79958530. Baron Ralph de Tony & 79958531. Lady Alice of Northumberland
By 1075, Alice born in England, d/o 639664242. Earl
Waltheof of Northumberland & 639664243. Judith of Lens.
5/31/1076, Alice’s father died.
~1078, Ralph de Conches born in Normandy, s/o 159917060.
Ralph de Tony III &159917061. Isabel de Montfort.
1090, Alice became a ward of Simon de Saint Lis, Earl of
Huntingdon, who had married her older sister.
Aft. 1094, Ralph’s younger brother Roger died leaving him as
his heir.
8/2/1100, Henry I crowned King of England.
3/24/1102, Ralph’s father died [buried at Conches.] Ralph’s
mother became a nun at Fontevraudian priory.
1102, Ralph travelled to England to claim his father’s
lands. [This is when he would have met Alice.]
1102 [or later], Ralph de Tosny granted all he had in the
soke of Necton, except Pickenham, for 80£ a year, to William fitz Estangrin,
“just as his father Estangrin held in feefarm from my father.” (S)
Commercialization of English Society, Britnell, 1996, P41.
1102, King Henry of England granted Alice to Roger in
marriage, encouraging him to shift his allegiance from Robert Curthose [King
Henry’s brother], duke of Normandy.
[––Ralph & Alice––]
1103, Ralph married Alice, and received the manor of
Walthamstow in marriage. (S) Royal Ancestors of Magna Carta Barons, Collins,
1959, P143.
8/4/1104, Ralph de Conches; Robert, count of Meulan;
Richard, earl of Chester; Henry of Eu, Robert fitz Hamon, Robert de Montfort,
and Ralph de Mortimer were part of a large force with King Heny as he crossed
the channel and proceeded to Domfort. They captured Evreux from King Henry’s
brother Robert.
9/28/1106, King Henry captured his brother Robert, Duke of
Normandy, at the battle of Tinchebrai, becoming sole ruler of England and
Normandy.
7/29/1108, King Louis VI of France succeeded his father,
King Philip I.
1118, Amaury de Montfort [Ralph’s half-uncle] attempted to
get Ralph to change allegiance to King Louis.
2/1119, Ralph de Conches with King Henry at Falaise. King
Henry attacks and burns Rainald de Balliol’s castle of Renouard. (S) English
Historical Review, V34, 1919, P508.
8/20/1119, At the battle of Bremule, France, King Henry
defeated an alliance of French forces. Between the two sides a thousand knights
were engaged. (S) Dictionary of Battles, Eggenberger, 1967, P61.
1119-20, With the help of King Henry, a local settlement
involved Ralph de Tony getting Pont-Saint-Pierre, Eustace de Breteuil allowed
to keep Pacy, and the daughter of Ralph de Gael was betrothed to King Henry’s
son Richard. (S) Henry I, Green, 2006, P154.
6/1120 at Rouen, Ralph de Todeney witnessed a royal grant to
the canons of St. Oswald.
1120 at Rouen, Ralph de Toeny witnessed a royal confirmation
to the monks of St. Mary of Lire.
1123, Ralph went to Hautes-Bruyeres to confirm the gifts his
mother Isabel de Montfort made to the nuns of Fontevraud in the presence of the
bishop of Chartres and the abbes.
1126, Ralph de Tony, lord of Flamsted, Herts, died at
Conches, France.
[––Alice––]
Alice married 2nd Robert de Toulouse, s/o
Richard, lord FitzWalter.
[Undated] charter: ‘Aliz de Toeni’ donated ‘ecclesiam de
Welcomstowe’ to ‘ecclesiæ S. Trinitatis Lond.’, for the soul of “… et pro
incolumitate filiorum meorum Rogeri de Toeni et Simonis et filiæ meæ
Isabellæ." (S) FMG.
Alice died.
(S) Parochial and
Family History of the Parish of Blisland, Maclean, 1868, P65. (S) Battle Abbey
Roll, V3, 1889. (S) The Conqueror and His Companions, V1, 1874, P217. (S)
Norman Frontier, Power, 2004, P382.
Family notes:
·
Conches about 4 leagues southwest of Everux.
Children of Ralph and Alice:
i. Roger de Toeni (159277172), born ~1104 in England.
ii. Margaret de Toeni (39979265), born ~1120 in England.
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