319371342. Bartholomew de l'Isle-Bouchard Seigneur de I'sle Bouchard
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 183-3.
319371343. Gerberga
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 183-3.
319371392. Walkelin de Ferrières
1Cokayne, Complete Peerage (Sutton Publishing, 2000 ed.), II:190 (Derby).
"This Walkelin was slain in the civil wars which distracted Normandy during the minority of Duke William. (Ordericus Vitallis, lib. i, cap. 24)."
319371397. Bertha of Craôn
1Medieval Genealogy Newsgroup.
Regards, Bob."
"From: Robert S Baxter ([email protected])
Subject: RE: Kirton, Lincs and de Craon
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2002-04-21 18:17:33 PST
Adrian, the only thing I have for Bertha comes from Turton, PA, which makes
it suspect. But here goes. Bertha de Craon >Guerin de Craon c 1050>Suhard
de Craon>Lisois de Craon>Andre de Craon c 941 m Agnes. Guerin is given a
wife, Anne de Crequy>Baudouin de Crequy and Margaret deLouvaine> Ramelin II
de Crequy( I wonder if this should be Hamelin)and Alice d'Oisy>?Arnoul III
de Crequy and Adele d'Arkel>Arnoul II de Crequy and Valpurge
d'Argouens>Odoacre de Crequy and Yolande of Cleves>Arnoul I de Crequy le
Viel and Ignoude de Harlebec dtr of Odoacre of the same.
There is more if you want it.
319371398. Robert de Mortaign Earl of Cornwall
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 185-1.
2Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, line 185-1.
319371399. Maud de Montgomery Countess of Mortaign
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 185-1.
319371409. Gunnor d'Ivry
1De Braose Website, http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/index1.htm.
319371412. Alvred Lord of Barnstable & Totnes
1Cokayne, Complete Peerage (Sutton Publishing, 2000 ed.), I:21; VII:535.
319371416. Roger de Pîtres Sheriff of Gloucester
1Cokayne, Complete Peerage (Sutton Publishing, 2000 ed.), Vol. 6, page 451.
Appears in the Domesday book as a tenant-in-chief.
319371420. Geoffrey de Neufmarché
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 177-3.
2Carl Boyer 3d, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans (Santa Clarita, CA 2000), 176.
319371421. Ada of Hugleville
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), 177-3.
319371422. Osborn fitz Richard
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 177-2.
2Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, line 177-2.
319371423. Nesta of North Wales
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), 177-2.
319371430. William Malet Sire de Graville
1Website, http://www.ott.igs.net/~rhmallett/families/w_malet.htm.
The Malet Castle at Graville Sainte Honorine had an important strategic location, at the mouth of the Seine. It has now fallen into the sea, though some remnants of it may still be visible. A large section of wall with large iron rings attached was still there just over 100 years ago. The Abbey church, in which some of the Malets are buried, is now in the town of Le Havre. Though William Malet had connections to both sides in the conflict to come, his main allegiance was to Duke William of Normandy. William fought with distinction at Hastings, as the following Excerpt from Wace's "Roman de Rou" attests: William whom they call Mallet,
"
William Malet, or Guillaume, as he may have been called, "Sire de Graville", came from Graville Sainte Honorine between Le Havre and Harfleur, in what is today the French province of Normandy. He is said to have had a Norman father and a Saxon (read English) mother, and had some sort of association with King Harold of England before the conquest. William, through his Saxon mother, may actually have been related to King Harold, and also to the well known Lady Godiva. It is also possible that William and Harold were both God fathers of Duke William of Normandy's daughter, Abela.
Boldly throws himself among them;
With his flashing sword
Against the English he makes furious onset;
But his shield they clove,
And his horse beneath him killed,
And himself they would have slain,
When came the Sire de Montfort
And Lord William de Vez-Pont
With the great force which they had,
Him they bravely rescued.
There many of their men they lost;
Mallet they remounted on the field
On a fresh war-horse.
