FitzOsbern

The FitzOsbern are the family of the Danish Gunnora , the concubine Richard I , Duke of Normandy and mother of his children. FitzOsbern is the patronymic of her great-nephew William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford , who went to England with William the Conqueror , fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and is listed in the Domesday Book in 1086 as one of the richest barons in England.

Tribe list

1. Herbast de Crépon
   1. Gunnora de Crépon, around 989 concubine Richard I , Duke of Normandy ( Rollonids )
   2. Herfast de Crépon
      1. Osbern de Crépon , attested around 1025, bodyguard of William the Conqueror; Strangled by Guillaume de Montgommery in 1040; ∞ Emma, ​​daughter of Raoul d'Ivry , Count of Bayeux , as widow Abbess of Saint-Armand zu Rouen ( House Ivry ),
         1. William FitzOsbern "Osbern's son", attested in 1052, † February 20, 1070/71 in Flanders , Lord of Breteuil , 1066 near Hastings, 1st Earl of Hereford , regent of England together with Bishop Odo of Bayeux , 1068/69 Governor of York , Steward (dapifer) Normandy, establishes the Notre-Dame of lyre and the Abbey Cormeilles ; ∞ I Adelise, buried in Lyre Abbey, daughter of Roger I. de Tosny ; ∞ II around 1070 Richilde von Mons , † March 15, 1086, heiress of Count Reginar (Renier), heiress of Hainaut , widow of Hermann Graf von Hennegau and Balduin VI. , Count of Flanders and Hainaut, buried in Hesnon Abbey
            1. (I) Guillaume, attested about 1060, † March 14, 1104, lord of Breteuil , 1087 lord of Ivry ; ∞ Adeline de Montfort-sur-Risle , daughter of Hugo II. ( Bastembourg house )
               1. Eustache de Pacy (illegitimate), † 1136, Lord of Glos-la-Ferrière , Pont-Saint-Pierre and Pacy; ∞ Juliana, illegitimate daughter of the English King Heinrich I and Ansfrida, after 1119 spiritually in the Abbey of Fontevrault ( Rolloniden )
                  1. 2 daughters who were blinded by their grandfather, King Heinrich I, in 1119 and whose noses were cut off
               2. Isabelle (illegitimate); ∞ Ascelin Goél, Vogt (Prévôt) von Ivry , † 1116/19
            2. (I) Roger de Breteuil , † after 1087 in prison, 1071 2nd Earl of Hereford , deposed, excommunicated and imprisoned
               1. Rainald, attested after 1087/1145, ∞ Emmeline de Ballon , daughter of Hamelin , Lord of Abergavenny
                  1. William Fitzreginald, 1145 / 46–1166 attested
                  2. Reginald de Ballon, 1145 / 46–1175 attested
                     1. John de Ballon, 1207 attested- offspring
                  3. Hamelin, 1145/46 attested
                  4. Agnes, 1145/46 attested
                  5. Juliana, 1145/46 attested
               2. Roger, attested after 1087
            3. (I) Raoul, spiritually to Cormeilles
            4. (I) Emma, ​​† after 1096 on the crusade ; ∞ Exning 1075 Ralph de Gael , 1st Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk , attested in 1060, deposed after 1075, † after 1096 on the crusade - descendants: the House of Montfort-Laval
         2. Osbern FitzOsbern, † 1101, Chancellor of England , 1072 Bishop of Exeter
      2. Hunfredus, attested around 1025
   3. Sainfrie; ∞ NN, "forestier"
   4. Duvaline; ∞ Thorold (1035 Twald) de Pont-Audemer , † strangled after 1040 - descendants : the Beaumont family , Counts of Meulan , Earls of Leicester etc.
   5. Wévie; ∞ Osbern de Bolbec - offspring : the Giffard family , Earls of Buckingham
   6. Sister; ∞ NN
      1. Béatrice, attested around 1053; ∞ Rudolf I. de Warenna, attested in 1053/74 - descendants : the Warenne family , Earls of Surrey

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. New episode Volume 3, Part 4: Feudal France and its influence on the world of the Middle Ages. Stargardt, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-465-02716-7 , plate 695.

used therein:

• Thomas Stapleton: Some Observations upon the Succession to the Barony of William of Arques. In: Archaeologia. Vol. 31, 1846, ISSN  0261-3409 , pp. 216-237.
• Léopold Delisle : Histoire du château et des sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. Suivie de pièces justificatives. Martin et al., Valognes et al. 1867, online .
• Ulysse Chevalier : Repertoire des sources historiques du moyen age. Bio bibliography. Volume 2: J - Z. Nouvelle édition refondue, corrigé et considérablement augmenté. Picard, Paris 1907.
• Henri Regnault du Motey: Origines de la Normandie et du duché d'Alençon. Histoire des quatres premiers ducs de Normandie et des Talvas, princes de Bellême, seigneurs d'Alençon, de Sées, de Domfront, du Passais et du Saosnois. Précedée d'une étude sur le diocèse de Sées au 9e siècle, de làn 850 á l'an 1085. Picard, Paris 1920.
• David C. Douglas: The Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church Canterbury. Royal Historical Society, London 1944.
• J. Horace Round: Studies in Peerage and Family History. 1st edition, new impression. Woburn Press, London 1971, ISBN 0-7130-0024-4 .
• André M. Roux: You nouveau en Normandie au temps du Conquérant. Four, Caen 1980, ISBN 2-7287-0224-1 .
• George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage .