Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Robert ya fito ne daga dangi mai wadataccen gida, kasancewar shi ne ɗan na 3 na John "Wynn" ap Maredudd, kuma ya shiga aikin Sir Walter Stonor na farko sannan kuma Sir Philip Hoby, duka masu gudanarwa da manyan jami'ai ga Sarki Henry VIII. Robert ya yi fada kuma ya ji rauni a
Siege na Boulogne a 1544, ya shiga cikin yakin basasa na Scottish na Sarki kuma ya yi tafiya sosai a Turai. Ya saka hannun jari a cikin ƙasa a duk Arewacin Wales kuma ya auri matarsa ta farko, Dorothy Griffith, memba na mazaunin gida, a 1570. Yanzu Robert yana bukatar gida mai kyau da zai zauna da iyalinsa kuma ya zaɓi Conwy, wani gari mai arziki da aka san shi a ƙarni na 16 da mutanen da ba Yahudawa ba ne. Ya gina gidan Plas Mawr a can tsakanin 1576 da 1585.