Nielsen Hayden genealogy
St. William of Breteuil

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Name William of Breteuil [1, 2] Prefix St. Gender Male Death 1103 [3] Person ID I3593 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 20 Jan 2024
Father William fitz Osbern, b. Between 1025 and 1030 d. 20 Feb 1071, Flanders (Age ~ 46 years)
Mother Adeliza de Tosny, b. Between 1030 and 1035 d. 5 Oct 1066 (Age ~ 36 years) Family ID F5122 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 (Unknown mistress of William de Breteuil) Children + 1. Isabel de Breteuil Family ID F748 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jan 2016
Family 2 Adelaide of Aumale Family ID F1992 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Mar 2017
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Notes - "William of Breteuil was Benedictine abbot of Breteuil, near Beauvais, France. He rebuilt the monastery after it had been nearly destroyed by the Normans. He was the eldest son of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford. He was held captive and tortured by Ascelin Gouel de Perceval 'Lupus', Sire d'Yvry, until he finally granted his daughter Isabella de Breteuil's hand in marriage to him." [Wikipedia]
Feast day: July 14.
- "William of Breteuil was Benedictine abbot of Breteuil, near Beauvais, France. He rebuilt the monastery after it had been nearly destroyed by the Normans. He was the eldest son of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford. He was held captive and tortured by Ascelin Gouel de Perceval 'Lupus', Sire d'Yvry, until he finally granted his daughter Isabella de Breteuil's hand in marriage to him." [Wikipedia]
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- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.