Torf "le Riche" de Torville Seigneur de Pont-Audemer
(920/8-Abt 970)
Turquetil de Harcourt Seigneur de Turqueville
(Abt 951-After 1024)
Adeline de Montfort
Anchitel de Harcourt
(Abt 991-Abt 1024)

 

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Anchitel de Harcourt

  • Born: Abt 991, Harcourt, Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France
  • Marriage: Unknown
  • Died: Abt 1024, France about age 33

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: 927
Anchitel, the eldest son of Turchetil, was the first who took the surname of Harcourt, and by his wife, Eve de Boessey, Lady of Boessey la Chastel, had seven sons and one daughter. They were:

Errand, or Anguerrand de Harcourt, who married Emma d'Estouteville, was commander of the archers of Val de Ruel in the descent of William the Conqueror upon England, 1066, and returned to his native country after that Prince's coronation.

Robert de Harcourt, second son, named "the Strong" was the ancestor of the Earls of Harcourt.

John de Harcourt, the thrid son.

Arnold de Harcourt
, fourth son, was sent for to England from Normandy by William the Conqueror, A. D. 1068, to assist against the Danes, by whom he was slain in an engagement.

Gervase de Harcourt, fifth son

Ivo de Harcourt, sixth son

Renauld de Harcourt, seventh son

Agnes, the wife of ______de Formeville.

~Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. IV, pp. 430-431

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Anschetil d'Harcourt "Guillaume de Jumičges records that "Turulfo de Ponte-Audomari...filius...Torf" was the brother of "Turchetillus pater Anschetilli de Harecurt" [Willelmi Gemmetencis Historić (Duchesne, 1619), Liber VIII, XXXVII, p. 312].


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