Adele D' AMIENS

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• Name: Adele D' AMEINS
• _UID: 16C668EA59B344499054CF22FD80BB61353D

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Source: lorenfamily.com

Adele married about 1037 in Boves, Somme, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9SZ-9J
• Name: Dreux Count Of VEXIN
• _UID: 474FDBCEB93B45B7A8AD643A4C1CCC5DB3C5
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1000; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: Jun 1035; Alt. Death

Notes:

Source: lorenfamily.com

Titled:
Count of Amiens

Alt. Birth:
Of, Vexin, France

Alt. Death:
Bithynia, Asia Minor

Dreux married Goda (Godgifu) Princess Of ENGLAND about 1020 in England. Goda (daughter of Ethelred II "The Unready" King Of ENGLAND and Emma Princess Of NORMANDY) was born about 1004 in Of, Wessex, England; died about 1055 in , England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9SZ-BP
• Name: Goda Princess Of ENGLAND
• _UID: 5F5D667F392049C497D59FA9745B7BC5CA62
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1005; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1055; Alt. Death

Notes:

Source: lorenfamily.com

Alt. Birth:
Wessex, England

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• AFN: FNMJ-76
• Name: Gauthier II "Le Blanc" Count Of VEXIN
• Name: Walter "The White" Count Of VEXIN
• _UID: 7A5E70DC94B6482D953B705E32FEC079EA0B
• Alt. Birth: Abt 944; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1027; Alt. Death

Notes:

Count of Vexin and Amiens

Ancestry of the Plantagenet Kings from the House of Anjou

Title: The Conqueror and His Companions
Author: J.R. Planch?
Publication: Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874

Note: "the Count of Vemandois and the Count of Meulent being both great-grandsons of Gautier II, surnamed "Le Blanc," Count of the Vexin"


Source: lorenfamily.com

Titled:
Comte (Count) d'Amiens

Titled:
Comte (Count) de Vexin

Alt. Birth:
Vexin, Normandy, France

Gauthier married Adele (Alix) De SENLIS in 974. Adele (daughter of Bernard I Comte De Valois Et SENLIS) was born about 950 in Isle DE France, France; died after 1006. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: FNMJ-8C
• Name: Adele De SENLIS
• Name: Alix Or Adele SENLIS
• _UID: 30824E5C85934F2283F306B3BBB27E2928EA
• Alt. Birth: Abt 944; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: Aft 990; Alt. Death

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Source: lorenfamily.com

Alt. Birth:
Ile de France

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• AFN: B19R-5C
• Name: Aethelred II "The Unready" Of WESSEX
• Name: The Unready
• _UID: 41EC8E7EDABD4F20A2C61747ACB386F3DDCA

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Ethelred, the younger son of Edgar, became king at the age of seven following the murder of his half-brother Edward II in 978 at Corfe Castle, Dorset, by Edward's own supporters.

For the rest of Ethelred's rule (reigned 978-1016), his brother became a posthumous rallying point for political unrest; a hostile Church transformed Edward into a royal martyr. Known as the Un-raed or 'Unready' (meaning 'no counsel', or that he was unwise), Ethelred failed to win or retain the allegiance of many of his subjects. In 1002, he ordered the massacre of all Danes in England to eliminate potential treachery.

Not being an able soldier, Ethelred defended the country against increasingly rapacious Viking raids from the 980s onwards by diplomatic alliance with the duke of Normandy in 991 (he later married the duke's daughter Emma) and by buying off renewed attacks by the Danes with money levied through a tax called the Danegeld. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1006 was dismissive: 'in spite of it all, the Danish army went about as it pleased'. By 1012, 48,000 pounds of silver was being paid in Danegeld to Danes camped in London.

In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn's death in 1014, but died himself in 1016.


