Torf I

Who succeeded to his fathers vast fortune and was first cousin to William "Longsword" the second Duke. He is apparently been confounded with his son


Torf de Tourville

Torf, which is a Danish name is probably a variant of Thorolf which means Thor's Wolf, Thor being the God of Thunder. Places in Normandy named for him. Torfville,Tourville,Tourneville,Turville, Turvile and Turquoville.

There were apparently two Torfs of the same name confused in genealogy namely father and son


Tonantius Ferreolus

Praeorian Perfect of Gaul, 451, at Rome 469, 475; friend and relative of Sidonius Apollinaris


Ralph III de Toeni

Companion to William the Conqueror in the Battle of Hastings, 1066. Lord of Flamstead, Hants, and of Clifford. Chavalier banneret of Normandy.

Inherited Clifford Castle from William FitzOsbern, castle was held by Ralph's relatives until the wars of Stephen and Matilda .

~~~~~~~In 1077, he married Elizabeth, or Isabel, daughter of Simon de Montfort l'Amauri, whose hand he obtained by the audacious act of carrying off by night Agnes d'Evereux, daughter of Richard, Comte d'Evreux, who was his half-sister, and marrying her to the said Simon I de Montfort.

Orderic gives an amusing account of this Isabel and her sister-in-law Havise, daughter of William, Comte de Nevers, the wife of her brother Willliam, Comte d'Evreux. The Countess Havise took offence, it appears, at some taunts of the Lady of Conches, and used all her influence with her husband and his barons to have recourse to arms, in which mischievous attempt she unfortunately succeeded. "Both these ladies," the chronicler tells us, "were great talkers, and spirited as well as handsome; they ruled their husbands, oppressed their vassals, and inspired terror in various ways: but still their characters were very different. Havise had wit and eloquence, but she was cruel and avaricious; Isabel, on the contrary, was generous, enterprising, and lively, so that she was beloved and esteemed by those immediately about her. She rode in knightly armour when the vassals took the field, and exhibited as much daring amongst belted knights and men-at-arms as Camilla, the renowned Virgin of Italy, among the squadrons of Tevenus."

By turns the people of Evreux and Conches plundered and destroyed the property of each other. The Lord of Conches, who was less powerful than the Count of Evreux, sought his sovereign, Robert Court-heuse, and laying before him an account of the losses to which he was exposed by the aggressions of the Count of Evreux, demanded the aid he had a right to expect from his liege lord; but Robert turned a deaf car to his prayer, and Raoul in his distress sought a more powerful protector in the King of England, promising him by his envoys the fealty of all his estates in return for his assistance. Rufus was highly pleased at the proposal, and sent orders to Stephen Count of Aumale and Gerrard de Gournay, with others in command of his forces in Normandy, to give every aid to Raoul de Toeni, and throw supplies of all kinds into his castles.

In the month of November, 1090, Count William assembled a large force and laid siege to Conches, his two nephews, Richard de Montfort and William de Breteuil joining him with their respective powers. Richard de Montfort was slain while taking possession of the Abbey of St. Peter de Châtillon at Conches, and in a subsequent attack William de Breteuil was taken prisoner. This worse than civil war, the wagers of it being all nearly related to each other, lasted three years; at length the Count of Evreux and his allies, ashamed that, having commenced hostilities on so frivolous a provocation, they had suffered the greatest losses, consented to a truce, and peace was proposed upon the following terms: -- William de Breteuil paid three thousand livres for his ransom, and made his cousin Roger, eldest son of Raoul de Toeni, heir to the whole of his fief; the Count of Evreux appointed the same youth, who was his nephew, his successor in the comté.

"But," adds the pious writer, "Divine Providence, which is not ruled by the will of man, provided otherwise." The boy was of an excellent disposition and much beloved by his companions, the vassals, and the neighbors. He had a great regard for the clergy and the monks, to whom he paid due reverence. Rejecting the pomp of dress, in which the nobility too much gloried, his whole demeanour was simple and modest. Upon one occasion, when the knights were amusing themselves in the hall at Conches, playing at various games and talking on various subjects, "as the custom is," the Lady Isabel being present, the conversation took a serious turn, and one of Roger's youthful companions said, "I had a dream lately which much alarmed me. I saw our Lord upon the cross, his whole body livid and writhing with agony. My eyes were riveted upon him in the greatest terror." The listeners gravely remarked that so solemn and fearful a dream seemed to forebode some terrible judgment of God upon him. Baldwin, the son of