Anquetil d'Harcourt

• Preferred Name: Anquetil d'Harcourt^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Seigneur (Lord) of Turqueville
  
• Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Seigneur (Lord) of Tourville
  
• Birth: aproximadamente 0991 in Brionne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.1667 LONG: E0
  
• Christening: in Also Of, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.7498 LONG: E1.4037
  
• Death: ABT 1072 in Brionne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.1667 LONG: E0
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: шевалье д'Аркур with note: http://nobles.narod.ru/harc1.html
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord
  
• FSID: 949V-45K
  
• Notes:

  === Anchetil, Sire de Harcourt, being lord o ===
  Anchetil, Sire de Harcourt, being lord of that place, was the first to assume the surname. Of his seven sons, the eldest, Anguerrand or Errand de Harcourt, attended William, Duke of Normandy, at the Conquest and returned to Normandy in 1078. Robert de Harcourt was his second son. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 261, Harcourt, Barons Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford]
  
  Anchetil, who assumed the surname of Harcourt, and by his wife, Eve de Boessey, Lady of Boessey le Chastel, had seven sons, of whom the eldest, Errand de Harcourt, was commander of the archers of Val-de-Ruel, in the army which successfully invaded England, anno 1066. This gallant soldier appears to have returned to his own country after he had witnessed the crowning of his chief as King of England, while his next brother, Robert de Harcourt, surnamed the Strong, also one of the soldiers of the Conquest, founded the family in England. [John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II, R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 221, Harcourt, of Ankerwycke]
  
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  Anschetil, who flourished in the time of Duke William the Bastard in Normandy (1027-1066), is the earliest Harcourt forebear who can be recorded with assurance. Dr Round so accepted him but did no venture an opinion as to his antecedents; and Anschetil is known only by charter of designations of Robert the Strong, Seigneur of Harcourt, his son.
  
  It has been stated that Anschetil married Eve de Boissey and that she was the mother of all his children. Her identification is perhaps no more than a guess based on the fact that later Harcourts held Boissey-le-Chatel. Whatever her name, it seems clear that the lady was the mother of Anschetil's son Robert; and that she subsequently married William de Briouze, Lord of Bramber in Sussex, by whom she had Philip de Briouze, called the brother of Robert, son of Anschetil, in a document of 1104. The Latin word used is frater, meaning either full or half brother; but it should not be translated "brother-in-law" because several other terms describe precisely that relationship, namely, sororis maritus, fratres patrueles, levir. Accordingly, the brothers (i.e. half-brothers) Robert and Philip, having different fathers, were sons of the same mother. This quite obvious conclusion is confirmed by another contemporary reference to Philip as the paternal uncle (patruus) of Robert's sons.
  
  Elwes maintained that Philip de Briouze was born shorlty before 1075; and the French savants gave seven sons to Anschetil, of whom Robert was the second born, and one daughter. If these statements are accurate, if follows that Robert must have been born not later than about 1060-63, that Anschetil died about 1072-73, that Eve was remarried, to William de Briouze, about 1073-74. Hence, ti can be deduces with resasonable assurance that Anschetil was born not later than about 1030-35 or, perhapse more likely, during the third decade of the eleventh century. In point of time, and as claimed by some genealogists, he could have been a son of Turchetil, son or younger brother of Thorold, the earliest authenticated paternal ancestor of the Beaumont counts of Meulan and earls of Leicester; or he could have been a son of another Anschetil who occurs in the Norman records about 996-1031. But the names of Danish origin, were not uncommon, and no proof can be cited.
  
  Traditionally, Anschetil had issue by his reputed wife Eve: II. i. Errand, presumably died in Normandy about 1078 without issue. ii. Robert. iii. Jean. iv. Arnoul, tentatively the Arnoul de Harcourt recorded as slain in Wales about 1094. v. Gervais. vi. Ives. vii. Renaud. viii. Agnes. [NEHGR "The Early Harcourts"; Lundie W. Barlow, CXVI:91-92]
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 8PTT-M1 ===
  Ancestral File Number: 8PTT-M1
  
  === Line 176 from GEDCOM File not recognizab ===
  Line 176 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Anchetil De /HARCOURT/ GIVN Anchetil De Line 177 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Anchetil De /HARCOURT/ SURN HARCOURT Line 180 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: SOUR @S01@
  
  === Sources: Kreantzler 1425, 1600; AF. K: A ===
  Sources: Kreantzler 1425, 1600; AF. K: Anchetil d'Harcourt. Living 1025.
  
