General Notes

Son of Wevie de Crepon and Osberne Giffard, sire de Bolbec. [Falaise Roll,
Table VI]

In 1067 and 1076 Roger Prochet, Hugh de Bolebec and others gave the church of
St. Michael at Bolbec to the abbey of Bernay, hugh's portion being a quarter;
the gift was confirmed by Walter Giffard as overlord. In 1086 Hugh de Bolebec
was holding lands in Hartwell, and elsewhere in Buckinghamshire, of Walter
Giffard. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 17]

From Bolbec, arrondissement of Havre. He held a barony in Buckingham, etc., in
1086 (Domesday) under Walter Gifford, lord of Bolbec and Longueville, whom he
accompanied to England at the conquest, and whose brother he is said to have
been. They joined in 1061 in the donation of the church of Bolbec to the abbey
of Bernay. He had two sons, Hugh and Walter, and the family also possessed a
barony in Northumberland. [Falaise Roll, p. 59]