Eustace, Count of Boulogne, who was of that company, said, "I, too, lately saw in a dream our Lord upon the cross, but in my vision He appeared bright and glorious, and smiled benignantly upon me, stretching forth one hand and making the sign of the cross upon my head." The bystanders all agreed that this vision portended some singular grace and favour. Young Roger de Toeni, upon this, said to his mother, "I know some one not far from here who had recently a similar dream." Her curiosity being excited, she pressed him to say who it was, and what had been seen; but the boy blushed, and was unwilling to say more. At length, yielding to the general entreaties of his friends, he said: "A certain person saw in a vision the Lord Jesus, who, laying his hand on his head, blessed him, saying, 'Come quickly to me, beloved, and I will give you the joys of life.' I therefore believe firmly that one whom I know has been called by the Lord, and will not live long." (Son, Roger took to his bed and died soon after.126)

The three youths, we are told, experienced different fates, corresponding with what had been foreshadowed to each of them. The first, whose name is not given, was mortally wounded in a hostile inroad, and died without having confessed or received the viaticum. Baldwin, as is well known, took the sign of the Cross, and distinguishing himself in the Holy Wars, was, on the death of his brother Godfrey, elected King of Jerusalem. The youthful heir-presumptive of the Count of Evreux and William de Breteuil took to his bed the same year that he had seen his vision, and departing this life on the 15th of May, was buried amidst general sorrow with his ancestors in the Abbey of St. Peter's at Châtillon, now called of Conches.

http://genealogy.patp.us/conq/toeni.shtml

Properties far outreached his brother, Robert of Stafford, with 181 manors, 81 in Staffordshire, 26 in Warwickshire, 20 in Lincolnshire and 4 others. Proabaly the governor of Stafford Castle, demolished before 1086, when they were held by Henry de Ferrers. 126


Robert De Toni

Robert de Toeni or Stafford, Governor of the Castle of Stafford was born in 1039/40 in , Normandie, France. He served in the military in 1066 in Battle of Hastings, Senlac, Kent, England. He served in the military in 1069 in Battle of Stafford.(2382) He was living in 1086 in England.(2383) He died about 1100 in England. He was also known as Robert I de Stafford. He was married to Avice FitzRichard de Clare about 1064 in Normandie, France.

Large holdings in Staffs. Also in 5 other western and Home counties.(Domesday Book)

Robert de Stratford is probably a poor transcription of Robert de Stafford, castellan of Stafford Castle and a Norman magnate of some significance (See Warwickshire Domesday on this Web site). He held as an under-tenant to Earl Roger (Roger de Montgomerie).  Holdings were Cheswardine & Chipnall. http://www.infokey.com/Domesday/Shropshire.htm

Father listed as Roger the Spaniard De Toeni

Robert of Stafford, otherwise Robert de Tosny or Toeny, was from Toeny in the commune of Gaillon in Louviers, Normandy. The family were hereditary standard bearers to Normandy. He was the first castellan of the Castle of Stafford. His nephew was Ralph de Limesey. Robert's chief domain was at Melton. Geoffrey de le Guerche was from Le Guerche, near Rennes, on the border of Brittany. He held 26 manors in Leicester and 12 lordships in Warwick. He also held in York and Lincoln. His chief domain was at Melton. Lands held:  Barton on the Heath, Bearley, Bubbenhall, Burmington, Compton Scorpion, Edstone, Idlicote, Little Compton, Moreton Bagot, Offord, Ruin Clifford, Stoneton, Tysoe, Ullenhall, Wolverton, Wootton Wawen. Warwickshire and the Domesday Book. http://www.infokey.com/Domesday/Warwickshire.htm

Benefactor to Conches, founded or re-founded Prior of Regular Canons at Stone, Staffordshire, granted lands to Evesham Abbey (Wrottsley manor, deed dated 1072, although Doomsday book of 1086 states it is still in Robert's hands) and Bordesley Abbey.  Robert became a monk at Evesham, gave them a second deed dated 1088, along with lands in Loynton.. Both Robert and his wife were to be buried at Stone.


Roger De Toeni aka Roger de Toecsini, Roger D'Espagne

Roger Toeni or Tosney,  the Spaniard, de Conches was born about 990 in Normandy, France. He died in 1040 in Killed by the Army of Roger de Beaumont, buried between 31 May 1838 and 1840 in Conches, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was married to Godheut  Godehilde Borrell.

Roger de Toecsini, surnamed D'Espagne, on account of his prowess against the Saracens in Spain, progenitor of the DeToesinis, Hereditary Standard-bearers of Normandy, Barons of Toesini and Conches, and of Stafford and Belvoir in England, ancestors of the English houses of Cholmondeley Egerton, Grisley and others.

Children:
Ralph De Toeni
Robert De Toni (de Stafford)
Alice De Toeni


Rodulf De Toeni  (Ralf of Apulia)

He served in the military in 1015/16 in Siege of Salerno.

