1. Torf.
1.1. Turketil (GND, viii. c. 37; OV ii. 12); died sans issue.
1.2. Turold ‘Turoldis teneri ducis pedagogus perimitur’ (Will. Gemet, VII.).
1.2.1. Hunfrid (Onfroi) de Vieilles, alias Vetulis or Vaux, lord of Vieilles; a small commune in the canton of Beaumont, arrondissement of Bernay.
1.2.1.1. Roger de Beaumont; Asketil, his dapifer, being a junior kinsman. 1087-1095. Notification that “in the reign of Robert son of William king of the English, Roger de Beaumont gave, etc. The same day he gave to St. Peter, Preaux, 20 pounds of English money annually from the tithe of his revenues oversea, etc. Signa Roberti comitis de Mellent; Ricardi Wanescrot; Ricardi fiii Teoderici; Anchetilli pincerna; Willelmi Stutaville”.
1.2.1.1.1. Robert de Beaumont, Ist Earl Leicester.
1.2.1.1.1.1. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl Leicester, founder of Garendon in 1133, to which donated his kinsmen, Hugh de Berges, and his son, Asketil.
1.2.1.1.1. Robert de Beaumont, Ist Earl Leicester.
1.2.1.1.1.1. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl Leicester, founder of Garendon in 1133, to which donated his kinsmen, Hugh de Berges, and his son, Asketil.
1.2.1.2. ‘Rodbertus de Bellomonte, filius Unfredi‘. 1066-1087.
1.2.1.2.1. Rogerius de Tetboldivilla. Le Prévost, Hist. of Saint-Martin du Tilleul, vol. 8: “The genealogy of the family of Thibouville is partly given by a charter of 1150, concerning Guillaume de Thibouville, first of that name. Thibouville, between Neubourg and Harcourt, was the cradle of this family, probably as a result of some alliance. The first recorded personage of this house was called Robert. He is known only to us as the father of Roger de Thibouville: “Rogerius filius Roberti of Tetboldi Villa, Rogerius of Tetboldivilla“.
1.2.1.2.1.1. Guillaume de Thibouville.
1.2.2. Turchetil, brother of Lescelina, whose husband founded Tréport.
1.2.2.1. Asketil de Rieu, gave the abbey of Tréport, c. 1060, the tithes of ‘decimam suam de Riu’. (Carlularium sanctae Trinilatis, p. 425). He is noted as ‘senis’, distinguishing him from his son and namesake. If as given, distinguishable from
Anschetil de Campigni, who gave land in Saint-Germain (Pont-Audemer, sur Tourville) to Préaux, and is designated Anschetillus de Campiniaco, filius Seffridi in Cart. de Préaux, f. 404 in which his lord is given as ‘Rogerii Bellimontis’.
He is clearly distinguished from ‘Anschetillus filius Gisleberti Efflanci'(vassal of Humfrid (Onfroy) de Vieilles, father of Roger de Beaumont), who donated land in Saint-Germain to Préaux with the consent of the said Roger. (ibid.). “Le Cartulaire de Saint-Gilles nomme, parmi les bienfaiteurs de la maison … famille, descendant sans doute de Toustain Efflanc, fils de Ranulfe (and brother of Gisleberti) témoin dans deux chartes pour Préaux, vers 1078” (Alfred Canel, ‘Essai historique’, cit. Neustr. pia, pp. 511,524; Gallia Christ., t. xii, p. 853).
Véronique Gazeau (‘Normannia monastica’, 2007) suggests that Sifroi was the illigitimate son of William I. de Bellême,, and grandfather of Raoul d’Escures, thus: “Radulphus Sifreidi de Scurris filias”; “Seginfridus filius Willelmi de Bellisimo”, refering to Charles and Menjot, eds. (1886) Cart. St Vincent du Mans, no. 548. Escures is St Germain d’Escures, dep. Orne, ch.-l. cant.).
1.2.2.1.1. Hugues (de Berges) de Rieu, confirmed his father’s gifts to Treport. At Domesday, he held Rotingedene (near Bergemere, contracted to Burg and Berges) from William de Warenne. His son, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d. 1138), m. Isabelle de Vermandois, widow of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, whose son founded Garendon.
1.2.2.1.1.1. Hugues. To repeat: Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl Leicester, founder of Garendon in 1133, to which donated his kinsmen, Hugh de Berges, and his son, Asketil.
1.2.2.1.1.1.1. Anscherio (Asketil) de Moncellis. In 1107, Anscher de Moncellis witnessed a charter of Henry count of Eu for the abbey of Treport; and in 1109, with his brothers William and Ralf, another of the same for the abbey of St-Lucien, Beauvais. In 1175 Ralf de Moncellis confirmed to Treport whatever right he or his ancestors had in the church of Monchaux (de Moncellis). Monchaux also lies 23 kil. N of Aumale. (Mr. Loyd).
1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1. Geoffrey le Despenser (‘Gaufrido dispensatore’), ‘dispensarius’ to the Earl of Chester.
1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas le Despenser, donated to Garendon as ‘Tomas Dispensator, filius Gaufridi Dispensatoris’. (John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, vol. III, part 2, 1804).
