ERCHEMBALD AS FLEMING

1. Ivar.
1.1. Guthfrith Ivarsson – alias Godfried, “Duke of Frisia” and ruler in Dublin (883). , vassal of the Emperor Charles III., after that ruler sued for peace, giving Godfrey most of Frisia to rule. Charles also gave him Gisela (865-908), illegitimate dau. of King Lothair II. (839-869), as his wife. The exploits of Godfried are ‘transferred’ to Rollo by Dudo.
1.1.1. Bernard the Dane. (Beorn) ‘Of the blood royal of Saxony’. Lothair II had had one son and three daughters, all by Waldrada, and all of whom were declared illegitimate
1.2. Sitric, founder of Limerick; its historian, Ferrar, says, “According to a manuscript in the editor’s possession, the Danes got possession of Limerick in the year 855”.
1.2.1. Ragnall. The annalist Flodoard mentioned a Viking named Ragenold, like Rollo, called princeps Nortmannorum, leader of the Loire Vikings, who were regarded as a menace, especially to Brittany. He is noted as being a man of Rollo, who attended the coronation of Rollo’s son, William Longsword, in 931, and was probably of Rollo’s family” (A. Hugo, France Historique, p. 416, 1837).
1.2.1.1. Sprotta (Scand. Sprottr), concubine of William Longsword, described as ‘nobilissima‘ (Frodoard, 933, MGH SS III, p. 381). She was not a Breton. In 934 William Longsword was given Breton lands by King Ralph as a bulwark against the Vikings to the west of them. These Vikings were led by Ragnall, and Sprotta was likely allianced with William as a peace-weaving exercise, giving William an uncontested (by Ragnall) claim to the Cotentin and Avranchin.
1.2.1.1.1. Richard I., m. Gunnor, his former concubine. Gunnora, d. bef. Jan. 5, 1031. Professor Eleanor Searle (‘Facts and Patterns in heroic poetry’, 1984) wrote of the besieged colonists being reinforced by a new wave of Norsemen in the 960’s, and Richard (‘dux pyratorum’) took as a wife Gunnor, the daughter of one of their leaders, in a ‘peace-weaving’ marriage.
1.2.1.1.1. Richard, ‘the Great Prince’, bur. Fécamp.
1.2.1.1.2. Godfrey (by a concubine).
1.2.1.1.2.1. Gilbert de Brionne, overlord of Gilbert Crispin I.
1.2.1.1.2.1.1. Baldwin FitzGilbert.
1.2.2. Harald of Bayeux, “noted ally of Rollo’s family, who came to hold land between Bayeux and Coutances, possibly connected to the family of the Duchess Gunnor, and the person called on for assistance by Bernard the Dane when the Scandinavian colonists came under attack by Frankish forces” (Hudson, Viking Pirates, p. 65, 2005).

1.2.1. Sprotta, m. (2) Asperlenc.
1.2.1.1. Rodolph d’Ivri, born ca. 943.
1.2.2.2.1. Emma d’Ivri, Abbess of St Amand. Baldwin FitzGilbert, raised by Emma d’ivri at Rouen, probably his aunt; donated to St Amand in memory of his mother.
1.2.2.2.2. Emmenie d’Ivri (she and siblings born ca. 970) m. Richard de Beaufour.
1.2.2.2.2.1. … de Beaufour, m. Erchembald, vicecomes of Rouen.
1.2.2.2.2.1.1. Gilbert Crispin I.
1.2.2.2.2.1.1.1. Gilbert Crispin II. (Collavilla).
1.2.2.2.2.1.1.1.1. Robert d’ Armentieres, held under Gilbert de Gand in 1086.
1.2.1.1.3.2.1.2. William Crispin, m. Eve de Montfort L’Aumary, aunt of Isabel de Montfort, who m. Raoul III de Conches (Tosny), Lord of Flamstead. ‘At that time violent hostilities broke out between the people of Breteuil, Evreux, and others in that neighbourhood. William de Breteuil had married Adeline, the daughter of Hugh de Montfort (sur-Risle), but he had no son born in wedlock. He died at Bec on the second of the ides of January, but was buried at Lire, in the abbey which his father had founded on his own fief. His nephews William de Guader and Reynold de Grancei  disputed the succession; but the Normans chose Eustace, his son by a concubine, preferring a countryman of their own … In consequence, the parties flew to arms with great violence, and the country was still further desolated. William de Guader dying soon afterwards Reynold became stronger, and William earl of Evreux joined with many others in affording him aid. Ralph de Conches, son of Isabel, and Amauri de Montfort (brother of Isabel) collected their forces on the side of Reynold, and did much mischief to their neighbours, devastating their country by hostile inroads, but they rendered but little service to the cause they espoused. For Eustace, supported by William Alis, Ralph-the-Red‘ (Ord. Vit. xi., iv.).
1.2.2.2.2.2. … de Beaufour, m. Gilbert de Brionne.
1.2.2.2.2.3. … de Beaufour, m. Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle. By a second wife, Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle, was the father of Adeline de Montfort-sur-Risle, who married William of Breteuil, eldest son of William FitzOsbern*.
1.2.1.1.3.3.1. Alice de Montfort-sur-Risle (by … de Beaufour), m. Gilbert de Gand.
1.2.1.1.3.3.2. Hugh II. de Montfort-sur-Risle (by his second wife).
1.2.2.2.2.4. Robert de Beaufour. (the missing generation).
1.2.2.2.2.4.1. Robert de Beaufour, ‘sire de Belfou’, named by Wace as a companion of William Crispin (son of Gilbert Crispin I.), at Hastings, with:

