General Notes

OCCU I Earl of Surrey; Seigneur de Varennes, near Dieppe.
RELI Sources: Reilly, Deborah Lynn.  E-mail from LynnBull@aol.comFrom: Hyacinth@frost.snowhill.com (Jae Fleming)Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medievalSubject: Companions of William the C repostedDate: 20
Feb 1999 02:20:41 -0800At 08:53 AM 2/19/99 -0500, Bill Martin wrote:>Dear Todd A. Farmerie,>>I have a couple of questions for you, prompted by your recentposts... >Who are the two dozen people known
by name who fought withWilliam the >Conqueror at Hastings? Please list source(s) too. Bill,I saved this portion of an earlier post to the list, which Ibelieve fromfrom Mr. Farmerie:The list was
published in CP.  It has also been posted here(severaltimes, I suspect), including the following from Mr. Reitwiesner:>> The Falaise Roll is not an accurate list.  The list ofpersons actually>>
known to have been at the Battle of Hastings on the side ofWilliam the>> Conqueror is printed in the second edition of Cokayne's*Complete Peerage*,>> vol XII, Part I, Appendix pp. 47-48, as part of
Appendix L.Numbers 1-12>> are recorded by William of Poitiers, number 13 is portrayedin a battle>> scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, and 14 and 15 are named byOrderic.  16-19>> were in William's army
and almost certainly at the battle (16named by>> William of Poitiers, 17-19 portrayed in the Bayeux Tapestry),but there is>> no direct statement that they actually were at the Battle ofHastings.>>
Number 20 is stated by Orderic to have taken part in fightsin the English>> war before William became King.>>>>  1. Robert de Beaumont, afterwards Count of Meulan and Earlof Leicester>>  2. Eustace,
Count of Boulogne>>  3. William, afterwards 3rd Count of Evreux>>  4. Geoffrey of Mortagne, afterwards Count of Perche>>  5. William FitzOsbern, afterwards Earl of Hereford>>  6. Aimery, vicomte of
Thouars>>  7. Hugh de Montfort, seigneur of Montfort-sur-Risle>>  8. Walter Giffard, seigneur of Longueville>>  9. Ralph de Toeni, seigneur of Conches>> 10. Hugh de Grandmesnil, seigneur of
Grandmesnil>> 11. William de Warenne, afterwards Earl of Surrey>> 12. William Malet, seigneur of Graville>> 13. Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, afterwards Earl of Kent>> 14. Turstin FitzRou>> 15. Engenulf
de Laigle, seigneur of Laigle>> 16. Geoffrey de Mowbray, Bishop of Coutances>> 17. Robert, Count of Mortain, afterwards Earl of Cornwall>> 18. Wadard>> 19. Vital>> 20. Goubert d'Auffay, seigneur of
Auffay>>>> For further information, see the source I cited above, andthe sources>> cited there.
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DATE 28 FEB 1999