Might be confused here, this Ralf had son Ralf, appointed Castellan of Tillieres jointly with Nigel, Viscount of Coutances in 1011.

Ralf had issue, Roger de Toecsini, surnamed D'Espagne, and Hugh de Toecsini (7), (Brother of Roger de Espagne), surnamed de Limesi (Limesay) from his Norman Seigneurie. He was living in 1060.

William (the Conqueror) gave to Ralf the barony of Oxburg, or Oxenburg in Norfolk, and 41 other manors in several counties with the lands of Christina one of the sisters of Prince Edgar, whom Ralf married.


Rodulf De Toeni aka Rald de Toeni, de Tosni

Ralph (Rodulf) I de Tosni was born in 925 in Normandy, France, and died in 975.He was also known as Rald de Toeni I. Given the estates of Toesini by brother Hugo, Archbishop of Rouen 942-980.


Guillaume IV de Toulouse

William IV of Toulouse (c. 1040-1094) was Count of Toulouse, Marquess of Provence, and Duke of Narbonne from 1061-1094. He succeeded his father Pons of Toulouse upon his death in 1061. His mother was Almodis de la Marche, but she was kidnapped by and subsequently married to Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona when William was a boy. He was married to Emma of Montain, who gave him one daughter. He also had an illegitimate son, William-Jordan, with his half sister Adelaide.

He went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1088, shortly before the First Crusade, leaving his brother Raymond as regent. He was killed six years later in Spain at the Battle of Huesca.

His daughter by Emma of Montain, Philippa, was married to William IX of Aquitaine. It was his intention that she take his lands and title upon his death, but in her absence Raymond usurped the county.

He was the great grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV_of_Toulouse


Raymond St Giles of Toulouse

Raymond IV of Toulouse sometimes called Raymond of St Gilles ((c. 1052 – 1105) was Margrave of Provence and one of the leaders of the First Crusade. He was a son of Count Pons of Toulouse and Almodis de La Marche, and succeeded his brother William IV as Count of Toulouse in 1094.

According to an Armenian source, he had lost an eye on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before the First Crusade, but this statement probably refers to the fact that he was one-eyed (monoculus). He also fought against the Moors in Spain before 1096, and he was the first to join the crusade after Pope Urban II's sermon at the Council of Clermont.

He was married three times, and twice excommunicated for marrying within forbidden degrees of consanguinity. His first wife was his cousin, and the mother of his son Bertrand. His second wife was Matilda, the daughter of King Roger I of Sicily. Raymond's third wife was Elvira, the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile, the great Spanish king who also campaigned furiously against the Moors.

Raymond was deeply religious, and wished to die in the Holy Land, and so when the call was raised for the First Crusade, he was one of the first to take the cross. The oldest and the richest of the crusaders, Raymond left Toulouse at the end of October 1096, with a large company that included his wife Elvira, his son Bertrand, and Adhemar, bishop of Le Puy, the papal legate. He marched to Dyrrhachium, and then east to Constantinople along the same route used by Bohemund of Taranto. At the end of April, 1097, he was the only crusade leader not to swear an oath of fealty to Byzantine emperor Alexius I — instead he swore an oath of friendship, and offered his support against Bohemund, both Raymond and Alexius' mutual enemy.

He was present at the siege of Nicaea and the Battle of Dorylaeum in 1097, but his first major role came in October of 1097 at the siege of Antioch. The crusaders heard a rumour that Antioch had been deserted by the Seljuk Turks, so Raymond sent his army ahead to occupy it, offending Bohemund of Taranto who wanted the city for himself. The city was, however, still occupied, and was taken by the crusaders only after a difficult siege in June of 1098. Raymond took the palatium Cassiani (the palace of the emir, Yaghi-Siyan) and the tower over the Bridge Gate. He was ill during the second siege of Antioch by Kerbogha, but there was much spiritualistic activity among his followers, which culminated in the discovery of the Holy Lance by a monk named Peter Bartholomew.

The "miracle" raised the morale of the crusaders, and to their surprise they were able to rout Kerbogha outside Antioch. The Lance itself became a valuable relic among Raymond's followers, despite Adhemar of Le Puy's skepticism and Bohemund's disbelief and occasional mockery. Raymond also refused to give up his territories in the city to Bohemund, reminding Bohemund that he should return to the city to Emperor Alexius, as he had sworn to do. A struggle then arose between Raymond's supporters and the supporters of Bohemund, partly over the genuineness of the Lance, but mostly over the possession of Antioch.

