Brian de St. Donan

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰⁶
Brien, the Progenitor of the family of Standon, held under Robert de Stafford, according to the Domesday Survey, Stantone, Rigge, Westone and Levedal in Staffordshire: Dicford in Warwickshire, and a double manor at Roscebi in Lincolnshire. All these lands were held subsequently of the Barons of the Stafford, by the family of Standon or Staundon.

Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. I, p. 164

• Background Information. ¹⁴³⁸
Ditchford Frary was held in 1086 by Robert de Stafford, and of him by Brion; it was assessed at 2 hides, and had formerly been held by Leuric [V.C.H. Warw. i, 329]. The overlordship descended in the Stafford family [Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, no. 38; 22 Ric. II, no. 46; 38-9 Hen. VI, no. 59]. Brion, apparently the ancestor of the family of Standon [Wm. Salt Soc. n.s. vi, 7], had been succeeded by 1166 by Robert son of Ralph, who held of Robert de Stafford 7 fees, of which 2/3 fee was held by Roger de Dicheford [Red Bk. of Exch. 265]. In 1185 Adam de Standon was impleading Roger for ½ knight's fee in Ditchford [Pipe R. Soc. xxxiv, 104]. Adam died between 1194 and 1199, and his son Robert was dead by 1208, leaving an heir under age [Wm. Salt Soc. (1911), 394]. This heir was presumably Vivian de Standon, against whom Hervey de Stafford brought a suit in 1230 [Cal. Close, 1227-31, p. 392]. Hervey claimed that Vivian should render service of a knight's fee for his 2 hides in Ditchford, but in 1232 the service was fixed at half a fee [Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xi), 478]. Vivian still held the mesne lordship in 1242 [Bk. of Fees, 950], and on his death in 1250.

~A History of the County of Warwick, Volume Bk. of Fees, 950, pp.153-157

• Pedigree. ¹⁴⁴¹
Standon Pedigree, (Staff. Hist. Colls., Bps., Registers)
taken from the Collections of a History of Staffordshire, 1914. p. 10

Brian de St. Donan, Brittany, 1086, Vol. I, p. 164
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Ralph fitz Brien, 1122-1157
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Robert fitz Ralph (Robert de Standon), 1166 (ob. ante 31 H. II)
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Adam de Standon, succeed c. 1181 (grandfather of Vivian)
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Robert de Standon = Philippa, daughter of Vivian de Stoke
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Vivian de Standon, 1241, 1249, heir of Philippa, 1241 = Roes, liv. 1279
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Robert brother of Philippa de Standon