Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Vicomte de Conteville
• FSID: GZNM-NZ4

Notes:

No contemporary record provides the parentage for Herluin, although much later sources have assigned him parents (such as the otherwise unknown Jean de Conteville (965) and Harlette de Meulan.

Family/Spouse: de Falaise, Herleva. Herleva (daughter of de Falaise, Fulbert and de Falaise, Doda) was born on 9 Jun 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 23 Apr 1078 in Fatouville, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried after 23 Apr 1078 in Grestain, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Countess
• FSID: LBL5-MRS

Family/Spouse: de la Haye, Richard. Richard was born in 1013 in Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1080. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: 1st Earl of Arundel
• Appointments / Titles: Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
• FSID: 9H16-YMP
• Military: Between 1031 and 1095; Was half brother of William the Conqueror and accompanied him
• Appointments / Titles: 1049, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; Count of Mortain
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1066 and 1090; Earl of Cornwall

Notes:

Robert, Count of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (c. 1031–c. 1095) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on their mother's side) of King William the Conqueror. He was one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings and as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 was one of the greatest landholders in his half-brother's new Kingdom of England.

Life
Robert was the son of Herluin de Conteville and Herleva of Falaise and brother of Odo of Bayeux. Robert was born c. 1031 in Normandy, a half-brother of William the Conqueror. and was probably not more than a year or so younger than his brother Odo, born c. 1030. About 1035, Herluin, as Vicomte of Conteville, along with his wife Herleva and Robert, founded Grestain Abbey.

Count of Mortain
Around 1049 his brother Duke William made him Count of Mortain, in place of William Werlenc, who had been banished by Duke William; according to Orderic Vitalis, on a single word. William Werlenc was a grandson of Duke Richard I and therefore a cousin once removed to William, Duke of Normandy. Securing the southern border of Normandy was critical to Duke William and Robert was entrusted with this key county which guarded the borders of Brittany and Bellême.

Conquest of England
In early 1066, Robert was present at both the first council of Lillebonne, that of William's inner circle, and the second larger council held to discuss the Duke's planned conquest of England. Robert agreed to provide 120 ships to the invasion fleet, which was more than any other of William's magnates.

Robert was one of those few known to have been at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He is pictured at a dinner at Pevensey on the Bayeux Tapestry, seated with his brothers William and Odo on the day of the landing in England. When granting the monastery of St Michael's Mount to the Norman monastery on the Mont Saint-Michel Robert recorded that he had fought at the Battle of Hastings under the banner of St Michel (habens in bello Sancti Michaelis vexillum).

Lands granted by William the Conqueror
Robert's contribution to the success of the invasion was clearly regarded as highly significant by the Conqueror, who awarded him a large share of the spoils; in total 797 manors at the time of Domesday. The greatest concentration of his honours lay in Cornwall where he held virtually all of that county and was considered by some the Earl of Cornwall.

While Robert held lands in twenty counties, the majority of his holdings in certain counties was as few as five manors. The overall worth of his estates was £2100. He administered most of his southwestern holdings from Launceston, Cornwall, and Montacute in Somerset. The holding of single greatest importance was the rape of Pevensey (east Sussex) which protected one of the more vulnerable parts of the south coast of England.

Later life
In 1069, together with Robert of Eu, he led an army against a force of Danes in Lindsey and effected great slaughter against them. After that there is little mention of Robert who appears to have been an absentee landholder spending the majority of his time in Normandy. Along with his brother Odo he participated in a revolt in 1088 against William II but afterwards he was pardoned. Robert died in 1095, possibly on 9 December, and chose to be buried at the Abbey of Grestain, near his father and next to his first wife Matilda.

Character
He was described by William of Malmesbury in his Gesta Regum as a man of stupid dull disposition (crassi et hebetis ingenii). William the Conqueror considered him one of his greatest supporters and trusted him with the important county of Mortain. Further clues to his character are found in the Vita of Vitalis of Savigny, a very wise monk who Robert sought out as his chaplain. One incident tells of Robert beating his wife and Vital, intervening, threatened to end the marriage if Robert did not repent. In still another entry Vital tells of his leaving Robert's service abruptly and after being escorted back to him, Robert begged for Vital's pardon for his actions. Overall, Robert was proficient in every duty William assigned him, he was a religious man yet ill-tempered enough to beat his wife, but was not known as a man of great wisdom.