Source: lorenfamily.com

Relationship (J,M&L):
32nd Great-grandparent

Ethelred married Emma Princess Of NORMANDY in 1002 in Of Normandie, France. Emma (daughter of Richard I "Sans Peur" Duke Of NORMANDY, 3rd and Gunnora (Gonnor) DE CREPON) was born about 982 in Normandie (Normandy), France; died on 6 Mar 1051-1052 in , Winchester, Hampshire, England; was buried in St Martin's Church, Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: B19R-Q9
• _UID: 61B7A449BA774EDA835D7854B11846CEE77E

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Source: lorenfamily.com

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• AFN: FLH8-6C
• Name: Gautier I Count Of VEXIN
• Name: Raoul II (Wulfran) De CAMBRAI
• _UID: 5291BB04A7E9475A8E729B9E9E0956F70050
• Alt. Birth: Abt 915; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 944; Alt. Death

Notes:

Source: lorenfamily.com

Titled:
Comte (Count) d'Amiens

Titled:
Comte (Count) de Valois

Titled:
Comte (Count) d'Ostrevant

Titled:
Seigneur (Lord) de Gouy-en-Arrouaise

Raoul married Hildegarde Ch?telaine D'amiens De FLANDRES about 940. Hildegarde (daughter of Graaf Arnulf I VAN VLAANDEREN and Alice DE VERMANDOIS) was born about 930 in Of Gand, Flandre-Orientale, Belgium; died on 10 Apr 990 in Sint-Adelbertabdij, Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland; was buried in Abdijkerk, Egmond Aan Den Hoef, Noord Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 87NX-97
• FamilySearch ID: G98Z-6RZ
• Name: Hildegaert VAN VLAANDEREN
• Name: Hildegarde Countess Of FLANDERS
• Name: Hildegarde OF FLANDERS
• _UID: 6D3F22442EA5406A840986476BB008CCD8C8

Notes:

Source: lorenfamily.com

Biography
Hildegard van Vlaanderen (born 936/937-died. 975/980), by marriage she became countess (gravin) van Holland. Daughter of Arnulf I, graaf van Vlaanderen (885/890-965) and Adela van Vermandois (910/915-960). Hildegard van Vlaanderen married in 948 or 949 Dirk II, graaf van Holland en West-Friesland (936/941-988). From this marriage at least two sons and one daughter were born

1.) Aarnout (Gent 951-993), ook wel Arnulf Gandensis genoemd, die zijn opvolger werd

2.) Egbert van Trier (952-994), aartsbisschop van Trier

3.) Erlindis (953-1012)

possibly an Unknown daughter who married graaf Everhard van Doornik.

Diederik II died in 988. He was buried in the new abbey church of Egmond, in the grave in which Hildegard was buried eight years earlier. Their gospel book remained in the abbey for six centuries, then swirled around, and resurrected in Utrecht in 1805. Thanks to King Willem I, it has been in the Royal Library since 1830




Titled:
Ch?telaine d'Amiens

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• AFN: FLH8-8P
• Name: Berhard Count Of SENLIS
• Name: Bormard De SENLIS
• _UID: 643B46A19C9C422C89559AA914A8E0EAD350
• Alt. Birth: Abt 919; Alt. Birth

Notes:

Source: lorenfamily.com

Titled:
Comte (Count) de Senlis

Titled:
Comte (Count) de Valois

Alt. Birth:
France

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• AFN: GS4H-P7
• Name: Edgar "The PEACABLE"
• Name: The Peacable
• _UID: F5A624911EF14971A6590C8BB4138AB8B868

Notes:

Edgar, king in Mercia and the Danelaw from 957, succeeded his brother as king of the English on Edwy's death in 959 - a death which probably prevented civil war breaking out between the two brothers. Edgar was a firm and capable ruler whose power was acknowledged by other rulers in Britain, as well as by Welsh and Scottish kings. Edgar's late coronation in 973 at Bath was the first to be recorded in some detail; his queen Aelfthryth was the first consort to be crowned queen of England.

