Baron Marmion
There have been four different Marmion Baronies.
The first was gained by Robert Marmion, Lord of Fontenay and Castellan of Falais Castle when he was granted the lordship and castle of Tamworth after the exile of Roger d'Abetot (nephew and heir of the King's Steward, Robert Despenser) between 1110 and 1114.
A second was obtained by Roger Marmion, Lord of Fontenay during the Norman invasion of Wales when he was rewarded with the Barony of Llanstephan whose castle played a central role in the Welsh wars.
The third was created for the eldest son of the 3rd Baron Marmion of Tamworth when he was granted the lordship of Winteringham. Its final creation was by writ of summons for William Marmion to Simon de Montfort's Parliament in 1264, but was not continued after the rebels' defeat at Evesham in 1265.
Ancestry
According to Cokayne "the earliest known occurrence of the Marmion name seems to be that of a William Marmion who exchanged 12 acres of land with Ralf Taisson, son of Ralf the Angevin, which were granted by the latter to the abbey of Fontenay before Oct 1049 and who acted as a witness to a confirmation charter by William Duke of Normandy in 1060. Due to similarities between the coats of arms of the Taisson and Marmion families there is some speculation that they were related.
Baron
Baron is a title of honour, often hereditary, and ranks as one of the lower titles in the various nobiliary systems of Europe. The female equivalent is Baroness.
Etymology
The word baron comes from the Old French baron, from a Late Latin baro "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic Law; Alemannic Law has barus in the same sense). The scholar Isidore of Seville in the 7th century thought the word was from Greek βαρύς "heavy" (because of the "heavy work" done by mercenaries), but the word is presumably of Old Frankish origin, cognate with Old English beorn meaning "warrior, nobleman". Cornutus in the first century already reports a word barones which he took to be of Gaulish origin. He glosses it as meaning servos militum and explains it as meaning "stupid", by reference to classical Latin bārō "simpleton, dunce"; because of this early reference, the word has also been suggested to derive from an otherwise unknown Celtic *bar, but the Oxford English Dictionary takes this to be "a figment".
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