Vivian de Standon

Lord of Standon

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The Warwickshire VCH (5:sub Stretton-on-Fosse) states that Vivian was underage in 1208.

Date of Death: 1250.

This date is given by the Warwickshire VCH (5:sub Stretton-on-Fosse).

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Robert de Standon.

This relationship is given by the Warwickshire VCH (5:sub Stretton-on-Fosse).

(probable) Mother: Philippa de Fenton.

This relationship is given by Parker (p. 8 fn) and by Wedgwood (p. 394 fn). It is supported by the Staffordshire VCH (8:sub Fenton), which states that Vivian was Philippa’s nearest heir.

Spouse: Roes (living 1279).

This relationship is given by Parker (p. 8 fn).

Children:

Philippa de Standon married Sir Thomas de Dutton.

Robert de Standon.

Evidence 

from the Fine Rolls: 

1241 18 Aug. Newhall. For Vivian of Standon. Because the king has heard by an inquisition that Phillippa of Fenton held of the king in chief three virgates of land in Fenton Vivian and that Vivian of Standon is her nearest heir, order to the sheriff of Staffordshire that, having accepted security from Vivian for 40s. to the king’s use for his relief, he is to cause him to have seisin of the aforesaid three virgates. 

References

Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King’s College London (accessed17 February 2023). 

A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8 (Victoria County Histories, 1963).

A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 5: Kington hundred (Victoria County Histories, 1949).

Parker, F. “Chetwynd’s History of Pirehill Hundred, with Notes” in: Chetwynd, Walter. Collections for a History of Staffordshire Volume 2 (London: The William Salt Archaeological Society, 1914).

Salt, Edward. The History of Standon: Parish, Manour, and Church (1888).

Wedgwood, Josiah C. “Testa de Nevill and other Feudatories” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (London: The William Salt Archaeological Society, 1911). pp. 378-414.