William de Harcourt

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• Alternate death: Bef 6 Apr 1223

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Governor of Tamworth Castle.

"Constable of Corf Castle 1212-1215; Custos of Yorkshire 1215-1217. Went on the Fifth Crusade with Randle, Earl of Chester 1218-1220 and was at the siege of Damietta." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

William married Alice Noel about 1200. Alice (daughter of Thomas Noel and Margaret Le Strange) died in 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard de Harcourt was born about 1202 in of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England; died about Jan 1258.

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• Alternate birth: of Stanton-Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Bosworth, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 1206

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Sheriff of Leicestershire and Warwickshire 1198-1202. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and other sources notwithstanding, his parentage is not known; specifically, he is not proven as a son of Ivo de Harcourt.

Robert married Isabel de Camville. Isabel (daughter of Richard de Camville and Milicent of Réthel) died after 1207. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Godington, Oxfordshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, England

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He was sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire in 1154, and constable of Lincoln Castle. He founded the Cistercian monastery at Combe, Warwickshire in 1150, and was a witness, in 1153, to the agreement between Stephen and the future Henry II at Wallingford. He died while accompanying the king's daughter, Joan, on her journey to Palermo to be married to King William II of Sicily.

Richard married Milicent of Réthel after 1143. Milicent (daughter of Gervase de Réthel, Archdeacon of Reims and Elizabeth of Namur) was born between 1105 and 1115. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1110
• Alternate birth: Aft 1115

(Unknown) married (Unknown) de Vere. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John P. Ravilious quotes from Keats-Rohan's Domesday Descendants, regarding her son Richard de Camville:

"His mother was a daughter of Alberic de Vere (cf. Rot. de Dom. 84 an note; Comp. Peer. x, App. J., n. j.), as may be inferred from the descent of his Domesday manor of Hildersham as the marriage portion of Matilda de Ros, daughter of Richard; Matilda granted land there to Clerkenwell priory, c. 1190 when her daughter Beatrice became a nun and the grant was confirmed by Alberic III de Ver (Cart. Clerkenwell, 24-26)."

"[Alberic de Ver was father] possibly also of a daughter who was mother of Richard de Camville." [K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People]

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"Resigned [as archdeacon] on the death of his father and succeeded him as count of Rethel." [Ancestral Roots]

Gervase married Elizabeth of Namur. Elizabeth (daughter of Godfrey of Namur and Sibylle de Château Porcéan) died after 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Isabell.

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1040, of Ver, Manche, Normandy, France
• Alternate death: Abt 1112
• Alternate death: Bef 1113

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Tenant of the bishop of Coutances in Normandy, 1086. Sheriff of Berkshire after 1106.

"Aubrey de Vere I was almost certainly a Norman who derived his name from Ver in the Cotentin and probably had connexions with the adjoining duchy of Brittany. He was born probably before 1040. The Conqueror granted him, with other lands, the great estates of an English thegn named Wulfwine in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridge. In 1084 he attested a royal charter for Lessay as Aubrey the Chamberlain. In 1086 he held in chief 14 estates in Essex, with 2 houses and 3 acres in Colchester, 9 estates Suffolk, 7 in Cambs, and 2 in Hunts. He also held Kensington in Middlesex and two properties in Northants of the Bishop of Coutances, land in Hunts of the Abbey of Ramseyand land in two places in Essex of Count Alan of Brittany. The head of his barony was at (Castle) Hedingham in Essex, where he had planted a vineyard. It is usually assumed that he is identical with, and not the father of, the Aubrey de Vere who attested a writ at Westminster (September 1102 to Easter 1103 and a charter for Abingdon (1101-06). Not later than 1106 he was acting as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled simply Aubrey. Within the next few years he was acting as a justice in Northants, being styled Aubrey the Chamberlain, and as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled Aubrey de Berkshire. At the dying request of his eldest son, not later than 1106, he gave Abingdon Abbey his church of Kensington with its appurtenances and 2 hides and 1 yardland; but as he resided mostly in Essex, he founded a priory at Earls Colne as a cell of Abingdon. He seems to have held 1 1/2 knights' fees of the Abbey of St. Edmund. He married Beatrice, whose parentage is unknown. He died before 1113 (almost certainly in 1112), at Colne Priory, and was buried with his wife in the church there." [Complete Peerage X:194-5]

"The first Aubrey de Vere was a Domesday tenant of the powerful Breton tenant-in-chief Count Alan Rufus, and was among a handful of Alan's Bretons who were also tenant-in-chief of their own fees. Aubrey's family probably came from Vair in Ancenis, in the Nantais; he occurs among a group of men from the Nantais in a charter given by Conan II c. 1050. He is usually assumed to have originated at Ver because he held land in 1086 of the Bishop of Coutances. [...] There is a real possibility that other de Ver families in England could have originated in the Cotentin, but the mass of evidence indicating Aubrey's Breton origins is overwhelming." [K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People]

Aubrey married Beatrice. Beatrice was buried in Earl's Colne Priory, Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"She very probably was from a Cotentin family." [K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1118

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Comte de Réthel.

Ancestral Roots (8th ed.) has Hugh de Rethel as a son, rather than a grandson, of the Manasses whose wife was Yvette/Judith de Roucy. We are following Leo van de Pas, who cites Europäische Stammtafeln.

