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Herfast de Crépon
- Preferred Name: Herfast de Crépon
- Gender: M
- FSID: L8TJ-5XS
- Death: Y
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfast_de_Cr%C3%A9pon
"Herfast de Crépon was the BROTHER OF GUNNORA, Duchess of Normandy, the wife of Richard I of Normandy. HIS PARENTAGE IS UNKNOWN, but it is stated by Dudo of St. Quentin that the family was of noble Danish blood, while Robert of Torigni stated his father was a forester in the Pays de Caux in northern France. About 1015, he witnessed a grant of Gunnora to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel."
"By an unknown wife, Herfast was the father of Osbern, the steward under two of the dukes of Normandy, and of Ranulf, known from ducal charters. Herfast died before 22 August 1026 or 1027."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnora
"Gunnora (or Gunnor) (circa 936 – 5 Jan 1031) was a Duchess of Normandy by marriage to Richard I of Normandy."
"THE NAMES OF GUNNORA'S PARENTS ARE UNKNOWN, but Robert of Torigni wrote that her father was a forester from the Pays de Caux and according to Dudo of Saint-Quentin she was of noble Danish origin."
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=== From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 J ===
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
=== vking ===
3. HERFAST . His parentage is confirmed by Guillaume of Jumièges who records the murder of [his son] “Osbernus...procurator principalis domus, Herfasti Gunnoris comitissæ fratris filius“[1607]. Orderic Vitalis records that “Osbernus Herfasti filius” was “de pago Calcegio oriundus”, although in the context of a passage which is anachronistic[1608]. m ---. The name of Herfast's wife is not known. Herfast & his wife had two children:
=== Alternate Name ===
Arfastus
=== Ancestral File Number: FLGX-M8 ===
Ancestral File Number: FLGX-M8
=== PUBLICATION R4, VOL 17 P.57; ANCESTRAL F ===
PUBLICATION R4, VOL 17 P.57; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
Preferred Parents:
Father: Unknown de Crepon, b. aproximadamente 0920 in France
Mother: Mother de Crépon,
Family 1: de Crépon, b. ABT 957
- Osbern de Crépon, b. 985 in Crépon, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France d. about 1040. 65yrs old in Le Vaudreuil, Eure, Upper Normandy, France
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