Peat (norman)

Torf was a 10th century Norman nobleman and is seen as the progenitor of the Beaumont and Harcourt families . From his name and that of his sons one can conclude that he comes from Scandinavia .

swell

Its existence is only attested by Wilhelm von Jumièges in his Gesta Normannorum Ducum (11th century). The monk reports that he is the father of Turold von Pont-Audemer and that his name lives on in the Norman places called Tourville . It is particularly likely that the town of Tourville-sur-Pont-Audemer was named after him.

Historian Jacques Le Maho identifies Peat with Turstin the Rich , a large landowner in the Seine Valley and perhaps Robert the Dane's father-in-law . Others see him as the son or grandson of Bernhard the Dane , ruler of Normandy when Richard I was a minor .

progeny

According to Wilhelm von Jumièges, Torf had two sons:

Turquetil, Herr von Harcourt , the progenitor of the House of Harcourt
Turold , Lord of Pont-Audemer , progenitor of Beaumont through his marriage to Duvaline, a sister of Gunnora , the wife or lover of Richard I (see FitzOsbern )

Footnotes

↑ Lucien Musset , "Naissance de la Normandie", in Michel de Boüard (ed.), Histoire de la Normandie , private print, Toulouse, 1970, p. 122: "One meets a limited number of large families in the ducal environment, their northern European Origin is partly secured by historiography, partly by the fact that their relatives carry Scandinavian names from father to son. So also Torf, father of Thorolf and Thorketil, grandfather of Ansketil, and tribe of the Harcourt family. "
↑ Lucien Musset, "Naissance de la Normandie", in Michel de Boüard (ed.), Histoire de la Normandie , private print, Toulouse, 1970, p. 103: "We do not have a Norman" Landnamabok ", so we do not know how the big families came about. Among the many noble families who later counted the "Compagnons de Rollon" among their ancestors, one of them may have a claim to it, the Harcourt. "
^ Gesta Normannorum Ducum, Ordericus Vitalis and Robert von Torigni , VIII, 37, ed. Elisabeth Van Houts, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 268–269.
^ Jacques Le Maho, L'apparition des seigneuries châtelaines dans le Grand-Caux à l'époque ducale , in Archéologie médiévale , Volume VI, 1976, p. 28.

personal data
SURNAME	peat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	norman nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century
DATE OF DEATH	10th century or 11th century

[1] Lucien Musset , "Naissance de la Normandie", in Michel de Boüard (ed.), Histoire de la Normandie , private print, Toulouse, 1970, p. 122: "One meets a limited number of large families in the ducal environment, their northern European Origin is partly secured by historiography, partly by the fact that their relatives carry Scandinavian names from father to son. So also Torf, father of Thorolf and Thorketil, grandfather of Ansketil, and tribe of the Harcourt family. "

[2] Lucien Musset, "Naissance de la Normandie", in Michel de Boüard (ed.), Histoire de la Normandie , private print, Toulouse, 1970, p. 103: "We do not have a Norman" Landnamabok ", so we do not know how the big families came about. Among the many noble families who later counted the "Compagnons de Rollon" among their ancestors, one of them may have a claim to it, the Harcourt. "

[3] Gesta Normannorum Ducum, Ordericus Vitalis and Robert von Torigni , VIII, 37, ed. Elisabeth Van Houts, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 268–269.

[4] Jacques Le Maho, L'apparition des seigneuries châtelaines dans le Grand-Caux à l'époque ducale , in Archéologie médiévale , Volume VI, 1976, p. 28.