| Birth: | Bet 1090 and 1095 in Normandy |
| Death: | Bet 1143 and 1144 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Roger Marmion |
| Mother: | ? d'Abitot |
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Individual:
In 1115 Robert held land in Winteringham, Lincolnshire, from Walter de Gaunt. He succeeded his father by 1129 and defended Falaise against King Stephen in 1136-1137. In 1140 Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou besieged and destroyed his castle of Fontenay. He was founder of the abbey of Barbery and of the nunnery of Polessorth, Warwickshire. He was slain in warfare with William of Newburgh, the Earl of Chester, under monastery walls at Coventry.
- Title: "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650"
Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1999
Call Number: CS55.W4/1999
Media: Book
Page: Line 246A-25
- Title: "Domesday Descendants"
Author: K. S. B. Keats-Rohan
Publication: The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, England
Call Number: DA177.K4/2003, Vol. 2
Media: Book
Page: p. 1032
- Title: "The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom"
Author: George Edward Cockayne
Publication: St Catherine Press, London
Call Number: CS421.C682/1910
Media: Book
Page: Vol X:505-508
- Title: Gen-Medieval Mailing List: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GEN-MEDIEVAL
Media: Electronic
Page: 1999: File 83; January 18, 1999; Author: Alan B. Wilson
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