Normandy.Sanders ''English Baronies'' p. 94 Robert's brothers were Philip, Ivo, and Arnald.Keats-Rohan ''Domesday People'' pp. 493–494 Pantulf first enters the historical record when around 1088 he was involved in an attack on Holy Trinity Abbey in

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.Meisel ''Barons of the Welsh Frontier'' p. 26 Pantulf was accused of stealing of silver from the nuns of the abbey.Bateson "Pantulf, William" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Around 1130, Pantulf was the witness on a charter of Wiliam, the constable of

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, along with an Ivo Pantulf, who may be either Robert's brother or son. Pantulf also appears on the

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of 1130, where he is mentioned as one of the adversaries in a

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to settle a dispute with Hugh Malbanc. Malbanc was a neighbor of Pantulf's. There is no record of whether this duel was ever fought or what the outcome was. Pantulf succeeded to his father's lands in England around 1112, with the Norman lands going to Robert's eldest brother Philip.Sanders ''English Baronies'' p. 94 footnote 7 Robert also succeeded to his father's English lordship and is considered the second Baron of Wem. The barony was centered in

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, and had at least 11 manors in Hodnet hundred in

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. There were other manors in Shropshire as well as lands in

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and

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. Pantulf died sometime before early 1138, probably between December 1137 and May 1138. Other sources imply that he was dead before 18 October 1130, when his son was named as Baron of Wem as a witness to a charter. His heir was his son, Ivo Pantulf.

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