General Notes

Hugues I, dividing with his brother, took Gournay and the parishes inBeauvais, conquered on the right bank of the River Epte. In 1026 he builta priory at Ferte, the monks to raise or repair the old religiousedifices in the localities, and to direct or replace the secular priests.So began the movements of donations to abbeys. By 1036 Hugue and hispeople were definitely feudatories of the Duchy of Normandy. With Giffardde Longueville, Nigel, le Compte, Tallifer and others, he went with DukeGuillaume, in about sixty vessels, to the aide of King Edward theConfessor of England to help against the Danes. He was helpful at theConquest at Hastings. In the Cadastre of the Conquest, called by thevanquished the Book of the Last Judgement, or Domesday Book, wererecorded to him a manoir in the Hundred of Hidingford, one in Tendringand one in Lessenden, all in Essex. He and his sons returned to Normandy.His sons were Hugues and Nigel.