Prince Torf ("the Rich") de Harcourt of Denmark 
Torf, known as "the Rich", was born in 0928 in Normandy, France. "the Rich"'s father was Prince Bernard ("the Dane") Harcourt of Denmark and his mother was Adela de Bretagne. His paternal grandparents are Duke Bruno of the Angrian Saxons and Princess Hasala of the Holstein Saxons; his maternal grandfather was Count Herbert de Vermandois I of Senlis and his maternal grandmother is Beatrice de Morvois. He was an only child. He died at the age of 32 in 0960.General Notes
Torf wandered to the country of Greenland. "In 1007 a rich Greenlander, Torfin, determined to emigrate to Vinland, [now New England]. His followers numbered 60, and he was accompanied by his wife, Gudrida, the widow of a previous explorer. Five other women were on board, and the ships were freighted with all kinds of domestic animals, tools and provisions for a permanent colony. Gudrida had been the first female to see the new world, having accompanied her former husband the previous year. The Expedition prospered. The natives came in great numbers and trafficked in furs and produce. Gudrida bore a son, Snorro, the first birth of European parentage in America, who is said to have been an ancestor of the sculptor Thorwaldson. The family remained three years in the colony, but ultimately returned, and Thorfin settled and died in Iceland. The widow made a pilgramage to Rome in her bereavement, and died in a cloister founded by her son in Iceland. Other chiefs went to Vinland, but their history throws no further light upon the colony. They, however, discovered land extending far away to the south-west and inhabited by natives of different caste, of darker color and more vigorous frame. The colony perished at last, destroyed probably like that of Greenland. Traces of it were found by Jesuit missionaries among the Indians Gaspe at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, a tribe which revered the cross before the arrival of the missionaries. Pysical constitution and peculiarities of manners and custom are also cited in confirmation of European descent. Father Charlevoix adds that 'many marks distinguishing them from other American Indians go far to make me believe that they are a colony of Europeans degenerated into savages through destitution.'"
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0931 in Szekesfehervar, Fejer, Hungary d.0972
- b.~ 0949 in Esztergom, Komarom-Esztergom, Hungary d.01 Feb 0997 in Hungary
- b.0932 in Cumania d.0990 in Esztergom, Hungary
- b.~ 0975 in Hungary d.05 Aug 1068
- b.0918 in Germany d.01 Nov 0955
- d.0995
- b.~ 0925 d.28 Jun 0987
- b.0985 d.01 May 1065
- b.~ 0925 in Arles, Toulouse, France d.19 Oct 0993 in Regensburg, Germany
- d.27 Jun 1006
- b.~ 0943 in Laon, Champagne
- b.~ 0860 in Saxony d.~ 0955 in Normandy, France
- b.0660
- b.0710/0715 d.0768
- b.~ 0690
- b.0752 in Saxony, Germany d.0807/0810
- b.0720
- b.~ 0704 in Romerike, Buskerud, Norway
- b.~ 0736 in Vestfold, Norway d.0780
- b.~ 0708 in Uppland, Norway
- b.0750
- b.~ 0715 in Vestfold, Norway
- b.~ 0740 in Vestfold, Norway
- b.0928 in Normandy, France d.0960
- b.Apr 0773/0776 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia d.08 Jul 0810 in Milan, Italy
- b.~ 0797 in Vermandois, Austrasia d.17 Aug 0818 in Milan, Italy
- b.~ 0777 in Toulouse, Gascony
- b.0815/0817 in Vermandois, Neustria d.0878 in Milan, Italy
- b.ABT 0745/0752 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.28 May 0812 in Gellone, France
- b.~ 0797 in France d.>12 Jun 0835 in Italy
- b.ABT 0758/0760 in Prussia d.Jun 0835
- b.ABT 0848/0850 in Vermandois, Neustria d.6 Nov 0902/0920
- b.0730 in Picardy, France d.0809
- b.0754 d.0836
- b.0815 d.0858
- b.0750/0752 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.28 May 0812 in Gellone, France
- b.~ 0792 d.> 0820
- b.0785 in France d.> 0800 in Germany
- b.~ 0908 in Normandy, France d.ABT 0936/0945
- b.0730/0743 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.~ 0780
- b.0740/0745 in Austrasia, Flanders, Belgium
- b.0815 d.0870
- b.< 0760
- b.~ 0790
- b.~ 0852 in France
- b.~ 0776 in Altdorf, Bavaria d.ABT 0818/0830
- b.0800 in Burgundy, France d.16 Feb 0862/0863
- b.~ 0780 in Bavaria d.ABT 0825/0833
- b.0830 d.0856
- b.Aug 0778 in Chasseneuil, France d.30 Apr 0840 in Near, Ingelheim, Rhinehessen, Hesse
- b.0819/0824 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France d.15 Sep 0866
- b.~ 0778 in Hesbaye, Belgium d.03 Oct 0818 in Tours, France
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"the Rich" and Ertemberge were married in a religious ceremony in 0938. They had three sons and a daughter, named Tourude, Tourade, Turchetil and Lesselin.
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Children
Sire Tourude de Harcourt of Pont-Audemer
Tourude was born about 0940 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France.
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