Robert de Todeni

Robert de Todeni, also known as Robert of Belvoir, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who held lands in England after the Norman Conquest.

Background Robert held lands in Guerny and Vesly in Normandy. He belonged to a branch of the Tosny family that originated near Eure in Normandy. His exact relation to the Tosny family is unclear, but it has been suggested that he was a younger brother of Roger I of Tosny. He had a (probably elder) brother named Berengar Hespina and a sister named Bertha, who married Guy I of Laval.

Life In the Domesday Book of 1086, Robert is listed as the lord of Belvoir. Robert also had lands in Northamptonshire, located south of Rockingham, and he might have been the first castellan of Rockingham Castle.

Robert and his wife founded Belvoir Priory, The choice to make Belvoir a dependent priory of St Albans may have been because Oswulf, previous owner of some of his lands, had also given lands to St Albans.

Family and Descendance Robert married Adelais. They had three sons, Berengar, William, and Geoffrey, as well as three daughters, Albreda, Adelisa, and Agnes. Berengar inherited the Norman lands and William inherited the English lands. All three sons died without offspring, leaving their sisters as the eventual heiresses. Albreda, the eldest daughter, married Robert de Insula and died before 1129 without issue. and died after August 1127.

Robert died around 1093, He was buried at Belvoir Priory, according to the priory's own history.