William fitz Osbern

1030 - 1071  (~ 46 years)

• Name	William fitz Osbern  [1]
  Birth	Between 1025 and 1030  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Feb 1071	Flanders   [2, 3, 4]
  Alternate death	21 Feb 1071	Flanders   [2]
  Burial	Notre-Dame de Cormeilles Abbey, Eure, Normandy, France   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I10599	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Osbern fitz Herfast   d. Abt 1040
  Mother	Emma d'Ivry, Abbess of St. Amand
  Family ID	F5826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Adeliza de Tosny,   b. Between 1030 and 1035   d. 5 Oct 1066 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Children	+ 1. St. William of Breteuil   d. 1103 + 2. Emma de Breteuil   d. Aft 1096, Palestine
  Family ID	F5122	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Richilde of Hainaut,   b. Between 1015 and 1020   d. 15 Mar 1086 (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1071  [1, 3]
  Family ID	F565	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Earl of Hereford. One of the fifteen "proven companions" of William at Hastings. Killed at the battle of Cassel, in Flanders.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S80] Peter Stewart, "Origin and Early Generations of the Tosny Family," July 2009, rev. March 2012. [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. [S7285] J. Horace Round, "The Family of Ballon and the Conquest of South Wales." Studies in Peerage and Family History. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1901., year only.