TOSNY, Baron Robert de

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• Name	TOSNY, Robert de
  Prefix	Baron
  Birth	1 Mar 1030	Toesni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Aug 1088	Evesham Abbey, Wychavon, Worcestershire, England
  Death	4 Aug 1088	Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
  WAC	10 Mar 1923
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  Person ID	I15625	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	TOENI, Sir Roger ,   b. Abt 990, Tosny, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Tosny, Eure, Haute-Normandie, Franced. May 1039, Conches, Haute-Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 49 years)
  Mother	BARCELONA, Estefania de ,   b. 23 Jul 1010, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain Barcelona, Cataluña, Spaind. 25 Jul 1077, Conches, Seine-Et-Marne, Île-De-France, France (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	1015	Conches, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France   [1]
  Family ID	F7346	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	ADELA, Baroness Adeliza ,   b. 1042, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Leicester, Leicestershire, Englandd. 16 Apr 1118, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England (Age 76 years)
  Children	1 son and 1 daughter
  + 1. TOSNY, Countess Alice de ,   b. 1052, Earsham, Suffolk, England Earsham, Suffolk, Englandd. 1136, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England (Age 84 years)   2. TOSNY, Lord William de ,   b. 1060, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
  Family ID	F8465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  In 'Collections for a history of Staffordshire' (1880) we are introduced to the following account of the events surrounding the case know as The Devil of Drakelowe and the abandonment of the hamlet. T Robert de was born circa 1036 at Tosni, Normandy, France. He later became known as Robert de Stafford. He was the son of Roger de Tosni and Adelaide Borrell of Barcelona. Robert married Adelisa de Sav Not to be confused with Robert de Tosny, Lord of Stafford, who may have been his cousin. From WIkipedia: Robert de Todeni was a Norman nobleman who held lands in England after the Norman Conquest. Robert held lands in Guerny and Vesly in Normandy.[1] The family was probably a branch of the Tosny family that originated near Eure in Normandy.[2] In Domesday Book Robert is listed as the lord of Belvoir, Lincolnshire.[1] This lordship is considered a feudal barony, making Robert the first baron of Belvoir.[3] Besides the lands around Belvoir, Robert also received lands in Yorkshire[4] and Leicestershire.[5] These lands had been held prior to the Conquest by Thorgautr Lagr, and others. Robert's son Berengar was given Thorgautr's lands in Oxfordshire and Nottinghamshire, which he may have held from his father.[4] Robert also had lands in Northamptonshire, located south of Rockingham. Three of these manors were previously owned by Oswulf, probably Oswulf son of Fran.[5] Robert may have been the first castellan of Rockingham Castle.[5] Robert and his wife founded Belvoir Priory,[1] sometime between 1076 and 1088 as a priory of St Albans Abbey.[6] The choice to make Belvoir a dependent priory of St Albans may have been because Oswulf, previous owner of some of his lands, had also given lands to St Albans.[7] Robert married Adelais. They had three sons – Berengar, William, and Geoffrey – as well as Albreda, Adelisa, and Agnes. Berengar inherited the Norman lands and William inherited the English lands. All three sons died without offspring, leaving their sisters as the eventual heiresses. Albreda was the eldest daughter and married Robert de Insula and died before 1129 without issue.[1] Adelisa married Roger Bigod,[8] and died after August 1127.[3] Agnes, the youngest daughter, married first Ralph de Beaufour and second Hubert de Ryes. Belvoir eventually went to Cecilia Bigod, the youngest daughter of Adelisa and Roger and the Norman lands going to Hugh Bigod, son or Adelisa and Roger.[1] Agnes is not recorded as having inherited any of lands connected with the barony of Belvoir.[3] The historian Judith Green speculates that because Berengar did not inherit any of the English lands, he may have been the son of an earlier marriage of Robert's.[9] Robert died around 1093,[1] although some older sources give a date of 1088.[3] He was buried at Belvoir Priory,[10] according to the priory's own history.[11] [Source: Wikipedia, "Robert de Todeni", retrieved 30 October 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]

  
  

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  [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Roger De Conches THE SPAINIARD De Toeni; Male; Death: About 1038; Father: Ralph II Rodulf De Toeni; Mother: Mrs Ralph Rodulf De Toeni; Spouse: Godeheut Godehilde Borrell; Marriage: About 1015 Of Conches, , Seine-Et-Marne, France; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 27 Nov 2004