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Personal data FULBERT THORKILSSON de FALAISE 

• Alternative name: The Tanner (also known as / alias)
• He was born in the year 978 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.
• Profession: in Tanner at Falaise, Normandy, France.Source 1
• (Relationship) in 28 x Great Grandparent.
• He died in the year 1017 in Normandie, France, he was 39 years old.
• A child of THORGILS STYRBJORNSSON and SIGRID SPRAKLING

Household of FULBERT THORKILSSON de FALAISE

He had a relationship with DODA MACKENNETH.

Child(ren):

1. Gaultier de FALAISE  1008-????
2. HERLEVA de FALAISE  1002-1050 
3. BEATRICE de FALAISE  1017-1085 

Notes about FULBERT THORKILSSON de FALAISE

Fulbert of Falaise (fl. 11th century) was the father of Herleva, mother of the illegitimate William the Conqueror, the 11th-century Duke of Normandy and King of England. The Walter of Falaise named by Orderic Vitalis is likely a son.

Fulbert has traditionally been held to be a tanner, based on translations of Orderic's additions to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum. He writes that during the siege of Alençon (1051-2), the natives had been mutilated by William after they called him a pelliciarius (pelterer), because his mother's kinsmen had been pollinctores (corpse preparers). One later poetic source interpreted the occupation to be that of tailor, but in part due to flawed transcripts of the original, many historians have concluded he was a tanner. Others have favoured a more literal reading, that Herleva's family had been undertakers or embalmers.

Orderic also added to the Gesta that Fulbert served as the Duke's chamberlain (cubicularii ducis). It has been suggested that this occurred after William's birth. Perhaps linking Orderic's two additions, contemporary practice made the chamberlain one of the persons responsible for burials.

Notes
e.g. Freeman, ii, 610-17; Douglas, 379-80; de Bouard, 84-5.
van Houts, 403; Crouch
Douglas, 381; van Houts, 403
van Houts, 403, citing Lanfranc.
References
Crouch, David (2002). The Normans - The History of a Dynasty.
de Bouard, M. (1984). William the Conqueror.
Douglas, David C. (1963). William the Conqueror.
Freeman, Edward A. (1870). The History of the Norman Conquest.
van Houts, Elisabeth M. C. (1986). "The Origins of Herleva, Mother of William the Conqueror". The English Historical Review. 101 (399): 399-404. doi:10.1093/ehr/ci.cccxcix.399.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulbert_of_Falaise

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