Raoul "the Timid"

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Also called Ralph de Sudeley, Ralph of Mantes. Earl of Worcester; also said to have been Earl of Hereford.

From Wikipedia:

Ralph came to England with his uncle, the future King Edward the Confessor, in 1041. He attested three charters as earl in 1050, and his earldom was probably located in the east midlands, where the lands of his wife Gytha were located. He was a benefactor of Peterborough Abbey. When King Edward quarrelled with Earl Godwin in 1051, Ralph raised the levies of his earldom to support the king. Godwin and his sons were forced into exile, but they returned the following year, and Ralph and Earl Odda commanded the fleet raised to resist them, but they were unable to prevent their return in triumph.

Later in 1052 Godwin's son Sweyn died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and it was probably at this stage that Ralph was given Sweyn's earldom of Hereford, which included Oxfordshire. In 1055 Ælfgar, the earl of East Anglia, was exiled and allied himself with the ruler of Wales, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. Ralph met them in battle on 24 October, but suffered a disastrous defeat, and the invaders sacked Hereford. It was later claimed that Ralph and his Frenchmen started the rout, resulting in his insulting nickname, 'The Timid'. Godwin's son, Harold, the future king, then chased the invaders back into Wales. Ralph died in his early thirties on 21 December 1057, and was buried in Peterborough Abbey.

Ann Williams suggested that Ralph probably lost his earldom to Harold after his defeat in 1055, but in the view of Frank Barlow he held it until his death. Ralph's son Harold was one of the royal children brought up by King Edward's wife, Edith. Ralph was on good terms with the Godwins, and his son may have been named after the future king and been his godson. Harold Godwinson may have been given the earldom of Hereford to hold until the Ralph's son came of age. The younger Harold survived the Conquest and later received part of his father's lands, as well as Ewyas Harold, which is named after him. His descendants are the Sudeleys of Toddington, Gloucestershire.

Family/Spouse: Gytha. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Harold de Ewyas was born in of Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England; died after 1100.

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Also called Drogo of Mantes. Count of Valois and the Vexin.

Died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Dreux married Godgifu of England about 1024. Godgifu (daughter of Æthelred II "Unræd", King of England and Emma of Normandy, Queen Consort of England; Queen Consort of Denmark and Norway) was born about 1010; died before 1049. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1049
• Alternate death: 1055
• Alternate death: Abt 1056

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Also called Goda.

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Count of Vexin.

Gauthier married Adele. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Redeless"; "Unraed" (Ill-counseled).

Æthelred married Emma of Normandy, Queen Consort of England; Queen Consort of Denmark and Norway in 1002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Amiens, Valois, and Vexin.

Gauthier married Adele. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eadgar married Ælfthryth, Queen Consort of England. Ælfthryth (daughter of Ordgar) died between 999 and 1002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alfrida; Elfrida; Elfthryth.

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Also known as Richard the Fearless; Richard Sans Peur. Called in retrospect "Duke of Normandy," a title he did not use.

From The Henry Project: "Richard is described by such a wide range of words (comes, marchio, consul, princeps, dux) by various sources (sometimes of dubious authority) that it would be difficult to argue that there is a specific 'title' by which he should be called."

Richard married Gunnor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Ostrevant; according to the Henry Project, probably also count of Amiens. The same source also says he was "probably" the father of Gautier I, count of Amiens, Valois, and Vexin, and that he "probably m. NN, heiress of Ermienfrid, count of Amiens."

Raoul married (Unknown heiress of Ermenfrid, count of Amiens). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between Sep 958 and Sep 960

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Count of Anjou. Common ancestor of William the Conqueror and his wife Maud.

Foulques married Gerberge in 937. Gerberge died before Sep 958. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eadmund married St. Alfgifu of Shaftesbury, Queen Consort of England. Alfgifu (daughter of Wynflaed) died about 944. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ealdorman of Devon.

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• Alternate death: 17 Dec 942, Picquigny, Picardy, France

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William "Longsword".

Says The Henry Project about his birth "overseas": "[I].e., not on the European mainland, and therefore possibly in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, or one of the islands held by Vikings (Orkneys, Hebrides, Man, etc.), all plausible places for the son of a Viking to be born."

Assassinated, possibly by or at the instigation of Arnulf/Arnulph/Arnoul "The Old", Count of Flanders.

Guillaume married Sprota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sporta; Sprota de Senlis; Espriota de Bretagne; Sprota de St. Lis (most of these are probably apocryphal).

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Also called Herbastus, Forester of Arque; Arfastus. His actual name is unknown; he appears in history only as the father of several people known to have been siblings.

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• Alternate death: Aft 894

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Count of Ostrevant.

Hucbald married Heilwig of Friuli. Heilwig (daughter of St. Eberhard and Gisela of Aquitaine) was born between 855 and 860; died after 894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 895

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Also called Helvide, Heilwich, Hellwich.

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Count of Amiens.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 942

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Viscount of Angers, before 898-931×940; Count of Anjou, 931×940 (or 929)-after 941; Count of Nantes, 907×9-914×9; Viscount of Tours, before 905-before 909; Abbot of Saint-Aubin d'Angers and Saint-Lézin, before 924-after 941.

Also called Fulk the Red; Fulco Rufus.

Foulques married Roscille. Roscille (daughter of Warnerius and Tescende) died after 929. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 872
• Alternate death: 925

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"Eadweard's nickname of 'the Elder' is not contemporary, but was assigned later to distinguish him from the two other Anglo-Saxon kings of that name." [The Henry Project]

Eadward married Eadgifu of Kent in 919. Eadgifu (daughter of Sigehelm) died after 966. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Aug 968

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 929
• Alternate death: 931

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Also called Robert (baptized); Robert I Duke of Normandy (retrospectively); Hrolfr (Old Norse) (disputed); Rouf (his fellow Normans); Rodulf, Rodulfus, Radulf, Radulfus (Frankish); Raoul (French); Rolf Ragnvaldsson (various modern genealogists and peerage-indexers).

Rollo married Poppa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Poppa of Bayeux.

"A wife or mistress of Rollo of Normandy, and mother of Rollo's son and successor William 'Longsword', her name is reported only by the often unreliable Dudo and by sources depending on him ... The only certain fact that is known about her comes from the contemporary (or nearly so) Planctus of her son William, which states (without naming her) that she was a Christian, and that her son William was born overseas." [The Henry Project, citation details below]

Peter Stewart, 25 Jun 2010, on soc.genealogy.medieval:

I'm inclined to believe that William's Christian mother named "Poppa" was invented by Dudo—it's very curious that this name is otherwise unexampled for a Frankish noblewoman of the time, but had recently been made famous by Widukind of Corvey as the name of the cleric who had baptised Harald I and converted the Danes (Rollo's people according to Dudo). "Poppa" was said to have been taken at the capture of Bayeux, a daughter of Count Brenger: however, the latter's son (Judical) Brenger was later one of the foresworn leaders of the Breton rebellion against William with no suggestion that he was the Norman ruler's uncle.

Further, according to Dudo the sister of William was described as a "girl" ca 936, but her father Rollo had been purportedly free to marry a Carolingian princess named Gisla as part of the settlement when the Normans were converted to Christianity, so that if Adela/Gerloc had been born after that time she and William could not have had the same mother unless she was never regarded as Rollo's canonical wife. Yet, according to Dudo, William was born to Poppa at Rouen, where the Normans were settled after the conversion, and the stain of bastardy is not in any way imputed to him.