Family
Robert was married to Matilda, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, before 1066 and together they had:
1. William, Count of Mortain, who succeeded him.
2. Agnes who married André de Vitré, seigneur of Vitré.
3. Denise, married in 1078 to Guy, 3rd Sire de La Val.
4. Emma of Mortain, the wife of William IV of Toulouse.
Through Emma's daughter Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, Robert was the great-great-grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine and hence an ancestor of all English monarchs after Henry II.

After Matilda de Montgomery's death c. 1085 Robert secondly married Almodis. The couple had no children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert,_Count_of_Mortain

Robert married de Montgomery, Countess Maud on 3 Apr 1058 in Mortagne, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France. Maud (daughter of de Montgomery, Count Roger II and de Bellême, Mabel Talvas) was born in 1039 in St Germain de Montgomery, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 12 Sep 1082 in Abbey of St Grestain, Grestain, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried on 12 Sep 1082 in Abbey of St Grestain, Grestain, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G7RW-HPW

Muriel married Chappel, Eudo in 1056 in Normandy, France. Eudo (son of Puits, Thurstan Haldup and Hrolssonsdottir, Anne Emile Emma) was born in 1028 in Cotentin (Peninsula), Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1066 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GQ4L-Y82
• Occupation: Sénéchal du comté de Mortain

Notes:

Raoul (Ranulf) (Ralph) de la Haye, Seneschal of Robert, Ct of Mortain
s/o Haldulp , Lord of de la Haye du Puits &
b- 1043 - de la Haye du Puits, Normandy, France
m- Olive Ryes
d- 1098 - Halnaker, Sussex, England

Ranulf married d'Aubigny, OliveLa Haye-du-Puits, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. Olive (daughter of d'Aubigny, WIlliam and de Plessis, Adelais) was born in 1047 in Saint-Martin-d'Aubigny, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1087 in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: M8X3-52W

Family/Spouse: de Vitré, André. André (son of de Vitré, Seigneur of Vitré Robert I and de Craon, Berthe) was born on 28 May 1054 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France; died on 4 Dec 1139 in Orne, Basse-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GCS7-VFB

Family/Spouse: de Busli, Roger. Roger (son of de Busli, Sir Seigneur and de Deincourt, Beatrice) was born in 1038 in Bully, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 17 Jan 1099 in Tickhill Castle, Tickhill, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Sénéchal de Normandie, Baron de l'Echiquier
• FSID: G398-YWS
• Occupation: Knight

Notes:

https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Robert-de-la-Haye-Knight/6000000007125736265

sir, Robert de la Haye , Knt, seneschal of Halnaker, Sussex, Justice, Baron of the Exchequer, Dafier in Doumertin Nomandy, Seigneur de La Haye 1098
s/o Ranulf ( Ralph, Roul) de la Haye, Seigneur de la Haye, of Halnaker , Seneschal of Robert Mortain & Olivia de Rye
b- 1085 - Halnaker, Sussex, England
m- Muriel Lincoln
d- abt 1135 -

1098 - Heir of Uncle Eudes au Chapel, Seneschal of King Wm I - La Haye du Puits, Countances, Normandy
Hereditary Constable of Lincoln castle & Sheriff of Lincoln

1098 - he confirmed all the grants of his uncle Eudo Chapel

Held - Halnaker, Sussex - he granted it to his daughter Cecily as marriage lands
1117 - founder of Boxgrove Priory, Sussex ; he gave them lands in Sussex & Lincolnshire
1100-1106 - ROBERT de Haia grants to Abbey of Tewkesbury ,
he confirms a gift of Ceotol in Dorset & of the Churches of his demsense, the later was a gift of Robert de la Haia, of the mill of Raz & certain fisheries(along with those of Alfred Lincoln & Robert Malet witness 1100)

1112-14 - Lincolnshire - Gilbert Calz - hel 5 bovates in Ounibi, in Blibuc, & Wadingham, & that Gilbert FitzGoseline held 7 Bovates in Billburgh & lands in Harpswella, Glentworda, Ungham, Cotes , Hackthorn, Ounreby - which ROBERT HAIA held of him

1114 - Charter of King Henry I - to Geoffrey, Archbishop of Roeun, John Bishop pf Lisierex, Stephen Ct of Mortain & ROBERT Haia.. a fair is to be held at Nonacount..

no date - sir ROBERT Haya - gave the church & manor of Long Sutton, Lincolnshire , with Chapel of Luton

no date - Charter of ROBERT de Haia - to Rainal de Landa & all his other leiges of Lincolnshire - 1 of the monks of Burwell had sought him out in Normandy - he joins them to secure to the Monks , all their possesions as they held in time of Ansgot Borewelle..

