1. Harfast. Brother of Gonnor, Duke Richard’s wife.
1.1. … m. Osmund de Centville (not the tutor of Richard 1). She received (assumed as dower) the fiefs of Livarot (where Gilbert Crispin I. held land), and Saint-Julien-sur-Vie, par Le Prévost.
1.1.1. Foulques d’Anet. To paraphrase D’Anisy (1842) – “We must note that, as a result of a false interpretation of the text of Orderic Vitalis and Guillaume de Jumièges, Foulques d’Aunou, son of Baudry the Teuton, was often confused with Foulques d’Anet, son of ‘Osmond de Centville, who are two different characters”. He points to the latin ‘primus Fulco de Aneio’, being wrongly translated, as shown by entries in the Norman Exchequer accounts of Simon d’Aneio being synonomous with Simon d’Aneto, descendant of Foulques d’Anet, citing Ducarel, pp. 229,230. A similar error made Gilbert Crispin I. being synonomous with his liege lord, Gilbert de Brionne.

Foulques d’Anet and his sister Albreda were among the early benefactors to the abbey of Bec-Hellouin “Ex dono Fulconis de Aneto et homimim suorum manerium de Mesnillo Simonis cum ecclesia et omnibus ecclesiae et manerii pertinentiis. Ex dono Albredae sororis ejusdem Fulconis assensu et voluntate ipsius terram de A.d. 1047. Groselers quae est juxta landam sita cum omnibus pertinentis suis’. (MSAN, vol. 16, p. 287).

Mr. Stapleton made a case for Albreda being the mother of (1) Roger de Ivry, the ‘Conqueror’s’ butler, and the founder of a monastery in honour of the Virgin Mary, in the vicinity of his castle of Ivry. His wife was Adelina, daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil. (2) Hugh de Ivry, butler of the ‘Conqueror’. ‘Alberada Hugonis et Rogerii mater, dedit, annuentibus ipsis, hoc quod habebat in ecclesia et decima de Hainolvilla (Henouville-en-Caux) et unam acram terrae in eadem villa pro anima sua. Hugo Pincerna supradictae’ (Charter of confirmation for the Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Caen).

A close relation was probably Robert d’Ivry. “Robert d’lvry ended his days in the abbey of Bec, leaving three sons, Ascelin Goel, and William, “milites insignes”, and Robert, in holy orders. The eldest of these succeeded to his father’s patrimony, and built thereon the castle of Bréval ; his wife, Isabella; was dau. of William of Breteuil, who had the Honour of Ivry, which he claimed in right of his descent from Count Ralph. After the death of William, King Henry I retained the castle of Ivry, but about the year 1119 he restored the wardship to Robert Goél, son of Ascelin Goel and Isabel de Breteuil. Of this marriage there was issue, seven sons and a daughter, the wife of Ralph Le Roux, who was sent 1119 by Henry I. to the aid of Ralph de Guader (Ord. Vit. 857), and 1120 was one of the nobles who perished with Prince Henry in the Blanche Nef. His nephew Simon le Roux was living 1137 (Ord. Vit. 197).

1.1.1.1. Robert d’Anet, who held the fiefs of d’Anet, Château-Neuf, Brézolles, and Sorel, etc., as tenant of Albert, as follows. (L’arrondissement de Dreux est composé de 7 cantons: Anet, Brezolles, Châteauneuf, Dreux, La Ferté-Vidame, Nogent-le-Roi, Senonches). He married, ca. 1045-1050, Adeline, daughter of Ingulphe. This Robert retired to the monastery of Saint-Père, and died ca. 1080, when Adeline gave to Saint-Père, for the salvation of her husband and of her ancestors all the rights she had over the church, mills and the land of Anet. Robert’s son was Simon d’Anet, the crusader (1096); his was a namesake, donator to Bec-Hellouin.

The charters of Saint-Père are not often subject to translation, let alone analysis. There are references of a vague nature to a Hersendis making a donation to Saint-Père. She is a tenant of Albert, son of Ribald. The only sense I make of various charters allows for the following construction, however accurate it may be.