Edgar was the patron of a great monastic revival which owed much to his association with Archbishop Dunstan. New bishoprics were created, Benedictine monasteries were reformed and old monastic sites were re-endowed with royal grants, some of which were of land recovered from the Vikings.

In the 970s and in the absence of Viking attacks, Edgar - a stern judge - issued laws which for the first time dealt with Northumbria (parts of which were in the Danelaw) as well as Wessex and Mercia. Edgar's coinage was uniform throughout the kingdom. A more united kingdom based on royal justice and order was emerging; the Monastic Agreement (c.970) praised Edgar as 'the glorious, by the grace of Christ illustrious king of the English and of the other peoples dwelling within the bounds of the island of Britain'. After his death on 8 July 975, Edgar was buried at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.


Source: lorenfamily.com

Edgar married Elfrida (Elfthryth) Queen Of ENGLAND in 964 in , Wessex, England. Elfrida was born about 947 in Of, Devonshire, England; died in 1000. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: GS4H-QD
• Name: Elfrida (ELFTHRYTH)
• _UID: 729AE9BCB7864E90A5AF0A286EBDA5042614

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• Name: Richard I "The Fearless" Duke Of NORMANDY
• Name: Richard I Of NORMANDY
• Name: Sans Peur
• _UID: EB96E81D716F45448714AE90D76A321B568B

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BIOGRAPHY: acceded 942. From Rosamond McKitterick.s, "The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians 751-987", London & NY (Longman) 1983, pp. 238-239: "When in 942 WILLIAM was murdered at the instigation of COUNT ARNULF OF FLANDERS (RIN 2173), his son Richard, still a minor, succeeded him. LOUIS IV (RIN 1617) and HUGH THE GREAT (RIN 1206) each tried to sieze Normandy, and LOUIS took charge of Richard. He then ensconced himself at Rouen and HUGH took Bayeux, which still had a Scandinavian leader called Sictric. Richard escaped from his custody at Laon, retook Rouen, and called on another Viking leader, Harald of the Bassin, for help. The Normans under Richard were able to re-establish their autonomy and from 947 Richard governed in relative peace. In 965 he swore allegiance to the Carolingian king Lothar [son of LOUIS IV] at Gisors. Richard's official marriage was to Emma, daughter of HUGH THE GREAT; they had no children, but by his common-law wife GUNNOR, a Dane, he had many. RICHARD II, son of GUNNOR and Richard I, succeeded his father in 996, another son Robert was archbishop of Rouen from 989 to 1037 and EMMA their daughter became queen of England on her marriage to AETHELREAD, a position she maintained after his death in 1016 by marrying Knut. GUNNOR's nephews and other relatives further more formed the core of the new aristocracy which developed in the course of the eleventh century. Unfortunately we know little about the internal organization and history of Normandy until the reign of RICHARD II."

Richard married Gunnora (Gonnor) DE CREPON after 962 in France. Gunnora (daughter of Herbastus DE CREPON, King Of Denmark and Gunnhild OLAFSDOTTIR) was born about 936 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France; died about 1031 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: G39Q-HBK
• Name: Gonnor De CREPON
• _UID: 5A335DB7DA964FACAA2D335ABBBB4F4F8453

Notes:

Curt Hofemann, [email protected], in a post-em, wrote:

Apparently she was not "de Crepon" & her parentage is unknown:

The name of the father of Gunnor is unknown. Herbastus is derived from the name of her brother Herfast/Arfastus, but is unsupported. [Ref: Todd A Farmerie message to Gen-Medieval 6 Nov 1996]

The greater part of our information about Gunnor and her relations is derived from those additions to the History of William of Jumieges for which Robert de Rotigny is responsible. It is Robert who preserved the story of how Richard I of Normandy became enamoured of the beautiful Senfrie, wife of one of his foresters, and how Senfrie contrived to substitute her sister Gunnor for herself, to the Duke's ultimate satisfaction. [Ref The Sisters and Nieces of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy by G.H. White in the Genealogist, New Series 1921 v37 p57]

