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Name:
Robert De Toeni
 Relationship to Esther de STOURTON
Birth:
1031 Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France
Father:
Roger II "The Spaniard" Conches De Toeni
Mother:
Godeheut (Godehilde) Barcelona
Married:
Adeliza De Savona 1st Wife
Children:
Beringar De Toeni
Born: ABT 1057 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
Died: ABT 1116
Geffery De Toeni
Born: ABT 1059 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
Died: DECEASED
William De Toeni
Born: ABT 1060 Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
Died: DECEASED
Robert De Toeni
Born: ABT 1061 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
Died: DECEASED
Eudo De Toeni
Born: ABT 1065 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
Died: DECEASED
Adeliza (Alice) De Toeni
Born: ABT 1070 St Saveur, Normandy, France
Died: AFT 1130 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
Agnes De Toeni
Born: ABT 1074 St Saveur, Normandy, France
Died: DECEASED
Married:
Avice De Clare BEF 1075 2ND Wife
Children:
Nicholas De Stafford
Born: ABT 1075 Stafford, Staffordshire, England
Died: AFT 1138 Stone Priory, Staffordshire, England
Nigel De Stafford
Born: ABT 1076 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1115 Drakelow, Staffordshire, England
Death:
4 AUG 1088 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England aged 57
Remarks:
Name Suffix: (Lord Of Belvoir)
1 NAME Robert De /Stafford/
2 GIVN Robert De
2 SURN Stafford
2 NSFX Sheriff Of Staffordshire


Amongst the most distinguished companion in arms of the Conqueror was Robert de Todeni, a nobleman of Normandy, upon whom the victorious monarch conferred, with numerous other grants, an estate in the county of Lincoln upon the borders of Leicestershire. Here de Todeni erected a stately castle and, from the fair view it commanded, gave it the designation of Belvoir Castle, and here he established his chief abode. At the time of the General Survey, this powerful personage possessed no less than eighty extensive lordships, viz., two in Yorkshire, one in Essex, four in Suffolk, one in Cambridge, two in Hertfordshire, three in Bucks, four in Gloucestershire, three in Bedfordshire, nine in Northamptonshire, two in Rutland, thirty-two in Lincolnshire, and seventeen in Leicestershire. "of this Robert," saith Dugdale, "I have not seen any other memorial than that the Coucher-Bookof Belvoir recordeth: which is, that bearing a venerable esteem to our sometime much celebrated protomartyr, St. Alban, he founded near to 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 honour of that most holy man." Robert de Todeni, Lord of Belvoir, d. in 1088, leaving issue by his wife Adela, William, who assumed the surname of Albini; Berenger; Geoffrey; Robert; and Agnes. He was s. by his eldest son, William de Albini, Brito, Lord of Belvoir. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 160, Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl of Bridgewater]

Name Suffix: [BARON OF BELVOI
Ancestral File Number: HRN0-HQ

Note: Robert was father of Adeliza who married Roger Bigod and had Cecily,who married William de Albini. William did succeed Robert as Lord of Belvoir but as a grandson0in-law, not as a son.

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