  === LDS Ordinances found in IGI. ===
  LDS Ordinances found in IGI.
  
  === !SOURCE: Data for the family of Ancheti ===
  !SOURCE: Data for the family of Anchetil de Harcourt and Miss de Braiose are taken from the Ancestral File. See also "Royal Ancestors," PC #555.
  
  === --Other Fields ===
  --Other Fields
  
  === M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees pp 22,3 ===
  M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees pp 22,32 "Which name he assumed" The 1st to assume the Harcourt surname.
  
  === !SOURCES:
  1. Staff. Pub. A 1914 p. 187 ===
  !SOURCES:
  1. Staff. Pub. A 1914 p. 187
  
  === _P_CCINFO 1-14417 ===
  _P_CCINFO 1-14417
  
  === "The Sire de Herecourt was also there r ===
  "The Sire de Herecourt was also there riding a very swift horse, and gave the Duke all the aid he could." Rom. de Rou, l. 13,769. La Roque, the French historian of the house of Harcourt, names the member of that family who accompanied William to England, Errand, and he has been followed by Père Anselm and other genealogists. Le Prévost views him suspiciously, and calls him a person little known, and much less authentic than his father, Anchetil, or his brother Robert, the first Sire d'Harcourt of that name. I do not participate in these suspicions. I believe him to have been a veritable companion of the Conqueror, and shall adduce my reasons presently for taking a particular interest in him. The family of Harcourt, illustrious on both sides of the Channel, is fairly enough shown by La Roque to have descended from Bernard the Dane, Governor and Regent of Normandy, A.D. 912, and from the same stock he derives the Sires de Beaumout, Comtes de Meulent, the Barons of Cancelles and St. Paer, the Lords of Gournay and Milly, the Barons of Neubourg, the Viscounts of Evreux, the Earls of Leicester and Warwick, and many other French and English noble houses. Turketil, Seigneur de Turqueville and de Tanqueraye, named circa 1001 in several charters concerning the Abbeys of Fécamp and Bernay, is identical according to La Roque with the Thurkild or Thorold, Lord of Neufmarché-en-Lions, the governor of the boyDuke William, who was treacherously assassinated by the hirelings of Raoul de Gacé (vide vol. i, p. 16), and was the second son of Torf, the son of Bernard. The wife of Turketil was Anceline, sister of Toustain, Seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle, and their issue two sons, Anchetil and Walter, and one daughter, Leceline de Turqueville, who married William, Comte d'Eu, the natural son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Anchetil, the eldest son, was the first who assumed the name of Harcourt, from the bourg of Harcourt near Brionne, and was present with his father, Turketil, at t he confirmation of the foundation of the Abbey of Bernay, by Judith, Duchess of Normandy, in 1014. By Eve de Boessey, Dame de Boessey-leChapel, he had seven sons and one daughter, the eldest son being the Errand de Harcourt asserted to have been the companion of the Conqueror. We have no dates of births, marriages, or any other events which would assist us to form an idea of the age of Errand at the time of the Conquest. His father Anchetil must have been a mere child when he witnessed with his father the confirmation charter of Bernay. His father was murdered shortly after 1035, and Anchetil must therefore have been of mature age in 1066. Still, according to the genealogy, he survived his eldest son, and was succeeded by his second son Robert, who was living in 1100; and father of Philip Harcourt, Bishop of Salisbury, 1140. From Robert all is clear, but it is with his eldest brother Errand and his younger ones that we have to do. Why Errand should have been selected as the Sire d'Harcourt who fought at Senlac, if Robert had really been the man, is incomprehensible. The vice of ancient genealogists was the endeavour to exalt the character and exaggerate the valorous achievements of the ancestors of the family, to the extent even of inventing stories to account for armorial devices which they could not comprehend, or sobriquets they took no trouble to trace to their origin. Had Robert, who was Sire d'Harcourt when Wace wrote, been present in the battle, some tradition would surely have been preserved in the family and eagerly recorded by its historian. That Errand "is little known" is no reason for doubting his presence at Hastings. How many were there of whom we know nothing at all? How many, I grieve to say, are named even in these pages of whom we know next to nothing? That he should be less known than his father and brother is not at all surprising, as it is evident from the fact of Robert's succession that Errand died during his father's lifetime, leaving no mal e issue by his wife, who was of the family of Estouteville. Jean le Feron informs us that he returned to Normandy in 1078, and probably died soon after, as from that period we hear no more of him. But I must have yet another word with M. le Prévost. He accuses the English genealogists of having fabricated an apocryphal affiliation in order to show that the English branch of the Harcourts came in with the Conqueror, and for this purpose have created a Gervase, a Geoffrey, and an Arnold de Harcourt, whom they pretend were all three present in the battle of Hastings; and he adds, that according to La Roque it was Raoul, second son of Robert II, Baron de Harcourt, who being attached to King John, quitted France and became the second ancestor of the Harcourts of England. "We will not," he says in conclusion, "guarantee this assertion of a not very scrupulous historian, but we can affirm that those of the English genealogists are utterly false." Now disregarding the very strong language in which this learned and generally courteous gentleman has pronounced his opinion, he has made a singular mistake in accusing our genealogists of having created Harcourts in order to fabricate a pedigree. If there be any fabrication it is the work of his own countrymen, and we can only be blamed for believing them. Père Anselm, following La Roque, states that Anchetil had by his wife, Eve de Boessey, seven sons, Errand, Robert, Jean, Arnoul, Gervais, Yves, and Renauld de Harcourt. Here are two, at any rate, out of the three laid at the door of the genealogist, and what proof that they are apocryphal? What evidence to show that they were not at Hastings with their brother Errand? That an Arnoul de Harcourt was in England, and killed in a skirrnish with the Welsh either in the mysterious battle of Cardiff in 1094, according to the Welsh Chronicles, or in some one of the other frays which have been mixed with it by the Norman historians, I think there can be little doubt. At all events, th e name is not likely to have been invented by the Welsh, and there is nothing in the date to prevent his being the son of Anchetil, recorded by La Roque. It may be quite true that the Harcourts did not settle in England before the reign of John, but how does that prove that none of their ancestors fought at Senlac?
  
