Engenulph de l'Aigle

• Preferred Name: Engenulph de l'Aigle^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]}
  
• Alternate Name: Engenulph de l'Aigle
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LDSS-R24
  
• Death: 14 OCT 1066 in Hastings, Sussex, Anglo Saxon England at LATI: N0.8583 LONG: E0.5803
  
• Birth: 1010 in L'Aigle, Duchy of Normandie at LATI: N8.7657 LONG: E0.6227
  
• Life+Sketch: with note: Description: Engenulf, lord of L'Aigle, was a benefactor of the local religious houses at Saint-Evroul and Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle
  
• Burial: OCT 1066 in Hastings, Sussex, Anglo Saxon England at LATI: N0.8583 LONG: E0.5803
  
• Life Sketch: with note: Description: Died in the Battle of Hastings. From Wikipedia, "L'Aigle Family" (downloaded 19 August 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources): Fulbert's son, Engenulf, lord of L'Aigle, was a benefactor of the local religious houses at Saint-Evroul and Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle, their own foundation. To the former, he and his wife, Richeroeda, donated the warhorse of their eldest son, Roger, following his death,[4] Engenulf only appears with the Norman Duke in a document from Fecamp, just prior to the Norman conquest of England, in which Engenulf participated only to be killed at the Battle of Hastings, the only prominent Norman nobleman to do so.[5] His sister Hiltrude married another prominent local baron, William fitz Giroie, while Engenulf's son and successor, Richer, married Judith, daughter of Richard le Goz, Viscount of Avranches, indicating a rise in the family's standing among the Norman nobility.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir, Knight in L'Aigle, Orne, Normandy, France at LATI: N8.7657 LONG: E0.6227 with note: standardize place
  
• Notes:

  BIO
  BIO: Seigneur de l'Aigle. Slain at Hastings; may have been a companion to William the Conqueror.
  
  ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#RicherLaigledied1176A as of 3/14/2016
  
  Engenoulf, seigneur of Laigle son and heir.
  «b»Engenoulf, seigneur of Laigle son and heir. «/b»
  
  So named in the Roll of Battle Abbey, though Wace names him Enguerrand, and Orderic Vitalis as Euguenulf. It was natural for Engenoulf and his desc
  
  Engenoulf, seigneur of Laigle son and heir.
  Engenoulf, seigneur of Laigle son and heir.
  
  So named in the Roll of Battle Abbey, though Wace names him Enguerrand, and Orderic Vitalis as Euguenulf. It was natural for Engenoulf and his descendants
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
  
  === Sources: Kraentzler 1207; RC 178. RC: Se ===
  Sources: Kraentzler 1207; RC 178. RC: Seigneur de l'Aigle. Slain at Hastings. May have been a companionof William the Conqueror. K: Egneolf d'Aigle (de Aquila). Died at Senlac.
  
  === Possible companion of William The Conque ===
  Possible companion of William The Conqueror
  
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  References: Stuart R ===
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  References: Stuart RC{151} [178-32]. Moriarty{73} p. 110.
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 9B68-V6 From ===
  Ancestral File Number: 9B68-V6 From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 9B68-V6 1 _ ===
  Ancestral File Number: 9B68-V6 1 _UID 2E4EA297B6ABD944AFC31E0BF9AF009C12FD

• m. ABT 1032 in L'Aigle, Orne, Duchy of Normandie, France

1. Richer de L'Aigle, b. ABT 1039 in L'Aigle, Orne, Lower Normandy, France     d. 18 NOV 1085 in Mayenne-Est, Mayenne, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France
2. Bertha Roberts de Ferrières, b. 1037 in Aigle, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France     d. 30 JUL 1095 in Derby, Derbyshire, Inglaterra
3. Bertha De L'Aigle, b. in L'Aigle, Orne, Normandy, France     d. 1144 in England, United Kingdom

