La charte dont on va lire un extrait indiquera les rapports qui existaient entre différents membres de la famille des Crespins dont parle Robert de Torigni.

‘Ego Goscelinus Crispinus … confirmavi Deo et sancte Marie Becci … omnes donationes quas antecessores mei et homines eorum eis fecerunt… scilicet ex dono primi Willelmi Crispini, eclesias de Blangeio…. ecclesiam de Livarot … in Strapigneio decimam denariorum burgi … Ex dono Eve*, uxoris ejusdem Willelmi … Ex dono Willelmi Crispini secundi, fllii dicti Willelmi et Eve in Burnevilla medietatem ecclesie et decime et patronatus…. Ex dono Willelmo Crispini tertii, fllii dicti Willelmi et Agnetis … Hec omnia que scripta sunt ego Goscelinus Crispinus, Beccum venions, cum Willelmo filio meo adhuc puero, diclis monachis in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam concessi, assensu et volunlate dicti Willelmi fllii mei … anno ab incarnations’. Domini MCLV. (Bibl. nat. ms. latin 13905, fol. 19 V).

1. Gilbert Crispin.
1.1. Gilbert Crispin.
1.2. William Crispin, m. Eve de Montfort, ‘who suited him well on account of her origin and manners. Eve de Montfort bore him Gilbert, abbot of Westminster, William Crispin II., and many others’. (Milo Crispin). She was the sister of Norman frontier lord Simon de Montfort. (W. Frolich, trsl., The Letters of Anselme of Canterbury, 1990-1994, nos. 22, 98, 118, and 147). They were the children of Amauri 1 de Montfort and Bertrade de Gometz. Amauri 1 de Montfort was the possible son of William de Hainault. (Marjorie Chibnall, ed. & trans., The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, vol. iv., 1969-80). Eve de Montfort’s niece, Bertrade de Montfort, daughter of Simon de Montfort and Agnes d’Evreux, William Crispin’s second cousin, married Fulke d’Anjou IV., Count of Anjou, they beingthe great-granparents of King Henry II of England. (Vernon M. Norr, compiler, Some Early English Pedigrees, 1958-1968).
1.2.1. William Crispin was an Anglo-Norman lord who held land in Wetherby, Wheldrake, Coxwold, and Goodmanham in Yorkshire, and in Ancroft in Northumberland, as mesne-tenant of William de Percy.  He also held other land in Yorkshire: in Arnodestorp, Burnby, Clifton, Dunnington, Easthorpe in Londesborough, Elvington, Fyling, Grimston in Dunnington, Hayton, Hinderwell, Ianulfestrop, Kirkleatham, Kipling, Marshe-by-the-Sea, Nafferton, Pockthorpe, Scoreby, Sutton upon Derwent, and Warter. (Domesday Book, folio 322v).  He also held land in Normandy: ‘William Crispin the younger gave the tithe of the mill and of his desmene which he had in Le Mesnil-Hubert, the church and tithe of Druicort, what Robert Malcovernant held of him, one house in Livarot with all its customs, half of the church and tithe of Bournainville’ (David Bates, ed., Regum Anglo-Normannorum, the Acta of William I, 1066-1087, 1998). According to Mathieu – Reserches Sur Les Premiers Comtes De Dammartin, 19, 60, 1996. – a probable wife of William Crispin 11. was Agnes Mauvoisin, who was the daughter of Eustachia Dammartin, the daughter of Manasser, Count of Dammartin, and Constance Capetien, daughter of Robert II., King of France. She married Raoul Mauvoisin, Seigneur of Rosny, and Viscount of Mantes. He was a part of the Hastings invasion force, before becoming a monk at Gassicourt, dying in 1074. An act of Agnes, daughter of Eustachia, daughter of Count Manasser, granted tithes at Rosny ‘for the souls of her mother and husband, William.’ The association of Rosny and the name Manasser strongly suggests a connection with the Mauvoisins of Rosny. The Mauvoisins were the most powerful family in the marches of Francia, between Vernon and Mantes.
1.2.1.1. ‘Willelmo Crispini tertii’.

1. Richard, ‘the Great Prince’.
1.1. Count Godfrey, born circa 953, to a concubine.
1.1. Gilbert de Brionne.
1.1.1. Richard FitzGilbert
1.1.2. Gilbert Crispin, held Tillieres as a vassal of Gilbert de Brionne.
1.1.2.1. Gilbert crispin, held Damville as a vassal of Richard FitzGilbert.
1.1.2.1.1. Gilbert Crispin III., m. Hersende de Brezolles, kinswoman of Albert Ribaut, and became enfeoffed in Armentières-sur-Avre.
1.1.2.1.1. Robert de d’Armentières, held Whatton of Gilbert de Gand. Of approximately 9,500 estates listed in Domesday, 760 of them had tenants in chief from the ‘southern Low Countries’ – ony two Flemish tenants-in-chief were from northern, ‘Flemish’ Flanders: the Abbey of St. Peters in Ghent, and Gilbert de Ghent, of the family of the advocates of St. Peter’s'(Eljas Oksanen, Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, pp. 186-8, 2012). Armentières is a town in the southern Low Countries. There is no geographical, tenurial, or ecclesiatical record of any connection between the Gand family and this Armentières. If the Crispins descended from Richard, ‘the Great Prince’, and Robert de d’Armentières was of the Crispin family of Armentières-sur-Avre, then his relationship to Gilbert de Gand was one of kinship, the same basis on which the ducal family entrusted the Crispins with the defence of the Norman borders. The military prowess of the Crispins was well esteemed: ‘And like the Fabii, or the Anicii or Manlii, carried the tokens of fame [insignia] among the Romans, so the Crispins knew even greater fame among the Normans and the French’ (Milo Crispin).

1.1.2.2.1. William Crispin, m. Agnes Mauvoisin.
1.2. Richard II.
1.2.1. Eleanor, m. Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, whose first wife Otgiva was a sister of Giselle, who was probably the mother of Gilbert de Gand.

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