| Birth: | About 1035 in Fontenay, Normandy, France |
| Death: | 1066 in Battle of Hastings, Sussex, England |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Robert MARMION b. About 1005 in Fontenay, Normandy, France |
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| Education: CWmC 27a |
| Changed: 20 Jan 2003 |
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| Hawise of NORMANDY (Wife) b. About 1035 in Normandy, France
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 Roger MARMION 3rd Lord of Scrivelsby b. About 1060 in of Tamworth & Scrivelsby Manor, England
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The Conqueror and His Companionsby J.R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers,1874.This name, familiarised to the reader's ears by the noble poemof Walter Scott, will conjure up visions of " Norham's castledsteep," and the welcome that awaited there the --" --Lord of Fontenraye,Of Lutterward and Scrivelbaye,Of Tamworth Tower and Town;"a fictitious personage, as "the Wizard of the North" admits, butinvested by his genius with such a semblance of truth, that itis difficult not to believe in his existence. Wace speaks of the companion of the Conqueror as "old RogerMarmion" but no Roger appears in the pedigree before the timesof Richard I. It is generally conceived that Roger is either aclerical or typographical error, and that Robert, to whomWilliam the Conqueror gave "Tamworth Tower and Town" shortlyafter the Conquest, must be the Marmion who had assisted him inthe achievement. Of that Robert the following story is told by Dugdale, on thefaith of an ancient MS. in his day in the possession of JohnFerrers, Esq, of Tamworth Castle. "In the time of the Norman Conqueror, Robert Marmion having, bythe gift of that king, the Castle of Tamworth, in the county ofWarwick, with the territory adjacent, thence expelled those nunshe found there unto a place called Oldbury, about four milesdistant, after which, within the compass of a twelvemonth it issaid, making a costly entertainment at Tamworth Castle for someof his friends, amongst which was Sir Walter de Somerville, Lordof Whichover, in the county of Stafford, his sworn brother, itso happened that as he lay in his bed, St. Edith appeared to himas a veiled nun, with a crozier in her band, and advertized him,that if he did not restore the Abbey of Polesworth, (which laywithin the territories of the Castle of Tamworth,) he shouldhave an evil death, and go to ----." Well, it appears St. Edithdid not mince her words, but spoke pure Anglo-Saxon, "and thathe might be the more sensible of this her admonition," continuesthe narrator, "she smote him on the side with the point of hercrozier, and so vanished away! Moreover, that by this strokebeing much wounded, he cried out so loud that his friends in thehouse arose, and finding him extremely tormented with the painof his wound, advised him to confess himself to a priest, andvow to restore them (the nuns) to their former possession.Furthermore, that having so done, his pain eased, and that inaccomplishment of his vow, accompanied by Sir Walter deSomerville and the rest, he forthwith rode to Oldbury, andcraving pardon of the nuns for the injury done, brought themback to Polesworth, desiring that himself and his friend SirWalter de Somerville might be reputed their patrons, and haveburial for themselves and their heirs in the Abbey, viz, theMarmions in the chapterhouse, and the Somervilles in thecloister." "However," adds worthy Norroy, "some circumstances inthis story may seem fabulous" (as they undoubtedly do), "themain substance of it is certainly true, for it expresslyappeareth by the very words of his charter, that he gave toOsanna the prioress, for the establishing of the religion ofthose nuns there, the church of St. Edith of Polesworth, withits appurtenances, so that the Convent of Oldbury (de Aldoberia)should remain in that place, and afterwards bestowed on them thewhole lordship of Polesworth, with its demesnes in Waverton,which grant King Stephen afterwards confirmed." Robert Marmion had a wife named Milicent, with whose consent hegave the neighbouring town of Butegate to the monks of Bardney,in the county of Lincoln, for the health of the souls of hisfather and mother (unfortunately not naming them), his own andhis wife's soul, and the souls of their heirs. No particular feats of arms are recorded of old Robert or Roger,as the case may be, either at Senlac or elsewhere; Wace merelysays that in the great battle he and Raoul Taisson de Cingueleizbehaved themselves as barons should, and were afterwards richlyrewarded. When he died I have not found, but if deserving the epithet of"old" in 1066, he could scarcely have lived till the reign ofHenry I, who granted to his son and heir, Robert, free warren inall his lands in Warwickshire, as Robert his father had, andparticularly at Tamworth. This second Robert possessed the strong Castle of Fontenai, nearCaen, called from its ancient lords Fontenai le Marmion, todistinguish it from eight other communes of the same name inNormandy; and it is a question whether the "Sire de Fontenei"mentioned by Wace (l. 13,796) was the lord of another Fontenai,or, as it has been suggested, the same person he has previouslyspoken of as "le viel Rogier Marmion." Several other analogousinstances occur in the Roman de Rou, and I think its author hasbeen too hastily accused of inaccuracy. The fate of the second Robert Marmion, who married a Maud deBeauchamp, whom I have not yet been able to affiliate, isdeserving notice. "Being a great adversary to the Earl ofChester, who had a noble seat at Coventry in the eighth ofStephen, he entered the priory there, which was but a littledistance from that Earl's castle, and expelling the monks,fortified it, digging in the fields adjacent divers deep ditchescovered over with earth, to the intent that such as madeapproaches thereto should be entrapped; whereupon it so happenedthat as he rode out himself to reconnoitre the Earl of Chester'sforces that began to draw near, he fell into one of them andbroke his thigh, so that a common soldier presently seizing onhim, cut off his head." * [Dugdale, Baronage, vol. i.] The Marmions held the manor of Scrivelsby, in the county ofLincoln, by the service of performing the office of champion atthe King's coronation: a co-heir of the family broughtScrivelsby and the championship into the family of Ludlow, andthence to that of Dymoke, and the office was claimed and servedby Sir Henry Dymoke of Scrivelsby, most probably for the lasttime, at the coronation of his Majesty King George IV, July 19,1821. But the name of Marmion indicates the possessionoriginally of another office, as its meaning is much the same asDespenser. William Beauchamp of Bedford, connected with theMarmions, acted as grand almoner at the nuptials of King HenryIII.
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