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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 27, Ed. 1, Tree #2931, Date of Import: Jan 2, 2000]

The Sire de Traci was a Norman baron, and an officer in the army with which William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England. He is mentioned in Wace's account of the battle of Hastings, fought 10-4-1066; and his name also appears on the existing copies of the 'Roll of Battel Abbey", and on the lists of Norman noblemen who accompanied William into England. (The "Roll of Battel Abbey" - by order of William, a monastery was erected on the very spot where he had gained that decisive victory which gave hm the crown of England, from which circumstance it was called "Battel Abbey". The names of those who had fought with him were inscriced on a roll and placed in the abbey.) The Dutchess of Cleveland, in her work ectitled, "The Roll of Battel Abbey", states that the name is derived from the castle and barony of Traci, near Vire, Arrondissement of Caen. Planche writes that "the family does not appear to have been of much importance in England before the time of King Stephen, who bestowed upon Henty de Traci the Honour of Barnstaple in Devonshire; but the first of the name we hear of is Turgis, or Turgisius, de Traci, who, with William de la Ferte, was defeated and friven out of Maine by Fulk de Rechin, Count of Anjou, in 1073, and who was, therfore, in all probability, the Sire de Traci in the army of Hastings.