General Notes

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Torf, which is a Danish name is probably a variant of Thorolf which means
Thor's Wolf , Thor being the God of Thunder.

Places in Normandy named for him. Torfville,Tourville,tourneville,Turville
Turvile and Turquoville.
Torf, which is a Danish name is probably a variant of Thorolf which means
Thor's Wolf , Thor being the God of Thunder.

Places in Normandy named for him. Torfville,Tourville,Tourneville,Turville
Turvile and Turquoville.

There were apparently two Torfs of the same name confused in genealogy
namely father and son.

From G.A. LaRoque. "Hist. Geneal Maison de Harcourt"

Errand is mentioned by LaRoque,the French historian of this great house,
which reads " sire de Herevourt was there also,riding a very swift horse".
They are supported in this conclusion by Le Prevost, as he favors Anchetil,
the father of Errand. The burden of opinion is, however, against this eminent historian. Turquetil,signeur de Turqueville, and de Tanqueraye, about 1001, appears in several chapters concerning the abbeys of Fecamp and Bernay.
He was Lord of Neufmarche-en-Lions, governor of the boy Duke, William and was treacherously assassinated between 1035 and1040 by hirelings of Raoul de Gace. Turquetil was the second son of Torf the Rich,the son of bernard the Dane.which latter was governor and regent of Normandy in 912, from wom descended the sires de Beaumont, comes deMeulent, the barons of Cacelles and Saint-Pare, the lords of Gournay and Milly,the barons of Neubourg,the vicomtes of Evereux, the Earls of Leicester, and many other noble French and English houses.Turquetil married Anceline,sister of Toustain,seigneur de Montfort-sur Risle,and had issue,Anchetil and Walter de Lescelina who married Beatrice, abbess of Montivilliers,natural daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, as well as Leceline de Turqueville , the wife of William, comte (later d'Eu), an illegitimate son on the same Duke. Anchetil was the first to assume the name of Harcourt from the bourg of Harcourt, near Brionne, and married Eve de Boessey-le-Chapell, by whom he had seven sons and one daughter.
The eldest was Errand, who predeceased his father and was succeeded by Robert as head of the house.Jean,Arnoul,Gervais,Yves and Renauld were the other sons. Errand de Harcourt commanded the archers of Val de Ruel at the battle of Hastings, but returned to Normandy in 1078 and died soon after. His younger brother,Robert, who accompanied him to the conquest was the anchestor of this distinguished family