• General Notes

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  Custom Field:<_FA#> Possessed numerous lordships in Normandy.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-117living in 1031
  Custom Field:<_FA#> sn de Torville, Torcy, Torny, To rly, du Ponteautord.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-117living in 1031
  REFN: 5616
  [G 675.ged]
  "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 per manently settled and gave to the country its name
  "Normandy".  Torf possessed numerous lordships in Normandy, being
  Seigneur de Torville, Torcy, Torny, To rly, 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 Norm andy and England. iii.
  WILLIAM DE TORVILLE."
  --- J. Gardner Bartlett, *Newbe rry 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 th is 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 Willi am 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