Hugh married Melisende de Montlhéry. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1069

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Comte de Namur. Died as a lay brother. Note that it's the Abbey of Floreffe, in what is now Belgium, not "Florette, France" as several online sources have it.

Godfrey married Sibylle de Château Porcéan about 1087. Sibylle (daughter of Roger and Ermengarde) was born in of Château Porcéan, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Comte de Réthel. Known to have been married to a woman called "Judiz" in 1081. Many genealogies identify her as Judith (or Yvette) de Roucy, a daughter of Giselbert, Count of Roucy who died in the 990s, and a sister of Ebles de Roucy (d. 1033) and Liétaud (or Letald, Letard) de Roucy of Marle. Many other genealogies make this de Roucy woman a second wife, after Doda, of the earlier count Manasses, this Manasses's father. Some attach her to an alleged even earlier count Manasses. Nothing is really certain except that this Manasses was married to a "Judiz" in 1081.

Manasses married Judiz. Judiz was born about 1020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lord of Chevreuse; Lord of Chateaufort; Count of Corbeil.

From French-language Wikipedia (accessed 16 March 2014), translated by Google, not cleaned up:

The Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde is a basilica confession Catholic, dedicated to St. Mary of Nazareth, located in the French town of Longpont-sur-Orge and the department of Essonne. It was preceded by a chapel dating back to the time of the Christianization of the Île-de-France, built in the oldest place of Marian devotion in the region: according to legend, the druids would be a venerated statue of the Virgin even before the passage of St. Denis, who told them that Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ , and that prophecy of Isaiah (7, 14) had already performed. Fragments of the statue of the Gauls are embedded in the statue of Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde in the apse of the basilica.

It was founded in 1031 by Guy I first Montlhery and his wife Hodierne Gometz. Thirty years later, they built a priory and asked the bishop to offer church and priory to the Abbey of Cluny. Hodierne went to Cluny itself to pick the first twenty-two monks. None of the first subsidiary of Cluny in Paris region remains: the French Revolution annihilated. [...]

To 1030, Guy I er, lord of Montlhery, married Hodierne Gometz lady of La Ferte-Alais, and soon after their marriage, they conceived a project to replace the old chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary by a large basilica. The choice of its location could not be fortuitous, because Guy and the Hodierne built on a slope, far enough from the castle in the middle of an uninhabited countryside. He could not act to perpetuate the tradition of the first sanctuary in the time of the Druids. The first stone was laid March 25, 1030 or 1031, for the feast of the Annunciation, by King Robert the Pious, in the presence of the Bishop of Paris, Imbert (or Humbert) Vergy. A legend is attached to the construction of the basilica. Hodierne, very pious, humble, have personally participated in the work. She put herself in the water starts to help Masons. To facilitate its work, she asked the local blacksmith to provide an iron bar which help to better carry the buckets. Stupid blacksmith, influenced by his wicked wife, gave him derisively, a red-hot bar. Hodierne was spared any burns, and the blacksmith and his wife died in the year. The miraculous iron was mounted atop a column from a temple of Mercury. The "Red Cross iron" is stored at the bottom of the basilica since 1931, a replica was placed in an authentic location. The three protagonists, Hodierne, the blacksmith and the shrew were represented, carved in stone, on the bases of fallen arches of the third bay of the nave (the blacksmith and Hodierne north, the woman in the south). In 1061, the church approaches its completion, which appears from the terms of the charter LI cartulaire Longpont. Through this charter, Bishop Geoffroy de Boulogne found to have received the request for Guy I first Montlhery give the church of the Benedictine monks. According to the will of Guy Geoffroy chose the abbey of Cluny, which establishes a priory Longpont: this was the first Cluniac establishment in Paris. The number of monks is fixed at twenty-two, but sometimes reached thirty.

Following the donation, Hodierne went to Cluny to persuade the Abbot Hugh of Cluny monks send Longpont He hesitated at first, since his abbey still had no branch in the region. It was perhaps these qu'Hodierne brought a chalice and a gold chasuble precious, that made him decline. Hugues therefore sent twenty-two monks, and to accommodate the Guy I st and Hodierne did build a convent at their own expense, south transept. It guarantees the monastery exemption from manorial justice. The monks built a farm south-west of the church, and cleared the hill Longpont. Prior to the first named Robert, and died in 1066. To 1074, then qu'Hodierne sees the end of his life approaching, Guy decided to take the habit at the time of being widowed. Hodierne died on April 7, but the exact year is unknown. It is locally regarded as a saint, but has not yet been canonized. First buried at the Western gate, his remains were transferred to the transept in 1641. A fountain took the name Hodierne and feverish there implored healing. Guy lived until early 1080, and his tomb remained visible until the uprooting of tiles that were paved church in 1793.

Guy married Hodierne de Gometz in 1030. Hodierne (daughter of Guillaume de Gometz de Bures) died after 1062; was buried in Abbaye de Longpont, Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Hodierne de Gometz-la-Ferté.

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Comte de Namur.

Albert married Ida about 1067. Ida died on 31 Jul 1102. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Ida the wife of Albert III of Namur may have belonged to the ducal family of Saxony, as often asserted, but her origin is not certain." [Peter Stewart, SGM, 17 Jun 2016]

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Comte de Château Porcéan.

Roger married Ermengarde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]