Robert de Stafford

Robert de Stafford (alias Robert de Tosny/Toeni, etc.) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, a member of the House of Tosny and the first feudal baron of Stafford in Staffordshire in England, where he probably built a baronial castle.

He seems to have been the sheriff of Staffordshire.

He was a big landholder in England, and there is no evidence of him inheriting land in Normandy. The Domesday survey showed him to be tenant in chief of some 138 manors and lord of 32 others. His property concentrated in Staffordshire and Warwickshire. An analysis of his holdings also shows a strong presence of non-Norman subtenants, with a significant presence of English and Breton ones.

The analysis of both his subtenants and his patronage point out to a strategy much less concentrated in Normandy than his brother Raoul II, and almost solely centered in England. daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Robert de Stafford