General Notes

WAITE, FOSTER LINE

!Feudal lord of Belvoir Castle, in Lincolnshire, possessed of 80 lordships at the time of the General Survey, d. 1088. Oldest son by wife Adela is said to be William D'Albini-Brito. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 71]

3rd son of Raoul de Toeni. Present at Hastings, and held 80 manors in 13 counties at the compilation of Domesday. His chief seat was on the border of Lincoln and Leicester, where he built Belvoir Castle. d. 1088 leaving issue, William d'Albini Brito; Berenger de Belvoir, who held a great barony in Yorkshire; Geoffrey, whose son assumed the name de Chauveni; and Robert. [Falaise Roll, p. 78]

In 1086 two bros, William and Roger de Boscroard, held lands in Buckinghamshire of Robert de Todeni (Tosny) of Belvoir. Todeni of Belvoir was a younger branch of Tosny. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 18]

In 1086 he held Miswell in Tring which Ralf held of him; this land was previously held by Frane, a thegn of King Edward's. In Barwyth Baldric held of Robert 5 hides; this was held by Osulf, son of Frane prior to the Conquest. [Victoria History of Hertfordshire, pp. 324-5]

Of Geurny; Domesday Tenant; lord of Belvoir Castle; father of Alice. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 3388b]

Built the motte castle at Belvoir no later than the 1080s. Also responsible for the construction of a priory adjacent to the castle, and was buried inside the chapel in 1088. Having been unearthed in the 18th century, Robert now rests inside the castle (still in his coffin). Interestingly, Robert's descendants were surnamed Albini, and were members of one of medieval England's most powerful noble families. [Castle of the Month, March 1999: Belvoir Castle <http://www.castles-of-britain.com]

Many centuries before the great stately home of the Earls and Dukes of Rutland was erected at Belvoir, Leicestershire, a motte castle was built on a natural mound by Robert de Todeni. [Castles of Britain and Ireland, p. 126]

m. Avice de Clare; father of William D'Aubigny. [Sally Six <dms@lewiston.com, 15 Jan 2003]

First castellan of Stafford Castle; son of Roger de Toeni. Younger bro. of Raoul II; received from the Conqueror 131 manors in different counties and took his name from the newly built castle of Stafford, of which King William appointed him the first castellan. He founded the Augustan priory at Stoke in Staffordshire, which became the burial-place of the family. By his wife, Avice de Clare, he was father of Nicholas, sheriff of Staffordshire, and the male line terminated with his grandson Robert. The barony with a great inheritance was carried by his dau. MIllicent to Hervey Bagot. Hence the great house of Stafford, the earls and dukes of Buckingham, so renowned in the history of England. [Falaise Roll, p. 78]

NEWLIN LINE

Son of Roger I de Toni and Godeheut; m. Avice. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

Important Domesday tenant-in-chief. In a charter for the abbey of Conches he is described as 'filius Rogerii de Totteneio'; it is witnessed by his son Nicholas and by St. Wulfstan bishop of Worcester. Robert de Stafford confirmed to Conches the gifts in Wootton Wawen, co. Warwick, where there was a cell of Conches, made by his grandfather Robert de Tosny and his father Nicholas de Stafford. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 99]

Robert de Toeni was on the list of companions of William the Conqueror at Hastings and was lord of Stafford with the possessions of seven earls. His brothers, Roger II and Beranger, also had considerable domains. [Les Seigneurs de Bohon, http://www.rand.org/personal/Genea/bohon.html]

Robert de Stratford is probably a poor transcription of Robert de Stafford, castellan of Stafford Castle and a Norman magnate of some significance. He held as an under-tenant to Earl Roger Montgomery:
1. Cheswardine - Gilbert from him2. Chipnall - Gilbert from him
[Robert de Stratford's Shropshire Land Holdings in Domesday 1086
<http://www.infokey.com/Domesday/Shropshire.htm; The Domesday Book, p. 227]

Made a grand to Evesham Abbey of Wrottesley and Loynton, 1072; Sheriff of Staffordshire 1086; held the manors of Haughton and Bughale and many other manors in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Lincolnshire in 1086; as a monk, lying sick at Evesham Abbey, he renewed his grant to the Abbey, and directed that he, his wife, and his son Nicholas should be buried there, 1086. [Doug Gentile <dGentile@mediafamily.org]