Ancestors of Robert Erwin William Juch
Thirtieth Generation
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610539520. Richard de Novallia was born about 1010 in Neuvile Sur Tongue, Normandy, France. He died about 1066. [Parents]
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610566144. Sir Ralph 'The Crusader' St. Leger 1 was born about 1170. [Parents]
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610566146. Roger De Malemains 1 was born about 1170. He died.
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610582640. Drogo (Brogo) de Briwere died about 1066. [Parents]
The Conqueror and His Companions
by J.R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874........
an undoubted companion of the Conqueror, whose name does not appear in the roll of Battle Abbey, but who is presumed to have been an ancestor of the De Brewers or Briweres, so powerful in the thirteenth century. According to the Book of Meaux and the Register of Fountains Abbey, which I have already quoted, this Drogo was a Fleming of approved valour, who came over to England with William, and received for his services the Isle of Holderness, on which he built the strong Castle of Skipsey, and other considerable estates in various counties, amongst them Bytham in Lincolnshire. By the same authorities he is said to have married a kinswoman of the King, -- how related to him, or how named, is not stated, nor whether her hand had been bestowed upon him as part of the guerdon he had merited. Whoever she was, Drogo killed her -- whether by accident or with malice prepense, does not appear in the indictment. His subsequent conduct, however, was that of a guilty man. He hastened to the King and pretended that he was desirous to take his wife to Flanders; but, not having sufficient money at command for the purpose, craved assistance from his royal connection. The King, not doubting his story, gave or lent to him the sum requested, with which Drogo wisely made the best of his way to the coast, and took ship for the Low Countries. The King on learning the truth sent orders for his arrest, but too late. Drogo was beyond his reach. He lost no time, however, in seizing his estates, some of which he appears to have bestowed on Odo of Champagne, who, according to the same writers, is said to have complained that the soil of Holderness was sterile and would grow nothing but oats; and his wife having presented him with a son, named Stephen, he prayed the Conqueror to give him some land on which he could grow wheat, that he might feed his (William's) nephew; whereupon the King gave him Bytham, another forfeited manor of Drogo's, and other places.
Now, if the story about Drogo be true, the slaying of his wife and flight to Flanders must have taken place late in 1086, for up to August in that year he was in possession of all his estates, and shortly afterwards William quitted England never to see it more. Drogo's personal interview with him must, therefore, have been during the few months that elapsed between the completion of the survey and the King's sailing for Normandy; either at the time of his holding his last great Witan at Salisbury (1st August), to which all the principal landholders in the kingdom were summoned, or while he was subsequently residing in the Isle of Wight, waiting the collection of the money extorted from all against whom he could bring any charge, whether by right or otherwise -- that final robbery of his English subjects, with the booty of which he departed, amid "curses not loud but deep," to die deserted, dishonoured, and despoiled in his native land.
The grant of Holderness to Odo has just the same narrow chance of having been made in England at that period, and the additional one of Bytham a few months later in Normandy, which shows how little reliance can be placed on the story that the complaint respecting the soil of Holderness was made to the King at Odo's request by "the same Archbishop" to whose good offices he had been indebted for the hand of his wife and the city or county of Aumale. Jean de Bayeux died 1079, seven years at least before the grant of Holderness to Odo. Bytham, originally held of the King by Drogo, was probably given to Odo at the same time or shortly afterwards, and was one of the many manors in England with which his son Stephen endowed the monastery of Aumale, he being the first who described himself as "Albemarlensis Comes," his father never assuming that title, but invariably granting or witnessing charters as "Odo de Campania," or "Odonis Comitis de Campania."
Of his step-daughter, the younger Adelaide or Adeliza, Countess of Aumale, we know nothing beyond her confirmation of the grants of her mother and father to the Abbey of St. Martin d'Auchi (or Aumale). She must, however, have died unmarried or without issue, when her rights and title devolved solely upon her half-brother Stephen.
It is most remarkable, considering the position and connections of Adeliza, sister of the Conqueror and Countess of Ponthieu, that the discovery of her triple marriage should have been left to reward the diligence of an English antiquary of the nineteenth century. Every previous account of her and her issue being, from the ignorance of that simple fact, full of errors and contradictions. The date of her death is still unknown; but she was living in 1080, when she witnessed a charter of her aunt Adeliza, sister of Duke Robert II, and died before 1085, her daughter the younger Countess Adeliza having then presumably succeeded to the suzerainty of Aumale, and being the tenant in Domesday.
