Notes:

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"In the 9th century a national hero, Nomenoe, revolted against the tutelage
of Charles the Bald and conquered Nantes and Rennes, thus giving to
Brittany its definitive extension and its complex constitution of both
Celtic and Frankish country. The successors of Nomenoe, nominally vassals
of the king but in fact independent, rallied their people against the Norse
raiders..." - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1956, 4:205.

(a married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Erispoe is son of Nomenoe, a Breton Chief.

married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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He was Chief of Half in Brittany in 847. W.H.Turton, "The Plantagenet
Ancestry" (Balt.:Gen.Pub.Co.,1968), p.188, shows Gurvand, Count of Rennes,
as husband of the daughter of Erispoe, King of Brittany.

Y married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Judicael is brother of Alain le Grand of Nantes and in 879 was "Chief of
Half." Rennes is a town in western France and was the capital of Brittany;
its Roman era name was Condate (hence Condat and Conde), a center of the
Roman road network.

married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Juhael married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Conan "le Tort" took Nantes in 990; descends from a Conan known as Cynan
Medriadog, Prince of Albaine and Powys, who died in 421 (m.388 Dareara,
sister of St. Patrick & dau. of Calphurnius) - the legends also have Cynan
leaving to found a colony in Armorica, France in 384. Legend also traces
Conan's line from ancient Welsh "kings." As Count of Rennes he subdued the
entire province and his son and successor, Geoffrey, was first to assume
the title "Duke of Brittany." The dukes were crowned at Rennes.

I married Anjou, Ermengarde of in 980. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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She founded the abbey of Bernay in Normandy about 1026 per one source.

Judith married Richard, Duke of Normandy II in 1000. II (son of Richard, Duke of Normandy I of Normandy and Crepon, Gonnor de) died on 28 Aug 1026. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adelaide Princess of France. (daughter of Robert, King of France II and Taillefer, of Provence Constance de) was born in 1009; died on 8 Jan 1079 in Messinesmonastre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Robert I was Duke 1028-35. His wife is Estrith, sister of Canute the Great
(no issue). Robert was called "Robert the Devil", accused of poisoning his
brother (whom Robert succeeded as Duke); he sheltered the exiled English
princes, Edward and Alfred; he died returning from a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem.

Family/Spouse: Falaise, Herleve of. Herleve was born about 1012; died about 1050. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Parents from Carr P. Collins, Jr., "Royal Ancestors of Magna Charta Barons"
(Dallas: 1959), p. 262." Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) 132A-24 states
Alice is dau. of Richard III by an unknown mistress.

Alice married Ranulph, Vicomte of Bessin I on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William was described by a Norman monk "as a burly warrior with a harsh

gutteral voice, great in stature but not ungainly" - probably 5'10",

full-fleshed in face, of "russet hair" {-"William the Conqueror...," David

C. Douglas [London, 1966]}.  A primary source by a contemporary is "The

Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy," Ordericus Vitalis, trans.

Thomas Forester (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854).

     ----- Compton's Encyclopedia (America On-Line, 1995):

William I (born 1027, ruled 1066-87), called William the Conqueror, was an

illegitimate son of Robert I, duke of Normandy. His mother was a tanner's

daughter. William succeeded his father when he was only 7 years old. At 24 he

had made himself the mightiest feudal lord in all France by various

conquests, but his ambition was not satisfied. He laid plans to become king

of England also.

   William married Matilda, daughter of Baldwin V, count of Flanders, in

1053. She was descended from the old Anglo-Saxon line of kings. Among their

children were four sons: Robert, future duke of Normandy; Richard, who died

as a youth; William Rufus, who succeeded his father as king of England; and

Henry, who succeeded William Rufus. One daughter, Adela, became the mother of

England's King Stephen.

   Edward the Confessor, king of England, was William's cousin. William used

his connection with Flanders to put pressure on Edward to extort a promise

that he would become heir to the English throne. It is probable that Edward

made some kind of pledge to William as early as 1051. Edward died childless

on Jan. 5, 1066. William then claimed the throne on the basis of this

promise. The English, however, chose Harold, earl of Wessex, as their king.

   William prepared a large expedition and set sail for England. On Oct. 14,

1066, he defeated and killed Harold at Hastings in one of the decisive

battles of the world. Then he marched on London, and on Christmas day he was

crowned king.

   After subduing England's powerful earls, William seized their lands for

his Norman nobles and ordered the nobles to build fortified stone castles to

protect their lands. As payment for their fiefs, the nobles supplied the king

with armed knights. French became the language of the king's court and

gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue.

   William won the loyalty of the mass of the people by wisely retaining the

old Anglo-Saxon laws, courts, and customs with only a few changes. Thus the

principle of self-government, which lies at the root of the political system

of English-speaking peoples, was preserved and strengthened. At the same

time, William taught the English the advantages of a central government

strong enough to control feudal lords.

