Any conjecture of the ancestry of such as the Harcourts would commence with this Turulf/Torf/Thorulfr, recognising that any attempt to connect him to an earlier lineage is as insubstantial as a light fog.

1. Turulf/Torf/Thorulfr (“Thor’s wolf”), b. ca. 970. Charters of St-Pierre de Préaux, ca. 1040, mention his son Gilbert* (nos. 320, 334, 112).
1.1. *Gilbert Efflanc/Gilbert de Conde, b. ca. 1000. Tourville-sur-Pont Audemer is described in the early twelfth century as feodum de Eflanc. (Mr. Crouch, “Beaumont Twins”). Gilbert Efflanc was a vassal of Humfrid de Vieilles (founder of St-Pierre de Préaux). He donated lands to Preaux held by his tenant, Fulcerius (Foulque d’Anet), with the consent of his brother, Turstin, ca. 1060..

In the reign of William I. with the permission of Robert, son of Humfrey de Vieilles, à certain knight, *Gilbert by name, having no heir, gave to St. Peter a gift of his whole inheritance, namely all that he had in the vill of Condé, in the fields, woods, and waters, with a part of the church there, that he might be made a monk. After this gift had been made, it happened that he begot of his own wife a daughter whom he gave in marriage to Roger de Crucemaris, who besought the abbot that he might take up the honour of Gilbert from Roger of Beaumont of whom it was held and if Roger of Beaumont consented he would gladly thereafter hold Gilbert’s honour of abbot William. Testes: “Rogerus Bellemontis; Turstinus Efflancus”.

Mr. Robinson Planché: “The continuator of Guillaume de Jumiéges, however, enlightens us as to his (Foulque d’Anet’s) parentage; a point of more importance … he tells us that Fulk de Aneio (de Alneto, de Aneto, d’Anet, for it is spelt all manner of ways) was the son of Osmund de Centumville (i.e. Cotenville) by a niece of the Duchess Gunnora (supposedly). From a similarity of names, Fulk d’Aulnay has been confounded constantly with Fulk d’Aunou, of whom I have already discoursed. Even M. le Prévost has been partially misled by it. A Simon d’Aneti or de Aneio, recorded in the red book aforesaid, is asserted by the authors of the “Recherches sur le Domesday” to be the recognized descendant of Foulques d’Anet,” but they have not favoured us with the materials for such recognition”.

(In 1162, Simon of Anet was ordered by King Louis “the Younger” to restore to the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés all the rights he claimed on the lands of the said abbey, and of other abbeys. Thus, in 1169, he gave the whole parish of Rouvres to the Abbey of Bec-Hellouin, which had been the possession of his father (Simon) and his father (Robert). In 1188, he also owned the castle and the seigneury of Damville. This very important seigneury belonged to the illustrious family of Tillières (Crispin), and, to raise money for the Crusade, Gilbert de Tillières sold his castle of Damville to the lord of Anet. (Anet. Archaeological Society of Eure-et-Loir, 1877).

From the cartulary of Bec: From the donation of Simon d’Ânet: The church and the house of Rouvres with the entire tithe and all its belongings; the church of Marcilly (Marcelleio) with the entire tithe and its affiliations, and the land near the church given by Simon Senioris; the church of Bérou with the tithe and its affiliations; of Gilbert Crespin’s donation, half of the tithe of the toll of Brezolles and the house of the monks in which they lodged in Chartres, juxta posternam episcopi. (1194. Bibl. nat., lat. 12884, f, 254). (The said Gilbert held the fief of Armentieres).

N.B., the donations of the Anets and Crispins are adjoined, representative of a close association).

1. Harfast, brother of Gonnor, Duke Richard’s wife.
1.1. … m. Osmund de Centville (not the tutor of Richard 1).
1.1.1. Foulques d’Anet, the elder.
1.1.1.1. Gunnor d’Anet, m. Gilbert Crispin 1.
1.2. Osborn de Crépon, m. Emma, dau. of Raoul d’Ivri (Count Rodolph), uterine brother of Duke Richard I. “We (Osborn and Emma) donate from the area of Rothornagensi our mill in Rauleni villa, and our fields in Chevilly. In addition we give our cultivated land, which is near the valley Erchembald and the mountain called Cochetel” (Cart. St. Amand).
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.
1.2.1.1. Guillaume de Breteuil.