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610582642. WIlliam de Vernon "6th Earl of Devon" was born about 1155 in Devonshire England. He died 10 Sep 1217. 6th Earl of Devon married Maud de Beaumont.
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610582643. Maud de Beaumont was born 1168 in Meulan Normandy France. She died 1 May 1204. [Parents]
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610582916. Count Raoul II de Vexin was born 980 in Vexin, Normandy, France. He died 1030. Raoul married Adela de Breteuil. [Parents]
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610582917. Adela de Breteuil died 11 Sep 1051. [Parents]
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610582920. Robert de Ferrers 1st Earl of Derby 1 was born 1062 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England. He died 1 1139 in Charterley, Staffordshire, England. Robert married Hawise de Vitre on 1087. [Parents]
Robert de Ferrers, having contributed, at the head of the Derbyshire men, to King Stephen's victory over King David of Scotland at Northallerton (commonly called the battle of the Standard), was created by that monarch Earl of Derby. By Hawise his wife, he had William who d. s. p.; Robert this successor; Walcheline, of Okeham; Isolda, m. to Stephen de Beauchamp; and Maud, m. to Bertram de Verdon. The earl d. in 1139 and was s. by his son, Robert de Ferrers, as 2nd Earl of Derby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 196, Verdon, Earls of Derby]
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610582921. Hawise de Vitre 1 was born 1069 in Vitre, Brittany, France.
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610582922. William "The Younger" Peverel was born 1080 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. He died 1155 in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England. William married Avice de Lancaster on 1112 in La Marche, Normandy, France. [Parents]
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610582923. Avice de Lancaster was born 1088 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. She died 1149. [Parents]
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Robert Peverel was born about 1112 in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England. |
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Margaret Peverel was born 1114. |
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610582924. Philip de Braose Sir Baron 1, 2 was born 1075 in Bramber, Sussex, England. He died 1112 in Holy Land, Palestine. Philip married Aenor de Toteneis.
Philip confirmed his father's gifts to the abbey of St Florent in 1096. He was the first Braose Lord of Builth and Radnor, their initial holding in the Welsh Marches. Philip returned from the 1st Crusade in 1103. He built the Norman Church of St Nicolas at Old Shoreham and founded the port of New Shoreham. His lands were confiscated by Henry I in 1110, due to his traitorous support of William, son of Robert Curthose, but they were returned in 1112. Philip de Braose went on 2nd Crusade and died in Palestine.
Philip confirmed the gifts of his nephew, Philip de Harcourt, to the newly established Knights Templar. Philip de Harcourt, Bishop of Bayeux, bestowed the manor and church of Shipley on the Templars between 1125 and 1130 and in 1154 added St Mary's, Sompting.
See St Nicolas, Old Shoreham
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610582925. Aenor de Toteneis 1, 2 was born 1084 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England.
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Maud de Braose 1 was born 1105 in Bramber, Sussex, England. She died before 20 Mar 1200/1201 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. |
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William de Braose 1st Baron of Gwentland was born 1112 and died before 1193. |
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610582926. Miles Fitzwalter Earl of Hereford 1, 2 was born 3 1092 in Gloucester, Gloustershire, England. He died 4 24 Dec 1143 in Shot while hunting in Forest of Dean, Gloustershire, England and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Gloustershire, England. Miles married 5 Sybil de Neufmarche on Apr 1121. [Parents]
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610582927. Sybil de Neufmarche 1 was born before 1093 in Aberhonwy, Brecon, Wales. She died 2 after 1143 in Gloustershire, England and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Gloustershire, England. [Parents]
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Margaret de Gloucester 1 was born 1122 in Gloucester, Glouchestshire, England. She died 2 6 Apr 1187. |
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Bertha FitzMiles de Gloucester Heiress of Brecon was born about 1130. | |
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Lucy of Hereford 1 was born about 1142 in Bwlch y Dinas, Brecknockshire, Wales. She died 1 after 1219 in Blaen Llyfni, Brecknockshire, Wales and was buried in Chapter House of Llanthony, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. |
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610582928. Ranulph "The Rich" de Bayeaux was born about 1018 in Bayeaux, Calvados, Normandy, France. He died 1075. Ranulph married Alice (Alix) of Normandy. [Parents]
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610582929. Alice (Alix) of Normandy was born about 1025 in Normandy, France. [Parents]
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610582930. Richard le Goz Viscount of Avranches was born about 1025 in Avranches, Normandy, France. He died 1066. Richard married Emma de Conteville in Avranches, Normandy, France. [Parents]
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610582931. Emma de Conteville was born 1043 in Conteville, France. [Parents]
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Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches Earl of Chester 1 was born about 1050 in Normandy, France. He died 27 Jul 1101 in St Werburg's Abbey, Chester, Cheshire, England.