When the battle was over, Duke William entrusted William Malet to attend to the burial of the dead English king. The body was buried under a heap of stones on top of a cliff at Hastings overlooking the shore that Harold had so bravely defended. William placed a stone on the grave with the epitaph:
"By command of the Duke, you rest here a King, O Harold, that you may be guardian still of the shore and sea".
This burial of Harold was only temporary and the body was later re-buried at Harold's Abbey at Waltham. William and his brother Durand held lands in Lincolnshire, England, during the reign of Edward the Confessor, and through the reign of Harold right up to the conquest, in addition to those in Normandy. These Lincolnshire holdings, all in the Danelaw, probably came from William and Durand's mother. After the conquest William's English holdings were greatly increased, again, principally in the Danelaw, as English lands were taken from their Saxon owners and handed over to Norman Barons. It is likely that Duke William conferred these estates on William, partly because of his loyalty and skill in battle, but also because of his prior connections with his Danish "cousins" there. Perhaps the Duke felt that William was the best man to bring these proud, warlike and independent settlers under the control of their new King. William was dead at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, but the holdings at that time of his son Robert, and of his wife, give a good indication of the extent of his estates. He held large parts of what are today Suffolk and Norfolk, with smaller amounts of land in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Eye, in Suffolk appears to have been William's stronghold. Here he built a Motte and Bailey castle, after the Norman fashion. Nothing remains of the Norman fortifications, but the outline of the baileys and "Castle Mound", are still evident. There is even a slight indication of where the Market, founded by William Malet under Royal License would have been held. William married Hesilia Crispin, by whom he had two sons, Robert and Gilbert, and one daughter, Beatrice. Robert and possibly Gilbert, along with their uncle Durand, accompanied their father at the battle of Hastings. The arms shown at the top of the page, likely carried by the Malets at Hastings, were used by many generations of the Malet family, both in England and in France, and can be seen on the Bayeux tapestry. William was made Sheriff of York and granted considerable lands in Yorkshire following the building of the first Norman castle there (the mound now supports 'Clifford's Tower') in 1068. He and his fellow captains, Robert Fitz-Richard and William of Ghent, with 500 picked knights had to fight off a local revolt, headed by Edgar the Atheling; this in or shortly after January 1069. Robert Fitz-Richard and many of his men were killed and it was only by the timely arrival of King William that the City was saved. The natives remained restless and had another, token go, as soon as King William left but were quickly put down. The troops were strengthened and another castle built on the other side of the river from the original but, notwithstanding, in September 1069, William, his wife and two of his children were captured by a combined force of Danes and English under Sweyn of Denmark supported by Earls Waltheof and Gospatric and the Northumbrians, when York fell to them after a terrible fight. This led to King William ordering the burning and killing of everything in the north and Domesday, even 16 years later, records most of northern England as still being waste and uninhabited. William, his wife and two children must have been released some time later and William retained most of his lands apart from those in Yorkshire, which will have come with the office of Sheriff, which had been taken from him. At some point the King awarded William the appellation of "Princep", and in the Chart granted by the King to the church of St. Martin le Grand, his signature appears as "Wilielmus Malet Princep". In the context of the times, Princep would likely have been interpreted as "leader, or chief". William is believed to have died fighting "Hereward the Wake" in the Fens near Ely Cathedral, which lies between South Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk (and in the middle of the Malet holdings), in 1071. The Domesday book records that "...He went into the marsh", and that "...he went on the King's service, where he died". William is generally accepted to be the progenitor of many of the various branches of the Malet family (those that can trace their lines back that far), both in England and in France. The descendants of Durand continued to hold lands in Lincolnshire, and are recorded in Irby on Humber up to the 16th century."
319371431. Heselia Crispin
1K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002), 40.
(noting he married Edith Forne, daughter of Forne of Greystoke).
319371438. Roger II de Montgomery Earl of Arundel & Shrewsbury, Vicomte d'Hiesmois, Seigneur de Montgommeri
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), Line 124-26.
2Cokayne, Complete Peerage (Sutton Publishing, 2000 ed.), XI:683-85 (Shrewsbury).
3Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, line 185-1.
319371439. Mabel de Talvas Countess of Shrewsbury
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 185-1.