1105 - Charter of ROBERT de Haia s/o Ranulf, Senescal of Robert Ct of Mortain, nephew of Eudo the steward (Dapifer of King William I) - Notifying that in the year 1105 - He has given to Abbey of Holy Trinity & St Mary the virgin ,erected in St Opotuna (le Essay),with his wife's approval - to - Abbey of Holy Trinity - for his soul & those of the King & queen, his wife - the fee of Hannac, which the King gave him, these churches with their lands & tithes ; the church of St Mary of Boxgrave, parish of Chichester & 1/2 hides of land around it..

1115 & 1126 - Robert Haia witnessed a Charter

1123 - Charter of ROBERT de Haia, Notifying that by counsel of his wife Muriel & his sons Richard & Ralf - he grants to Abbey of Lessay, Calvados - That which Richard (called Tursin Haldulp) & Eudo his son, founder of the Abbey & gave it...Moreover, he ROBERT , grandson to Richard (called Tursin Haldup) & nephew of Eudo, confirms the gift of the above, & ROBERT Haia adding that by gift of himself , his wife Muriel & his sons Richard & Ralf - it possesses lands in .... Normandy & that in England- He had given the church of Bosgrave with all its appurtances & those of Brotebeia & Feligeham & his rights in church of Rison & the churches of Berlinges & Subroc & Sauvetona

://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#_Toc254886794
According to Domesday Descendants, this family originated in La Haye-du-Puits in the Cotentin, Normandy {Manche}[1310]. The founding charter of Boxgrove Priory in Sussex states that the founder, Robert de La Haye, was "consanguineo" of Henry I King of England. The precise relationship has not yet been traced.

1. --- (-after Oct 1066). Seigneur de La Haye. The Chronique de Normandie, based on le Roman de Rou, names "le sire de la Haye" among those who took part in the conquest of England in 1066[1311]. m ---. One child:

a) RANULF . Seneschal of Robert de Mortain. m ---, daughter of THURSTAN Haldup & his wife ---. Her parentage and marriage are confirmed by the foundation charter of the priory in which her son Robert de La Haye names himself "son of Ranulf the seneschal of Robert de Mortain" and "nephew of Eudo dapifer" [son of Thurstan Haldup][1312]. Ranulf & his wife had one child:

i) ROBERT de La Haye ([1075/80]-[1150]). A manuscript recording the founding of Boxgrove Priory, Sussex states that it was founded by “Roberti di Haya…consanguineo eius” [referring to King Henry], to whom Henry I King of England had granted “honorem Halnaci” [Halmaker] in Sussex, and given to the abbey of Essay in Normandy[1313]. According to Domesday Descendants, this was land which had been forfeited by William de Ansleville[1314]. In the foundation charter of the priory he names himself "son of Ranulf the seneschal of Robert de Mortain" and "nephew of Eudo dapifer" [son of Thurstan Haldup][1315]. Domesday Descendants dates the foundation to "before 1105"[1316], which would place Robert´s birth in [1075/80], bearing in mind his date of death. Henry II King of England confirmed the possessions of the abbey of Lessai, including donations by "Turstini Haldup et Eudonis filii eius" confirmed by "Roberti de Haia et Murielis uxoris sue et Richardi et Radulfi filiorum eorum", by charter dated [1185/Jan 1188][1317].
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Raoul de la Haye and Olive de Rie were the parents of Robert, baron de la Haye-du-Puits [Éric Van Torhoudt, L’écrit et la justice au Mont Saint-Michel: les notices narratives, vers 1060-1150, 2007], who married Muriel de Lincoln. Their son was Richard, baron de la Haye-du-Puits et de Varenquebec. The barony was to later pass to the descendant of the Crispin family of Neaufles, direct decendants of Herolfr Turstain. Richard Turstin: Baron de La Haye du Puits et le Plessis [Fresne] et Appeville: A clue to his origins is given in the latter holding: The family of Appeville were the family of Montfort-sur-Rille; 'La famille d'Appeville doit tirer son origine de l'une des trois paroisses de ce nom, situées en Normandie, 1° Appeville [depuis Annebaut], canton de Montfort-sur-Rille, arrondissement de Pont-Audemer(Eure); — 2° Appeville* [Seine-Inférieure], arrondissement de Dieppe, canton d'Offranville; — 3° Appeville-la-Haye [Manche], arrondissement de Coutances, canton de la Haye-du-Puits' ['Liber censualis', p. 191, 1842]. Ansrid I., as above, was the father of Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle, brother of Anceline Bertrande; his son was Hugh II. de Montfort-sur-Risle, who married, as said, Alice de Beaufou. Richard Turstin was contemporary to him, and inherited Appeville-la-Haye: 'Seigneurs de la paroisse d'Appeville, canton de la Haye-du-Puits, dans la Manche, la charte de fondation de l'abbaye de Lessay, nous apprend que Turstin Hadulp, ainsi que son fils Eudes, donnèrent à ce monastère, tout ce qu'ils possédaient tant en églises qu'en terres, bois, prairies , etc. en Apavilla et en Osulfivilla' [ibid.]. The latter holding can be assumed to have been that of Osulf, father of Grimoult du Plessis, strongly suggesting a connection between Richard Turstin's wife, Emma, and the family of Plessis - see ch. xiv. b. * A tenant there was William d'Arques.