  === Anchetel. being lord of the place, was ===
  Anchetel. being lord of the place, was the first to assume the surname of Harcourt. Of his seven sons, the eldest, Anguerrand, or Errand de Harcourt, attended William, Duke of Normandy, at the Conquest, and returned to Normandy in 1078.
  
  === The first to take the name Harris was Edward Harris b; 1620 ===
  The first to take the name Harris was Edward Harris b; 1620
  
  Anchetil II de Harcourt b; abt 1050
  A branch of the Harcourt family at Thury-Harcourt south of Caen had the
  Old French nickname “Le Hericy,” and many Harcourt family members
  took the nickname as the surname after the Norman invasion of England.
  One branch that used the Old French nickname “Le Hericy”. was also
  known as “de Heriz” after the Norman invasion of England.
  
  Rollo de Harcourt alias Robert I de Heriz b; abt 1070
  Ivo I. de Heriz, who was Sheriff of Nottingham and Derbyshire, 1127-1129
  William de Heriz, obit. 1179
  Thomas de Heriz b; abt. 1197
  Henry de Heriz b, 1230
  William de Heriz b; 1260
  Robert de Harries b, 1294
  John Herries, 1st Lord Terregles b, abt. 1330
  John Herries, 2nd Lord Terregles b, 1360
  Herbert Herries, 3rd Lord Terregles b, abt. 1388
  John Herries, 4th Lord Terregles b, abt. 1410
  David Herries, 5th Lord Terregles b, 1436
  Herbert Herries, 1st Lord Herreis 6th Lord Terregles
  b, 1460
  Roger Herries b; 1481
  Archibald Herries, of Maidenpape b; abt. 1515
  George Herries, of Maidenpape b, abt. 1540
  Eli H. (Archibald II) Herries, of Bogne b, abt. 1570
  Charles Herries b, abt. 1597
  Charles Herries b, abt. 1597
  Edward Harris b; 1620
  
  === Initiatory work done 11 Aug 1992 by Gilb ===
  Initiatory work done 11 Aug 1992 by Gilbert Lowry.
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
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  === ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ===
  ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === ! RELATIONSHIP: H. Reed Black is 26th G ===
  ! RELATIONSHIP: H. Reed Black is 26th G G Son.
  
