Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Nicholas De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford Death: Abt 1138

Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 12-1, Skelmersdale-Towton. London: St Catherine Press, 1953. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XII/1 [Ap][p0-9].*].
  2. Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. III.4 (#601-#820): Das Feudale Frankreich und sein Einfluss auf die Welt des Mittelalters. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1989. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES III.4 #[0-9]*].
  3. The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, An eperiment in a cooperative online database for scholarly medieval genealogy. Contributors and Editors: Stewart Baldwin, Todd Farmerie, Peter Stewart. Available at https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HenryII .*].
  4. Ravilious, John, Ralph Limesi - Odingselles - Cavendish - Stafford. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/22/2004. Subject: Are Odingselles descended from Odingselles?. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/K0lkcRbKVIg/m/H9lJDO2sN5YJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/22/2004-164318].
  5. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
  6. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
  7. Madan, Falconer, The Gresleys of Drakelowe: An Account of the Family, and Notes of its connexions by Marriage and Descent from the Norman Conquest, Oxford: author, 1899. Available at https://archive.org/details/The_Gresleys_of_Drakelowe. Partially (mainly illustrations) at https://archive.org/details/gri_33125007789320. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Madan Gresleys p[0-9]*].
  8. Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sanders Baronies p[0-9]*].
  9. Searle, Eleanor Predatory kinship and the creation of Norman power, 840-1066. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1988. NYPL JFE 88-2496. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Searle PredatoryKinship p[0-9]*].
  10. Wagner, Anthony, English Genealogy, 3rd Edition. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1983. NYPL ARF 85-664. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wagner EnglishGenealogy p[0-9]*].
  11. Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John Johnson, 1928. LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9. NYPL ARZ+ (Wallop) (Watney, V. J. Wallop family). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/213421. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Watney WALLOP #[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
before 1041 [Ref: Watney WALLOP #967]
younger son [Ref: CP XII/1 p168],
place:
[Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p381],
parents:
[Ref: Madan Gresleys p223, Searle PredatoryKinship p262, Watney WALLOP #967],
father:
[Ref: CP XII/1 p168, CP XII/1 p757(c), ES III.4 #705, HenryII godeh000 12/31/2007, Keats-Rohan DP p338, Keats-Rohan DP p381],
brother:
Ralph de TONY [Ref: Sanders Baronies p81(5), Wagner EnglishGenealogy p71],
note:
since Ralph was his father's heir, Robert's place as a son of the second marriage seems likely [Ref: HenryII godeh000 12/31/2007]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
mother:
N v Barcelona (#14247) T v Ramon Borrell Gf v B [Ref: ES III.4 #705],
brother:
Nigel de STAFFORD (#185335) [Ref: Wagner EnglishGenealogy p72]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: CP XII/1 p168]
(1088) [Ref: ES III.4 #705]
abt 1088 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p81, Watney WALLOP #967]
c1088 [Ref: Wagner EnglishGenealogy p71]
in or soon after 1088 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p381]
prob 1088 [Ref: HenryII godeh000 12/31/2007]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: CP XII/1 p168, Keats-Rohan DP p381]
Sources with Information about marriage to Avice
names:
[Ref: Madan Gresleys p223]
Robert de Stafford & Avice [Ref: CP XII/1 p168, Watney WALLOP #967]
Robert de Staford & (Avice de Clare) [Ref: ES III.4 #705],
child:
[Ref: CP XII/1 p168, Watney WALLOP #967]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
child:
Nigel de STAFFORD (#185335) [Ref: Madan Gresleys p223]
Research Notes:
1066: received lands in several counties from the Conqueror, notably in the county of Stafford [Ref: Wagner EnglishGenealogy p71]

known as Robert de Stafford from the county of his principal holdings in 1086 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p381]

1072: occurs as a benefactor of Evesham [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p381]

1086: Domesday tenant-in-chief [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p338, Searle PredatoryKinship p262]

one of the greater tenant-in-chiefs in 1086 [Ref: CP XII/1 p168]

Domesday lord of Stafford [Ref: Sanders Baronies p81]

younger brother of Ralph de Tony [Ref: Sanders Baronies p81(5)]

1088: occurs as a monk of the house at Evesham [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p381]



Pedigree of Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
                            /-----Hugh De CALVACAMP
                   /-----Ralph I De TOENI
          /-----Ralph II De TOENI, Seigneur Of Tonsi And Conches
 /-----Roger I De TOENI
Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
 \-----Godehildie



Descendants of Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
1. Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford m. Avice
m. Avice

2nd generation

2. Nicholas De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford m. Maud MOOLTE
m. Maud MOOLTE father: Ralph De LIMESY, Baron Of Cavendish mother: (Unk)

3rd generation

3. Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford m. Avice
m. Avice

4th generation

4. Millicent De STAFFORD m. Hervey BAGOT
m. Hervey BAGOT father: Hervey BAGOT

5th generation

7. Hervey De STAFFORD m. Pernell De FERRIERS
m. Pernell De FERRIERS father: William FERRERS, Earl Of Derby mother: Sibyl De BRAOISE
8. William De STAFFORD m.