• General Notes

  By family tradition the English Husseys were Normans, earlier Danes, and prior to that, Scandinavians who had invaded northern France and, settling there, adapted to French language and customs.
  
  According to Stapleton's "Rotulli Scaccarii Normanniae," Osbert de Hozu, who was living in England in 1180, was so named for le Hozu,a fief in the parish of Grand Quevilly near Rouen, France. Adella Whitney Olney, a genealogist of Niland, California, suggests that the name may be derived from Heusse in the department of La Manche, France. In an old account of the Hussey family the name is said to have been Tousai de Hosa. German and French versions render it as de Hoese and de Hosey. In early medieval England the name Hussey was usually spelled Hose. In the Latin form it was Hosatus. During the 13th century it tended to evolve into Hoese, later to Huse and Husee and ultimately to Hussey.
  
  The Hussey family, after the conquest, was seated in Dorsetshire according to "Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1520-1700" by Frank P. Holmes. Members of the family were frequently found in the early records of Berkshire, Wiltshire and Somersetshire, according to "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire" by Charles Thornton Libby.
  
  The earliest claimed progenitor of the Hussey family in Normandy is Hugh Hussey who in 1014 was married to a daughter of the Third Earl of Normandy, who is conjectured to be a descendant of Rollo of Normandy.
  
  Here is the beginning of the manuscript entitled "Pedigree of the Hussey's"
  
  "The pedigree of the husseys, anciently called Hose, Huse, Hoese, Husee, de Hosato and Hosato, formerly in posession of Nicholas Gould, of Frome Hall, Esq., is deducted from very ancient times.
  
  A marginal note gives us an account of this very ancient and knightly family: See 'Camden's Remains,' p. 191.
  
  'Duke Rollo the Stronge was a Saryson, and came out of Denmarke into Fraunce; and there by his valiencie and stron battailes, did so fear the Kinge, that he caused the King of Fraunce to make an agreement in which agreement it was concluded he should marry the King's daughter, and should have with her the duchy of Normandie in marriage, and so was Rollo the first Duke of Normandie. William Long Espe, in english called William with the Longe Sword, was a sonne of Rollo, and the second duke.
  
  Richard san Pavoyn, in english called Richard Without Fear, was the son of William, and the third duke. Richard the Second, was the sonne of Richard and the fifth duke; which Richard had issue, Robert the sixth duke, and Helen, Comtesse Huse. Robert begat William , which was the seventh duke of Normandie. This William was a vibrant man, but illegitimate, and base bourne; yet he succeeded his father Robert, in the dukedom, and by warlike prowess arrived also in England, and by conquest was crowned King of this lande. His mother was the daughter of a certain citizen of Falesia.
  
  The aforementioned Comtesse Helen was the wife of a nobleman called Hubert Huse, near to Ceasersburyn in Normandie; which Hubert the aforesaid Duke William brought to England, with all his natural brethren according to the flesh; and when he had conquered the isle, created the aforesaid Hubert his constable there, by means whereof the said Hubert gained great substance. This Hubert had by his wife Helen, William. This William Huse begat William. William begat Godfryd. This Godfryd was one which did chiefly assist his kinsman, Maud, Empresse, and her sonne against King Stephen. This Godfryd begat Henry and Hubert, King of the Ambages, and Lord William Huse, the religious Mounke of Glastonbury, and ten brethren more, which were knights.
  
  Henry begat Ralph Huse, which married the Earl's daughter of Warwick. Ralph begat William, William begat Raynold; Raynold begat Edmund Huse and William Huse; so from teh aforesaid Huses came all the Huses, which dispersed in the realm of England. The richer sort of them do inhabit the higher parts of the land; the other towards Poole, or thereabout. This genealogie was written in ancient French and found in the Abbey of Glastonbury, at such time it was supressed by King Henry the Eighth."
  
  At the top of the pedigree are the arms of Hussey: "Barry of six Ermine and Gules"
  Crest: a boot, sable, turned down ermine; the spurs and leathers, or perhaps an allusion to their name, quasi de Hosato, from Hosa; a buskin or boot.
  At the bottom of the shield issue two arms and hands, sable, holding a human heart, proper.
  Motto: Cor Immobile
  
  There of course is much more but I am tired of typing. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
  Regards, Steve Irons.
  

Details of Hubert's family with Stephanie de Normandy