  === Non-standard gedcom data: 1 HEAL 8PTT- ===
  Non-standard gedcom data: 1 HEAL 8PTT-M1
  
  === !1. Information source: Staff Pub a 191 ===
  !1. Information source: Staff Pub a 1914 p 187. 2. Child # 1 William md Agnes. 3. Child # 6 md Boese Peverell Fitz Payn.
  
  === 1 _UID A3476B7E9103D611828100606E3BD45C ===
  1 _UID A3476B7E9103D611828100606E3BD45C8A5F
  
  === Line 61330 from GEDCOM File not recogniz ===
  Line 61330 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: FAMC CONT !SOURCES: 1. Staff. Pub. A 1914 p. 187
  
  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v7-p523fn(b), (FH ===
  !#21> Complete Peerage-v7-p523fn(b), (FHL 942 D22cok); !ASSUMPTION> possible son, doubt attached;
  
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  === Line in Record @I07216@ (RIN 6736) from ===
  Line in Record @I07216@ (RIN 6736) from GEDCOM file not recognized: FAMILY_SPOUSE @F3009@
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
  !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
  
  === !Anquetil md Eve de Boessey ===
  !Anquetil md Eve de Boessey
  
  === His name is pronounced "ans-kitil." The ===
  His name is pronounced "ans-kitil." The name means "helmet of God" and was pre-Christian in origin. "Ans" was the Old Norse word for "God" and "chitil" meant "cauldron" or "helmet." He was a Norman follower of Odo, bishop of Bayeus, half-brother of William the Conqueror.
  
  === Sire de Harcourt, being lord of that pla ===
  Sire de Harcourt, being lord of that place was the first to assume thesurname. Of his seven sons, the eldest,Anguerrand or Errand de Harcourt,attended William, Duke of Normandy at the Conquest, and returned toNormandy in 1078.
  
  === ! John Rosenberger GMVH69A ===
  ! John Rosenberger GMVH69A
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Staff Pub A 1914 p. 187. Archive Record ===
  Staff Pub A 1914 p. 187. Archive Record - SLC, UT
  
  === FTM Disc 1 Tree # 0986 ===
  FTM Disc 1 Tree # 0986
  
  === ! SOURCE: STAFF. PUB. A 1914 P 187 ===
  ! SOURCE: STAFF. PUB. A 1914 P 187
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

• m. ABT 1028 in Normandy, France

1. Robert d'Harcourt, b. ABT 1029 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France     d. AFT 1100 in Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire, England

1. Title: Anceline de Montfort-sur-Risle in http://thepeerage.com/p39326.htm#i393259 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: http://thepeerage.com/p39326.htm#i393259
   Publication: Name: http://thepeerage.com/p39326.htm#i393259;
   Note: Anceline de Montfort-sur-Risle in http://thepeerage.com/p39326.htm#i393259 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Anceline de Montfort-sur-Risle in http://thepeerage.com/p39326.htm#i393259 [See document in the Memories section]
   
2. Title: Bernard the Dane in Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. 1, pg. 734 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. 1, pg. 734
   Note: Bernard the Dane in Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. 1, pg. 734 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Bernard the Dane in Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. 1, pg. 734 [See document in the Memories section]
   
3. Title: Harcourt family in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 261 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 261
   Note: Harcourt family in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 261 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Harcourt family in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 261 [See document in the Memories section]
   
4. Title: Center for the Removal of Fallacious Information
   Page: This source 'Harcuria by William Harcourt-Bath' covers Anchetil de Harcourt (b.c990), father of Errand de Harcourt (b.c1032) who died without issue, also father of 2nd son Robert 'the Strong (b.c1037) who was given the task of building Castle Harcourt and founding the main Harcourt branch in France; also 3rd son John de Harcourt (b.c1039) who according to William Harcourt-Bath's very respected observation that John was the likely father of Richard de Harcourt of Baxterly in Warwick, Eng, b.(c1085) thus this Richard and his father John were in England some 25 years before Robert the Strong's son William came from Normandy to Leics in c1110. Anchetil's other 5 children, 8 in total born to his wife Eva de Boessey, Dame of Boessey-le-Chapel are also covered.