 Abt 953 - 1015 (62 years)
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| Name |
Godfrey Fitzrichard De Brionne |
| Prefix |
Count |
| Birth |
Abt 953 |
Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1015 [2] |
| Person ID |
I54230 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
4 Jan 2010 |
| Father |
Duke Richard I The Fearless De Normandie, Duke Of Normandy, b. 996, Of, Fecamp, Normandie, France d. 20 Nov 996, Of, Fecamp, Normandie, France (Age 0 years) |
| Mother |
Gunnor De Crepon, b. Abt 935, Normandy, France d. 1031, France (Age 96 years) |
| Marriage |
Aft 962 |
France |
| Family ID |
F1777 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Hawise De Guines, b. Abt 958, Castle At Guines, Artois/Pas-DE-Calais, France d. Yes, date unknown |
| Children |
| | 1. Count Gilbert Fitzgodfrey De Brionne, b. Abt 979, Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d. 1040, Eu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France (Assassinated) (Age 61 years) |
| | 2. Adela D'eu, b. Abt 985, Eu, Dieppe, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. Murielle De Normandy, b. Abt 986, Eu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d. Abt 1014 (Age 28 years) |
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| Family ID |
F30818 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
4 Jan 2010 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - Abt 953 - Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France |
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| Notes |
- Gilbert, Count of Brionne, who was son of Godfrey, Count of Brionne, illegitimate son of Richard I, the Fearless, Duke of Normandy. [Magna Charta Sureties, line 157-1]
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Turton has Geoffrey (Godfrey Comte d'Eu as a legitimate son of Richard & Gunnora, which confused me for awhile and I had him as a 2nd person (father of Adele only). However I believe Turton is wrong, and Godfrey was an illegitimate son (in fact the eldest illegitimate son).
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The following is the first part of a post to SGM, 29 Aug 1996, by Dave Utzinger:
From: Dave Utzinger (UTZ@AOL.COM)
Subject: CLARE FAMILY
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 1996/08/29
From "A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314", by Michael Altschul, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins press, 1965.
The Clares came to England with the Conqueror. Like many other great families settled in England after the Conquest, they were related to the dukes of Normandy and had established themselves as important members of the Norman feudal aristocracy in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries.
The origin of the family can be traced to Godfrey, eldest of the illegitimate children of Duke Richard I (the Fearless), the Conqueror's great-grandfather. While the Duke granted Godfrey Brionne, he did not make him a count. Godfrey's comital title derives from the grant of the county of Eu made to him after 996 by his half-brother, Duke Richard II. After Godfrey's death, Eu was given to William, another of Duke Richard I's bastard sons, and Gilbert, Godfrey's son, was left with only the lordship of Brionne. However, under Duke Robert I, father of William the Conqueror, Gilbert assumed the title of count of Brionne while not relinquishing his claim to Eu. When Count William of Eu died shortly before 1040, Gilbert assumed the land and title, but he was assassinated in 1040 and his young sons, Richard and Baldwin, were forced to flee Normandy, finding safety at the court of Baldwin V, count of Flanders. When William the Conqueror married Count Baldwin's daughter, he restored Gilbert's sons to Normandy, although he did not invest them with either Brionne or Eu or a comital title. William granted the lordships of Bienfaite and Orbec to Richard fitz Gilbert, and Le Sap and Meules to Baldwin. While Gilbert's descendants later pressed a claim for Brionne, it was never restored.
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| Sources |
- [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 3:156 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1635] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - goo, D. Spencer Hines, 5 Aug 2000 (Reliability: 3).
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