General Notes

Also Known As:<_AKA> Gonnor /de Crepon/
Name Suffix:<NSFX> , Duchess Of Normandy
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9HMD-WL
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.

Sources: RC 24, 89, 166, 168, 222; Kraentzler 1153, 1156, 1174, 1180,1194,
1211, 1432, 1443; A. Roots 121E; Coe; Norr; Onslow; Pfafman; Davis.
Roots: (Danish wife) Gunnor, died 1027 or 1031, daughter of forester
of Arques.
K. calls her Gonnor de Crepon. Norr: Gunnor (Gunora), (952)-1031.
Onslow in "The Dukes of Normandy and Their Orgin" says:
Richard I heard about a charming woman married to the superintendentof
forests at Secheville near Arques. Richard visited Secheville, met the
forester's beautiful wife, Sainfrida, and "had the impudence to suggest
to her husband that he should be allowed to make her better acquaintance.
"The poor man was much perturbed and went in trouble to his wife. Thelady
had no mind to become the mistress of the Duke, but her morals were notso
rigid as to prevent her from making capital our of the situation for her
family. Sainfrida had three sisters, Gunnor, Adelina and Veva (Wevia),and a
brother named Herfast. Gunnor was a very pretty girl and by no means
particular. Sainfrida told her husband to pretend to fall in with theDuke's
proposals and give Richard facilities to pay her a visit. But whenRichard
arrived, Gunnor took Sainfrida's place. The Duke did not discover thetrick
until the following day; but so delighted was he with Gunnor that notonly did
he forgive Sainfrida, but thanked her for having saved him from mortalsin! The
result was that Gunnor became his wife by Danish custom and eventuallythe
mother of a numerous family, the eldest of which was Richard II ofNormandy."
Gunnor apparently had children by Richard before they were married andbefore
his marriage to Emma. Evidently the Richard-Gunnor union was legitimizedlater.
RC 166 says Gunnor's father was Herbastus de Crepon, Forester ofArques (in
Denmark). Were there two foresters, the father of Gunnor and Sainfridaand also
the husband of Sainfrida? Or did the story become tangled over the years?
Coe spells name Gunore.
Davis: Gonnor, daughter of a forester of Sauqueville in Britanny.Second
wife of Richard I. She married (2) Eperleng, "farmer" of the mills ofPitres.

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SOURCES:
1.  Wingate, John.  _William the Conqueror_, genealogical tables andnotes.
Gunnor was the sister of Herfast of Denmark.  She was the mistress,or
wife "by the Danish custom" of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, andmarried
him after the death of his wife, Emma.  She had both legitimate and
illegitimate children by Richard.
2.  Douglas, David C.  _William the Conqueror_: The Norman Impact Upon
England_.  Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of CaliforniaPress,
1964; page 145.  He calls Gunnor the sister of Herfast and the auntof      Osbern, the steward of William the Conqueror's father, DukeRobert.
3.  Stuart, Roderick W.  _Royalty for Commoners_.  2nd Edition.Baltimore,
MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992; lines 89-1 and166-33.
4.  Norr, Vernon M.  _Some Early English Pedigrees_, page 60,generation 38,
and page 23a.  States that Richard I had issue by and later md (2)(after
Agnes died) Gunora, b. 952, d. 1031; sister of a forester's wifewhom
Richard desired but who tricked him with her younger sister.
5.  Ancestral File (AFN:9HMD-WL).  One line gives her birth date as"abt 935"
and only refers to her as "Concubine 1".  She is also shown withthe
following other parents in the Ancestral File (AFN:FLGR-TL):
Herbastus /DE CREPON/ (AFN:FLGR-SF) and Herbastus De C /MRS./

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GEDCOM line 13824 not recognizable or too long:
() 2 GIVN Gunnora de

GEDCOM line 13825 not recognizable or too long:
() 2 SURN Crepo