Roger Marmion

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰⁶
Geoffrey Marmion was of Arrow Warwickshire, an estate which he held in the Barony of his cousin, Robert Marmion. Geoffrey had, it seems be enfeoffed by Robert on the condition of his resigning his share of certain estates in England and Wales, which had previously been divided between two brother, Robert (I) and Roger, fathers respectively of Robert (II) and Geoffrey, which had originally been acquired by Manasses Marmion, Uncle of Robert (I) and his brother Roger, and Great-Uncle of Robert (II) and Geoffrey.

~Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. I , p.28

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹

Roger was possibly son of Robert Marmion, who in 1091 witnessed a notitia relating to the abbey of the Holy Trinity, Rouen, [H.W.C.Davis, Regesta, no.317] and circa 1101-5 a charter of Robert, Duke of Normandy, to the abbey of St. Stephen, Caen [Round, Cal. Docs. France, no. 451]. This Robert died in or before 1106, when his widow Hawise became a nun in the abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen, granting to that house certain of her husband's lands, with the consent of her sons Roger, Helto, and Masses, the witnesses including William Marmion and Herluin de Fontenay. Her benefaction, including land in St. George d'Aunay and Jurques, both in Calvados, was confirmed by Henry III in 1246 [Cal. Charter Rolls, 1226-57, p.308].

The earliest known occurance of the name seems to be that of a William Marmion who exchanged twelve acres of land, apparently at Fontenay, with Ralf Taisson, son of Ralf the Angevin, which were granted by the latter to the abbey of Fontenay before Oct 1049, and who occurs in 1060 as a witness to a confirmation charter by William, Duke of Normandy.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, p. 505 footnote (c)