Fleitel, Gerard d'Ecouche

Male 985 - 1047  (62 years)


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  • Name Fleitel, Gerard  [1
    Suffix d'Ecouche 
    Birth 985  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    FSID 9HL4-JH9 
    Death 1047  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I25881  The Thoma Family
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Marriage 1040  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Flaitel, Agnès Ermengarde,   b. 5 Sep 1014, Longueville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1108, Longueville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F9542  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

  • Notes 
    • Gerard Flaitel († c. 1047) was a Norman knight and a ' most powerful lord in Normandy at the time of the Richards' according to Orderic Vitalis.

      Life
      Gerard was a Norman baron with substantial estates in the Pays de Caux, the Hiemois, the Evrecin and Risle valley.[1] He was a vassal of William of Talou in Arques.[2]

      In 1035, when Robert I, Duke of Normandy left on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Gerard Flaitel was one of his companions.[3] In the spring of 1035 the group left Normandy probably taking the favored route through the Danube river basin to Constantinople.[4] Duke Robert obtained permission for him and his retinue to continue on to Muslim-controlled Jerusalem.[4] In Turkey Robert paid the required mussella (pilgrim tax).[3] They arrived in time to spend Holy Week in Jerusalem.[3] On their return through Asia Minor, Duke Robert fell ill while they were in Nicaea, and died there about 2 July. As he lay dying Gerard was asked to take possession of a Holy relic Robert acquired in Jerusalem, reputedly a finger-bone of Saint Stephen, and to make a gift of it to the abbey or monastery of his choosing.[3] Gerard returned to Normandy and became a monk at the Abbey of St. Wandrille taking the relic with him.[3] He died after 1047.[5]

      Family
      While the name of his wife (or wives) is not known Gerard Flaitel had at least the following children:

      William Flaitel, Bishop of Évreux († 1066).[6]
      Ermengarde, wife of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville.[6]
      Basilla, wife of Ralph de Gacé, son of Robert, Archbishop of Rouen and secondly of Hugh de Gournay.[7]
      Anscherius[8]

  • Sources 
    1. [S789] WORLD: Family Search, Family Tree.
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/name