1.2.2.1.2. Asketil. D.B.: The Land of the Count of Eu, Bexill Hundred: ‘Ansketil of Rieux 1/2 hide‘. Dr Keats-Rohan suggests that the Ansketil who held land at Bexhill, Footland and Wellhead in Sussex from the Count of Eu was ‘perhaps’ Ansketil of Rieux‘; perhaps synonomous with Anschetil, junior cousin of, and dapifer of Roger de Beaumont (ctl. Preaux, fol. 125; cart. Beaumont; Lot, p. 96, 1913 – 1080’s).
1.2.2.1.2.1. Robert fitz Anschetil, ob. 1118 (ctl. Preaux, fol. 102v). Held Norman fiefs.
1.2.2.1.2.1.1. William fitz Robert fl. 1149 (P.R. 31 H. 1). Granted Stanton-under-Bardon, Leic., to Garendon Abbey, founded by Robert de Beaumont (cart. Garendon, fols. 5v., 15v.).
1.2.2.1.2.1.1.1. Robert fitz William, mar. Eve Crispin.
1.2.2.1.2.1.2. Ivo de Harcourt. Ratified the confirmation of his brother, William, of their father’s gifts to Garendon (ctl. Garendon, fol. 15v.; Nichols’ Leic. vii.). ‘In 1148/9, William de Harcourt, with the consent of his brother and heir, Ivo, and mother, Agnes, alienated to Garendon the manor of Stanton-under- Bardon, which was specifically their patrimonium’ (Benjamin Thompson, Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain, p. 107, 1999).
“It was Ivo who was the progenitor of the English line of Harcourts … The later forfeiture of the English lands of the ‘Norman’ Harcourts makes them difficult to trace, but we do at least know some of them in Leicestershire … the remaining part of the Harcourt inheritance in the manor of Leicester was being held by Ivo de Harcourt before the end of Stephen’s reign” (Crouch, Beaumont Twins, pp. 125-6).

Another dapifer family of the Beaumonts was that of Epaignes: “Arrond. de Pont-Audemer. — Cant. de Cormeilles. Nous pensons que le territoire de cette commune avait appartenu primitivement à Roger de Tosni, seigneur de Conches, et qu’il lui donna le nom d’Espagne au retour et en mémoire de ses expéditions dans la Péninsule. Cette conjecture est d’autant plus vraisemblable que Roger de Tosni est plusieurs fois appelé par Orderic Vital: Rogerius de Hispania. Nous allons tirer du Cartulaire de Préaux un certain nombre d’actes qui établissent les principaux droits de l’abbaye de Préaux sur le territoire d’Epaignes” (Prevost, ed. Delisle).
“Alfred (d’Epaignes) appears as a tenant in Epaignes of the honor of Pont Audemer soon after 1066 as son and heir of Goscelin Rufus*: Cartulary of St-Pierre of Preaux, Archives Departmentales de l’Eure, H 711, f. 102r-v, he was the brother and father of other men called Goscelin, as appears from his grant of tithes at Turnworth in Dorset to St Stephen de Caen” (Ralph Alan Griffiths, Gwent County History, vol. II, University of Wales Press, p. 37, 2008.; cit. Regesta Regum, 1066-1087 (ed. David Bates, 1998), no. 55. For Alfred, see Domes. I., f. 162b. Alfred’s eventual heir, his da., Isabel, m. Robert de Candos, of the Bec-Hellouin circle.
“Roger de Beaumont, et Robert, son frère, donnèrent à l’abbaye la dîme des revenus de Pont Audemer, en droits d’entrée, cens, moulins et autres choses qui pouvaient se dîmer, et les e’glises de la même ville, qu’ Onfroy paraît avoir aliénées antérieurement, et au sujet desquelles nous avons vu les religieux avoir recours au duel judiciaire. Robert fit don de tout ce qu’il possédait à Epaignes, avec un habitant nommé Osbern, c’est-à-dire, la forêt d’Epaignes, toute la dîme de la paroisse et du moulin, et l’église avec ses dépendances” (Alfred Canel, Essai historique, i., p. 315, 1833).
“Onfroi de Vieilles, fondateur du monastère, tout ce qu’il possédait à Préaux, Bosc-Osberne, Merlimont, Selles et tout ce qu’il avait à Campigny, Tourville et Toutainville, avec moulins et dépendances. De Roger, fils d’Onfroi, la dixième partie des revenus de Pont-Audemer, des tonlieux, cens, moulins et autres choses qui peuvent être dîmées ; tout ce qu ‘il avait dans son domaine à Épaignes, excepté trois chevaliers, Goscelin, Hugues d’Avennes et Goscelin le Roux” (Dominique Rouet, Le cartulaire de l’abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Pierre-de-Préaux: 1034-1227, p. 297, 2005).
*”Goscelin Rufus de Formovilla“, ibid., p. 6.
“Auvray, fils de Goscelin d’Epaignes, confirme, une fois recueilli l’héritage de son père, les dons que celui-ci a faits à l’abbaye Saint-Pierre de Préaux à condition d’avoir, avec ses fils, ses frères et la femme qu ‘il épouserait à l’avenir, sa part des prières des moines” (ibid., p. 20).
“Auvray, fils de Goscelin d’Espaigne, lui-même fils d’Asulf d’Espaigne , eut en effet non seulement un frère, Hervé, mais des frères dont une charte émanée d’Auvray lui-même et conservée dans le Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Préaux” (Bibliotheque d’Histoire du Droit Normand. 2. Serie: Etudes, v. 4, 1931).

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