• General Notes

  [MARSHALL.FTW]
  
  SOURCE NOTES:
  Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great
  Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant.  Gloucester: A
  Sutton, 1982.
  
  Farmerie, Todd A, Robert de Torigny and the family of Gunnor, Duchess of
  Normandy. Jan 5 1997, modified from a Dec 1996 article in GEN-MEDIEVAL.
  http://www/algonet.se/~anderzb/genea/medieval/gunnor.htm.
  
  Holloway, Naomi D, The Genealogy of Mary Wentworth, Who Became the Wife of
  William Brewster, Revised Edition, October 1969.  LDS Film#1738313 item#5
  
  Keats-Rohan, K. S. B., Aspects of Robert of Torigny's Genealogies revisited,
  Nottingham Medieval Studies, vol 37 (1993), p21-27.
  
  Lee, Sidney, ed.  Dictionary of National Biography.  London: Smith & Co, 1893.
  
  White, G. H., The Sisters and Nieces of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy, The
  Genealogist, new series, vol 37, 1921, pp57-65, 128-132.  NYPL Film#ZAN-G233.
  RESEARCH NOTES:
  Seigneur of Mortimer-sur-Eaulne, in Normandy [Ref: CP IX p266, Holloway p19]
  
  occurs as a witness to a charter for Saint Wandrille sometime between
  1040 and 1053 [Ref: KeatsRohan p22]
  
  founded the abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux [Ref: CP IX p266]
  
  called "Roger filius episcopi" Brother Ralph, als called "filius episcopi" was
  founder of the house of Warenne [Ref: DNB v39p130]
  
  first to assume the name of Mortimer, which was taken from the village and
  castle of Mortemer-en-Brai (mortuum mare) in the Pays de Caux, situated at the
  source of the little river Eaulne [Ref: DNB v39p130]
  
  1054: win the victory of Mortemer, fought under the walls of his castle,
  against the troops of Henry I, King of the French.  But Roger gave offence to
  Duke William by releasing one of his captives, and was accordingly deprived of
  his castle of Mortemer, which was trasferred to his nephew, William de
  Warenne, son of his brother Ralph (afterward first Earl of Surrey) [Ref: DNB
  v39p130]
  
  1054: punished for what Orderic represents as an honourable treason by
  the loss of some of his lands, though most were susequently restored to him.
  Those that were not were centered on Bellencombe, which is 13 miles south of
  the place from which the Warenne family was named [Ref: KeatsRohan p23]
  
  1054: lands lost were regranted to his 'consanguieus' William de Warenne [Ref:
  KeatsRohan p23]
  
  transferred the family chief seat to Sait-Victor-en-Caux [Ref: DNB v39p130]
  
  1074: priory of Caux, a cell of Saint-Ouen at Rouen, was erected into an
  abbey [Ref: DNB v39p130]
  
  probably too old to have been present at Hastings, but some of his sons,
  perhaps Hugh or possibly Ralph appeared on his behalf [Ref: DNB v39p130]
  SOURCE NOTES:
  parents: [Ref: Farmerie Gunnor, KeatsRohan p24]
  RESEARCH NOTES:
  parents: Hugh Bishop of Coutances & dau of unknown Danish chieftain and sister
  of Gunnor [Ref: DNB v39p130]
  SOURCE NOTES:
  date: abt 1086 [Ref: Holloway p19] living 1078 dead in 1086 [Ref: CP IX p266]

Details of Roger's family with Hawise