• General Notes

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  PARENTS BERNARD HARCOURT AND SPROTE DE BOURGOYNE NOT PROVEN.  NO KNOWN SURNAME
  _FA1 PLAC A great Norman feudal Baron.
  _FA2 PLAC Possessed numerous lordships in Normandy.
  _FA3 PLAC sn de Torville, Torcy, Torny, Torly, du Ponteautord.
  _FA4 PLAC Probably a grandson of a Scandinavian Viking chief who accompanied Rollo."TORF, SEI GNEUR DE TORVILLE, a great Norman feudal baron, born about A. D. 920, is the earliest histori cal progenitor of  the Newburgh or Newberry family from whom a certain and unbroken male lin e has been traced. Probably he was a grandson of one of the viking chiefs of Scandinavia wh o accompanied Rollo about 900 A.D.  in the Norse invasion of northern France where they perma nently settled and gave to the country its name "Normandy".  Torf possessed numerous lordship s in Normandy, being Seigneur de Torville, Torcy, Torny, Torly, du Ponteautord, etc.  (P) H e married about 950, ERTEMBERGE DE BRIQUEBEC.  Children: i.  TOUROUDE, SIRE DU
  PONTEAUDEMER, b. about 950.  ii. TURCHETIL, SEIGNEUR DE TURQUEVILLE, ancestor of the celebrat ed Harcourt family of Normandy and England.   iii. WILLIAM DE TORVILLE."
  --- J. Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy: The Ancestors & Descendants of Thomas Newberr y of Dorchester, Mass., 1624, 920-1914*, Boston, 1914, p 3.  There is a footnote on p. 3 to t his entry:  "It has been suggested that he was a son of Bernard the Dane, the most powerful o f the feudal nobles of Normandy during the reign of Duke William I.   (927-943) and Regent du ring the minority of Duke Richard I. (943-955); but this claim has not been proved."

Details of Torf de's family with Ertemberge de BRIQUEBEC