Many of the minor knights and foot soldiers preferred to continue their march to Jerusalem, and they convinced Raymond to lead them there in the autumn of 1098. Raymond led them out to besiege Ma'arrat al-Numan, although he left a small detachment of his troops in Antioch, where Bohemund also remained. As Adhemar had died in Antioch, Raymond, along with the prestige given to him by the Holy Lance, became the new leader of the crusade, but Bohemund expelled his detachment from Antioch in January of 1099. Raymond then began to search for a city of his own. He marched from Ma'arrat, which had been captured in December of 1098, into the emirate of Tripoli, and began the siege of Arqa on February 14, 1099, apparently with the intent of founding an independent territory in Tripoli that could limit the power of Bohemund to expand the Principality of Antioch to the south.

The siege of Arqa, a town outside Tripoli, lasted longer than Raymond had hoped. Although he successfully captured Hisn al-Akrad, a fortress that would later become the important Krak des Chevaliers, his insistence on taking Tripoli delayed the march to Jerusalem, and he lost much of the support he had gained after Antioch. Raymond finally agreed to continue the march to Jerusalem on May 13, and after months of siege the city was captured on July 15. Raymond was offered the crown of the new Kingdom of Jerusalem, but refused, as he was reluctant to rule in the city in which Jesus had suffered. He said that he shuddered to think of being called "King of Jerusalem". It is also likely that he wished to continue the siege of Tripoli rather than remain in Jerusalem. However, he was also reluctant to give up the Tower of David in Jerusalem, which he had taken after the fall of the city, and it was only with difficulty that Godfrey of Bouillon was able to take it from him.

Raymond participated in the battle of Ascalon soon after the capture of Jerusalem, during which an invading army from Egypt was defeated. However, Raymond wanted to occupy Ascalon himself rather than give it to Godfrey, and in the resulting dispute Ascalon remained unoccupied. It was not taken by the crusaders until 1153. Godfrey also blamed him for the failure of his army to capture Arsuf. When Raymond went north, in the winter of 1099-1100, his first act was one of hostility against Bohemund, capturing Laodicea from (Bohemund had himself recently taken it from Alexius). From Laodicea he went to Constantinople, where he allied with Alexius I, Bohemund's most powerful enemy. Bohemund was at the time attempting to expand Antioch into Byzantine territory, and blatantly refused to fulfill his oath to the Byzantine Empire.

Raymond joining the minor and ultimately unsuccessful crusade of 1101, which was defeated at Heraclea in Anatolia. Raymond escaped and returned to Constantinople. In 1102 he travelled by sea from Constantinople to Antioch, where he was imprisoned by Tancred, regent of Antioch during the captivity of Bohemund, and was only dismissed after promising not to attempt any conquests in the country between Antioch and Acre. He immediately broke his promise, attacking and capturing Tortosa, and began to build a castle on the Mons Peregrinus ("Pilgrim's Mountain") which would help in his siege of Tripoli. He was aided by Alexius I, who preferred a friendly state in Tripoli to balance the hostile state in Antioch.

Raymond died in 1105, before Tripoli was captured. He was succeeded by his nephew William-Jordan, who, in 1109, with the aid of King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, finally captured the town and established the County of Tripoli. William was deposed in the same year by Raymond's eldest son Bertrand, and the county remained in the possession of the counts of Toulouse throughout the 12th century.

Raymond of Toulouse seems to have been driven both by religious and material motives. On the one hand he accepted the discovery of the Holy Lance and rejected the kingship of Jerusalem, but on the other hand he could not resist the temptation of a new territory. Raymond of Aguilers, a clerk in Raymond's army, wrote an account of the crusade from Raymond's point of view.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_IV_of_Toulouse


Ralph IV de Toeni

Little known until his father's death. Raided parts of Normandy in 1103, crossed to England to marry Adeliza, suspected of infidelity to the King, but never proven. 126


Roger III de Toeni

Little known, succeeded father in 1125/6. Involved in petty warefare in Normandy, imprisoned there at least twice. Reconciled to King Stephen Sept 1138. History of Staffordshire says he reportedly married Ida, daughter of Baldwin of Hainhault, children were Ralph IV, Roger, Baldwin, Geoffrey. Baldwin lived in Hainhault and died in 1170, Geoffrey was a clerk. 126


Roger V de Toeni

Some say he was married to Constance Beaumont, same as his grandmother, the skipped generation in History of Staffordshire? They also state he was taken prisoner in the Battle of Lewes in 1263 and died in 1277.  126