HUGH D'AVRANCHES, EARL OF CHESTER
The Conqueror and His Companions
by J. R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874..
Here is a personage who, under the more popular name of Hugh Lupus, is perhaps almost as well known as the Conqueror himself.
Wace in his "Roman de Rou," speaks only of his father Richard: "D'Avrancin i fu Richarz."
But it is generally contended that Richard was not in the battle, and that it was Hugh, his son, who accompanied William to Hastings. The authors of "Les Recherches sur le Domesday," to whom we are so deeply indebted for information on these points, hesitate to endorse the opinion of Mons. le Prévost upon these grounds, -- that Richard was living ass late as 1082, when he appears as a witness to a charter of Roger de Montgomeri, in favour of St. Stephen's at Caen, to which also his son, Earl Hugh, is a subscriber. Their observations only point, however, to the probability of Richard, who in 1066 was Seigneur or Vicomte of Avranches, having been in the Norman army of invasion, as he survived the event some sixteen years; at the same time they deny that there is any proof that his son Hugh was in the battle, and assert, without stating on what authority, that Hugh only joined the Conqueror in England after the victory at Senlac, when he rendered the new King most important services by his valour and ability in the establishment of William on the throne, and contributed greatly towards the reduction of the Welsh to obedience. That there is authority for their assertion appears from the cartulary of the Abbey of Whitby, quoted by Dugdale in his "Monasticon," (Mon. Ang. vol. i, p. 72) where we read distinctly that Hugh Earl of Chester and William de Percy came into England with William the Conqueror in 1067: "Anno Domini millesimo sexagesimo septimo," and that the King gave Whitby to Hugo, which Hugo afterwards gave to William de Percy, the founder of the abbey there.
We have here, therefore, a parallel case to that of Roger de Montgomeri (Vide vol i, p. 181), and must similarly treat it as an open question.
The descent of Richard, surnamed Goz, Le Gotz, or Le Gois, from Ansfrid the Dane, the first who bore that surname, has been more or less correctly recorded, but in "Les Recherches" it will be found critically examined and carried up to Rongwald, or Raungwaldar, Earl of Maere and the Orcades in the days of Harold Harfager, or the Fair-haired; which said Rongwald was the father of Hrolf, or Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy. Rongwald, like the majority of his countrymen and kinsmen, had several children by a favourite slave, whom he had married "more Danico," and Hrolf Turstain, th.e son of one of them, having followed his uncle Rollo into Normandy, managed to secure the hand of Gerlotte de Blois, daughter of Thibaut Count of Blois and Chartres, which seems to have been the foundation of this branch of the great Norse family in Normandy, and the stock from which descended the Lords of Briquebec, of Bec-Crispin, of Montfort-sur-Risle, and others who figure as companions of the Conqueror.
The third son of Gerlotte was Ansfrid the Dane, the first Vicomte of the Hiemois, and father of Ansfrid the second, surnamed Goz, above mentioned, whose son Turstain (Thurstan, or Toustain) Goz was the great favouritc of Robert Duke of Normandy, the father of the Conqueror, and accompanied him to the Holy Land, and was intrusted to bring back the relics the Duke had obtained from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to present to the Abbey of Cerisi, which he had founded. Revolting against the young Duke William in 1041 (Vide vol. i, p. 21), Turstain was exiled, and his lands confiscated and given by the Duke to his mother, Herleve, wife of Herluin de Conteville.
Richard Goz, Vicomte d'Avranches, or more properly of the Avranchin, was one of the sons of the aforesaid Turstain, by his wife Judith de Montanolier, and appears not only to have avoided being implicated in the rebellion of his father, but obtained his pardon and restoration to the Vicomté of the Hiemois, to which at his death he succeeded, and to havee strengthened his position at court by securing the hand of Emma de Conteville, one of the daughters of Herluin and Herleve, and half-sister of his sovereign. By this fortunate marriage he naturally recovered the lands forfeited by his father and bestowed on his mother-in-law, and acquired also much property in the Avranchin, of which he obtained the Vicomté, in addition to that of the Hiemois..
