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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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It is not explicitly stated that Hugh II de Gournay was the son of Hugh I, but this is highly probable.  He played a significant part in the events of his time.  Before 1035 he was a witness to a charter of the youthful Duke William.  In his early career he made a mark as a sea-going warrior, and in 1036 he was one of the commanders of the Norman fleet that took the Anglo-Saxon Prince Edward (later the Confessor) to England, in that young man's hope that with the help of his mother, Queen Emma, he could gain the English throne upon the death of Canute.  But he was not welcome there, and returned to Normandy to bide his time.

Hugh II was one of the three named leaders of the Norman knights in the battle of Mortemer in 1054.  When he died is not certain, but it may have been during a battle against the French King Henri I.  He lived to a considerable age, being known in his later days as "old Hugh".  We know nothing of his wife. [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #6402]


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