Robert de Stonor

• Preferred Name: Robert de Stonor^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Robert de Stonore
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Stoner
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1185
  
• Birth: ABT 1156 in Stonor, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.5926 LONG: E0.9405
  
• FSID: K2X4-8K3
  
• Notes:

  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.51;
  
  === De Stanora property ===
  https://www.stonor.com/discover/family/
  
  === History of Stanora - Stonor Family ===
  http://archive-uat.catholicherald.co.uk/article/6th-july-1951/3/this-age-old-altar-has-never-lost-the-mass
  This age-old altar has never lost the Mass
  
  Stonor, by Robert Julian Stonor, 0.S.B., M.A. (Johns. Ltd., Newport. 2ls.) Rev iewed by FR. HERBERT REIDANY IF you were asked where eou would expect to find a chapel in which the Sacrifice, of the Mass has been offered to God without a break for centuries the last place you would think of would be a valley in the Chilterns, less than forty miles from London. And yet Stonor, not far from Henley, is the only place in England that can make this proud claim.
  
  Perhaps the strangest feature in the wonderful store of Stonor and the Stonors, eho have lived there continuously since the Norman Conquest and long before. always preserving the Faith of their fathers intact to this day, is that it should have to wait until 1951 for a historian.
  
  However, in Dom Julian Stonor, a learned monk of Downside Abbey, this ancient manor house in South Oxfordshire has at last found a worthy chronicler who establiches beyond dispute its claim to he a "Catholic Sanctuary from the Fifth Century till today". Indeed. the continuity of one family in the same place through so many generations must make it unrivalled in Europe.
  
  <> THE earliest mention of the family
  
  name in the form in wheel has persisted through 800 years was in a Pipe Roll of 1177, when Robert de Stanora had to pay a large fine; but Dom Julian has traced a continuous occupation of the estate beyond both Norman and the Saxon conquests to the early British and Celtic inhabitants of the valley. and in some ways his argument on behalf of this "hitherto almost unnoticed Celtic enclave in the Chilterns" is the most intriguing in it well-stuffed book, for II links the Stonors, with the first Christians of the Roman occupation.
  
  But while this early history will in
  
  terest specialists, the book is far from being written for only historians, genealogists. and history teachers. It can be read by anyone, and should be read by all who care for the story of the Faith in England, of which it is an epitome.
  
  For here is a county family which in the course of centuries has been allied either for reasonc of State, or business, or by marriage with all the oldest names in the land, It has produced soldiers, lawyers, courtiers, priests and nuns. who in each generation have linked it with important events in England and abroad.
  
  THE story is studded ss ith vivid incidents which arc illustrated from the vast archives preserved at Stoner.
  
  These clentain important State documents and also many trivial but charming letters skilfully drawn upon by Dom Julian.
  
  On one page you may learn how the Angelus came to be introduced in England. on another that a mistress Isabel Stonor was lady-in-waiting to several of Henry Vitt's wives; here thstt BI. Edmund (Tampion was nearly captured in the attics while his Ten Reasons were being printed; there that when four young children were orphaned half a century ago they were brought up at Sandringham with the children of Princess Alexandra.
  
  BUT throughout the long story the
  
  Old Religion is the one constant influence, and inevitably the trials suffered under the penal laws lend a particular significance to the chapel.
  
  Through all the ups and downs, members of each generation have found at this unique altar the inspiration and strength to maintain their Faith. Not one of the Stonors was called upon to die for it, but three were imprisoned, one until her death, and another was sent to exile for life.
  
  It is sad to read that the example of the family itself, of the four beatified martyrs who lived and prayed there, and of the seven canonised saints connected with this shrine. should not have prevented most of the families living on the estate from lapsing, so that there are today "no native C'atholies left, except the Mes,seligers who hare been working on this land since Plantagenet days." The penal laws were almost completely successful.
  
  Belated as it is, this book has been produced admirably and cheaply. We hope it will be widely bought as any profits from its sale are to go towards the upkeep of the ancient chapel.
  
  === Robert de Stonore, of Stonor, Oxon; ment ===
  Robert de Stonore, of Stonor, Oxon; mentioned Pipe Rolls 1177-1185. [Burke's Peerage]

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Robert De Stanora -
   Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 477
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742367