William de Tancarville

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Chamberlain of Normandy.

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

1. Osbert de Clinton was born in of Coleshill, Warwickshire, England; died before 1221.

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Also called Renebald. Chamberlain of Normandy.

Rabel married Tiphaine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Theophania de Penthievre.

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Chamberlain of Normandy.

William married Maud d'Arques. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 21 Apr 1136

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Count of Brittany; Count of Treguier and Lamballe. Also called Étienne of Brittany; Étienne de Penthievre.

Founder of the Augustinian abbey of Ste. Croix at Guincamp abt 1110. Founder of the Cistercian abbey of Begard.

Stephen married Hawise. Hawise died after 1135. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Agnes Stigand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1095

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Domesday lord of Folkestone.

William married Beatrice Malet. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 7 Jan 1062

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Co-regent of Brittany. Also called Eudes de Penthievre.

Eudon married Orguen. Orguen died after 1056. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Viscount of Arques.

Godfrey married (Unknown) d'Arques. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Proven companion of William the Conqueror.

Sheriff of York. Castellan of York.

"Of unknown parentage, he was described by Guy d'Amiens as part Norman part English and as 'compater Heraldi', which indicates either spiritual affinity or close companionship with Harold Godwinsson (Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, 2nd, edn, p. 34). His father was probably his predecessor as lord of Graville and tenant of the Giffards in numerous other fiefs in the same region. Legends associating his son-in-law Turold the Sheriff with Godiva of Mercia, mother of Harold's wife, probably indicate a relationship between William's mother and the earls of Mercia or their wives. A strong association of William and his family with Lincolnshire suggest that his English roots lay there. Between 1060 and c. 1066 William occurs with William I in a number of charters relating to the abbeys of Montivilliers and Jumieges (Fauroux, 89; CDF 329). He was associated with the abbey of Preaux in the Lieuvin, of which he was given the fellowship by Abbot Ansfrid in 1060, and with the abbey of Bee, which later mistakenly identified him with his descendant, a monk of the same name. His interests in the region of Lisieux probably originated in his marriage to Esilia, daughter of Gilbert I Crispin, castellan of Tillieres in the Vexin. He fought at Hastings and was soon credited with having been ordered to bury Harold's body on the sea-shore; whether he had anything to do with Harold's burial is uncertain, but it now seems clear that the body was buried at the church Harold founded at Waltham. In 1068 William became castellan of the first castle at York and sheriff of Yorkshire. In September 1069 the city was attacked by Danes. Briefly held captive, William, his wife, and their younger children were among the few to escape alive (Ord. ViI. 2, 178, 222; Symeon of Durham, Opera Omnia, ii. 188). He lost the shrievalty of York and the land associated with it soon afterwards, and was thereafter occupied in suppressing the fenland revolt led by Hereward the Wake. Domesday Book makes it clear that he died in the campaign, probably in 107l. At his death, the bulk of his wealth lay in the vast lordship (the honour of Eye) granted to him in East Anglia, principally in Suffolk (where he had a castle and a market at Eye), but also in Norfolk, Essex, Surrey, Bedfordshire and Nottinghamshire." [Domesday Descendants, citation details below]

William married Hesilia Crispin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Brittany.

Geoffroi married Hawise of Normandy between 996 and 999. Hawise (daughter of Richard I, Leader of the Normans of Rouen and Gunnor) died on 21 Feb 1034. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lord of Longueville.

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

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

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Vicomte de Rouen.

Gozelon married Emeline. Emeline died after 1029. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Castellan of Tillieres in the Vexin.

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Count of Rennes before 979. Duke of Brittany.

"[S]lain at the 2nd Battle of Conquereuil near Nantes". [Royal Ancestry]

Conan married Ermengarde of Anjou about 973. Ermengarde (daughter of Geoffroi I Grisegonelle and Adèle of Troyes) died after 992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Stewart Baldwin has pointed out that she was not the same individual as her sister Gerberge who married William IV of Angouleme, despite the contrary claim in several sources including Wikipedia, Ancestral Roots, and Leo van de Pas (the latter presumably deriving from Europa?ische Stammtafeln).

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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]