Parentage of Gunnor and her siblings is unknown. While some sources call her father Herfastus, this was in fact the name of her brother. She has also been claimed as a daughter of the Danish royal family, but there is no evidence for this, and the context of her coming to attention of Richard I and the family's subsequent rise to power militates against her being a royal daughter. Douglas argued, based on the donations of brother Arfast to the monastery of St. Pere, that the root of the family was in the Cotetin region of Normandy, but van Houts has suggested that the Cotetin land was granted to Arfast, rather than inherited by him. Thus we are left with the more ambiguous statement of Torigny and others that she was a member of a Norman family of Danish origins. [Ref: Todd A Farmerie message to Gen-Medieval 5 Jan 1997]

Gunnora ... was not "de Crepon", nor was she daughter of Herbastus de Crepon of Denmark - her brother Herfastus/Arfast appears to have received Crepon only after Gunnora took up with Richard I, and thus the family was not originally from there. Likewise, while she is said to be of a noble family of Danish ancestry, it is not stated that her father was from Denmark (the family probably arrived with Rollo, in the generation of her (unknown) grandfather. [Ref: Todd A Farmerie message to Gen-Medieval 28 Jul 2000]

Research note 1: Was her father Herfast de CREPON or King Haraldblaafand of DENMARK? There is a lack of consensus on this. -Charlotte's Web Geneology http://www.charweb.org/gen/rjones/d0042/g0000020.htm#I239

Research note 2: father: Harald I Blaatand, Bluetooth, King of Denmark [Ref: McBride2 (possibly citing Wurts)]

My notes on Gunnora:
This is the same Gunnora known as Gunnora of Crepon, but both are of little value. Gunnora was NOT of Denmark. Some inventive genealogist somewhere along the line decided to make her daughter of Harald Bluetooth, but there is no basis for this, and what we know of her indicates it is not really a possibility worthy of consideration. Her nephew later was called "of Crepon" but he likely gained his posessions through Gunnora's marriage to the Duke, rather than this representing the original home of the clan.

What can be said of Gunnora's parents? Nothing! She was not daughter of Harfast, as (too) often stated. Her family was likely of the minor Norman nobility, since her oldest sister was married to a forester at the time Richard first bumped into the girls. That's it.

Richard I of Normandy first bedded, and later married Gunnora, whose ancestry is entirely unknown. She is sometimes said to be daughter of a King of Denmark, but this is incorrect. [taf]

There are several things going on here. First of all, the father of Gunnora and siblings is not known. Attempts to name him Herbastus probably originated in confusion with her brother. Second, Gunnora had three sisters, Senfria/Senfreda, Wevia, and (Avelina). The first married an otherwise unknown forester. The latter two are confused by our two sources, one claiming that it was Wevia who married Osbern, and the other that Wevia married Turold of Pont Audemer, and by deduction, (Avelina) married Osbern. We know that Osbern married one of them, and a recent analysis suggests that it was Wevia for nomenclatural reasons. (Specifically, Turold and wife had a granddaughter named Duvelina, and it is hyposthesized that she was named for her grandmother, and that Duvelina is the authentic name of the sister, rather than Avelina. Finally, in which generation was Osbern's. This is unambiguous. She was sister of Gunnora and the others. There is no source before recent times that claims otherwise. There are two probable origins for the error that she was niece of Gunnora. First, due to the error in naming her father Herfastus, someone aware that this was the name of Gunnora's brother assumed then that Avelina's father was Gunnora's brother (the name of Gunnora's father being unknown, and probably unknowable). The second possibility is a confusion of uncle and nephew. Harfastus/Arfast had a son Osbern of Crepon, and perhaps someone confused this man with Osbern of Bolbec. Still, we know for certain that Osbern of Bolbec married a sister of Gunnora. [Ref: Dave Utzinger message to Gen-Medieval 29 Jul 2000]

Regards,
Curt