ROBERT MARMION DE FONTENAI.

Wace (l. 13623) speaks of "li viel Rogier Marmion" and (l. 13776) records "sire de Fontenei," but this is supposed to be either a clerical or typographical error for Robert the father of Roger. These two references are believed to indicate the same person and is one of the instances in which Wace has confused his subject. Robert, to whom the Conqueror gave Tamworth tower and town in the county of Warwick shortly after the conquest, must be the personage intended. He was viscount of Fontenai and had extensive grants, holding seventeen fees in England and five in Normandy, including the castle of Fontenai, near Caen, called from its ancient lords Fontenai le Marmion, to designate it from the eight other communes of the same name in Normandy. Robert witnessed a notitia relating to the abbey of Holy Trinity, Rouen, and died c. 1106, when his widow Hawise became a nun in the abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen, granting to that house her husband's lands, with consent of her sons Roger, Helto and Manasses. The witnesses included William Marmion and Herluin de Fontenay. Roger's son Robert held lands in Lancastershire c. 1115-18 and rendered an account of £176 10s. 4d. for relief of his father's lands. This Roger received considerable land from Robert Le Despensier. The Marmions were a branch of the Tesson family.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll).