Toustien D'AVRANCHES 
Toustien was born in 0989 in Normandy, FRANCE. Toustien's father was Ansfred II * D'AVRANCHES. He was an only child. Toustien is no longer alive.General Notes
NICK: "Le Goz"
NOTE:
The third son of Gerlotte was Ansfrid the Dane, the first Vicomte of the Hiemois, and father of Ansfrid the second, surnamed Goz, above mentioned, whose son Turstain (Thurstan, or Toustain) Goz was the great favourite of Robert Duke of Normandy, the father of the Conqueror, and accompanied him to the Holy Land, and was entrusted to bring back the relics the Duke had obtained from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to present to the Abbey of Cerisi, which he had founded. Revolting against the young Duke William in 1041 (Vide vol. i, p. 21), Turstain was exiled, and his lands confiscated and given by the Duke to his mother, Herleve, wife of Herluin de Conteville.
Details of Toustien's family with Judith * De MONTANOLIER
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