Viscount of Heismer Thurston Toustien le Goz 
Thurston was born in 0989 in Normandy, France.1 Thurston's father was Viscount de Heismes Ansfred Unfroi le Goz II and his mother was <Unknown>. His paternal grandparents were Toustien le Goz and Judith de Montanolier. He had a sister named Beatrice. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 52 in 1041.2 General Notes
# Note: HUGH D'AVRANCHES, EARL OF CHESTER
# Note: The Conqueror and His Companions
# Note: by J.R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.
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The third son of Gerlotte was Ansfrid the Dane, the first Vicomte of the Hiemois, and father of Ansfrid the second, surnamed Goz, above mentioned, whose son Turstain (Thurstan, or Toustain) Goz was the great favourite of Robert Duke of Normandy, the father of the Conqueror, and accompanied him to the Holy Land, and was entrusted to bring back the relics the Duke had obtained from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to present to the Abbey of Cerisi, which he had founded. Revolting against the young Duke William in 1041 (Vide vol. i, p. 21), Turstain was exiled, and his lands confiscated and given by the Duke to his mother, Herleve, wife of Herluin de Conteville.
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Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
Page: 138
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: III:164
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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.0860 in Maer, More og Romsdal, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
- b.0887 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
- b.0862 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
- b.0907 in Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.0885 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France d.0950 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France
- b.0913 in Tilliers, Normandy
- b.0891 in Brouges, Alsace
- b.0935 in Bastembourg, Normandy, France d.0978 in Heismes, Normandy, France
- b.0880 in Belac, Normandy, France d. in Normandy, France
- b.0910 in Belac, Normandy, France d.1032 in Dammertin, France
<Unknown>
- b.0970 d.1034
- b.0945 in Montanolier, Normandy, France
- b.0989 in Normandy, France d.1041
<Unknown>
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Details of Thurston's family with Judith of Montpellier
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I5039
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I5247&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I5247&style=TABLE
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