There was every reason, therefore, that he should follow his three brothers-in-law in the expedition to England, if not prevented by illness or imperative circumstances. He must have been their senior by some twenty years, but still scarcely past the prime of life, and his son Hugh a stripling under age, as his mother, if even older than her brothers Odo and Robert, could not have been born before 1030, and if married at sixteen, her son in 1066 would not be more than nineteen at the utmost. Mr. Freeman, who places the marriage of Herleve with Herluin after the death of Duke Robert in 1035, would reduce this calculation by at least six years, rendering the presence of her grandson Hugh at Senlac more than problematical. It is at any rate clear that he must have been a very young man at the time of the Conquest. That "he came into England with William the Conqueror," as stated by Dugdale, does not prove that he was in the army at Hastings, and is reconcilable with the assertion in the "Recherches," that he joined him after the Conquest, corroborated by the cartulary of Whitby, before mentioned; very probably coming with him in the winter of 1067, and in company with Roger de Montgomeri, respecting whose first appearance in England the same diversity of opinion exists, and it might be his assistance in suppressing the rebellion in the West and other parts of the kingdom that gained him the favour of the King, and ultimately the Earldom of Chester, at that time enjoyed by Gherbod the Fleming, brother of Gundrada. The gift of Whitby, in Yorkshire, to Hugh, which he soon afterwards gave to William de Percy, would seem to show that he had been employed against the rebels beyond the Humber in 1068.
In 1071, Gherbod Earl of Chester being summoned to Flanders by those to whom he had intrusted the management of his hereditary domains, whatever they were, obtained from King William leave to make a short visit to that country; but while there his evil fortune led him into a snare, and falling into the hands of his enemies, he was thrown into a dungeon, "where he endured," says Orderic, "the sufferings of a long captivity, cut off from all the blessings of life." Whether he ended his days in that dungeon Orderic does not tell us. A little more information respecting this Gherbod and his sister would be a great boon to us. At present, what we hear about them is so vague that it looks absolutely suspicious.
In consequence of this "evil fortune" which befell Gherbod, the King, continues Orderic, gave the earldom of Chester to Hugh d'Avranches, son of Richard, surnamed Goz, who, in concert with Robert de Rhuddlan and Robert de Malpas, and other fierce knights, made great slaughter amongst the Welsh.
Hugh was in fact a Count Palatine, and had the county of Chester granted to him to hold as freely by the sword as the King held the kingdom by the crown. He was all but a king himself, and had a court, and barons, and officers, such as became a sovereign prince.
We hear but little of him during the remainder of the reign of William the Conqueror, but in the rebellion against Rufus, in 1096, he stood loyally by his sovereign; he is charged, however, with having barbarously blinded and mutilated his brother-in-law, William Comte d'Eu, who had been made prisoner in that abortive uprising. In the same year he is also accused of committing great cruelties upon the Welsh in the Isle of Anglesea, which he ravaged in conjunction with Hugh de Montgomeri, Earl of Shrewsbury, who lost his life at that period in resisting the landing of the Norwegians nnder Magnus III, King of Norway. The Norse poet tells us the Earl of Shrewsbury was so completely enveloped in armour that nothing could be seen of his person but one eye. "King Magnus let fly an arrow at him, as also did a Heligoland man who stood beside the King. They both shot at once. The one shaft struck the nose-guard of the helmet, and bent it on one side, the other arrow hit the Earl in the eye and passed through his head, and this arrow was found to be the King's."
Giraldus Cambrensis gives a similar account, adding some few details, such as the derisive exclamation of Magnus, "Leit loupe! " -- "Let him leap!" as the Earl sprang from the saddle when struck, and fell dead into the sea.
As this Earl of Shrewsbury was called by the Welsh "Goch," or "the Red," from the colour of his hair, so was Hugh Earl of Chester called "Vras," or "the Fat." His popular name of Lupus, or "the Wolf," is not to be traced to his own times, and Dugdale observes that it was an addition in after ages for the sake of distinction; about the same time, I presume, that the heralds invented the coat of arms for him -- "Azure, a wolf's head, erased, argent " -- suggested, probably, by the name, which, if indeed of contemporary antiquity, might have been given him for his gluttony, a vice to which Orderic says he was greatly addicted. "This Hugh," he tells us, "was not merely liberal, but prodigal; not satisfied with being surrounded by his own retainers, he kept an army on foot. He set no bounds either to his generosity or his rapacity. He continually wasted even his own domains, and gave more encouragement to those who attended him in hawking and hunting than to the cultivators of the soil or the votaries of Heaven. He indulged in gluttony to such a degree that he could scarcely walk. He abandoned himself immoderately to carnal pleasures, and had a numerous progeny of illegitimate children of both sexes, but they have been almost all carried off by one misfortune or another."
