Thurstan (Toustien) le Goz , Viscount of Hiemes 
Thurstan (Toustien) le was born about 0979 in Creully, Calvados, Normandy, France. Thurstan (Toustien) le's father was Ansfred II Onfror le Goz. His paternal grandparents were Ansfred Rollosson , The Dane and Helloe Countess of Beulac. He had a sister named Beatrice le. He was the older of the two children. He died in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France.General Notes
HUGH D'AVRANCHES, EARL OF CHESTER
The Conqueror and His Companions
by J.R. PlanchÈ, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.
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.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0885 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
- b.~ 0937 in Tillieres, Normandy, France d.~ 0963
- b.0913 in Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0955 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0921 in of Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0942 in Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0979 in Creully, Calvados, Normandy, France d. in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France
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Thurstan (Toustien) le and Judith (Turuvia?) de were married in a religious ceremony about 1014. They had two sons named Richard le and Robert.
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Children
Richard le Goz , Viscount d'Avranches
Richard le was born about 1014 in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France. He died after 1084.
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