Death: ABT 1027 in Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
Seigneur Longueville/Lord Bromfield
Note: HIGH STEWART OF NORMANDY; WAS ASSASSINATED AT VANREUIL WHEN SLEEPING IN THE CHAMBER OF DUKE WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, WHO WAS THEN A CHILD; PED OF AUGUSTINE H. AYERS.
Osbern De Bolbec, a noble Norman, Lord of Longueville in Normandy, France, living in the time of Duke Robert the Magnificent or the Devil (1028-1035) who was the father of William the Conqueror, married probably in the last years of the tenth or early years of the eleventh century, Avelina, third sister of Gunnora, who was the second wife of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy from 942-996.
Osbern De Bolbec's sons settled in England at the time of William the Conqueror. Walter and Osberne (Osbert) assumed the name of GYFFARDE. (cf. Ordericus Vitalis)