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- He [Roger de Toeni] married,(h) before 1255, Isabel. He died before 12May 1264, when Isabel's marriage was granted to Edmund, the King's son.She was living, February 1264/5. [Complete Peerage XII/1:771-2,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
[h] A contract of marriage between Roger, then aged 3, and Alice,daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, was confirmedby the King, 30 June 1239. According to the Fundatorum Progenies ofLlanthony this marriage did take place and Alice was buried in thechapter house of Llanthony Priory outside Gloucester. However, nothingmore is known of Alice and, as stated above, Roger's marriage was grantedto the Queen, 26 April 1242.
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In fact, Alice clearly did marry Roger, and was the mother of his son andheir, Ralph, as shown by the evidence below. The date of "before 1255"for Roger's marriage to Isabel, which is based on the belief that she wasRalph's mother, is therefore also incorrect.
The marriage contract referred to above is printed in The BeauchampCartulary Charters 1100-1268, ed E. Mason, p.214 (1980), together with agrant by Humphrey de Bohun to Roger de Tosny, of the manors of Newton(Tony) and (East) Coulston, Wiltshire, in marriage with his daughterAlice (p.216). The manors were given in free marriage to be held by Rogerand his heirs by Alice, and were to revert to Humphrey if Alice diedwithout issue. This grant is dated by Mason to probably c.1251, whenRoger reached the age of 14.
The previous grant to Queen Eleanor on 26 April 1242, referred to byComplete Peerage, was in fact a grant of the lands only, not of themarriage and lands [Cal. Patent Rolls, 1232-47, p.283]; it is referred toagain as a grant of the lands in a subsequent grant of scutage to QueenEleanor, on 3 May [Cal. Close Rolls, 1237-42, p.422]. (A later order,dated 12 February 1243/4, does refer to the lands and the marriage of theheir having been granted to the queen, but this is presumably an error[Cal. Close Rolls, 1242-47, p.158].)
The manor of Newton Tony descended to Roger's son Ralph (d.1295) and thento his son Robert [Victoria County History, Wiltshire, vol.15, p.146].East Coulston passed to Walter de Beauchamp, who married Roger's daughterAlice, and later to their descendants [Victoria County History,Wiltshire, vol.8, p.235].
[Douglas Richardson pointed out this error in November 2001]
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