Ancestral Trails 2016 » RAOUL de TOENI II (1028-????)

Personal data RAOUL de TOENI II 

• He was born in the year 1028 in Conches, Eure, Evreux, Haute-Normandie, France.
• Title: Seigneur de Conches
• Title: Lord of Flamstead
• (Ancestry) : House of Tosny.
• He died on March 24, 1101/02 in Conches, Eure, Evreux, Haute-Normandie, France, he was 73 years old.
• A child of ROGER de TOENI and ADELAIDE de BARCELONA

Household of RAOUL de TOENI II

He is married to ISABEL MONTFORT.

They got married in the year 1075 at Conches, Eure, Evreux, Haute-Normandie, France, he was 47 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Godeheut de TOENI  1078-1097
2. RAOUL de TOENI  1080-1126 
3. Alidnora de TOENI  1075-± 1130 
4. Roger de TOENI  1076-1093

Notes about RAOUL de TOENI II

Raoul II de Tosny seigneur de Conches-en-Ouche (died 9 April 1102) was a Norman nobleman of the House of Tosny, son of Roger I of Tosny. He was active in Normandy, England and Wales.

Victor at Hastings in 1066
He is one of the very few proven Companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Tradition says he gave up the role of standard bearer, his hereditary office, to Walter Giffard, in order to be able to fight closer to William, duke of Normandy.

Marriage
He married Isabel de Montfort, daughter of Simon I de Montfort. There was a feud with Guillaume d'Evreux and his wife Helvise de Nevers, recorded by Ordericus Vitalis. This came to open war in 1091-92, when Guillaume attacked Conches. A settlement was reached. They later co-operated in attacking Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester's county of Meulan.

In England
He had widely spread holdings, as recorded in the Domesday Survey. His seat was at Flamstead in Hertfordshire. He held Clifford Castle. It is also believed that he held assets in the village of Hose, Leicestershire, which was split into two manors, Tosny's and that of the title holder of the Norman Belvoir Castle.

Family
Robert de Stafford was his brother.

His second son, Raoul IV de Conches, was his surviving heir. He married Alice of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and Judith of Lens.

His daughter Godehilde married Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_II_of_Tosny

Commonly styled de Conches, in about 1060, he, Hugh de Grandmesnil, and Ernald d'Echauffour, were deprived of their inheritances by the Duke, and then banished. In revenge, Ralph and Ernauld made raids into Normandy, burning the town of St. Evroul. But by 1063, they were recalled and their lands restored.

He took part in the invasion of England and fought at the Battle of Hastings, and sometime between the battle and the Domesday survey of 1086, the Conqueror gave him estates in the counties of Berks, Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Herts, Norfolk, and Worcester.

After returning from pilgrimage to Spain in 1080, he made gifts to the abbey of St. Evroul in recompense for having burned the town. In 1088 he served under Duke Robert in the war against Maine. Shortly after, he was engaged in a personal war, his wife Isabel having angered her sister-in-law, Hawise (wife of Isabel's brother, William, Count of Evreux), by which Hawise induced her husband to attack Ralph. When Ralph was unable to obtain aid from Duke Robert, he sent envoys to William Rufus, who then ordered his adherents in Normandy to go to Ralph's aid. In Nov the Count of Evreux besieged Conches, but was defeated, and after three years of fighting peace was concluded.

When Rufus and his brother made peace in 1091, the Duke granted to the King all lands of Gerard de Gournay and Ralph de Conches, after which Ralph remained one of the King's strongest supporters. After Rufus' death, Ralph and his prior rival, the Count of Evreux, invaded the Count of Meulan's barony of Beaumont in Aug 1100, in revenge for his having prejudiced the late King against them. Ralph was benefactor to the abbeys of St. Evroul, l'Estree, Conches, Croix-Saint-Leufroi, Lire, Jumieges, Bec, and St. Taurin. His wife Isabel, after a long widowhood, "repenting of the fatal wantonness to which she had been much addicted in her youth", took the veil.
SOURCE: www.geneajourney.com

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