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6. Title: Wikipedia, "L'Aigle family"
   Author: Kathleen Thompson, "The Lords of Laigle: Ambition and Insecurity on the borders of Normandy" in Anglo-Norman Studies; XVIII; ed. Christopher Harper-Bill, Woodbridge, 1996, pp. 178, 199 Marjorie Chibnall, The World of Orderic Vitalis: Norman Monks and Norman Knights, Boydell Press, 1984, p. 26 Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester, Vol. I (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853), p. 393 Thompson, 1996, pp. 179-80 Thompson, 1996, p. 180 Thompson, 1996, p. 177 Kathleen Thompson, Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of Perche, 1000-1226 Boydell Press, 2002, p. 50
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aigle_family;
   Note: The l'Aigle family was a Norman family that derived from the town of L'Aigle, on the southeastern borders of the Duchy of Normandy. They first appear during the rule of Duke Richard II of Normandy, in the early 11th century, and they would hold L'Aigle for the Norman Dukes and Kings of England until the first half of the 13th century, when with the fall of Normandy to the French crown the last of the line was forced to abandon the ancestral French lands, only to die in England a few years later without surviving English heirs. Their position on the borderlands, and near the headwaters of three rivers, the Risle, Iton and Avre, gave their small holding a special importance, as did a set of marriage connections that provided this relatively minor Norman noble family with a more elevated historical visibility.[1] Having been neighbors and benefactors of the Abbey of Saint-Evroul, the family receive mostly favourable coverage in the 12th-century chronicle of Orderic Vitalis.[2] Foundation and initial rise The earliest-known member of the family was Fulbert de Beina, who built a castle 'in the time of Duke Richard', hence before that duke's death in 1026.[3] The location of his origin, as represented by his toponymic Beina, remains unidentified and it is not possible to definitively identify him among the several men named Fulbert appearing at the ducal court.[1] Fulbert's son, Engenulf, lord of L'Aigle, was a benefactor of the local religious houses at Saint-Evroul and Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle, their own foundation. To the former, he and his wife, Richeroeda, donated the warhorse of their eldest son, Roger, following his death,[4] Engenulf only appears with the Norman Duke in a document from Fecamp, just prior to the Norman Conquest of England, in which Engenulf became the only prominent Norman nobleman to be killed at the Battle of Hastings.[5] His sister Hiltrude married another prominent local baron, William fitz Giroie, while Engenulf's son and successor, Richer, married Judith, daughter of Richard le Goz, Viscount of Avranches, indicating a rise in the family's standing among the Norman nobility.[3][5] Richer, the new lord of L'Aigle, was unable to capitalize on his father's sacrifice, his family only holding two English manors in 1086, Witley and Mildenhall, and unlike many Norman families, the L'Aigles did not shift their center of power to England. Richer did appear at the royal court in 1081 and a brother, Robert, would serve the Anglo-Norman noble, Robert de Tosny of Belvoir. Like his father, Richer died fighting for William the Conqueror at the Siege of Sainte-Suzanne in 1084, where his brother Gilbert of L'Aigle led a revenge assault in January 1085.[5] As 'Gilbert de Aquila', this famous Norman knight would feature in Rudyard Kipling's tale, "Old Men at Pevensey", part of his Puck of Pook's Hill.[6] He was given the castle of Exmes by Robert Curthose in 1089. Under the leadership of two Gilberts, Richer's brother and son of the same name, the family would continue to support the Norman dukes, though it becomes difficult to distinguish the two prior to the death of the elder Gilbert, killed at Moulins-la-Marche in an ambush by vassals of Geoffrey, Count of Mortagne, in what may have been a kidnap and ransom scheme gone awry. To prevent bloody reprisals, Count Geoffrey offered his daughter Juliana in marriage to the younger Gilbert, Richer's son.[7][8] This marriage would provide the family with a web of prominent connections that included the King of Navarre and Aragon, who was the bride's first cousin. The family also married again into the Anglo-Norman nobility, perhaps through the influence of Richer's wife Judith and her brother, Hugh, Earl of Chester, their daughter Matilda would marry Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, later divorcing the disgraced Earl and taking his lands with her into a second marriage with a royal favourite, Nigel d'Aubigny.[9] Gilbert, lord of L'Aigle, would serve successive Norman dukes, first Robert Curthose, then following his departure, William II of England, who would leave him to garrison Le Mans after its capture. With the latter's death, Gilbert is found both in England with Henry I and in Normandy with Robert, but an ongoing squabble between his brother-in-law, Count Rotrou of Mortagne, and the latter's kinsman, Curthose's ally Robert de Belleme, seems to have driven Gilbert firmly into the king's camp, and Henry would meet with Archbishop Anselme at L'Aigle in 1105.