SEIGNEURS de LA HAYE
Source: Cawley Medieval Lands Database

"According to Domesday Descendants, this family originated in La Haye-du-Puits in the Cotentin, Normandy {Manche}[1593]. The founding charter of Boxgrove Priory in Sussex states that the founder, Robert de La Haye, was "consanguineo" of Henry I King of England. The precise relationship has not yet been traced."

First name unknown. (died after Oct 1066). Seigneur de La Haye. The Chronique de Normandie, based on le Roman de Rou, names "le sire de la Haye" among those who took part in the conquest of England in 1066[1594]. m ---. [Wife's name also unknown]
One child:

RANULF . Seneschal of Robert de Mortain. m ---, daughter of THURSTAN Haldup & his wife ---. Her parentage and marriage are confirmed by the foundation charter of the priory in which her son Robert de La Haye names himself "son of Ranulf the seneschal of Robert de Mortain" and "nephew of Eudo dapifer" [son of Thurstan Haldup][1595].
Ranulf & his wife had one child:

ROBERT de La Haye ([1075/80]-[1150]). A manuscript recording the founding of Boxgrove Priory, Sussex states that it was founded by “Roberti di Haya…consanguineo eius” [referring to King Henry], to whom Henry I King of England had granted “honorem Halnaci” [Halmaker] in Sussex, and given to the abbey of Essay in Normandy[1596]. According to Domesday Descendants, this was land which had been forfeited by William de Ansleville[1597]. In the foundation charter of the priory he names himself "son of Ranulf the seneschal of Robert de Mortain" and "nephew of Eudo dapifer" [son of Thurstan Haldup][1598]. Domesday Descendants dates the foundation to "before 1105"[1599], which would place Robert´s birth in [1075/80], bearing in mind his date of death. Henry II King of England confirmed the possessions of the abbey of Lessai, including donations by "Turstini Haldup et Eudonis filii eius" confirmed by "Roberti de Haia et Murielis uxoris sue et Richardi et Radulfi filiorum eorum", by charter dated [1185/Jan 1188][1600].
Curator Note: 'The parentage of Aubreye (Auberée, Aubrey), wife of Honfrois (Humphrey) de Vieilles is not known. There are conflicting theories about her parentage.

Cawley Medieval Lands Database
Sources differ as to Aubreye (Auberée, Aubrey)'s parentage. FMG (Cawley Medieval Lands Database) leaves her parents unknown. Others say that she is a de la Haye.
Her birth date is unknown. Michael Stanhope's source gives her death date as December 28, 1045.
She married Honfroi (Humphrey) de Vieilles. Their children were:
'Rodbertus de Bellomonte, filius Unfredi.'
Guillaume de Bellomonte, who gave to Saint-Léger de Préaux la forêt de Beaumont.
Roger de Beaumont, (Roger de Vieilles "Barbatus" [de Beaumont]) alias Belomonte, Baron de Beaumesnil, who married Adeline, ADELINE de Meulan, daughter of GALERAN [III] Comte de Meulan & his first wife Ode, sister of Hugues II, Comte de Meulan
Dunelme, a daughter, who married and had a daughter

Family/Spouse: de Lincoln, Muriel. Muriel (daughter of de Lincoln, Picot and de Lincoln, Beatrice) was born in 1085 in Brattleby, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1123 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Derby, Derbyshire, England; Countess of Derby
• FSID: LBK3-87T

Family/Spouse: de Ferrers, Lord Robert. Robert (son of de Ferrers, Lord Henry and Roberts, Bertha) was born on 9 Jul 1062 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 1 Jun 1139 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England; was buried on 1 Jun 1139 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate Surnames: Busli, Bushli
• FSID: 9Z8F-4XF

Family/Spouse: of Hastings, William II. William was born in 1045 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 2 Jan 1096 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; was buried in 1096 in Hastings, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]