Herlčve de Falaise
- Born: Abt 1003, Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- Marriage (1): Herluin Vicomté de Conteville
- Marriage (2): Robert "le Magnifique" Duc de Normandy
- Died: Abt 1050 about age 47
 Another name for Herlčve was Harletta de Falaise.
General Notes:
~~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 121:23, 121E:22, 130:23. She was the mother of William the Conquerer (illigitimate).
~Annals and Antiquities of Lacok Abbey, Pedigree V. p. 264, gives her name as Arlotta 160
Noted events in her life were:
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Herleve.
Guillaume of Jumičges names "Herleva Fulberti cubicularii ducis filia" as the mother of "Willelmus...ex concubina Roberti ducis...natus", and that after Duke Robert died "Herluinus...miles" married her by whom he had "duos filios Odonem et Robertum" [Willelmi Gemmetencis Historić (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber VII, XXXVIII, p. 288]. Orderic Vitalis calls her "Duke Robert's concubine", and records her marriage, referring to her husband as stepfather to Duke Guillaume [Orderic Vitalis, Vol. IV, Book VII, p. 99].
• Background Information: 141
Hugh d'Avranches, styled by his contemporaries "Vras," or "le Gros" and, in after ages (from his rapacity) "Lupus," was son and heir of Richard le Goz, Vicomté Avranches, &c., in Normandy (son of Thurstan le Goz), by Emma, daughter of Herluin de Conteville and Herleve his wife, who (by Robert, Duke of Normandy) was mother of William "the Conqueror".
~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Chester), Vol. III p. 164
Robert, Count of Mortain in Normandy, one of the two sons of Herluin de Conteville, by Herleve, mother of William the Conqueror, was born about 1031. About 1050, he received, from his uterine brother, William, then Duke of Normandy, the comté de Mortaigne, and was thenceforth known as Count of Mortain.
~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Cornwall), Vol. III, p. 427
Herlčve married Herluin Vicomté de Conteville. (Herluin Vicomté de Conteville was born about 1001 in France and died about 1066.)
Herlčve next married Robert "le Magnifique" Duc de Normandy, son of Richard II "The Good" de Normandy and Judith de Bretagne. (Robert "le Magnifique" Duc de Normandy was born about 999 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France, died on 22 Jul 1035 in Niceas, Bithynia, Turkey 528 and was buried in Niceas, Bithynia, Turkey.)
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