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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“STEPHEN (or ETIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, Warden of the Marches of
Normandy, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir by his mother's 3rd marriage, born before 1070. He married HAWISE DE MORTIMER, daughter of Ralph de Mortimer, of Wigmore, Herefordshire, seigneur of Saint-Victor-en-Caux, by his 1st wife, Melisende. They had four sons, William [Count of Aumale, Earl of York], Stephen, Enguerrand, and Richard, and four daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (wife of Robert Bertram and Engelger de Bohun), Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Gerard, Vidame of Picquigny), Melisende (wife of Pierre de Gerberoy, Vidame of Beauvais), and Agnes (wife of William de Roumare and Adam de Brus). In 1089 he was the first of the Normans to embrace the side of King William II Rufus against his brother, Robert, Duke of Normandy; at the king's expense he strongly fortified his castle on the Bresle river, and admitted into it a numerous garrison of the king's troops to hold the same against Duke Robert. He also appears to have withheld the castle of Le Homme from the nuns of the Abbey of Caen, and garrisoned it in like manner with the king's troops. In 1095 a conspiracy was formed by several Anglo-Norman nobles headed by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, attempted to overthrow King William II and place Stephen of Aumale on the throne of England. The conspiracy being detected, Stephen took sanctuary in the monastery of St. Oswin at Tynemouth. He was subsequently captured and condemned to the loss of his eyes. On the intercession of his wife and kindred, he was pardoned. In 1096 he gave the church of Saint-Martin d'Auchy to the Abbey of Saint-Lucien de Beauvais. The same year he went on the First Crusade with Robert, Duke of Normandy. By charter dated c.1100, with the consent of his wife, Hawise, and her father, Ralph de Mortimer, he gave to the Priory of St.-Martin-des-Champs the church of Airaines (Somme), for the redemption of his soul and that of his wife, Hawise, and of her father, Ralph de Mortimer, and Melisende his wife deceased. He took the part of King Henry I against Duke Robert in 1104. He fought on the side of King Henry I at the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106. In 1115 he confirmed the gifts made by his mother and by himself to Saint-Lucien de Beauvais, which confirmation was made for the remission of his sins and for the repose of the souls of his mother, Alice, and his uncle, William I, King of England; he added the tithes and churches which he held in England under King Henry I. In 1118 he supported Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and the French king in their invasion of Normandy on behalf of William Clito, son of Duke Robert; he persisted in the rebellion but was reduced to submission in 1119. In 1124 he was granted the wardship of his great-nephew, Simon de Senlis. In 1127 he again rebelled against King Henry I, and joined a new league to support the claims of William Clito; King Henry took and burnt his castle of Aumale. He subsequently departed a second time for the Holy Land in 1127. STEPHEN, Count of Aumale, died before 1130.
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 393 (Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Melsa Priory:"Willielmus autem fuit filius Stephani filii Odonis qui fuit filius comitis Campaniæ junior, et propinquus regis Francorum.... Willielmus vero habuit sorores quatuor, filias Stephani, quorum una data est vicedomino de Pynkeney, altera autem vicedomino de Verberay, tertia nobili viro Bertanno de Brikebet, quarta Willielrno de Romare, et postea Petro de Bins."]; 6(2) (1830): 1020 (charter of Stephen, Count of Aumale, to Birstall Priory names his mother, Alice [mater mea Adeliza] and his uncle, William, King of England [Willielmi regis Angliae avunculi mei]). Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Etienne or Stephen, Count of Aumale). Darsy Bénéfices de l'Eglise d'Amiens 2 (Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires de Picardie 8) (1871): 52. Yorkshire Arch. & Topog. Jour. 4 (1877): 216-219 (biog. of Ralph de Mortemer). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holdemess). Remarks & ColIs. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. C.P.1 (1910): 352-353 (sub Aumale). Recuiel de Chartes et Docs. de Saint-Martin-des-Champs 1 (1912): 230. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33 (charter of Stephen, Count of Aumale, dated 1115 confirms the gift made by Alice his mother ["mater mea Adeliza] to the monks of St. Lucian of Beauvais of the church of St. Martin D'Acy, which his ancestors had erected outside the castle of Aumale; charter also mentions Stephen's uncle, William I, King of England [Willelmi regis Anglorum avunculi mei"]), 87 (ped. chart). Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (H.S.P. 103) (1951): 9 (sub Aumale: "The lands of the counts in France do not seem to have been of great extent. An examination of those mentioned in the three charters relating to the abbey of St. Martin of Aumale shows nearly all of them to be within a radius of 10 kil. of Aumale, mostly in Normandy but some of the eastern side of the river Bresle and therefore outside the limits of the duchy. This suggests that Aumale may not have been, strictly speaking, a Norman comté. This seems to support the suggestion made by the writer of the article in The Complete Peerage that the countship of Stephen the first count may have been due to the fact that he was the son of Odo the dispossessed count of Champagne and therefore of comital rank."). English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 13 (1990): 143 (sub Picquigny Vidames d'Amiens) (chart shows Guermond, vidame d'Amiens, sire de Picquigny, married (2nd) Beatrice daughter of Etienne Comté d'Aumale Lord of Holdemess]). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart). Legg Lost Cartalary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Set. 160) (2009): 82-85.
Children of Count Stephen, by Hawise de Mortimer:
i. WILLIAM, Count of Aumale, lord of Holdemess, son and heir. He married CECILY FITZ WILLIAM, daughter of William Fitz Duncan, of Egremont and Aspatria, Cumberland, by Alice, daughter of William Meschin [see HARINGTON 3 for her ancestry]. They had one known daughter, Hawise [Countess of Aumale] (wife successively of William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex, William de Forz, Count of Aumale, and Baldwin de Bethune), and two alleged daughters, Alice (d.s.p. c. 1215) and Amice (or Avice) (mother of Constance, wife of William de Eshton). He witnessed two charters of King Stephen in 1136 as Willelmus de Albamarla, not being placed among the counts. He distinguished himself at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. He was made Earl of Yorkshire as his reward. He founded Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire in 1139. He was with King Stephen at his defeat at the Battle of Lincoln 2 Feb. 1140/1. He founded the Abbey of Meaux in 1150. In the period, 1150-60, he made a grant to Orsmby Priory, Lincolnshire. In 1173 he supported the rebellion of young King Henry, son of King Henry II, but submitted and surrendered all his castles to the king's troops. WILLIAM, Count of Aumale, died 20 August 1179, and was buried in the Abbey of Thornton, Lincolnshire. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 326 (Chron. of Thornton Abbey: "Ao. 1180, obiit præclarus comes et eximus monasteriorum fundator Willielmus Grose, xiij Kal. Septembris [20 Augusti."]. Arch. Aeliana 2 (1832): 384-385 (chart), 387-388. Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Guillaume or William, Count of Aumale). Arch. Jour. 42 (1885): 453 (Chron. of Thornton Abbey: "Amno Domini 1139 ... Willielmus Grose, comes Albemarliae fundavit abbathiam sive monasterium de Thornton super Humbram .... Sabato die Hilarii. Et anno revoluto eodem die, scilicet S. Hilarii, qui erat dies dominicus, per consilium venerabilis cognati sin Wallevi, prioris de Kyrkham in comitatu Eboraci, et fratris Simonis comitis Northamptoniae et Henrici comitis et haeredis regis Scotiae, praedictus Wallevus venit Thornton ducens secum conventum duodecim canonicorum de Kyrkharne supradicta"). Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 13 (1895): 251 (Euphame, wife of Robert de Bras, styled "niece" [nepti] by William, Count of Aumale in charter dated 1150-60). Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 536 (charter of William, Count of Aumale). C.P. 1(1910): 353 (sub Aumale); 5 (1926): 118-120 (sub Essex). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 206 (notification of William, Count of Aumale dated c.1170-79). Stenton Transcripts of Charters rel. to the Gilbertine Houses of Sixie, Orms, Catley, Bullington & Alvingham (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 18) (1922): 41 (Guillaume de Gerberoy styled "nephew of the earl" ("W. nepos comitis de Gerberaiâ€] in charter of Earl William dated 1150-60). English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979).
ii. STEPHEN OF AUMALE. Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265.
iii. ENGUERRAND OF AUMALE, younger son. In the period, 1135-52, he witnessed an act of Enguerrand, Viscount of Aumale, for the Abbey of Aumale. By 1150 his brother, Count William, left him in charge of his Norman lands. In 1150 an act of Enguerrand, viscount of Aumale, for Beaupre, concerning Brombos (dioc. Beauvais), was made 'in the presence of lord Enguerrand d'Aumale.' In 1153 Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II of England] promised to give the English lands of Enguerrand of Aumale to the Earl of Chester if Enguerrand refused to join him. Arch. Aeliana 2 (1832): 384-385 (chart), 387-388. Colt Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 395-396.