(1. Ribald.
1.1. Albert, witnessed the act in which Gautier of Dreux gave the church of Armentières to Saint-Père.
1.1.1. Hugh (“heres”).
1.1.1.1. Hersendis de Brezolles, m. Gilbert Crispin III. Gislebertus de Tileriis; Hersendis, uxor ejus; Gislebertus et Ribaldus, filii ejus. I take Gilbert Crispin III. to be the brother of Robert de Armentières, who held under Gilbert de Gand, Domesday. The relationship was one of kinship. Gilbert de Gand was the cousin of Baldwin V., Count of Flanders: (1. Baldwin IV count of Flanders. Gilbert de Gand’s mother was probably the Gisele who was a sister of Otgiva, wife of Baldwin IV count of Flanders. 1.1. Baldwin V., Count of Flanders, succeeded father in 1055; cousin of Gilbert de Gand. 1.1.1. Baldwin VI., Count of Flanders, succeeded father in 1067; m. Richilde, who m. (3) William FitzOsbrn, cousin of the Crispin family).
1.1.1.1.1. Gilbert Crispin.
1.1.1.1.2. Ribald Crispin.
1.1.2. Guazo (“frater ejus”).
1.1.3. Hersendis. She retired to Saint-Père.
1.2. Jean (named in Adeline’s charter as grandfather).
1.2.1. Ingenulf.
1.2.1.1. Adeline, m. Robert d’Anet, vassal of Albert and his son, Hugh.
1.2.1.2. Albertus, “filius Ingenulf”).

1.1.1.2. Gunnora d’Anet, m. Gilbert Crispin 1. (This places Foulques and Gunnora as being born ca. 1000). This marriage answers M. Le Prevost’s statement that there was an apparent association between the Crispin and FitzOsborn family, without the basis of that association being known. ‘Nous ignorons à quel titre Gislebert Crespin etait appele à ratifier cette donation; mais nous supposons que ce pouvait être à raison de quelque alliance avec la famille d’Ivri, dont le souvenir est perdu (‘Ordericus Vitalis’, ed. le Prevost et. al., p. 398, 1840).
1.1.1.2.1. Robert Crispin, the exiled mercenary.
1.1.1.2.2. Hesilia Crispin m. William Malet; he acquiring Conteville (Centville).
1.1.1.2.3. William Crispin I.
1.1.1.2.4. Gilbert Crispin II., held the fortress of Damville as a vassal of Gilbert de Brionne’s son, Richard FitzGilbert (de Clare).
1.1.1.2.4.1. Gilbert Crispin III., m. Hersende de Brezolles, and became enfeoffed in Armentières-sur-Avre. By 1188, Gilbert, his descendant, had ceased to possess Damville. He had probably sold it to Simon Anet (Simon II. d’Anet) before leaving for the Holy Land, where he died in 1190, at the siege of Acre (‘Isti obierunt eodem anno [1190] in obsidione Acrae: vicecomes of Turonia, Gilibertus of Tillers’).

1.2. Osborn de Crépon, m. Emma, dau. of Raoul d’Ivri (Count Rodolph), uterine brother of Duke Richard I.
1.2.1. William FitzOsborn. In a charter concerning land at Guernanville, ‘Foulques the elder, tainted by corruption, lifted his heart (toward God) and withdrew to Ouche, where he assumed monk’s robes, and gave to St. Evroult the church of Guernanville and its tithes’. This donation was confirmed by Guillaume de Breteuil (William FitzOsborn’s son), Gilbert Crispin I. and his sons (Gibert Crispin II. and William Crispin I), in the presence of Roger de Clare; son of Richard FitzGilbert, son of Gilbert de Brionne, son of Godfrey, born c. 953), illigitimate son of Duke Richard. William FitzOsborn m. Richilde, relict of a second-cousin of Gilbert de Gand, who did not hold land in Flanders, and had no connection to Armentières of that region.

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