"Le Sire" Talbot

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹³⁴
Le Sire Talebot, a Norman knight, came to England in 1066, in the great Norman invasion under William the Conqueror, and fought in the celebrated battle of Hastings. His name is inscribed on the "Roll of Battle Abbey." Le Sire Talebot, by some genealogists called Richard and by others, William shared in the spoils of conquest and was father to at least two children, Richard and Geoffrey. Geoffrey held lands as an undertenant in Essex in the Domesday survey in 1085.

~The Linage of the Talbot Family, p. 5