Name Suffix:<NSFX> Lord Of Fontney
Robert de Marmyon, Lord of Fontney, in Normandy, where he possessed a fortified castle which was besieged by Geoffrey, of Anjou, in the 4th King Stephen [1139] and demolished. This Robert having a great enmity to the Earl of Chester, who had a noble seat at Coventry, entered the priory there in the 8th Stephen [1143], and, expelling the monks, turned it into a fortification, digging at the same time divers deep ditches int the adjacent fields, which he caused to be covered over with the earth in order to secure the approaches thereto, but the Earl of Chester's forces drawing near, he rode out to reconnoiter, fell into one of those very ditches, and broke his thigh so that a common soldier, presently seizing him, cut off his head. He was s. by his son, Robert de Marmion. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 355, Marmyon, or Marmion, Barons Marmyon]