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Robert de Stafford

Male 1036 - 1088  (~ 52 years)


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  • Name Robert de Stafford 
    Born cir 1036  Tosny, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aug 1088  Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I148857  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 22 Aug 2007 

    Father Roger De Toeni,   b. cir 990, Tosny, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Godeheut Borrell,   b. cir 995 
    Family ID F23596  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Adelize de Clare,   b. 1053, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1138  (Age 85 years) 
    Children 
     1. Nicholas de Stafford,   b. cir 1075, Stone, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. William D'Aubigny,   b. cir 1086, Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1155, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F59456  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Robert and Nigel, younger sons of Roger de Tony, accompanied Duke William to England. Robert, at the time of the general survey, possessed near 150 lordships, whereof Stafford being his residence he thence assumed that surname.

      He received Stafford Castle in England from William the Conqueror, and became the ancestor of the Stafford family (he must have stood very high with William, as he owned 81 manors of Stafford. 26 in Warwick and others, amounting to 131 in all) (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 608)

      Robert de Todeni, or Toeny, is the earliest known ancestor of the Surety, William d'Albini. "Of this Robert," wrote Dugdale, "I have not seen any other memorial than that the coucher book of Belvoir recordeth that bearing a venerable esteem to our some time much celebrated proto martyr, Saint Alban. He founded near his castle a priory for monks and annexed it as a cell to that great abbey in Hertfordshire, formerly erected by the devout King Offa in the honour of that most holy man." Robert de Todenei, the 1st feudal lord, or baron, by tenure of Belvoir Castle died in 1088, leaving by his wife Adela five children, of whom the eldest son and heir was William de Albini, called Brito. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 758)

      ROBERT DE TODENI, a noble Norman, upon whom the Conqueror bestowed the lordship of Belvoir in Lincolnshire, where he built that famous castle, the chief seat of his barony, died 1088; married Adela. (Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 111)

      Robert de Stafford (Robert de Toeni) (c.1036 - 1088) was a Norman nobleman, the builder of Stafford Castle in England. He held a large number of lordships in the Domesday Survey, a high proportion lying in Staffordshire. They included Barlaston, and Bradley. He is buried in Evesham Abbey, He was son of Roger II de Tosny, and so brother of Raoul III de Conches.

      He married Adelisa de Savona, with whom he had a daughter Adelisa de Tosny, who married Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk. He then married Avice de Clare, with whom he had 3 sons. (Wikipedia)