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Vol I File 8: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James

• 1. Sveide the Viking, a Norse King, A.D. 760.

• 2. Halfdan the Old, died in 800.

• 3. Ivar, Earl of the Uplands, married the daughter of Eystein Glumra.

• 4. Eystein, Earl of More, married Aseda of Jutland.

• 5. Rognvald, Earl of More (Count of Maerc, etc.), died 890, married Hilda (Hildir or Hildur)., daughter of Rolf Nefio. They had two sons as follows:
  
  • 1. Thoric, Count of Maerc, according to Crispin and Macary.

  • 2. Rollo the Dane. See below.
    

    According to Crispin and Macary, Rognvald also had a natural son, Hrollager, living in 896, who married Emina _______. They had a son, Hrolf Thurstan, living in 920, who married Gerlotte, daughter of Thibaut, Count of Blois and of Chartres. They were ancestors (five generations) of Hugh of Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, who died in 1101, and who married Ermentrude, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont. See Table III. in Crispin and Macary.

• 6. Rollo the Dane, also known as Hrolf or Rollon, 1st Duke of Normandy from 911 to 927, called also Rolf the Walker, because, being so tall, he preferred to go afoot rather than ride the little Norwegian horses. Also shown as Rollon, Row, or Robert Originally a Norse Viking, he was noted for strength and martial prowess. In the reign of Charles II, the Bald, he sailed up the Seine River and took Rouen, which he kept as a base of operations. He gained a number of victories over the Franks, and extorted the cession of the province since called Normandy. By the famous treaty which Charles the Bald and Rollo signed the latter agreed to adopt Christianity. He was born in 846 and died in 932, and was buried in the Cathedral at Rouen. He married (1) Gisla, daughter of Charles the Simple, King of France, no issue; (2) Lady Poppa de Valois, (means puppet or little doll), daughter of Pepin de Senlis de Valois, Count Berenger (Berenarius) of Bretagne, Count of Bayeux, and sister of Bernard of St. Liz (Senlis), also recorded as Berenger, Count of Bayeux. Rollo lived with her for some time before the marriage. There were two children as follows:
  
  • 1. William Longsword. See below.

  • 2. Gerlotta, married William, Duke of Aquitaine, and Count of Poitou. See elsewhere under the Dukes of Aquitaine.
    

• 7. William Longsword, 2nd Duke of Normandy from 927 to 943`, was also Duke of Aquitaine and died in 942, slain by Arnulf of Flanders with whom he had in good faith gone to confer. He married (1) Leudegarde, daughter of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, no issue; (2) Espriota (Sporta), daughter of Hubert, Count of Senlis (St. Liz) and cousin of William Longsword.

• 8. Richard I., the Fearless, 3rd Duke of Normandy (943-996), was born about 933, and died in 996, having reigned fifty-five years. He married (1) Emma, daughter of Hugh Magnus, the Great, Count of Paris, no issue; (2) Lady Gonnor de Crepon (Gummora) of Denmark, who died in 1031. Duchess Gonnor had the following brothers and sisters: Herfast de Crepon; Sainfria, married the forester of Scheceville; Wevie, married Osberne Giffard, Sire de Bolbec; Aveline, married Thurold de Pontaudemer. Richard and Lady Gonnor had at least two sons as follows:
  
  • 1. Robert, Count of Evereux, and Archbishop of Rouen (989-1037), the ancestor of Simon de Montfort. He was the father of Richard, Count of Evereux, who died in 1067, and married Godehildis, widow of Roger I. of Tosny. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.

  • 2. Richard II See below.

  • 3. Mauger, Count of Corbeil.

  • 4. Emma of Normandy, married (1) Ethelred II, King of England; and (2) Canute the Great (Cnut), King of Denmark and England. Emma and Ethelred had Edward the Confessor, and Edmund. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.

  • 5. Hedwig, married Geoffrey, Count of Brittany.

  • 6. Matilda, married Odo, Count of Charles.

  • 7. Geoffrey, father of Gislebert Crispin, grandfather of Richard FitzGilbert, ancestor of the Clare Line, Earls of Hertford and Pembroke.

  • 8. William, Count of Eu, died about 1054, married Lesceline.

  • 9. Hawise, married Geoffrey, "Duke" of Brittany, died 1008. Their son, Alan III., "Count" of Brittany is reported as a guardian of the young Duke William of Normandy. Alan III. died 1040, married Bertha, daughter of Odo, Count of Chartres.
    

    The natural children of Richard I. (see Table V. in Crispin and Macary), a conflict with the above information, were as follows:
    

    • 1. Godfrey, Count of Brionne and Eu, born circa 1060, died circa 1108. He was the father of Gilbert of Brionne, who died about 1040, guardian of the young Duke William. Gilbert was the father of Baldwin of Meules, and of Exeter, sheriff of Devon; landowner in England, 1086; died 1090. He was also the father of Richard `FitzGilbert' of Tonbridge and Clare; fought at Hastings, 1066; landowner in England, 1086; died 1090, married Rohese, daughter of Walter Giffard. The latter was the head of the house of Clare, Earls of Hertford and Pembroke. See the continuation of this lineage in the Clare in Volume II.

    • 2. Daughter (unknown) possibly married Baldric the Teuton, aunt of c. Gilbert.

    • 3. William, Count of Exmes (later Eu), died about 1054, married Lesceline, daughter of Turquetil de Neufmarche. They had a son, Robert, Count of Eu; fought at Hastings 1066; landowner in England 1086, died 1090. He was the head of a line of Counts of Eu.

    • 4. William, Count. Witnessed foundation of Fecamp, 990.

    • 5. Robert, Count. Despoiler of Abbey of Mont St. Michel.