(1) The ‘sire d’Alnou’ (Fulke d’Anet), whose sister was the wife of Gilbert Crispin I.; they the children of Osmund de Conteville and a sister of Osbern the dapifer (son of Herfast, br. of Gunnor). Thus, Gilbert Crispin’s wife was a cousin of *William FitzOsbern.

(2) The ‘sire d’Estotevile’, near Ivetot. Yorkshire Domesday tenants-in-chief such as William de Percy enfeoffed a large number of sub-tenants. In Wheldrake, including William de Colleville; this holding originally being held by William Malet, his uncle (V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 167, 262, 293). William de Percy also held the castle of Tadcaster, which had also originally belonged to William Malet, whose son, Robert, succeeded to only a portion of his father’s lands, very likely the result of him joining the 1088 rebellion against William Rufus. Many of the Malet estates in Yorkshire and other counties passed by ducal confiscation to Robert de Stuteville (see D.B, i, 373a-374b, 320b-321a); a descendant of his married William de Colville, of Bytham, descendant of Thomas de Colville.* A ‘wrong choice’ was made by Robert de Stuteville II., one of the rebels captured by the king at Tinchebrai, in 1106. His Yorkshire estates were given to Nigel d’Aubigny, a son of Roger d’Aubigny, of St. Martin d’Aubigny, a brother of William d’Aubigny, the royal pincerna. In addition to the Stuteville and Malet estates Nigel was granted the overlordship of former tenants-in-chief, such as William de Colville. Coxwold was granted to *Thomas de Colville shortly after 1145, a tenant of Roger de Mowbray, son of Nigel d’Aubigny.

Wace was said by Elizabeth Van Houts to not be infallible, but neither arbitrary or fictitious, and whose method of collecting written material and recording oral tradition made him a serious historian.

1.2.2.2.2.4.1. Richard de Beaufour: ‘Son fils Richard II de Beaufour figure comme témoin dans une charte du Conquérant avec Raoul de Conches* et Guillaume de Breteuil‘ (Charpillon). Beaufour: d’argent au lion de gueules, billeté de même ou d’or. *As given, he was the husband of the cousin of William Crispin II. (Collavilla).
1.2.2.2.2.4.1.1. … de Beaufour, m. Hugh II. de Montfort-sur-Risle.

1.2.1.1.3.2.1.3. Hesilia Crispin, m. William Malet, who probably gained Conteville as dower.
1.2.1.1.3.2.1.3.1. Robert Malet, held the fief of Collavilla, near Harfleur, Seine-Inf. Domesday shows “Gilbert de Colavilla” as a considerable undertenant of Robert Malet at Rendlesham; he also held under Robert Malet’s mother, Hesilia Crispin (DB/Sf 6/19-21, 29-30, 34-37, etc.).
1.2.1.1.3.2.1.3.1.1. Robert Malet. Amongst the benefactions made to the abbey of St Taurin, Evreux, in the late eleventh century were grants of land in Pinterville (arr. Louviers, Eure) given by Robert Malet, and his wife, Emmelina, with the assent of William de Breteuil, whose wife was probably a sister of Robert’s wife, daughter of Hugh de Montfort II., with whose lands and tenants, English and Norman, the Malets were often involved.
1.2.1.1.3.2.1.3.1.2. William Mallet. In 1121, Henry I. confirmed the gift of Conteville (Eure) to the abbey of Bec, ‘pro anima patris et matris sui et fratris sui Roberti’.

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