General Notes

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Note:
!Source: Richard Washburn Family Genealoby by Ada C Haight
The Ancestors & Descendants of Abraham Daniel Washburn and his
wife Flora Clarinda Gleason-Utah Pioneers 1805-1962
by Ella L. Turner
Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England & America
by Mabel Tacher Rosemary Washburn
The Washbourne Family by Reverend James Davenport, Vicar of
Wichenford (lst published in 1907)

!Tancred is the earliest known ancestor of the Washburn family. He may have been born even a little earlier than 890. He is recorded as holding land in Normandy in 912. The Norman lands, divided at this time among the companions of Rollo, were bestowed by him as to free and equal comrades (Tancred included) fellow-victors with him in the conquest of the part of France which commemorates the Norse Vikings, fierce, heathen, ravagers during the ninth and early tenth centuries, who, by 912 decided to become settlers instead of raiders, worshippers of Christ in place of Thor and Woden. The present
Normandy, as to its general area, was ceded to Rollo and his companions by Charles the Simple, King of France, in 912. Tancred's original land-holding, in the Latin chronicles called Tancredvilla, passed into Tancarville, also spelled later, Tankerville; and this land-name became a family surname both in Normandy and, after the Norman Conquest of England, there, also. The surnames of the Washburn ancestors were the names of the lands, lordships, fiefs, manors, which they owned or held feudally at different periods. The French Kings' cession of land was balanced by the renunciation of paganism and
conversion to the Christian Faith by Rollo and his companions. They were baptized by the Archbishop of Rouen, France. Rollo married the King's daughter, Princess Gisela The Normans had two characteristics of the Roman people in their great period, the logical sense and respect for law. As they had raided and harried, burning and slaying, after their conversion and baptism, and being instructed in a religion of mercy and the law, they speedily became law-abiding and adopted the manner of life of their French wives. These mothers of the next generation impressed their children with the strong piety through history characteristic of the people of Normandy. No record has been found of the wife of Tancred, the Viking, who became Tancred, the Christian feudal lord of the estates named for him, Tancarville.
Undoubtedly, she was a Christian French woman, and her children and descendants in Normandy were loyal to the Church of Christ and benefactors in charity. In 912 he is recorded as having and owning land in Normandy.[Direct Linage1.FTW]

[JamesLinage.GED]

Note:
!Source: Richard Washburn Family Genealoby by Ada C Haight
The Ancestors & Descendants of Abraham Daniel Washburn and his
wife Flora Clarinda Gleason-Utah Pioneers 1805-1962
by Ella L. Turner
Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England & America
by Mabel Tacher Rosemary Washburn
The Washbourne Family by Reverend James Davenport, Vicar of
Wichenford (lst published in 1907)

!Tancred is the earliest known ancestor of the Washburn family. He may have been born even a little earlier than 890. He is recorded as holding land in Normandy in 912. The Norman lands, divided at this time among the companions of Rollo, were bestowed by him as to free and equal comrades (Tancred included) fellow-victors with him in the conquest of the part of France which commemorates the Norse Vikings, fierce, heathen, ravagers during the ninth and early tenth centuries, who, by 912 decided to become settlers instead of raiders, worshippers of Christ in place of Thor and Woden. The present
Normandy, as to its general area, was ceded to Rollo and his companions by Charles the Simple, King of France, in 912. Tancred's original land-holding, in the Latin chronicles called Tancredvilla, passed into Tancarville, also spelled later, Tankerville; and this land-name became a family surname both in Normandy and, after the Norman Conquest of England, there, also. The surnames of the Washburn ancestors were the names of the lands, lordships, fiefs, manors, which they owned or held feudally at different periods. The French Kings' cession of land was balanced by the renunciation of paganism and
conversion to the Christian Faith by Rollo and his companions. They were baptized by the Archbishop of Rouen, France. Rollo married the King's daughter, Princess Gisela The Normans had two characteristics of the Roman people in their great period, the logical sense and respect for law. As they had raided and harried, burning and slaying, after their conversion and baptism, and being instructed in a religion of mercy and the law, they speedily became law-abiding and adopted the manner of life of their French wives. These mothers of the next generation impressed their children with the strong piety through history characteristic of the people of Normandy. No record has been found of the wife of Tancred, the Viking, who became Tancred, the Christian feudal lord of the estates named for him, Tancarville.
Undoubtedly, she was a Christian French woman, and her children and descendants in Normandy were loyal to the Church of Christ and benefactors in charity. In 912 he is recorded as having and owning land in Normandy.