(Unknown) Tirel

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

1. Gerbert de Percy was born in of Poorstock, Dorset, England; died in 1179.

Notes:

"Domesday tenant of Richard de Clare, whose daughter he had married. Seigneur of Poix in Ponthieu, he was accused of having loosed the fatal arrow that killed William II in 1100 and was obliged to flee from England. [...] Walter eventually went to Jerusalem and died as a penitent." [Domesday People, citation details below.]

Walter married Adelisa de Clare. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1035
• Alternate birth: 1035
• Alternate death: May 1089
• Alternate death: Abt 1090

Notes:

Also called Richard "de Bienfaite", Richard de Clare, and Richard de Tonbridge. Joint chief justiciar of England in William's absence; in this role he suppressed the revolt of 1075.

Richard married Rohese Giffard. Rohese (daughter of Walter Giffard and Agnes Flaitel) died after 1113. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Rohais; Rohaidi; Roaxdis.

Ancestral Roots 8 has her as a daughter of the Walter Giffard who d. 1102; this poses some chronological difficulty. Complete Peerage, Domesday People, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography all agree that she was a sister, not a daughter, of that Walter Giffard.

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Also called Gilbert de Brionne; Giselbert; Gilbert Crispin. Comte d'Eu & Brionne. Assassinated.

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Lord of Longueville. One of the fifteen proven companions of William the Conqueror. Complete Peerage (II:386-87) has him as "s. of Osborn de Bolebec, by Aveline, sister of Gunnor, wife of Richard, Duke of the Normans", and many reputable sources reflect this. But like much of our understanding of Norman family relationships prior to the Conquest, this comes to us from the twelfth-century chronicler Robert de Torigny, and in the case of this Walter Giffard's parentage, the chronological difficulty has casued many to suspect that de Torigny compressed two generations into one, and that Osborn de Bolebec and Wevia (the likely actual name of the woman called "Aveline" by CP) were his grandparents, not his parents.

Some have argued that this Walter's father was Osbert or Osbern Giffard of Brimpsfield, son of Osborn and Wevia and progenitor of three generations of Eliases Giffard. Keats-Rohan (Domesday People, p. 456), on the other hand, calls this Walter "Son of Walter Giffard of Bolbec." In the absence of firm information we're going with the hypothesis that Torigny inadvertantly combined two generations and both of them were named Walter.

Walter married Agnes Flaitel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Ermengarde Flaitel.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1023

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Comte d'Eu. Count of Brionne. Also called Geoffrey of Brionne, Godfrey de Brionne, Godefroi Crispin.

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See the entry on the Walter Giffard given here as his son.

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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 (Unknown mistress or mistresses of Richard I). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Longueville.

Osbern married Wevia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Aveline; Avelina; and (mistakenly) "Wevia de Crepon". Ancestral Roots, just as mistakenly, calls her "of Denmark."