Gilbert d'Auffay

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Gilbert d'Auffay († August 15, 1087 ) was a Norman nobleman who was one of the companions of William the Conqueror and was active in the Norman conquest of England .

According to Ordericus Vitalis , he helped the new English King William the Conqueror to pacify the country after the invasion of 1066, but refused to endow it with English fiefs and finally returned to de Normandy. In 1079 he gave the church of Sainte-Marie d'Auffay ("de Alfagio") to the Ouche Saint-Évroult monastery .

Gilbert d' auffay was the son of Richard de Heugleville and Ada. William the Conqueror is referred to as his consanguineus (blood relative). The exact nature of the consanguinity could not yet be determined. Gilbert d'Auffay married Beatrix de Valenciennes, daughter of Christian de Valenciennes, who Ordericus Vitalis calls the consobrina (sibling, cousin) of Queen Mathilde . Since her father is only known through this passage in the text, the exact relationship between the two women cannot be verified.

Three children of Gilbert and Beatrix are known:

  • Gauthier d'Auffay, † May 27, three years after his wife; ∞ Avise, † February 22 after 15 years of marriage, daughter of Herbrand de Sauqueville - Gauthier had 12 children, four of whom are known by name, the son Jordan had a son Richard and a grandson Jean, with whom the family went out; a Richard d'Auffay is attested in England in 1179.
  • Hugues d'Auffay, monk in Saint-Evroult
  • Beatrix d'Auffay

Gilbert d'Auffay died on August 15, 1087 and was buried in Sainte-Marie d'Auffay. Beatrix de Valenciennes died on January 4th three or four years later, probably 1091, as a nun in Sainte-Marie and was buried there.

literature

  • Auguste Le Prévost (ed.): Orderici Vitalis angligenae, coenobii Uticensis monachi, Historiae ecclesiasticae libri tredecim , Julien Renouard, Paris 1838–1855, 5 volumes, volume 3 ( online ).
  • Marjorie Chibnall (translator): The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis , 6 volumes, Oxford Medieval Texts, 1968–1980, ISBN 0-19-820220-2 .

Web link

  • Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Seigneurs d'Auffay ( online )

Remarks

  1. ^ Ordericus Vitalis (Prévost edition), Volume 3, Liber Sextus, pp. 36, 38-39
  2. ↑ Ordericus Vitalis (Prévost edition), Volume 3, Liber Sextus, p. 44
  3. ↑ Prévost assumes that she came to Normandy to accompany the future queen (p. 44, footnote 2)
  4. ↑ Léopold Delisle , Recueil des actes de Henri II, roi d'Angleterre et duc de Normandie, Volume 2, 1920, DXLVII, p. 124 ( online )
  5. ↑ Ordericus Vitalis (Prévost edition), Volume 3, Liber Sextus, p. 39, and Liber Octavus, pp. 257-258
  6. ↑ Ordericus Vitalis (Prévost edition), Volume 3, Liber Sextus, p. 44, and Volume 3, Liber Octavus, p. 258
personal data
SURNAME Auffay, Gilbert d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION norman nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1087