iv. ALICE (or ADELISE) OF AUMALE. She married (1st) ROBERT BERTRAM, seigneur of Bricquebec in the Côtentin and Auge (in Roncheville-le-Bertrand). They had one son, Robert [Viscount of Auge]. ROBERT BERTRAM is possibly the man of that name killed in 1138. She married (2nd) before 1157 (as his 2nd wife) ENGELGER DE BOHUN, son and heir of Richard de Meri, by his wife, Lucy. They had no issue. In 1136 he and his brother, Alexander, with the keeping of Domfront and Argentan. He and his brother, Alexander, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, ratifying the finding of the jury in the time of Algar, Bishop of Coutances. In the period, 1151-79, his wife, Alice, gave the church of St. Mary of Le Homme to the Abbey of St. Sauveur, which gift she made for the health of his soul and that of Engelger her husband and Robert Bertram her son. In 1154 he witnessed a charter of Richard de la Hale and his wife, Maud de Vernon, founding the abbey of Blanchelande in the vicinity of their Castle of La Haie-du-puits. In 1154 he and Richard de Hulmeto gave freedom to the men of the priory of Saints Mary and Fromund in the diocese of Bayeux from toll at Le Hommet and all dues throughout their land. In 1154 he assisted in the consecration of the church of Saint-Fromonde. He was in close attendance on King Henry II before his accession. In the period, 1155-65, he gave the monastery of St. George of Bohun the right of presentation to the church of St. Andrew, this gift being made for the health of the souls of his wife, Adelise, and his father, Richard de Meri. He appears often in the Pipe Rolls in the period, 1158 to 1172. He was a benefactor of the same abbey, giving the land of Bohonet, and, in 1164, conceding his share in the advowson of the church of Ravenoville in the Côtentin. His wife, Alice, was living in 1166-7, when she accounted for land in Aldworth, Berkshire, presumably held in right of dower. He is mentioned as one of King Henry II's evil councillors in 1170 who incited the king against Becket. In 1172 he settled a dispute with Enguerrand de Campo Rotondo regarding the church of Capella, which Engelger had previously given to his priory of monks at Bohun. In 1172-81 he witnessed a charter of his cousin, Humphrey de Bohun, hereditary Constable of England, confirming to the Priory of Bohun all the gifts of his predecessors and those of his men. In 1180 his land at St. Marcouf in the Côtentin was in the hands of the king's officers, presumably due to his recent death. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 1 (1840): xcii-xciii; 2 (1844): xxxi-xxxii. Stubbs Chronicles & Memorials of the Reign of Richard I (1865): lxxxvii-lxxxviii. Robertson Materials for the Hist. of Thomas Becket 3 (1877): 129 (Engelger de Bohun styled "uncle" [patruus] of [Jocelin de Bohun], Bishop of Salisbury, in Life of Archbishop Becket by William Fitzstephen: "Engelgerus de Bohun, quidam inveteratus dierum malorum, et patruus Saresberiensis episcopi ..."). Archaeologia 51 (1888): 98 (Bohun ped.). Great Roll of the Pipe for the 13th year of King Henry II (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 9) (1888): 9. Church Chapters in the Early Hist. of the Church of Wells (1894): 379 (Bohun ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): xlv-xlvii, 345, 346-347 (charter of Adeliza daughter of [Stephen] Count of Aumale dated 1151-79), 439 (charter of Engelger de Bohon dated 1155-65), 439-440, 440 (charter of Humphrey de Bohun dated 1172-81). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie (1909): 364-365 (biog. of Engelger de Bohun). Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 333-334 (re. Bertram fam.). Crouch Beaumont Twins (1986): 36.
v. MATHILDE OF AUMALE. She married GERARD DE PICQUIGNY, Vidame of Amiens. They had three sons, Guermond, Pierre, and Jean. In the period, 1160-65, he made a grant to Southwick Priory. Darsy Picquigny et ses Seigneurs: Vidames d'Amiens (1860). Daire Histoire civile, écclesiastique et litteraire du doienné de Picquigny (1860): 50 ("L'an 1178 Gérard de Picquigny donna à l'Abbaye la possession de in Somme, depuis le mur du côté de Picquigny jusqu' a l'écluse audessous du moulin du monastère."). Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 9) (1988): 70. Slack Crusade Charters, 1138-1270 (2001): 39 (Enguerran, brother of Gerard de Picquigny, witness to a charter in 1150).