With all this he displayed that curious veneration for the Church common to his age, which so ill accorded with the constant violation of its most divine precepts. He founded the Abbey of St. Sever in Normandy, and was a great benefactor to those of Bec and Ouche (St. Evroult) in that duchy, and also to the Abbey of Whitby in Yorkshire, and in 1092 restored the ancient Abbey of St. Werburgh at Chester, and endowed it with ample possessions, substituting Benedictine monks in lieu of the secular canons who had previously occupied it; Richard, a monk of Bec, being brought over by Abbot Anselm, the Earl's confessor and afterwards the great Archbishop of Canterbury, to be the first abbot of the new community.
Being seized with a fatal illness, this pious profligate assumed the monastic habit in the Abbey of St. Werburgh, and three days after being shorn a monk died therein, 6th kalends of August (July 27), 1101.
By his Countess Ermentrude, daughter of Hugh Comte de Clermont, in Beauvoisis, and Margaret de Rouci, his wife, he had one son, Richard, seven years of age at the time of his father's death, who succeeded him in the earldom, married Matilda de Blois, daughter of Stephen, Count of Blois, by Adela, daughter of William the Conqueror, and perished with his young wife in the fatal wreck of the White Ship in 1119, leaving no issue. |
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Margaret d'Avranches was born about 1054 and died after 1084. |
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610582932. Richard III "le Bon" Duke of Normandy was born about 997. He died 6 Aug 1028. Richard married Bertrade de Montfort. [Parents]
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610582933. Bertrade de Montfort was born about 1059 in of Montfort, Eure, France. She died 14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France. [Parents]
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610582934. AElfgar III Earl of Mercia was born before 1002 in Mercia, England. He was buried 1059 in Coventry, Warwick, England. AElfgar married AElgifu (Elgiva) on 1062. [Parents]
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610582935. AElgifu (Elgiva) was born about 997 in Wessex, England. [Parents]
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Ealdgyth 1 was born about 1034 in Mercia, England. She died after 1086 in France. |
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Ealgith of Mercia was born about 1034 in Mercia, England. She died after 1080. |
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Lucia of Mercia was born about 1040. |
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610582992. Cynfyn ap Gwerystan was born about 1002 in Powys, Wales. He married Angharad verch Maredydd on 1023. [Parents]
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610582993. Angharad verch Maredydd was born about 982 in Deheubarth, Wales. [Parents]
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Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn was born about 1025 in Powys, Wales. He died 1070 in Mechain, Montgomeryshire, Wales. |
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Iwerydd verch Cynfyn was born about 1024 in Powys, Wales. |
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Bleddyn ap Cynfyn was born about 1025 and died 1075. |
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610582994. Cilin ap Blaidd-Rhydd Lord of Gestyn-Efionydd was married about 1024 in Caernarvonshire, Wales. [Parents]
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610583100. Gospatric I Earl of Northumberland was born 1040 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. He died 15 Dec 1072 in Ubbanford, Scotland. Gospatric married AEthelreda. [Parents]
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610583101. AEthelreda was born 1042 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. [Parents]
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Eldgitha was born 1057 in Mercia, England. |
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Walteof Lord of Allendale was born about 1062 and died 1138. | |
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Gospatric II Earl of Northumbria was born about 1070 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. He died 22 Aug 1138 in Battle of the Standard fought on Cowton Moor near Northallerton, Yorkshire North Riding, England. |
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610583102. Maldred de Molle Earl of Dunbar, King of Cumbria was born about 1009 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. He died 1045. Maldred married Edith. [Parents]
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610583103. Edith was born about 1000 in Northumberland, England. [Parents]
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Gospatric I Earl of Northumberland was born 1040 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. He died 15 Dec 1072 in Ubbanford, Scotland. |
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610583104. Fulk IV "The Rude" d'Anjou Count of Anjou was born 1043. He died 14 Apr 1109. Fulk married Bertrade de Montfort about 1077. [Parents]
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Bertrade de Montfort is printed as #610582933.
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