1. Sprotta, m. (2) Asperlenc.
1.1. Raoul (Rodolph) d’Ivri.
1.1.1. Hugh, Archbishop of Bayeux. Between 1042-1049, Hugh gave Celloville, that is Serlos villa (Seine-Maritime, cant. de Boos), and Sahurs (Seine-Maritime, cant. Grand-Couronne), to St Amand.
1.1.2. … m. “Richardus de Bello-fago”. (See Pierre Bauduin, ‘La première Normandie’, p. 206, 2004).
1.1.2.1. … m. Vicecomes Erchembald, who, on entering La Trinité du Mont, gave to the house his meadow in Sahurs, and all that he held by hereditary right in Celloville. (RADN, no. 82, 1030-1035).
1.1.2.1.1. Gilbert Crispin I, who attempted to defend Osmund the dapifer during the successful attempt to kill him in 1040. Gilbert made a gift to St. Amand to honour Osmund’s memory, a gift witnessed and approved of by Emma d’Ivri (Receuil, ed. Fauroux, no. 82).
1.1.3. Emma d’Ivri, Abbess of St Amand, m. Osborn the dapifer. Cart. St. Amand: “We donate from the area of Rothornagensi our mill in Rauleni villa, and our fields in Chevilly. In addition we give our cultivated land, which is near the valley Erchembald and the mountain called Cochetel”.
1.1.3.1. William FitzOsbern.
1.1.3.2. … de Crepon, m. Osmund de Centville.
1.1.3.2.1. Foulques d’Anet.
1.1.3.2.1.1. Gunnor, m. Gilbert Crispin 1.
1.1.3.1.1.1.1. Gilbert Crispin II. (de Collavilla), donated a moiety of Brezolles to Bec. Gilbert Crispin II., Domesday tenant in Sussex of his cousin, Robert Malet, and his aunt, Hesilia Crispin. (DB/Sf 6/19-21, 29-30, 34-37, etc.).
1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1. Robert d’ Armentieres.
1.1.3.1.1.1.2. Hesilia Crispin, m. William Malet.*
1.1.3.1.1.1.2.1. Lucy Malet, m. Turold the Sheriff. (K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, “The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain”, Prosopon Newsletter, 2, 1995).
1.1.3.1.1.1.2.1.1. Lucy FitzTurold, b. ca. 1075, m. (3) Ranulph de Meschines (1070-1129), son of Ranulph, Viscount of Bayeux. “Lucy was William Malet’s thrice-married granddaughter”, ibid.
1.1.3.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Ranulph de Meschines, 4th Earl of Chester, from 1129 to 1153. Geoffrey le Despenser and his son, Thomas le Despenser, served Ranulph.
1.1.3.1.1.1.3. William Crispin I., m. Eve de Montfort.
1.1.3.1.1.1.3.1. William Crispin II., b. ca. 1060, Domesay tenant in Yorkshire of his cousin, Robert Malet; these lands on forfeit being given to William Percy I, the new overlord of William Crispin II., alias William de Collavilla.
1.1.3.1.1.1.2.2. Robert Malet, held the fief of Collavilla, Harfleur.

1.1.1. “Anschetillus filius Gisleberti Efflanci” (b. ca. 1000), held lands in the parish of St-Germain de Pont Audemer. Mr. Holt, ‘Colonial England’, p. 208, 1997: “Sometime between 1044 and 1078, probably before 1066, the knight Ansketil, son of Turulph, made a post obitum gift, with the consent of his wife and sons, to the abbey of St-Pierre de Préaux of whatever came to him by right from paternal inheritance in Tourville and Campigny. Ansketil was the progenitor of the English Harcourt family.
1.1.1.1. Robert FitzAnsketil, ob. 1118 (ctl. Preaux, fol. 102v). He held Norman fiefs.
1.1.1.1.1. William FitzRobert, 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.).
1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert FitzWilliam.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. 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” (Mr. Crouch, ‘Beaumont Twins’, pp. 125-6).

1.1.2. “Rodulphi Efflanc” (Ralf, Ranulfe/Raoul). “In the days of this prince William I. a certain knight Ralf by name of the district of Caux by command of that prince and of *William Malet whose knight he was came to Préaux and gave St. Peter his land, namely that of a vavassor at Buletoth, that he might be made a monk, which was done. This he did. with consent of that prince and of William Malet in whose demesne was that land. For this, abbot Anfridi admitted William Malet to the fellowship of the abbey. And William gave the land of a saltpan belonging to him at Harfleur. When William was dead, Robert his son came to Préaux and confirmed his father’s gift”. (Mr. Round).
1.1.2.1. Turstin (Toustain) Efflanc. (Neustr. pia , pp . 511, 524).

1.2. Pierre (Efflanc) de Conde, m. Hesilia Crispin.
1.2.1. Raoul Efflanc de Tourville. Neustr. pia, p. 511 et 524. Gallia christ., t. XII, p. 853: Le Cartulaire de Saint-Gilles nomme, parmi les bienfaiteurs de la maison, Raoul Efflanc de Tourville, fils de Pierre, et ses sours Mabire et Isabelle, celle-ci femme de Réginald du Val. C’était une autre famille, descendant sans doute de Toustain Efflanc, fils de Ranulfe, témoin dans deux chartes pour Préaux, vers 1078. (I suggest in the 1060’s). (Neustr. pia , p.  511 et 524). (See Alfred Canel, Essai historique, p. 297, 1833).

1. Turold, b. ca. 965. His name is not a diminutive of Turulf. His relationship to the progenitor of the Efflancs cannot be known, but can be reasonably conjectured to have a very close one. If they were brothers, Roger de Beaumont’s dapifer was his cousin, quite a common relationship of master to dapifer.
1.1. Humfrid de Vieilles, b. ca. 990.
1.1.1. Roger de Beaumont, b. ca. 1015. Asketil was his dapifer, and 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. Sig. *”Anchetilli pincerna”.
1.1.2. “Rodbertus de Bellomonte, filius Unfredi”. To repeat: “Notification that in the reign of William I. and by permission of Robert son of Humfrey de Vieilles a certain knight, Gilbert by name, having no heir, gave to St. Peter a gift of his whole inheritance, namely all that he had in the vill of Conde. Of this is witness Roger of Beaumont who with his own hand placed the gift of the said honour on St. Peter’s altar”. “Roger de Beaumont then conceded the estate to the abbey on the understanding that the monks were to have only half of Condé during Roger de Croixmarez’s life, with the reversion of all he had there at his death”. (Mr. Holt, ‘Colonial England’, p. 203, 1997).

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