2Cokayne, Complete Peerage (Sutton Publishing, 2000 ed.), XI:686 (Shrewsbury).
3Carl Boyer 3d, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans (Santa Clarita, CA 2000), 23 (de Bellême).
"[M]urdered at Bures by Hugh de la Roche d'Igè (whom she had deprived of a castle), who burst into her chamber while she was lying in bed after a bath, and cut off her head with his sword, 2 Dec 1079...she was described by Orderic as small, talkative, ready enough to do evil, shrewd, jocular, cruel and daring."
319371440. Amaury II de Montfort Baron of Monfort - Bretagne
1Carl Boyer 3d, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans (Santa Clarita, CA 2000), 158.
319371441. Bertrade de Gometz Baroness de Montfort
1Carl Boyer 3d, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans (Santa Clarita, CA 2000), 158.
319371442. Richard d'Évreux 2nd Count d'Évreux
1Carl Boyer 3d, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans (Santa Clarita, CA 2000), 68 (d'Evereux).
319371462. Waltheof II Earl of Huntingdon, Northumberland & Northampton
1K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002), 223.
"Son of Siward, earl of Northumberland (d.1055), he became earl in Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire c. 1065. In 1069, he assisted the Danes in their attack on the Norman garrison at York, but was pardoned in 1070 by the king, whose niece Judith de Lens he married. Appointed earl of Northumberland in 1072, his prosecution of family blood feuds (1073) and his associations with traitors, especially the rebels of 1075, led to his downfall. Although he confessed his part in the 1075 conspiracy to Archbishop Lanfranc and to the king, he was arrested and executed for treason at Winchester in 1076. Buried at Crowland abbey, his tomb became the centre of a local cult which viewed him as a martyr. His principal heir was his eldest daughter, Matilda."2Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), 148-23.
3Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, line 148-23.
319371463. Judith of Lens Countess of Huntingdon, Northumberland & Northampton
1Georges Duby, ed., A History of Private Life - Revelations of the Medieval World (Harvard University Press, 1988, Cambridge), 137.
"William the Conqueror used his nieces and cousins to spy on the men to whom he married them. Judith reported the conspiratorial plans of her Anglo-Saxon husband, Count Waltheof, yet mourned impressively after his execution in 1075."2Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), 148-23.
3Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 98A-23.
319371472. Roger de Beaumont Siegneur of Beaumont, Pontaudemer, Brionne and Vatteville, Normandy
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), line 50-24.
2Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, line 151-25.
3Website, http://www.algonet.se/~anderzb/genea/medieval/gunnor.htm.
[Modified from an article which appeared in Dec 1996 on soc.genealogy.medieval] There have been many requests for information on the various Norman relationships compiled by Robert de Torigny. This is an attempt to summarize and harmonize several recent works on some of the lines:
"Robert de Torigny and the family of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy by Todd A. Farmerie
Elisabeth M C van Houts. Robert of Torigni as Genealogist. in Studies in Medieval History presented to R. Allen Brown, p.215-33.
Kathleen Thompson. The Norman Aristocracy before 1066: the Example of the Montgomerys. in Historical Research 60:251-63.
K S B Keats-Rohan. Aspects of Torigny's Genealogy Revisited. in Nottingham Medieval Studies 37:21-7. Robert de Torigny, writing after the Norman Conquest, recorded the genealogical traditions which tied many of the Norman nobility to the family of Gunnor, first mistress of Richard I, then Duchess of Normandy. He reported the tradition that Richard had become infatuated with the wife of one of his foresters, but being the pious wife, she substituted her sister Gunnor, much to everyone's satisfaction. He proceded to name the siblings of Gunnor, and also indicated the she had numerous nieces, who are left unnamed, but whose marriages and descendants are provided. <snip> Duvelina, a second sister of Gunnor, married Turulf de Pont Audemer, son of a Norman founder Torf, and uncle of the first of the Harcourts. They had at least one son, Humphrey de Vielles, who in turn was father of Roger de Beaumont, another Conquest-era baron. <snip>."
319371473. Adeline de Meulan Countess of Leicester
1Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 7th Ed, 1999), lines 50-24; 151-25.