Conteville (noble family)
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
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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
- (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
- Jean de Bayeux, attested in 1092, † 1131
- (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
- (I) Guillaume (William) , † after 1140 as a monk in Bermondsey , Earl of Cornwall , Earl of Mortain , 1106–1118 captured; ⚭ Adilidis
- Almodis de Mortain ⚭ Raimund Berengar III. ( House Barcelona )
- (I) daughter ; ⚭ Guy de Laval ( Laval House )
- (I) Agnes; ⚭ André de Vitré ( House Vitré )
- Havise de Vitre; ⚭ Robert de Ferrers , 1138 1st Earl of Derby , † 1139 ( House of Ferrers )
- (I) Emma; ⚭ before 1080 William IV. Count of Toulouse , X 1094 at the siege of Huesca ( House of Toulouse )
- (II) Robert
- (I) Guillaume (William) , † after 1140 as a monk in Bermondsey , Earl of Cornwall , Earl of Mortain , 1106–1118 captured; ⚭ Adilidis
- (I) Emma; ⚭ Richard Le Goz , Vice Count of Avranches , † 1082
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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 )
- 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.
- Marguerite; ⚭ Ranulph Vice- Count of Bayeux , attested in 1089/95
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Ranulph le Meschin (* 1074, † January 1129), 1121 Earl of Chester, Viscount d'Avranches⚭ around 1093 Lucy , around 1079–1138
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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.
- Jeanne le Meschin (* around 1145), ⚭ around 1164 Adam de Brus, son of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale ( Clan Bruce )
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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 )
- 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
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Maud (* 1171, † 1233); ⚭ David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon
- John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (* 1206; † June 1237), 1232 Earl of Chester , without descendants, Chester reverted to the Crown
- Mabel; ⚭ William d'Aubigny , 3rd Earl of Arundel ( House of Aubigny )
- Agnes († November 2, 1247); ⚭ William de Ferrers , 4th Earl of Derby ( House of Ferrers )
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Hawise (* 1180, † 1242); ⚭ Robert de Quincy, † 1217, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret de Beaumont
- Margaret († 1266); ⚭ 1221 John de Lacy , † 1240, 1232 Earl of Lincoln - the descendants hold Lincoln until 1348, after which Lincoln reverts to the crown
- Daughter ; ⚭ Llywelyn Fawr
- Richard † 1170/75.
- Adelize / Alice de Gernon (* 1102, † 1128), ⚭ 1116 Richard FitzGilbert de Clare ( Clare )
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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.
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Ranulph le Meschin (* 1074, † January 1129), 1121 Earl of Chester, Viscount d'Avranches⚭ around 1093 Lucy , around 1079–1138
- Hélisende; ⚭ William II. Count of Eu , Lord of Hastings , blinded and emasculated in 1096 ( Rollonids )
- Judith; ⚭ Richer de l'Aigle ( House l'Aigle )
- Matilda; ⚭ 1095 Robert de Montbray , Earl of Northumberland , † 1125 ( House Mowbray )
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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 )
- (probably II) daughter ; ⚭ Guillaume, lord of La Ferté-Macé , testified in 1053
- (II) Raoul († after 1089), 1086 de Conteville
- Bernard FitzRaoul FitzHerluin, 1092/93 attested
- (II) Jean, attested in 1089
- ? Muriel; ⚭ Yon al Chapel
- (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
literature
To the Conteville house without the "Meschin" line:
- Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables Volume III.4 (1984) Table 694B, used therein:
- George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage
- David R. Bates: Notes sur l'Aristocratie Normande, in: Annales de Normandie 23, Caen 1973
- Henri Vcte Regnault du Motey: Origines de la Normandie et du duché d'Alençon de l'an 850 à l'an 1085, Paris 1920
The data for the "Meschin" line can be found in the respective articles.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The monastery attached to Chester Cathedral
- ↑ of William of Jumièges in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum mentioned