MARMION Robert

Male Abt 1155 - Bef 1218  (< 63 years)

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  • Name MARMION Robert 
    Birth Abt 1155  Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 15 May 1218  Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Justice of assize at Caen, 1177. Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1185-1188 and 1190. Justice itinerant in Warwickshire and other counties, 1186. In 1191, he attended King Richard I into Normandy; in 1214, was in the expedition made to Pictou. To the Knights Templar he gave a mill at Barton, in the county of Warwick.

      He married first Matilda de Beauchamp, with whom he had Robert Marmion the elder and Mabel. He married secondly Philippa, parents unknown, mother of Robert "junior" and William.

      Research Notes
      Robert had two sons named Robert by different mothers. Robert the elder remained in Normandy and Robert the younger was the representative of the family in England. [1]

      By an agreement between the brothers, Robert the younger consented to pay a certain sum for the English possessions, until a final settlement should be made as to the dispostition of the family property in both countries.

      Sources
      ↑ Lodge, Samuel. Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions: With Some Account of the Marmion and Dymoke Families. Elliot Stock, London, 1894, p. 38. [1]
      Burke, John & Burke, Bernard. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland (Henry Colburn, 1846) Pages 338
      CP: Vol VIII[505-521]; AR: Line 30[30], Line 148A[28-31], Line 246A[25-26]; SGM
      Alan B. Wilson, correction to CP re wife of Robert Marmion II

      English Baronies, by I. J. Sanders, 1960,
      History of the Ancient Noble Family of Marmyun, by Thomas Christopher Banks, 1817,
      The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, by Lewis Christopher Loyd, 1951,
    Person ID I60165  Freeman-Smith
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2026 

    Father MARMION Robert,   b. Bef 1133, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Oct 1181, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 48 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother BEAUCHAMP Mathilde,   b. Bef 1123, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1181, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 58 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F26704  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family   
    Children 
     1. MARMION Robert,   b. Abt 1182, Tamworth Castle, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1242, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F347628  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2026 


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