Ansfred Rollosson , The Dane 
Ansfred was born about 0937 in Tillieres, Normandy, France. Ansfred's father was Rollo Thurstan Hrollaugsson and his mother was Gerlotte of Blois. He was an only child. He died about 0963.General Notes
HUGH D'AVRANCHES, EARL OF CHESTER
The Conqueror and His Companions
by J.R. PlanchE, 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.
Ansfred and Helloe Countess of were married in a religious ceremony about 0962. They had a son named Ansfred II Onfror le.
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