Roger (Toft) de Toft (bef. 1209 - bef. 1298)

Born before 1209 in Toft, Cheshire, England

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Died before 1298 at about age 89 in Toft, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Roger de Toft was conducting business in 1230,^[1] therefore in his majority and born in or before 1209.

Roger's father assumed the surname of Toft because he resided there, so Roger was probably born in Toft.^[1] Toft, Knutsford Parish, was in Bucklow Hundred, Cheshire, England.^[2]

Roger was the son of Walter de Toft who lived during the reigns of Richard I [king of England from 1189-99], and John [king of England from 1199-1216],^[1] and was living in 1284.^[3]

Roger was the father of:

1. Roger de Toft, called himself Lord of Toft in 1298, married Beatrix, daughter of Hugh Venables of Kinderton, at the beginning of the reign of Edward the first [king of England from 1272];^[1]
2. William de Toft, younger son, married in 5 Edward I [1277/8], Joan Lostock, sister of Richard de Lostock-Gralam the younger, son of Richard de Lostock, from whom the Holfords of Holford descend;^[1]
3. Margaret, who was married to William Manwaring son of Roger Manwaring in 1 Edward I , 1272;^[1]

Roger de Tofte was a witness to an undated deed in which Sir Robert de Mascy granted a third of his mill of Axele super Bolin, Cheshire, to Roger Carpentarius de Hale; the other named witnesses were William de Masci parson of Bthedut', Robert de Venablis parson of Rouistr', William de Bagel', William de Karintun, Walter Mico' Alan de Tattun, William de Mara.^[4] The deed can be dated^[4] to between 1210 and 1220 when Robert, who had been presented by William de Vanables, knight, was parson of Roustorne.^[5]

Gervase, son of Hugh of Mobberley, released to Walter de Toft his right to the sixth part of the township of Toft, then circa 15 Henry III, 1230, released all his right in the whole township of Toft to Roger, son of Walter, which was witnessed by William de Vernon, at that time Justiciar of Chester, and others.^[1] Robert, son of Wentlyan, had been given a moiety of a third part of the whole of a moiety of Toft in free marriage with Alice, the daughter of Hugh de Toft, and about 1230 Robert released that to Roger, son of Walter de Toft, which was witnessed by Lord Philip de Orreby then Justiciar of Chester, and others.^[1] In 18 Henry II, 1234, Benedict the son of Orme, the son of Arnold de Toft, released to Roger de Toft a third part of the moiety of Toft which Hamon de Massy, for a yearly rent of 20d, had granted to Arnold de Toft during the reign of king John. Helsby says Benedict was probably the older brother of Roger's father, Walter.^[1]

Roger's oldest son was styling himself Roger Lord of Toft in 1298, so Roger the father was presumably dead by then.^[1]

Research Notes

According to the pedigree of "Lecester of Toft" recorded by the herald during the Visitation of Cheshire in 1580:^[3]

• Walter de Toft was living in 1284;
• Walter's son, Roger de Toft married —, daughter of Thomas Weever; and
• Roger's son, Hugh de Toft, married ffelice, daughter of Thomas Dunstable.

Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester quoting Peter Leycester, says there were three were three Rogers between Walter and Hugh:^[1]

1. Walter:
2. Roger;
3. Roger, married Beatrix, daughter of Hugh Venables of Kinderton, at the beginning of the reign of Edward I, who was king of England from 20 November 1272;
4. Roger, married Margery, daughter of Thomas Wever of Weever, in Cheshire. in 1298;
5. Hugh, married Felice, daughter of Thomas de Donstable, in 1325;

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} George Ormerod, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the County of the City of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed, Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), I:501-2.
2. ↑ English Place-Name Society. "Toft, Toft Hall", in Survey of English Place-Names. (Online: University of Nottingham). Accessed 16 December 2023.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} John Paul Rylands, ed, "The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the Visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same Herald. With an Appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms. And a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), 139, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/138/mode/2up : accessed 16 March 2018).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Lancashire Archives: DDTR/Box28/2: De Trafford of Trafford: Deeds relating to Cheshire: Grant, Lancashire County Council, (http://archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DDTR%2f2%2f109%2f3%2f2%2f19&pos=1 : accessed 17 March 2018).
5. ↑ George Ormerod, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the County of the City of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed, Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), I:437.