Godfrey FitzRichard of Brionne , Comte de Eu 
Godfrey FitzRichard of was born about 0953 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy.1 Godfrey FitzRichard of's father was Duke 'The Fearless' 3rd Duke of Normandy (The Fearless) Richard I and his mother is concubine(s). His paternal grandparents were Duke William I "Longsword" Duke of Norma (Longespee) and Sprota of Brittany. He had six brothers and seven sisters, named Geoffroy, Guillaume, Godfrey fitz Richard of Brionne, William I Count of Heimois & d', Guillaume Ier, Guillaume I Hieme of Eu, Muriella de, Muriella of Normandy, of Normandy, Pappia of, Hawise, Papia and Beatrice, Abbess of Montivilliers. He had thirteen half-brothers and thirteen half-sisters, named Herbert I, Geoffroy Count D'Eu &, Geoffrey , Count of Eu, The good, 'the Good' 4th Duke of Normandy, of Devereux Bishop of Rouen, Godfrey "of Normandy", Geoffroi of Eu, William 'the Bastard' de Hiesmes Count, Mauger of Corbeil, William, Godrey (Geoffrey) of Bronne and Eu, Ralph de Ivrea, Sporta of, Muriella of, Hedwig\hawise of, Hawise Of, Beatrix of Normandy, Beatrix of Normandy, Hawise of, of Normandy Queen of England, Emma of Normandy, Mathilde de, Fredesende\Fredistina, Fredesende of and Frasenda or Frederina of Normandy. He died after 0996.2 General Notes
WFT 31, Tree #0005 shows wife and mother of Gilbert as Lcelikne de Turqueville, dau of Turquetil de Neufmarche and Anceline de Bastembourg. The Directory of Royal Genealogy does not identify his wife.
Gilbert, Count of Brionne, who was son of Godfrey, Count of Brionne, illegitimate son of Richard I, the Fearless, Duke of Normandy. [Magna Charta Sureties, line 157-1]
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Turton has Geoffrey (Godfrey Comte d'Eu as a legitimate son of Richard & Gunnora, which confused me for awhile and I had him as a 2nd person (father of Adele only). However I believe Turton is wrong, and Godfrey was an illegitimate son (in fact the eldest illegitimate son).
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The following is the first part of a post to SGM, 29 Aug 1996, by Dave Utzinger:
From: Dave Utzinger (UTZ@AOL.COM)
Subject: CLARE FAMILY
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 1996/08/29
From "A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314", by Michael Altschul, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins press, 1965.
The Clares came to England with the Conqueror. Like many other great families settled in England after the Conquest, they were related to the dukes of Normandy and had established themselves as important members of the Norman feudal aristocracy in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries.
The origin of the family can be traced to Godfrey, eldest of the illegitimate children of Duke Richard I (the Fearless), the Conqueror's great-grandfather. While the Duke granted Godfrey Brionne, he did not make him a count. Godfrey's comital title derives from the grant of the county of Eu made to him after 996 by his half-brother, Duke Richard II. After Godfrey's death, Eu was given to William, another of Duke Richard I's bastard sons, and Gilbert, Godfrey's son, was left with only the lordship of Brionne. However, under Duke Robert I, father of William the Conqueror, Gilbert assumed the title of count of Brionne while not relinquishing his claim to Eu. When Count William of Eu died shortly before 1040, Gilbert assumed the land and title, but he was assassinated in 1040 and his young sons, Richard and Baldwin, were forced to flee Normandy, finding safety at the court of Baldwin V, count of Flanders. When William the Conqueror married Count Baldwin's daughter, he restored Gilbert's sons to Normandy, although he did not invest them with either Brionne or Eu or a comital title. William granted the lordships of Bienfaite and Orbec to Richard fitz Gilbert, and Le Sap and Meules to Baldwin. While Gilbert's descendants later pressed a claim for Brionne, it was never restored.
Maloney, Hendrick & Others - J. H. Maloney
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0810 in Maer, Norway d.> 0880 in Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
- b.~ 0840 in Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway d.~ 0890 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland (burned alive with his bodyguards in his hall)
- b.~ 0825 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.Wft Est 834-906 in Norway
- b.~ 0870 in Maer, Nord, Trondelog, Norway d.0927 in Notre Dame, Rouen, France
- b.~ 0818 d.DECEASED
- b.~ 0840 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.DECEASED in Norway
- b.0891 in Rouen, Normandie, France d.17 Dec 0942 in , PicardyFrance
- b.0818 in Vermandois,Normandy,France d.> 0840 in St. Quentin,Aisne,Picardie,France
- b.~ 0842 in Vermandois,Normandy,France d.AFT 28 Jan 0892/0893
- b.~ 0820 in Normandy,France
- b.~ 0872 in Evreaux, Normandy, France d.< 0930
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandy France d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandy, France
- b.0797 in Vermandois, Normandie, France d.17 Apr 0818 in Milan, Italy (blinded by Louis I)
- b.0818 in Vermandois,Normandy,France d.> 0840 in St. Quentin,Aisne,Picardie,France
- b.~ 0797 in Parma, Italy d.>15 Jun 0835 in Milan,Lombardy,Italy
- b.0850 in Bretagne, France d.0911 in Murdered
- b.0805
- b.~ 0820 in Normandy,France
- b.0901 in Bretagne, France d.~ 0972
- b.~ 0820 in Morvois, France d.25 Aug 0866 in Anjou/Pays-de-la-Loire, France
- b.~ 0862 in France d.BET. 883 - 947
- b.~ 0800 in Roussillon, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d.0877
- b.~ 0830 in Roussillon, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
- b.~ 0953 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy d.> 0996
- b.0935
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1 The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest
2 The Plantagenet Ancestry, 1993 edition @ 94
Further source/citation:
Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed. @ 157-1
2 The Plantagenet Ancestry, 1993 edition @ 94
Further source/citation:
Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed. @ 157-1
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