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Family: Herluin, Viscount of Conteville / Herleva de Falaise (F2771)

• Male Herluin, Viscount of Conteville

  
  

  Birth	About 1001	Normandy, France
  Death	About 1066
  Burial	About 1066	Grestain Abbey, Fatouville-Grestain, Normandy, France Grestain Abbey was officially closed in 1757 on the orders of the bishop. The church buildings were demolished around 1766 and the rest of abbey destroyed in 1790; of these buildings, only a few ruins remain, integrated into the Château de La Pommeraye (a private property): a defensive wall, a 13th-Century portal, an 18th-Century manor with a 13th-Century floor, and remains of the church.
  Marriage	1028 to 1033  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Father	John of Tonsburgh, Earl of Comwyn, Baron of Tonsburgh | F2998 Group Sheet
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  Female Herleva de Falaise

  
  

  Birth	About 1012
  Death	About 1050
  Burial	About 1050	Grestain Abbey, Fatouville-Grestain, Normandy, France Grestain Abbey was officially closed in 1757 on the orders of the bishop. The church buildings were demolished around 1766 and the rest of abbey destroyed in 1790; of these buildings, only a few ruins remain, integrated into the Château de La Pommeraye (a private property): a defensive wall, a 13th-Century portal, an 18th-Century manor with a 13th-Century floor, and remains of the church.
  Other Spouse	Robert I, Duke of Normandy | F1903 (Not married)
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  Father	Fulbert of Falaise | F1908 Group Sheet
  Mother	Dode | F1908 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1030
  Death	Feb 1097	Palermo, Sicily
  Burial		Palermo Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily

  
  

  Male + Robert de Burgo, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall

  
  

  Birth	1031	Normandy, France
  Death	1095
  Burial		Grestain Abbey, Fatouville-Grestain, Normandy, France Grestain Abbey was officially closed in 1757 on the orders of the bishop. The church buildings were demolished around 1766 and the rest of abbey destroyed in 1790; of these buildings, only a few ruins remain, integrated into the Château de La Pommeraye (a private property): a defensive wall, a 13th-Century portal, an 18th-Century manor with a 13th-Century floor, and remains of the church.
  Spouse	Maud de Montgomery | F2769
  Marriage	Before 1066

  
  

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  Female Muriel

  
  

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  Burial		Bury St Edmunds Abbey, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England

  
  

  Female Isabella

  
  

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  Female + Emma de Conteville

  
  

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  Spouse	Richard le Goz d'Avranches, Vicomte d'Avranches | F3760
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• Notes

  Married: Robert I, Duke of Normandy, asked Herluin to marry Herleve if he didn't return from the Holy Land, which he didn't.

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1460] Norr, Vernon M. Some Early English Pedigrees , (Washington DC: by author, 1968). [S309] Fraser, Antonia. The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975). [S278] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (web: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html). [S60] Stuart, Roderick W., Royalty for Commoners, The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward III, King of England, and Queen Philippa Fourth Edition, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002). [S65] Sewell, Robert James. Sewell: A History of the Sewell Family from the Earliest Times, (unknown: manuscript, March 2008).