Osbern de Crépon

• Preferred Name: Osbern de Crépon
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Sénéchal de Normandie
  
• Birth: 985 in Crépon, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France at LATI: N9.3169 LONG: E0.5497 with note: Standard
  
• Occupation: Steward of Normandy
  
• FSID: 9S9P-HRK
  
• Death: about 1040. 65yrs old in Le Vaudreuil, Eure, Upper Normandy, France at LATI: N9.2582 LONG: E0.2002 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbern_the_Steward "Osbern was murdered at Le Vaudreuil in the winter of 1040-1041, while protecting the young Duke in the child's bedroom." https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbern_de_Cr%C3%A9pon "Osbern est assassiné au Vaudreuil vers fin 1040-début 1041, en protégeant le jeune duc dans la chambre de l'enfant."
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Osbern the Steward, known in French as "Osbern de Crépon" († about 1040), was the Steward of two Dukes of Normandy and the father of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of William the Conqueror's closest counsellors.
  
  Osbern was the son of Herfast de Crepon and the nephew of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy, initially mistress and then second wife of Richard I of Normandy. Under Robert the Magnificent (1027–1035), he had the role of Steward or Seneschal. He kept this role after the Duke's death in 1035. He became one of the legal protectors of the young successor to the duchy, William the Bastard, known later as William the Conqueror, then aged 8.
  
  The young Duke William was in danger, as other members of the ducal family were trying to assassinate him to regain power in the duchy, and the Norman barons were rebelling. Osbern was murdered at Le Vaudreuil in the winter of 1040-1041, while protecting the young Duke in the child's bedroom. According to Guillaume de Jumièges, his throat was cut by William, son of Roger I of Montgomery. Barnon de Glos-la-Ferrières avenged the death of his lord by killing the murderer.
  
  Historians of the Normans disagree on the origin of the benefices held by Osbern, specifically which of them came from his father Herfast and which via his marriage to Emma, daughter of the powerful Count Rodulf of Ivry and sister of Hugues, Bishop of Bayeux. He possessed land widely spread across Normandy: in the Bessin at Crépon, at Hiémois (near Falaise, near the confluence of the rivers Seine and Andelle, around Cormeilles, in Talou, in Pays d'Ouche at Breteuil, and at La Neuve-Lyre.
  
  Osbern married Emma d'Ivry, daughter of Count Rodulf of Ivry, who was half-brother of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. The children included :
  
  . William Fitz Osbern (ca 1020–1071), 1st Earl of Hereford ;
  . Osbern FitzOsbern († end of 1103), Bishop of Exeter in 1072 .
  
  -- Wikiwand: Osbern the Steward
  
  === Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by Will ===
  Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
  Page: 100
  
  CHAPTER I: THE CONQUEROR
  The Conqueror and His Companions
  by J.R. Planche, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.
  
  Osbern de Crepon, son of Herfast, his Dapifer (steward of thehousehold), was slain by William de Montgomeri at Vaudreuil, whilesleeping in the very chamber of his young sovereign [William TheConqueror].
  
  Source: Please cite original sources.
  Compiled by: J. K. Loren
  
  === https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbern_de_ ===
  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbern_de_Cr%C3%A9pon
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbern_the_Steward
  
  "Osbern the Steward, known in French as Osbern de Crépon, was the Steward of two Dukes of Normandy..."
  
  "Osbern was the son of Herfast de Crepon and the nephew of Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy..."
  
  "Osbern was murdered at Le Vaudreuil in the winter of 1040-1041..."
  
  "Osbern married Emma d'Ivry, daughter of Count Rodulf of Ivry, who was half-brother of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. The children included William FitzOsbern [and] Osbern FitzOsbern..."
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfast_de_Cr%C3%A9pon
  
  "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."
  
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• m. ABT 1009 in France

1. Wiilliam De Breteuil Fitzosbern 1st Earl Of Hereford, b. ABT 1020 in Breteuil-sur-Iton, Eure, Duchy of Normandy     d. 20 FEB 1071 in Cassel, French Flanders
2. Emma FitzOsbern, b. ABT 1024 in Arques la Bataille, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France     d. ABT 1095 in Normandie, Françe