• General Notes

  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  "TORF, SEIGNEUR DE TORVILLE, a great Norman feudal baron, born
  about A. D. 920, is the earliest historical progenitor of the
  Newburgh or Newberry family from whom a certain and unbroken
  male line has been traced. Probably he was a grandson of one of
  the viking chiefs of Scandinavia who accompanied Rollo about
  900 A.D. in the Norse invasion of northern France where they
  permanently settled and gave to the country its name
  "Normandy".  Torf possessed numerous lordships in Normandy,
  being Seigneur de Torville, Torcy, Torny, Torly, du
  Ponteautord, etc.  (P) He married about 950, ERTEMBERGE DE
  BRIQUEBEC.  Children: i.  TOUROUDE, SIRE DU
  PONTEAUDEMER, b. about 950.  ii. TURCHETIL, SEIGNEUR DE
  TURQUEVILLE, ancestor of the celebrated Harcourt family of
  Normandy and England.   iii. WILLIAM DE TORVILLE."
  --- J. Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy: The Ancestors
  & Descendants of Thomas Newberry of Dorchester, Mass., 1624,
  920-1914*, Boston, 1914, p 3.
  There is a footnote on p. 3 to this entry:  "It has been
  suggested that he was a son of Bernard the Dane, the most
  powerful of the feudal nobles of Normandy during the reign of
  Duke William I. (927-943) and Regent during the minority of
  Duke Richard I. (943-955); but this claim has not been proved."

Details of Torf "the Rich" de Harcourt's family with Ertemberge de Brioquibec