vi. MELISENDE OF AUMALE, married (as his 2nd wife) PIERRE DE GERBEROY, Vidame of Beauvais, son of Adam de Gerberoy. They had four sons, Pierre, Chev. [Vidame of Beauvais], Gerard, Guillaume [canon of Beauvais], and Etienne, Chev., and two daughters, Hawise and Ermentrude. Pillet Histoire du Chateau et de la Ville de Gerberoy (1679): 87. Guyotjeannin Episcopus et Comes Affirmation et Declin de la Seigneurie Episcopale an Nord du Royaume de France (Memoires et Docs. de Soc. de l'Ecole de Chartes 30) (1987): 141.
vii. AGNES OF AUMALE [see next].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, illegitimate daughter of Robert, Duke of Normandy, possibly by his mistress, Arlette (or Harleve) [see Appendix, Line A, Gen. 11 for her ancestry], born before 1035. She was the sister of William the Conqueror, King of England [see ENGLAND 1]. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guerinfrid, seigneur of Aurnale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Chateau d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Etienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Etienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the territory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. His wife, Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107.
Du Plessis Histoire de l'Eglise de Meaux 2 (1731): 8 (charter dated 1061 of Count Thibaut; charter names his son, Henri, his nephew, Eudes (son of his brother), his wife, Adelade, and his sister Bertha, Countess of Brittany). Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 ("A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ..."). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l’Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265 (charter of King William Rufus of England dated 1087-1100, witnessed by Eudes, Count of Champagne [“Odonis comitis de Campaniaâ€]; also see Chartes & Docs. de l'Abbaye de Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu' à l'avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168 ("Ce lieu, appelé Buc, où existait de très-ancienne date un château qui passe pour avoir été le siège de la domination du premier forestier de Flandre, et qui par la suite a vu s'élever, sous le nom de Lille, une cite si florissante, ce lieu servait de refuge à la personne du marquis et à celle de ses fils. Il avait été fortifié de nouveau, et la plupart des barons flamands s'y étaient enfermés avec leur suzerain. Il ne semble pas que l'empereur se soit rendu maître de cette importante forteresse. Avant qu'il en eût tenté le siège, le gouverneur Lambert, comte de Lens et oncle du fameux Godefroi du Bouillon, sortit à sa rencontre avec des troupes numbreuses. Cette opposition inattendue, en opérant une diversion, aura empêché l'empereur d'attaquer le château de Lille; mais elle coûta la vie au comte Lambert. De là Henri marcha vers Toumai et assiègea le fort de cette ville, où s'étaient refugiés grand nombre de gens: car tout le pays se dépeuplait sur le passage des impériaux."). Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Nomanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi ("In the Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror (Archaeologia, vol. XXVI, p. 349), an inference has been drawn from the terms of a contemporaneous charter in proof that the Comtesse of Aumale, wife of Count Odo of Champagne, was the niece and not the sister of King William the Conqueror. The supposition is, however, erroneous, as is shewn by another subsequent charter to the collegiate church of Auchy, written by commond of Adelidis the most noble Comtesse, sister, to wit, of William King of the English, confirmante viro suo, videlicet, Odone comite una cum filio suo Stephano."). Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsal (Rolls Set.) (1866): 89 (De genealogia nobelium oomitum Albemarliz, fundatorum nostrorum: "Comes quondam Campanix, nepos regis Francorum, habebat quendam filium, militem egregrium, nomine Odonem Porro, coadjuvante dictum Odonem archiepiscopo Rothomagensi erga ipsum regem Willielmum, dedit ei prmfatus rex sororem suam in uxorem."). Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34 (sub A.D. 1026: "Hic tercius Ricardus eodem primo anno ducatus sui mortuus est, et successit ei Robertus frater ejus, qui genuit Willermum de Herleva non sponsata, qui postea Angliam conquisivit, et unarn filiam nomine Aeliz de alia concubina."). Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126 (Ex Chronico Cameracensi et Atrebatensi: Year: 1054. Que facto, accinxit se rursum Iohannes ad deducendi negotium, volens, si fled posset aliquo pacto, per clausulam illam ducere Imperatoris exercitum. Laboranti igitur homini et quxrenti id ipsum perficere, portx clausulx illius apertx aunt de media nocte; sicque clausulam illam introivit Imperator, facta inimicorum suorum resistere volentium non minima Pertransiens autem clausulam illam, et interfectis a dextris et a sinistris occursantibus sibi, ad Islense castellum pervenit, ubi Lantbertus Comes Lensensis cum multis ei occurens, interfectus occubuit. Ab eo quidem castello divertit ad Tornacum civitatem; ubi in quodam municipio inclusit non parvam militum electorum fugientem multitudinem, quos obsidione et ad ultimum fame oppressos compulit ad deditionem. Illis igitus acceptis, et per ergastula militum suorum in custodia reclusis, Imperator cum gloria ad civitates regni sui rediit."), 205-206 (Ex Genealogia de qua ortus est Carolus Magnus dated after 1135: "Carolus Dux frater Lotharii genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum Comitem de Namuren. Albertus genuit Albertum qui none est. Et Gerberga soror Ermengardis genuit Henricom Seniorem de Brusella. Henricus Senior genuit Comitem Lambertum, et Henricum fratrem ejus, et Matildem sororem comm. Hanc Matildem duxit uxorem Comes Eustachius de Bulonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius accepit uxorem filium Godefridi Ducis, Idam nomine, nobilem genere et moribus; et genuit ex ea quatuor filios, Guillermum, Godefridum, qui nunc est Dux Lotharingix, Balduinum, et rani; Eustachium. Godefridus vero et Balduinus fuerent Reges Jerosolvmorum. Eustachius vero genuit filiam, nomine Matildem, quam postea duxit in uxorem Stephanus Rex Anglorum."), 374 (Genealogiæ ex Chronicis Hainoniensibus. "Carolus Dux Lotharingix, frater Lotharii Regis Francorum, duas habuit filias Ermengardem et Gerbergam: de Ermengarde natus est Albertus Comes Namurcensis, qui genuit Albertum ei succedentem, et Henricum Comitem de Durbio. Albertus II genuit Godefridum Comitem Namurcensium, et Henricum Comitem de Rupe. Hic Henricus filiam habuit Macthildem, quæ domino de Walecourt peperit Werricum et Beatricem, etc. & Godefridus Comes Namurcensis, frater Henrici de Rupe, genuit Henricum et Adelidem uxorem Hainonensis Balduini, cui peperit Balduinum Comitem, etc. Gerberga vero alia filia Caroli, fratris Lotharii, peperit Henricum Seniorem de Bruxella; et hic Henricus genuit Henricum, Lambertum, et Macthildem qux Comiti de Bolonia Eustachio peperit Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius vero ex Ida filia Godefridi Ducis Lotharingix genuit Godefridum de Bullonio, postea Regem Hierusalem, et Eustachium, etc."), 582-583 (confirmation charter of King Henry III of Germany dated 1047). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583 (Ex Willelmi Calculi Gemeticensis Monachi: `Waldevi Comitis Huntedonix, Habuit autem idem Waldevus tres filias ex uxore sua [Juditha] filia [Adelaidis] Comitiss de Albamarla, quæ Comitissa fuit soror uterina Willehni Regis Anglorum senioris."). Recueil des Historiens des Gauleses et de la France 13 (1869): 585 (Ex Genealogia Caroli Magni qua Namurcensium Comitum et Boloniens. Origo Declaratur. "Carolus Dux, frater Lotharii Regis, genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum Comitem de Namurco, etc. Albertus genuit Albertum et fratrem ejus Henricum Comitem de Durbuio. Albertus autem de Namurco genuit Godefridum, et Henricum Comitem de Rupe, pattern Mathildis qux genuit Jacobum Avesnensem Godefridus autem frater ejus genuit Henricum Comitem Narnurcensem, qui caruit liberis, et sororem ejus Alithiarn: quæ nupta Hainoensi Comiti Balduino genuit Balduinum, qui duxit Margaretam filiam Theoderici Flandrensis Comitis, et genuit filium æquivocum sibi. Gerberga vero soror Ermengardis genuit Henricum seniorem de Brussella. Henricus senior genuit Lambertum et Henricum fratrem ejus, et Mathildem sororem eorum. Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem Comes Eustachius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius vero accepit uxorem filiam Godefridi [Lotharingiæ] Ducis, Idam nominee, nobilem genere et moribus, et genuit ex ea tres filios, Eustachium, Godefridum et Balduinum. Eustachius frater Balduini Regis Jerusalem duxit Mariam filiam Regis Scotiæ, et genuit Mathildem. Mathildis nupta Stephano, fiolio Stephani Blesensis Comitis, genuit Mariam Abbatissam [Ramesiæ]. Cumque defecissent in Bolonia legitimi hæredes, Matthus filius Theoderici Comitis Flandrensis, licit illicite, duxit Abbatissam, et suscitavit semem hæreditarium duas filias generando, et remisit earn ad locum suum."). Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbege de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20 (confirmation of gifts to Tréport Abbey includes the following: "Henricus Visa dedit, pro sua et antecessorum suorem anima, ecdesie Sancti Michaelis de Ulterisportu medietatem vile que vocatur Frastineta [Le Fresnoy], et medietatum bosci ejusdem, et ecclesiam Sancti Nicholai quam in eadem construxerat villa, et hoc fecit concessu Berthe uxoris sue et filii sui Willelmi, et concessu comitisse Albemarle Aelidis, ac filii ejus Stephani."). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "12 Sept. [Obiit] Lanbertus comes."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99 (agreement dated 1047-55 witnessed by "young Eudes, nephew of Count Thibaut" [Odo puer, nepos comitis Tethbertiâ€). C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33 (charter of Stephen, Count of Aumale, dated 1115 confirms the gift made by Alice his mother ["mater mea Adeliza] to the monks of St. Lucian of Beauvais of the church of St. Martin D'Acy, which his ancestors had erected outside the castle of Aumale; charter also mentions Stephen's uncle, William I, King of England ['Willelmi regis Anglorum avunculi men). Monumenta Germaniae Histotica SS 7 (1925): 494 (Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensium. Continuatio); SS 9 (1925): 300-301 (Haec est Genealogia Regis Karoli qui vocatus est magnus, de cuius prosapia ortus est rex Godefridus Eisque frater rex Balduinus: "Karolus Magnus genuit Ludovicum Pissimum augustum. Ludovicus genuit Lotharium Pipinum et Ludovicum ex Ermengarde, et Karolum Calvum ex Iudith. Karolus Calvus genuit Ludovicum, de quo dictum est qui nichil fecit, quia post mortem paths duobus tantum annis vixit. Ludovicus filius Karoli genuit Karolum Simplicem et Karlemannum. Karolus vero Simplex ab Heriberto captus est. Qui Karolus ex Ogiva genuit Ludovicum. Ludovicus genuit Lotharium regem et Karolum ducem ex Gerberga. Lotharius rex genuit Ludovicum iuvenem, et Karolus dux, frater Lotharii regis, genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum comitem de Namuco. Albertus genuit Albertum qui nunc est, et fratrem eius Henricum comitem de Durboio. Gerberga vero soror Ermengardis genuit Henricum seniorem de Bursella. Henricus senior genuit Lambertum comitem et Henricum fratrem eius et Mathildem sororem comm. Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem comes Eustachius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios, Eustachium et Lantbertum. Eustachius vero accepit uxorem filiam Godefridi duels, Idam nomine, nobilem genere et mobus, et genuit ex ea tres filios, Eustachium et Godefridum qui nunc est dux Lotharingiae et Balduiniun." Later addition: "Eustachius, frater Balduini regis Iherusalem, duxit Mariam filiam regis Scotiae, et genuit Mathildem. Mathildis nupta Stephatio, filio Stephani Blesensis comitis, genuit Mariam abbatissam. Curnque defecissent in Bolonia legitimi heredes, Matheus filius Theoderici comitis Flandrensis, licet illicite, duxit abbatissam, et suscitavit semen hereditatium duas filias generando, et rernisit earn ad locurn suum. Albertus autem de Namurco genuit Godefridum et Henricurn comitem de Rupe, patrem Mathildis quae genuit Iacobum Avesnensem. Godefridus autem frater emus Henricum cornitem Namurcensem, qui caruit liberis et sororem eius Althiam, quae nupta Hainoensi comiti Balduino, genuit Balduinum, qui duxit Margaretam filia Theoderici Flandrensis comitis, et genuit filium equivocum sibi."). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227, XII.19. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Ware's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped.).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert, Count of Lens:
i. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
i. STEPHEN (or ETIENNE), Count of Aumale [see next].â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].â€
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").â€
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Bef 1070 - Bef 1130 (< 60 years)