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Henry II Count of Eu



Preferred Parents:
Father: John D'Eu, b. 1118 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   d. 26 JUN 1170 in Hastings, Sussex, England
Mother: Alice D'Aubigny, b. AFT 1136 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England   d. 11 SEP 1188 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England

Family 1: Maud or Mahaut de Warenne,    b. 1166 in Lewes, Sussex, England    d. 13 DEC 1228 in Domfront, Normandy, France
  1. Alice d'Eu Lady Of Hastings Comtesse, b. 1180 in Normandie, France     d. 15 MAY 1246 in La Mothe-Saint-Héray, Deux-Sèvres, France
Family 2: Ada ,    b. ABT 1139 in ,Sussex,England.   
  1. John de Hastings, b. ABT 1164 in Fillongley, Warwickshire, England     d. 25 JUL 1210
Sources:
  1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Henry d'Eu /de Hastings/ Count d'Eu/Lord Hastings -
    Author: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Page number: XII/1:500
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741118
  2. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "HENRI d'Eu"
    Author: fmg.ac
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/normacre.htm#HenriIIEudied1190;
    Note: HENRI d'Eu (-12 or 16/17 Jul [1190/91], bur Fécamp). "Johannes comes Augi" made donations to the abbey of St Michel, Tréport by a charter dated [1169/70], witnessed by "Henricus et Robertus filii comitis et A[elicia] comitissa Augi"[1055]. He succeeded his father as Comte d'Eu, Lord of Hastings. “Alizia comitissa Augi” donated "terram meam de Snergate, infra wallum et extra" to Robert’s Bridge Abbey, for the souls of “Willielmi comitis Arundeliæ patris mei et Aliziæ reginæ matris meæ et…domini mei J. comitis Augi et Godefridi fratris mei et Matildis et Margaretæ filiarum mearum”, by undated charter, witnessed by “Henrico comite Augi, Roberto fratre eius, Aluredo de Sancto Martino…”[1056]. The Red Book of the Exchequer, listing scutage payments in [1190/91], records "Henricus de Augo" paying "xxxiii l vi s viii d" in Sussex[1057]. m ([after 1172]) as her second husband, MATHILDE, widow of OSBERT de Préaux, daughter of [HAMELIN d'Anjou Earl of Surrey & his first wife ---] (-before 13 Dec 1228). Her first and second marriages are indicated by the charter dated Mar 1233 under which [her daughter by her second marriage] "Ælicia comitissa Augi in viduitate" granted revenue from "molendino de Duno" to “in matrimonium Ælidæ filiæ Petri de Pratellis fratris mei”[1058]. Her connection with the Warenne family is indicated by the undated charter under which her daughter “Haelisia comitissa Augy quondam uxor Radulfi de Ysondun comitis Augy” donated property to Roche Abbey, witnessed by “domino Willielmo comite Warennæ avunculo meo…”[1059]. Because Mathilde had three children by her first husband who died in [1172], she could not have been the daughter of Hamelin by his wife Isabelle de Warenne. There are therefore two possibilities: either she was Hamelin’s daughter by an otherwise unrecorded earlier marriage or she was the daughter of Isabelle de Warenne by her first marriage. The The latter possibility is unlikely as any daughter of Guillaume de Blois Comte de Boulogne would have been Ctss de Boulogne instead of Guillaume’s sister. In any case, the chronology would be tight for Mathilde to have been Isabelle’s daughter. Until more information comes to light, it is supposed that Mathilde was the daughter of Hamelin by an earlier marriage. Thomas Stapleton, in his "Observations on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy", records that "Osbert de Préaux" donated tithes from harvest in the parish of Bois l’Evêque to the monks of Holy Trinity of Mont-de-Rouen, for his own soul “those of his parents and of the parents of his wife Matildis”, undated, and that his wife and “their sons Simon and John” granted the tythe to the monks in perpetuity, but he does not cite the source reference[1060]. She married thirdly Henry de Stuteville Lord of Eckington, Derbyshire. The primary source which confirms her third marriage has not yet been identified. The wording of the charter of her son Pierre, dated to [Jun 1200], suggests that his mother might have died before that date: “Petrus de Pratell” donated annual revenue to Notre-Dame de Beaulieu, for the salvation of “mee et patris mei et matris mee et fratrum meorum...Simonis et Rogeri, Iohannis et Engerranni”[1061]. If this charter is correctly dated, at least two of the donor’s brothers were alive at that time, while his father was certainly deceased. The question then is determining the significance, if any, between his parents not being named in the document while his brothers are named. One possibility is that the unnamed individuals (and therefore including the donor’s mother) were deceased, but the named brothers were living. It should be emphasised that this observation is speculative. Comte Henri & his wife had [four] children: (Raoul, Guy, Alix and Jeanne).
  3. Title: Wikipedia, "Henry II, Count of Eu"
    Author: Wikipedia.org
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II,_Count_of_Eu#CITEREFCrouch2005;
    Note: Short biography.
  4. Title: Find A Grave Index, "Henry II d'Eu"
    Author: findagrave.com
    Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87864993/henry_ii-d'eu;
    Note: Memorial. Shows death i n 1183 and burial in Foucarmont Abbey.
  5. Title: John d'Eu (1128-1170) in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QT-W78N?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FV1%3A352086301%2C352714601
    Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QT-W78N?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FV1%3A352086301%2C352714601 : 20 May 2014), D > Dettwiler, Johannes (1723) - De Veaux, Peter (1751) > image 182 of 1218; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QT-W78N;
    Note: John d'Eu (1128-1170) married Alice Albini (aka d'Aubigny) and had children according to research in 1950
    Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research
  6. Title: Henry II d'Eu, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-9HYS : 2 August 2020), Henry II d'Eu, ; Burial, Foucarmont, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France, Foucarmont Abbey; citing record ID 87864993, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-9HYS;
  7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Henry d'Eu /de Hastings/ Count d'Eu/Lord Hastings -
    Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain Americian Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr, Page number: 123-27
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741115

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