Il a/avait une relation avec Godchilde de Belleme.
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From: "Sinclair" ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX))
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:04:42 +0200
E.A. Freeman was definitively William's principal panegyrist. He makes nomemtion of any St Clair rebels.
Hamon was killed Val-es-dunes he was Lord of Creully, Torigny, Evrecy andThaon. He was not the Comte (Earl) of Corbeil or Mortain. The firstthree Counts were:
996 to 1032 Mauger de Normandie, comte de Mortain et de Corbeil
1032 to 1048 Guillaume 1er de Normandie, surnommé Werleng ou Guerleng,comte de Mortain et de Corbeil
1049 to 1104 Robert 1er de Conteville, comte de Mortain et de Cornouailles
(The name of Thaon appears very early in archives of Normandy. Hamon ofthe Teeth, Lord of Creully, Torigny, Evrecy and Thaon was one of thefeudal rebels at the time of the uprising that was defeated by Williamthe Bastard at Val - es-dunes (1047). Léchaudé of Anisy in his notes onthe barony and the church of Thaon it is mentioned by Wace Roman de Rou.)His father was Malger his Mother: Coeur-en-Auge
In 1035, Robert, Duke of Normandy died. Although William wasillegitimate, he was Robert's only living son, and so inherited thefather's title. Gilbert, Count of Brionne, became William's guardian. Anumber of Norman barons would not accept an illegitimate son as theirleader and in 1040 an attempt was made to kill William. The plot failedby they did manage to kill Gilbert.
William was a Norman born and bred. William's cousin Guy of Burgundy, hisrival was in every sense a Frenchman. His connexion with the ducal housewas on distaff side, but uncontested legitimacy. This gave him an excusefor claiming the duchy in opposition to the bastard.. William after thedeath of Gilbert, gave the island fortress of Brionne in the Risle toGuy. The partition of the duchy was Guy's aim. William was to bedispossessed; Guy was to be duke in the lands east of Dive; the greatlords of Western Normandy were to be left independent. St Clair fiefs layto the North and East of a line from Rouen to Caen. The lords of theBessin and the Cotentin revolted, their leader being Neal, Viscount ofSaint-Sauveur in the Cotentin.
The victory at Val-es-dunes was decisive, and the French King, whose helphad done so much to win it, left William to follow it up. He met with butlittle resistance except at the stronghold of Brionne. Guy himselfvanishes from Norman history. William had now conquered his own duchy,and conquered it by French help. For once King Henry had kept his word.
The Conqueror's battle at Val-es-dunes was a tourney of horsemen on anopen table-land just within the land of the rebels between Caen andMezidon. William with the aid of Henry, King of France, William gained agreat victory at Val-ès-Dunes, which led, to the capture of the twostrong castles of Alençon and Domfront.
Sinclair
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