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It was built around 1150 by the Marmion family; Robert Marmion offered it in patronage to the Barbery Abbey, subject to the Bayeux diocese, in 1181.

Robert Marmion

Marmion was married twice, first, to Matilda de Beauchamp, by whom he had a son, Robert the Elder, and two daughters; secondly, to Philippa, by whom he had four sons; Robert the younger; William, who was dean of Tamworth; Geoffrey, who was ancestor of the Marmions of Checkendon, Stoke Marmion, and of Aynho, to which branch Shackerley Marmion the dramatist belonged; and lastly Phllip (died 1276).

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He was buried at Polesworth, Warwickshire, in unconsecrated ground as an excommunicated person.

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Tamworth passed to Jane, daughter of Mazera Marmion, and wife of Baldwin de Freville, and Scrivelsby eventually passed with Margaret de Ludlow to Sir John Dymoke, in whose family it has since remained along with the title 'Champion of England'.

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