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PARENTS BERNARD HARCOURT AND SPROTE DE BOURGOYNE NOT PROVEN. NO KNOWN SURNAME
_FA1 PLAC A great Norman feudal Baron.
_FA2 PLAC Possessed numerous lordships in Normandy.
_FA3 PLAC sn de Torville, Torcy, Torny, Torly, du Ponteautord.
_FA4 PLAC Probably a grandson of a Scandinavian Viking chief who accompanied Rollo."TORF, SEI GNEUR DE TORVILLE, a great Norman feudal baron, born about A. D. 920, is the earliest histori cal progenitor of the Newburgh or Newberry family from whom a certain and unbroken male lin e has been traced. Probably he was a grandson of one of the viking chiefs of Scandinavia wh o accompanied Rollo about 900 A.D. in the Norse invasion of northern France where they perma nently settled and gave to the country its name "Normandy". Torf possessed numerous lordship s in Normandy, being Seigneur de Torville, Torcy, Torny, Torly, du Ponteautord, etc. (P) H e married about 950, ERTEMBERGE DE BRIQUEBEC. Children: i. TOUROUDE, SIRE DU
PONTEAUDEMER, b. about 950. ii. TURCHETIL, SEIGNEUR DE TURQUEVILLE, ancestor of the celebrat ed Harcourt family of Normandy and England. iii. WILLIAM DE TORVILLE."
--- J. Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy: The Ancestors & Descendants of Thomas Newberr y of Dorchester, Mass., 1624, 920-1914*, Boston, 1914, p 3. There is a footnote on p. 3 to t his entry: "It has been suggested that he was a son of Bernard the Dane, the most powerful o f the feudal nobles of Normandy during the reign of Duke William I. (927-943) and Regent du ring the minority of Duke Richard I. (943-955); but this claim has not been proved."