[9] Gilbert became the agent of Henry I of England in Normandy after the king succeeded in wresting it from his brother the next year.[10] His loyalty to the king was also rewarded by the grant of lands in England, in the Rape of Pevensey.[11] His death occurred on a 15 May, the year being not precisely known, but after 1114 and before 1118.[11] His younger brother, Richard had by 1089/90 joined the Norman adventurers in Italy, and would there become duke of Gaeta and count of Suessa,[12] dying in 1111. Decline Richer, lord of L'Aigle, would succeed his father in their lands in Normandy, but King Henry had other plans for the family's Pevensey holdings, intending to give them to Richer's brothers, Engenulf and Geoffrey. Richer, for his part, threatened to turn L'Aigle over to King Louis VI of France if the English king would not give him his father's English possessions,[13] and about the same time he dabbled in supporting William Clito's claim to Normandy.[14] In spite of the threatened betrayal, Henry still refused to allow Richer to inherit the English lands, but was brought around when Richer's uncle, Count Rotrou, hinted that were he to support the L'Aigle lord, Henry risked losing his Norman southern marches. Receiving his English inheritance, Richer backed out of his plan to surrender L'Aigle to Louis, but the French king then took it by force, apparently in 1118, and it was only a year later that Henry was able to take it back. L'Aigle was restored to Richer, again through Rotrou's influence, [13] but the young lord had lost the king's confidence and would only appear at court once during the rest of Henry's reign.[15] It was presumably during a visit to administer his English lands that he stayed with Gilbert Becket and became friends with the latter's son, the future Archbishop Thomas Becket, who perhaps even served as Richer's notary.[15] Richer primarily involved himself in local Norman affairs, joining his neighbor Eustace de Pacy in his struggles over the lands around Breteuil, and in the process ravaging Saint-Evroul lands and attracting the vitriol of its chronicler, Orderic.[16][2] The dispossessed brothers, Engenulf and Geoffrey, would die in 1120 in the wreck of the White Ship along with Rotrou's son and wife, and the Count would leave his County of Perche in the hands of his sister Juliana, Richer's mother, and turn his attention to fighting Muslims in Aragon.[17] There in 1130 he would arrange the marriage of Richer's sister, Margaret, to a royal scion, García Ramírez, lord of Monzón, who was soon to become King of Navarre. With the succession of King Stephen and his struggle to solidify his southern Norman frontier, Richer was again to gain royal access, and again the relationship with Rotrou paid dividends. Henry had built frontier castles in the region, bypassing L'Aigle and the untrustworthy Richer in the process, but Stephen granted two of these to Rotrou and his nephew, with Richer receiving Bonsmoulins.[18][19] Richer was in England in 1139 recruiting troops for Stephen, and was again headed for England in 1140 when he was set upon, taken captive and imprisoned at Breteuil by another of Stephen's men, Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, as a result of a private dispute, Robert having received the lands confiscated by Henry from Richer's ally, Eustace de Pacy.[16] In spite of his uncle Rotrou's intercession on Richer's behalf, a weakened King Stephen did not have the power to force his release.[20] Rotrou then turned to Stephen's ascendant Angevin rivals, only to see a reversal of fortune that restored Stephen's control. Though Richer was released, a resentful Stephen deprived him of his lands in Sussex.[21] In 1152, Richer alienated another prince, the Angevin Henry, apparently by supporting another scheme of French king Louis. Henry burned Bonsmoulins and took hostages. To make matters worse, the next year Henry was named Stephen's heir, and thus a new king brought Richer no respite from royal displeasure.[21] Richer seems to have reached a rapprochement with the new king in the late 1050s, surrendering Bonsmoulins but again holding at least a portion of his lost English lands, though he largely disappears from royal records. He also appears also to have reached accommodation with his former captor, the Earl of Leicester, but this led to additional misfortune: Richer appears to have sided with the Earl's successor in the rebellion of Henry the Young King, and thereby again lost his Sussex land. They were again restored in 1174. His death in 1176 brought an end to a career that had squandered his father's power and royal good will through a particular penchant for choosing the wrong side in one conflict after another.[22] Richer, lord of L'Aigle, the son of Richer and his wife Beatrix, would succeed his father, but he and his wife Odelina left little documentary record. He appears to have spent his time primarily in and around his Norman lands. He disappears from English scutage records in the mid-1180s, and is thought to have died about 1186.[23] End Gilbert, lord of L'Aigle, son of Richer and Odelina, would go a good way toward recovering the family's status in one swipe, when as follower of William of Salisbury, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, he would marry the earl's niece, a rich and well-connected widow, Isabel de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, King Henry's half-brot
   
