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Female Emma FitzOsbern Click to view Emma FitzOsbern in the family tree

Emma was born in 1059 in Breteuil, Normandy, France.  Emma's father was William FitzOsbern , 1st Earl of Hereford and her mother was Alice de Toeni.  Her paternal grandparents were Osbern de Crepon , Steward of Normandy and Emma de Ivry; her maternal grandparents were Lord Roger (The Spaniard) deToDeni and Godeheut Borrell.  She was an only child.  She died at the age of 36 in 1095.


Emma's family with Earl Ralph deGael

‌Emma and Ralph were married in a religious ceremony in 1075 in Exning, Cambridgeshire, England.  They had a son named Ralph Seigneur deGael.

1 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 2761
Further source/citation:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 @ 53-25

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