   Toward the end of his reign, William ordered a great census to be taken of

all the lands and people of England. This survey was called Domesday Book.

Two of the original books may still be seen at the Public Records Office in

London. "So very narrowly did he cause the survey to be made," complained the

old Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, "that there was not a single rood of land, nor an

ox, or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not set down in the accounts."

   William was often on the continent dealing with his widespread holdings.

He died there in 1087 from injuries received while warring with Philip I of

France. William was a man of great stature and had a tremendous voice. Such

was the good order he established that, according to a quaint historian of

his time, "any man, who was himself aught, might travel over the kingdom with

a bosom of gold unmolested, and no man durst kill another, however great the

injury he might have received from him." He was succeeded in Normandy by his

eldest son, Robert, and in England by his second son, William II, called

William Rufus.

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Regarding the location of the Battle of Hastings, this site on the World Wide

Web is helpful and provocative: http://www.cablenet.net/pages/book/index.htm#PART57

I married Flanders, Matilda ("Maud") of in 1053 in Eu in Normandy. Matilda (daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders V and Adelaide Princess of France) was born in 1032; died on 3 Nov 1083; was buried in Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen, Normandy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Adelaide (referred to as de Gand) was Countess of Huntgindon, Northampton
and Aumale. She m. (1) Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu, slain at the siege
of Arques in 1053. She m. (3) Eudes, Count of Champagne and Earl of
Holderness, imprisoned in 1096.
See "Falaise Roll" (Baltimore: Gen. Pub. Co., 1994), p. 15.

Adelaide married Boulogne, Count Of Lens Lambert of in 1054. Lambert (son of Eustace, Count of Boulogne I and Louvain, Maud of) died in 1055 in Battle of Lille. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married Maud, d'Avranches Margaret on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Duke of Normandy

Notes:

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Henry I had 20 or 21 bastard children re: N.E.Hist.Gen.Register 4/1965, pp.95-96. His form of government was "severe and grasping; but he `kept good peace' and honorably distinguished himself among contemporary statesmen in an age when administrative
reform was in the air. He spent more time in Normandy than in England. But he showed admirable judgment in
his choice of subordinates...." -Encyclopedia Britannica (1956 Ed., 11:432). He was King of England, 1100-35, and Duke of Normandy (1106-35); his coronation at Westminster Abbey was on Sunday, 08-05-1100. Thomas B. Costain offers a popular account of
his reign in "The Conquering Family" (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949, pp.43-77). The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" described him as the "lion of justice."

I married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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"Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) 148-23: "The line is in question at this
point. Judith may have been the child of the 1st marriage. ...In fact,
Adelaide may not even have been Lambert's wife."

Judith married Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland II in 1070. II (son of Syward The Saxon Earl and Northumbria, Elfleda of) was born in 1045; died on 31 May 1076 in Winchester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Earl of Chester

Notes:

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Ranulph, also styled "de Briquessart," was Vicomte de Bayeux in Normandy;
first cousin and heir to the last Earl (whom he succeeded as Vicomte
d'Avranches, etc.); became Earl of Chester in 1120; Commander of Royal
Forces in Normandy, 1124. {-"The Complete Peerage," London, Vol. 3, pp.
164-5.} He was Vicomte of the Bessin and in 1121 Vicomte also of the
Avranchin. He "held the new Cumbrian gains of the Norman house in a block
of land stretching from Stainmore west to the sea and from Carlisle south
to the Derwent" prior to his accession to the earldom of Chester {-"The
Northerners," J. C. Holt (Oxford: Clarendon, 1961), p. 214}. He is buried
in St. Werburg at Chester, England.

Ranulph married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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"The Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales," I:11-12,
lists 20 `natural' children of King Henry I; among the youngest is Isabel
(a form of Elizabeth), born of Isabel, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Earl
of Leicester, and wife of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke.

Family/Spouse: Fergus Lord of Galloway. (son of Maldred and Northumberland, Edith of) died on 12 May 1166 in Holyrood Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Earl of Gloucester

Notes:

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Robert "of Caen" was also called Robert the Consul; Earl of Gloucester in
1122, founder of the Margam Abbey; his mother is either the king's
mistress, Sibyl Corbet (daughter of Robert Corbet, Burgess of Caen), or
Nesta of Wales, who became wife of Gerald of Windsor.{ref. "Royal
Ancestors...," Collins, p.58} His granddaughter Avisa was the first wife of
King John. The family's story is told by Thomas B. Costain, "The
Conquering Family" (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949).

Robert married Hammond, Mabel Fitz about 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Maud was Countess of Huntingdon and Northumberland; m. (1) Simon de St.
Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, who died about 1111. Also known
as Maud de Senlis, she brought to her husband David the English earldoms of
Northampton and Huntington.

Family/Spouse: David, King of Scots I. I (son of Canmore, King of Scots Malcolm III and Margaret, Saint of Scotland) was born in 1080; died on 24 May 1153 in Carlisle, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]