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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1009 in Traci, Neuville, Vire, Normandie, France.
• Titel: Seigneur de Traci
• (Relationship) : 30th Great Grandfather.
• Hij is overleden rond 1070 in Barnstaple, South Molton, Devon.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden na 1070 in Barnstaple, South Molton, Devon.
• Een kind van HUGH RUFUS TRACY

Gezin van TURGISIUS I TRACY

Kind(eren):

1. WILLIAM TRACY  1040-1110 

Notities over TURGISIUS I TRACY

Son of Hugh Rufus de Tracy and ___ de Tonturis

Sir Turgis de Tracy married --- (daughter & co-heiress of Johal FitzAlured of Totnes. At the Domesday Survey, Turgis was sub-tenant at Butterford, Coldstone, Collaton, Fernhill, Meavy, North Bovey, Shaugh Prior and Stancombe (Devon)
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The most distant known ancestors of Tracy's family include two TURGIS, and include among their descendants, among others, George Washington (at the 23rd generation), Winston Churchill and Lady Diana (at the 25th generation). Before 1066, relations between individuals are nebulous and sometimes contradictory, and many versions have been reported here and there. After hours of searching and crossing the various sources available, here is the most logical.

Probably around 1009 or a little later, a certain Hugh Rufus (Sire) of Tracie had a son named TURGIS, who is in fact the oldest known TURGIS in France. We do not know much else about Hugh, except that he died after 1066. Tracie was located in Normandy, probably in the old town of Neuville, near Vire (Calvados) where is still today the dungeon of Tracy

Sir TURGIS, son of Hugh (also referenced as Turgisus or Turgisins) of Traci, was seneschal of William the Conqueror (1028 - 1087) and apparently distinguished himself at the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066 despite being in his 60's. He received many fiefs in Devon as a reward.

In the Domesday Book, in 1086, he is recorded as Lord of Butterford, Coldstone, Collaton, Fernhill, Meavy, North Bovey, Shaugh Prior and Stancombe. The family of Traci, like many others after the Conquest, owned domains on both sides of the Channel. Sir TURGIS was later charged by Guillaume of the defense of the city of Mans against the inhabitants of Maine who revolted against the occupying Norman towards 1073. With his friend Guillaume de la Ferte-Macé, he was eventually driven out of the city by the insurgents led by Fulk Rechin, Earl of Anjou. TURGIS then acquired enough notoriety to be one of the characters mentioned in the Song of Roland, an epic story of the eleventh century.

Sir TURGIS had two children; a girl, whose name remained unknown, and a son, Guillaume, probably about 1045. It is possible that his daughter had a son Gilbert, because we find trace in 1082, in a charter subscribed to Tracy by a Guillaume de Traci, " in the presence of his nephew, Gilbert "(Gallia Christiana, xi Instrum, 107). Nothing has survived of Gilbert's descendants. As for Guillaume, he married, most likely at the invitation, if not to the great satisfaction of TURGIS, his father, with Rohesia de Conteville, sister of the Earl of Cornouaille Robert de Mortain (Manche) and half-sister of Guillaume le conqueror! The de Tracy's and Conteville's knew each other very probably because Guillaume de la Ferte was married to a Muriel de Conteville.

After the Conquest Rohesia and Guillaume had three children: Henri (1068), Turgis (II) of Tracy (1070), and Gieva (1072).

Henri de Tracy married the daughter and heiress of Johal FitzAlured of Mayenne, whose first name is unknown. Johal (or Juhel, ~ 1049 -> 1123) had been one of the Bretons leaders having crossed the sea with Sir Turgis Guillaume de la Ferte and William the Conqueror, who had entrusted him in return the domain of Totnes (south of Devon) and the neighboring strongholds of Clawton, Broadwood Kelly, Bridford and Cornworthy. Johel would be replaced in Totnes after the death of Duke William in 1087, but by his devotion body and soul to King William II, he inherited before 1100 from the powerful seigneury of Barnstaple, north of Totnes (Devon) - an ancient barony and affluent which, before 1066, beat its own currency, and which remained very powerful for a long time. After the death of Juhel after 1123, Henry inherited half of Barnstaple Barony.

In 1135, the controversial succession by Stephen of Henry I to the throne of England caused an uprising of the barons throughout the west of the kingdom. King Stephen, trying to counter this uprising, came to siege the epicenter of the revolt, the castle of Dunster, in the late spring of 1139. But finding that the castle was impregnable, he built a counter-castle he entrusted to Henri de Tracy. Around 1143, Henri captured a hundred knights of rebel Baron (William Mohun).

The descent of Henry by his first wife and their son Oliver de Tracy is traceable until today. Indeed, in the next few hundred years, de Tracy were successively knights in the areas of Toddington and Gloucestershire, sheriffs and even members of the English Parliament. Yet it was the least prestigious branch of the family!

In 1072, Guillaume and Rohesia had a daughter, Gieva who became a concubine of Henry I of England (1069 - 1135), the 4th son of William the Conqueror. Between 1090 and 1097 according to sources, their son Guillaume de Tracy was born in luxury (like the 23 other illegitimate children of Henri "Beau Clair"!) at Westminster Palace, London.

He later became baron of Bradninch, halfway between Totnes and Barnstaple, while in 1123 Henry I built in Normandy, south of Tracy dungeon, on a rocky outcrop bypassed by a meander of the Vire, a square dungeon equipped with a first enclosure, to ensure the defense of the duchy against the reinforcements of his opponents coming from Brittany and Maine.

Guillaume died in 1136 in Barfleur (Normandy), leaving a daughter Grace (1105 - 1140), whose son William (1135 - 1189) made himself infamous as one of four knights who murdered the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, in December 1170, losing by judgment his land. It is through Grace that the descendants of the family lead to George Washington and many other famous personalities.

There is still a trace of their second son, Turgis, witness with Henri and "Gève" (Gieva) in a charter of 1110, the cessation by Guillaume and Rohesia of woodlands located in La Lucerne, and the mill Champrepus Mount St. Michael (Keats-Rohan, "Domesday Descendants," 743). The donation by Guillaume of domains located in Montpinçon, Luzerne, Champrepus, Saint Vigor-des-Monts and Argouges, is found in the charters of Mont St Michel, and is signed by Turgis, the bishop of Avranches .

It is mentioned that Richard Fitz Turgis "of Wickersley" (Yorkshire), is perhaps the son of this TURGIS II of Tracy. Richard co-founded Abbey Roche in 1147 with Richard de Busli, the grandson of one of the most powerful barons in England. TURGIS was at the time in control of the neighboring village of Hooton Levitt. For the record, the abbey is located north of the Sherwood Forest, and it is popular tradition that Robin Hood came to the Mass (a pilgrimage in this sense still persists today). Richard Fitz Turgis eventually adopted the surname Wickersley, a name that died out around 1550 when a Nicolas Wickersley had a daughter. Although the dates correspond, this filiation is however unlikely due to the geographical location of the site, very far from Devon, and the origin of Cistercian monks from Northumberland far to the north. It is more likely that Richard FitzTurgis is linked to the TURGIS core identified in Clipston in 1210 , barely 100 km further south.

In the course of this story, we see that Sir TURGIS de Tracy, the first of the name was probably very close to William the Conqueror, to finally marry his son Henry to his half-sister and stay in the sevice of two successive kings after his death. We also see very well the close links between Normandy and South West England at that time. It also appears that if the name TURGIS survived the adoption of hereditary surnames in England around 1150, it was not through Richard Fitz Turgis.
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