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    Note: ENGENULF de Laigle [de l'Aigle] (-killed in battle Hastings 17 Oct 1066, bur Monastery of Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle). Orderic Vitalis records that "Engenulfus et Richuereda uxor eius" donated the deceased’s horse to Ouche after "Rogerius primogenitus Engenulfi de Aquila filius" was killed, dated to [1059/61][1072]. The Chronique de Normandie, based on le Roman de Rou, names "Engenous de l’Aigle" among those who took part in the conquest of England in 1066[1073]. Orderic Vitalis records that “Engenulfus Aquilensis oppidanus” was killed in the battle of Hastings[1074]. m RICHEREDA, daughter of --- (bur Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle[1075]). Orderic Vitalis records that "Engenulfus et Richuereda uxor eius" donated the deceased’s horse to Ouche after "Rogerius primogenitus Engenulfi de Aquila filius" was killed, dated to [1059/61][1076]. Her relationship with the Giroie family is indicated by Orderic Vitalis who records that "Ernaldus" [Arnaud, son of Guillaume Giroie] received "equum consobrini sui Rogerii" [her son] from “Rodberto abbate” [Robert de Grantmesnil, abbot of Ouche], dated to [1059/61][1077]. "Richer de Aquila son of Ingenulf de Aquila" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Evroul by charter dated to [1099] (although this date is incorrect if the date of his death is as shown above), witnessed by "domina matre mea Richoereda…"[1078]. Engenulf & his wife had four children: (Roger, Richer,Gilbert and Robert).
    
