Conteville (noble family)

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Thanks to Herleva , the wife of her ancestral father and mother of William the Conqueror , Conteville belongs to the inner circle around the Rollonids and thus one of the greatest winners of the Norman conquest of England .

Among the eleven nobles who, according to the Domesday Book 1086, owned half of England, the House of Conteville is represented twice with Robert von Mortain , Earl of Cornwall and Hugh d'Avranches , Earl of Chester .

Another important member of the family is the Bishop Odo of Bayeux , who is believed to have commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry .

The story of the Conteville family ends with the sinking of the White Ship off Barfleur on November 25, 1120.

Tribe list

  1. Herluin († probably 1066), 1059–1066 Viscount de Conteville , founded the Grestain Abbey after 1050 , where he was also buried; ⚭ I Herleva , daughter of the undertaker Fulbert, mother of Wilhelm the Conqueror , buried in Grestain; ⚭ II Fredesindis
    1. (I) Odo (* probably 1030, † January 2nd, 4th or 6th 1097 in Palermo ), 1050/97 Bishop of Bayeux , 1067 Earl of Kent , 1067 and 1070 Regent of England, 1082/87 imprisoned, 1088 in Outlawed England, buried in Palermo Cathedral
      1. Jean de Bayeux, attested in 1092, † 1131
    2. (I) Robert (* after 1040, † December 8, probably 1091), 1063 Earl of Mortain , 1066 participant in the Battle of Hastings , Earl of Cornwall , buried in Grestain; ⚭ I before 1066 Mathilde de Montgommery, † probably 1085, daughter of Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ( House of Montgommery ); ⚭ II Almodis, attested in 1088
      1. (I) Guillaume (William) , † after 1140 as a monk in Bermondsey , Earl of Cornwall , Earl of Mortain , 1106–1118 captured; ⚭ Adilidis
        1. Almodis de Mortain ⚭ Raimund Berengar III. ( House Barcelona )
      2. (I) daughter ; ⚭ Guy de Laval ( Laval House )
      3. (I) Agnes; ⚭ André de Vitré ( House Vitré )
        1. Havise de Vitre; ⚭ Robert de Ferrers , 1138 1st Earl of Derby , † 1139 ( House of Ferrers )
      4. (I) Emma; ⚭ before 1080 William IV. Count of Toulouse , X 1094 at the siege of Huesca ( House of Toulouse )
      5. (II) Robert
    3. (I) Emma; ⚭ Richard Le Goz , Vice Count of Avranches , † 1082
      1. Hugh (* 1047, † July 27, 1101 as a monk in the monastery of Saint-Werburg), 1071 1st Earl of Chester , 1082 Vice-Count of Avranches ; ⚭ Ermentrude de Clermont, daughter of Hugues de Clermont ( House of Clermont ) and Marguerite de Montdidier ( House of Montdidier )
        1. Richard († drowned November 25, 1120) before Barfleur ( White Ship ), 2nd Earl of Chester , Vice-Count of Avranches ; ⚭ 1115 Mathilde von Blois , † drowned November 25, 1120 in front of Barfleur (White Ship), daughter of Count Stephan II.
      2. Marguerite; ⚭ Ranulph Vice- Count of Bayeux , attested in 1089/95
        1. Ranulph le Meschin (* 1074, † January 1129), 1121 Earl of Chester, Viscount d'Avranches⚭ around 1093 Lucy , around 1079–1138
          1. Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester (* around 1099, † December 16, 1153 in Chester ); ⚭ before 1135 Maud FitzGilbert of Gloucester, daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester , and Maud FitzHamon de Mellent.
            1. Jeanne le Meschin (* around 1145), ⚭ around 1164 Adam de Brus, son of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale ( Clan Bruce )
            2. Hugh de Kevelioc (1147 - June 30, 1181), 3rd Earl of Chester; ⚭ around 1170 Bertrada von Montfort, † July 12, 1189, daughter of Simon III. de Montfort , Count of Évreux   ( House of Montfort-l'Amaury )
              1. Ranulph de Blondeville de Meschines (* 1172, † 1232), 1181 4th Earl of Chester, 1217 Earl of Lincoln , 1187/99 Earl of Richmond (uxor nomine); ⚭ I 1188/89, separated in 1199, Konstanze von der Bretagne , * 1161, † September 5, 1201, Duchess of Bretagne , daughter of Duke Conan IV. ( House of Rennes ), widow of Gottfried II. , Count of Anjou ( Plantagenet ) , she married Guido von Thouars in 1199, her third marriage ; ⚭ II Clemence de Fougères, daughter of Guillaume ( house Fougères ), widow of Alain de Dinan
              2. Maud (* 1171, † 1233); ⚭ David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon
                1. John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (* 1206; † June 1237), 1232 Earl of Chester , without descendants, Chester reverted to the Crown
              3. Mabel; ⚭ William d'Aubigny , 3rd Earl of Arundel ( House of Aubigny )
              4. Agnes († November 2, 1247); ⚭ William de Ferrers , 4th Earl of Derby ( House of Ferrers )
              5. Hawise (* 1180, † 1242); ⚭ Robert de Quincy, † 1217, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret de Beaumont
                1. Margaret († 1266); ⚭ 1221 John de Lacy , † 1240, 1232 Earl of Lincoln - the descendants hold Lincoln until 1348, after which Lincoln reverts to the crown
              6. Daughter ; ⚭ Llywelyn Fawr
            3. Richard † 1170/75.
          2. Adelize / Alice de Gernon (* 1102, † 1128), ⚭ 1116 Richard FitzGilbert de Clare ( Clare )
      3. Hélisende; ⚭ William II. Count of Eu , Lord of Hastings , blinded and emasculated in 1096 ( Rollonids )
      4. Judith; ⚭ Richer de l'Aigle ( House l'Aigle )
        1. Matilda; ⚭ 1095 Robert de Montbray , Earl of Northumberland , † 1125 ( House Mowbray )
    4. (probably II) daughter ; ⚭ Guillaume, lord of La Ferté-Macé , testified in 1053
    5. (II) Raoul († after 1089), 1086 de Conteville
      1. Bernard FitzRaoul FitzHerluin, 1092/93 attested
    6. (II) Jean, attested in 1089
    7. ? Muriel; ⚭ Yon al Chapel

literature

To the Conteville house without the "Meschin" line:

The data for the "Meschin" line can be found in the respective articles.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The monastery attached to Chester Cathedral
  2. ↑ of William of Jumièges in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum mentioned