    • 6. Daughter, one of the two unidentified daughters was Beatrice, Abbess of Montivilliers, married Gauthier de Lescelina or de Turqueville.
      

• 9. Richard II., the Good, 4th Duke of Normandy from 996 to 1026, died in 1026. He married circa 1008 (1) Judith of Brittany, daughter of Conan le Tort I., Count of Bretagne (Count of Rennes) and his wife, Ermangarde of Anjou. Conan was slain in 992. Judith was also half-sister of Geoffrey, Count of Brittany. Judith died in 1017 or 1018. He married (2) Papia of Envermeu. The children from the first marriage were as follows:
  
  • 1. Richard III, Duke of Normandy from 1026 to 1028. He had two natural children: Nicholas, Abbot of St. Ouen, and Helen.

  • 2. Robert I the Magnificent. See below.

  • 3. Eleanor, married Baldwin IV., Count of Flanders. There was no issue from this marriage. Baldwin IV married (2) Ogiva, and they had a son, Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, father of Matilda, who married William the Conqueror. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.

  • 4. Alisa (Alice) (Adeliza) (Judith), married Rainald I. (Renald), Count of Burgundy, parents of William I., Count of Burgundy, who in turn was the father of Guy de Burgundy, archbishop of Vienne, a pretender to Normandy in 1047, and later Pope Calixtus II., and his brother Rainald II., Count of Burgundy. (Note: This is the only Pope identified in this genealogy.)

  • 5. William, monk of Fecamp, died in 1025.

  • 6. Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen (1037-1054).

  • 7. William, Count of Arques, dispossessed 1053.
    

    From the second marriage of Richard the Good and Papia there was a daughter as follows:
    

    • 1. Papia of Normandy, married Gilbert de St. Valerie. They had two sons as follows:
      
      • 1. Richard de St. Valerie, who married Ada, daughter of Herlouin de Hugleville. They had a daughter Ada Hugleville, married to Geoffrey, son of Thurytel. They in turn had a son, Bernard de Newmarsh, who married Nesta, daughter of Nesta of North Wales. They had a daughter, Sibil Newmarsh, who married in 1121 Milo of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford. Their daughter Margery of Gloucester, married Humphrey de Bohun III See the continuation of this lineage in Vol II. in the Bohun Line.

      • 2. ???
        
        

• 10. Robert I. the Magnificent, also known as Robert the Devil, 6th Duke of Normandy from 1028 to 1035, died in 1035, a combination of good and evil. By Herleve (Arlotta) (Arlette), daughter of a tanner, Fulbert de Falaise and his wife, Doda, Duke Robert had a son and daughter as follows:
  
  • 1. William of Normandy, Duke of Normandy, and William the Conqueror, later King William I. of England. See below.

  • 2. Adelaide (Adele) of Normandy, married (1) Enguerrand, Count of Ponthieu; (2) Lambert of Lens, died in 1054, his second marriage; and (3) Odo, Count of Champagne. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.
    

    This was not a marriage; but later Herleve married Herluin (Herlouin), vicomte of Conteville, and had four more children by him (Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, 1049-1090. and Earl of Kent; Robert, Count of Mortain and the Earl of Cornwall; Emma, married Richard, Viscount of Avranches; and Muriel, married Eudo al Chapel, sire de la Haie).

• 11. William the Conqueror, 7th Duke of Normandy and King William I. of England, was born at Falaise in 1027. He married in 1053, Matilda (Maud), daughter of Baldwin V., 7th Count of Flanders, a descendant of Emperor Charlemagne, and his wife, Adela, sister of King Henry I. of France. They had ten children as follows:
  
  • 1. Robert II. Curthose (Courteheuse), Duke of Normandy (1087-1106), born in 1054, died in 1134. He married Sibella de Conversana. They had a son, William Clito, Duke of Normandy, who died in 1128.

  • 2. Richard, born 1057-8, died young.

  • 3. William Rufus (William II.), favorite son of William I., succeeded his father as King William II. of England from 1087 to 1100, born 1060; killed by an arrow shot from an unknown hand. He died without issue.

  • 4. Henry I., Beauclerc. See below.

  • 5. Cecilia, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen, born 1056.

  • 6. Constance, married Alan (Alain), Count of Brittany, born 1061, married 1086.

  • 7. Adelaide, died young.

  • 8. Adela, died 1137, married Stephen (Estienne), Count of Blois and Chartres, born 1062, married 1080. They were the parents of Theobald, Count of Blois, and his brother, Stephen, King of England, reigning from 1135 to 1154, father of Eustace, who died in 1153. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I. in the Line of Early German Kings.

  • 9. Agatha, born 1064, died without marrying before 1080, alleged to have been betrothed to Harold Godwinson and to Alphonso of Leon.

  • 10. Matilda. No more details.
    

    William the Conqueror also had three natural children as follows:
    

    • 1. William Pevrel, by Maud, daughter of Ingleric, an Anglo-Saxon noble. Pevrel married Adelina de Lancaster, daughter of Roger de Poitou, Earl of Lancaster.

    • 2. Wife of Hugh de Chateau-sur-Loir.

    • 3. Thomas, Archbishop of York.
      

      There is some question about one more daughter, Gundred (Gundreda). Some historians feel that she was not the daughter of William, though others feel the opposite. Gundred, married William de Warren, created Earl of Surrey, in England. Some sources think she might have been the daughter of Gerbod, the first husband of Matilda. See elsewhere for continuation of this lineage under the Warren Line (Wurts).
      

• 12. Henry I., Beauclerc, King of England, 1100-1135, 8th Duke of Normandy 1106-1135, born 1068.
  

  See elsewhere for continuation of this lineage in the Kings of England in Volume I.

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