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    Note: Engenoulf de l'Aigle was the son of Fulvert de Beine, founder of the castle of l'Aigle, on the river Risle, arrondissement of Mortagne, Orne. Wace (l. 13592) calls him "Engerran de Laigle," and Orderic Vital, confirms his presence at Hastings, saying that he, with many others, in charging the English, fell into an ancient ditch and was killed. He married Richeveride, by whom he was the father of three sons, Roger, who was slain about the year 1060; Richard, who was at the conquest (sometimes called de Aquila), obtained the barony of Pevensey in Sussex, with other large estates, and was killed by an arrow shot in the eye at the siege of the castle of Saint-Susanne in 1085; the third son, Gilbert, stood high in the favour of duke Robert Courtheuse, who gave him the castle of Exmes, and made him vicomte of that county. He was mortally wounded when Gerrard Chevreuil and Robert de Ferrers attempted to capture him in 1092 and was buried at Saint-Sulpice. Thus all the sons of Engenoulf met with a violent death. --(Falaise roll) Euguenulf de l'Aigle This gallant Norman, called Enguerrand by Wace, was the son of Fulbert de Beine, founder of the Castle of l'Aigle, on the river Risle, arrondissement of Mortain, and therefore probably one of the knights in the service of Robert, Comte de Mortain. Wace tells us " he came with shield slung at his neck, and with his lance fiercely charged the English. He strove hard to serve the Duke well for the sake of the lands he had promised him " (Roman de Rou, l. 13,592). Alas! he was not allowed to enjoy what he had so bravely striven to obtain. He is one of the very few whose names have descended to us as having undoubtedly fallen in that memorable battle. Wace, strangely enough, says nothing of his death, which is thus recorded by Orderic : " The Normans, finding the English completely routed, pursued them vigorously all Sunday night, but not without suffering a great loss, for galloping onward in hot pursuit they fell unawares, horses and armour, into an ancient trench, overgrown and concealed by rank grass, and rolling over each other were crushed and smothered. This accident restored confidence to the routed English, for, perceiving the advantage given them by the mouldering rampart and a succession of ditches, they rallied in a body, and, making a sudden stand, caused the Normans severe loss. At this place Enguerrand, Lord of l'Aigle, and many others fell, the number of the Normans who perished being, as reported by some who were present, nearly fifteen thousand." Euguenulf had for wife a lady named Richeveride, by whom he was father of three sons, Roger, Richard, and Gilbert. Roger, the eldest, was slain (how is not recorded) about the year 1060, and Orderic informs us that Euguenulf and his wife Richeveride came to St. Evroult in deep grief; entreating the prayers and good offices of the monks for the salvation of their souls and that of their son Roger, which were granted, and thereupon Roger's best horse was offered by his parents to God and the monks. The horse being very valuable, Arnould d'Eschafour begged to have it in exchange for the lands and services of Baldric de Bacquency, whose fief had been ceded to him by the Abbey. We find, therefore, that six years before the invasion Euguenulf was married, and the father of apparently grown-up sons, and we may therefore conclude that he was between forty and fifty in 1066, when he was killed at Senlac. A sad fate seemed to pursue his family. On the 18th November, 1085, while the royal army under the command of Alan the Red, Earl of Richmond, was marching to the siege of the Castle of St. Suzanne, a beardless youth, concealed in the bushes on the roadside, shot an arrow, which mortally wounded Richer de l'Aigle, the eldest surviving son of Euguenulf, in the eye. His followers rode up, burning with rage, and seizing the youth, would have put him to death on the spot ; but the dying Baron, with a violent effort, generously exclaimed, " Spare him for the love of God! It is for my sins that I am thus called to die." The assassin being allowed to go free, the noble lord confessed himself to his companions in arms, and expired before they could convey him to L'Aigle. His body was borne to the convent of St. Sulpice-sur-Risle, which his father had founded near L'Aigle, where he was buried, with great lamentations of his kinsfolk and connections, by Gilbert Bishop of Evreux. In the month of January following, Gilbert de l'Aigle, eager to avenge his brother, made, in conjunction with William de Warren and William Comte d'Evreux, a desperate assault on the Castle of St. Suzanne; but they were vigorously repulsed by the garrison, William Comte d'Evreux being taken prisoner. In 1091 we find Gilbert in high favour with Robert Court-heuse, who made him Viscount of the Hiemois, and gave him the castle for his residence. This deeply offended the violent and detestable Robert de Belesme, of whose turbulence and wickedness you have heard so much already, who assembled his troops, and in the first week of January, 1091, besieged the castle for four days, assaulting it with great fury and persistence, notwithstanding a severe frost and heavy fall of snow. Gilbert had but a small number of retainers in the castle, but they were brave and loyal, and made a stout resistance, hurling spears and stones on the assailants, and precipitating into the ditch those who attempted to scale the walls. Meanwhile his nephew, Gilbert, the young lord of L'Aigle, son of Richer slain on the march to St. Suzanne, hearing of his uncle's position, came to his assistance with eighty men, and getting into the castle by night, supplied the garrison with fresh provisions and arms, and enabled them to continue the defence. Upon this, Robert de Belesme, finding the place too strong for him, in great rage and mortification drew off his troops, and retreated ingloriously to his own territory. The following year, as the elder Gilbert, brother of Richer, was returning home from a visit to Sainte Scholasse, he halted at Moulins to pay his respects to Duda, daughter of Waleran, Earl of Meulent, and second wife of William de Moulins, lord of that castle, and leaving towards evening unarmed and attended only by his esquires, was seen and pursued by Gerrard Chevreuil and Robert de Ferrers, with some thirteen men-at-arms of the Corbonnais, who endeavoured to take him alive. He spurred his horse to a gallop, but was overtaken and wounded in the side by one of their spears so badly that he died the same day, and on the morrow, which was bissextile-day (29th of February, 1092), he was buried at St. Sulpice, by the side of his parents, amid universal sorrow, Gilbert, Bishop of Evreux, and Serlo, Abbot of St. Evroult, officiating. Thus we see the three sons of Euguenulf, who himself fell in battle, meet one after the other with a violent death. Roger slain in his youth, Richer in the pride of manhood, and Gilbert while still in the prime of life. The latter was unmarried, but Richer was the husband of Judith, daughter of Richard, surnamed Goz, Viscount of the Avranchin, and Emma de Conteville, half-sister of the Conqueror, to whom he consequently stood in the position of a nephew. This lord, says Orderic, "was deservedly regretted by his acquaintance for the many virtues with which he was endowed. In person he was strong, handsome, and active; a faithful observer of the divine laws, courteous and humble with men of religion, prudent and eloquent in worldly affairs, and gentle and liberal in all his conduct." The issue of Richer and Judith were Gilbert, Euguenulf, Matilda, and, according to Orderic, "several other sons and daughters;" but I have not found traces of them. "'They all," he adds, "died" (early, I presume he means) with the exception of Gilbert, "who became the heir to his father's virtues, estates, and honours." He should have also excepted Matilda, wife of Robert de Mowbray, and who by dispensation of the Pope married, during her husband's incarceration, Nigel de Albini (vide p. 30, ante), but who certainly was not an exception to the unfortunate destiny attending the majority of her family. Gilbert, the second of that name, Lord of L'Aigle, the young warrior who so opportunely came to the rescue of his uncle when besieged by Robert de Belesme, married Juliana, daughter of Geoffrey, Count of Mortagne, who, reflecting that the slaying of Gilbert Viscount of the Hiemois, by men who were his vassals, had sown the seeds of infinite mischief to his own territories, endeavoured to accommodate matters with the nephew, and prove that he had no participation in the act, by the offer to him of his daughter's hand, which was accepted, and secured peace between the two families for a period of forty years, an unprecedented circumstance in the early history of Normandy, the barons whereof were in constant hostility one with another. But even peace could not preserve the line of L'Aigle from calamity. Of the four sons born to Gilbert and Juliana, two were drowned together in the wreck of the " White Ship," 25th November, 1120. -- Planche.
    
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