Humfrey de Harcourt
Humfrey de Vieilles
Notes:
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Leicester, pp.521-522). Seigneur of Vieilles and Pont-Audemer in Normandy. He was one of the followers of DUKE ROBERT I OF NORMANDY (RIN 1323) and in ducal charters he appears as a witness among the great lords of Normandy. He is said to have become a monk shortly before his death.
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Humphrey de Vielles
Humphrey (or
Honfroy,
Onfroi or
Umfrid)
de Vieilles[1] (died c. 1050) was the first holder of the "grand honneur" of
Beaumont-le-Roger, one of the most important groups of domains in eastern Normandy
[2] and the founder of the
House of Beaumont. He was married to Albreda or Alberée de la Haye Auberie.
His early life and origins are the subject of much discussion. As reported by later Norman chronicler
Robert of Torigni, he was son of Thorold de Pont-Audemer and grandson of a Torf, from whose name derived that of the village of Tourville sur Pont Audemer.
[3] Humphrey's mother, according to Robert of Torigni, was Duvelina, sister of
Gunnora,
concubine of
Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Thus Humphrey and his Beaumont descendants were kinsmen of the Norman Dukes and other members of the early Anglo-Norman nobility similarly descended from Gunnora's kindred.
Besides
Beaumont-le-Roger, he had lands dispersed through the whole of Normandy, in
Cotentin, in
Hiémois, in the
Pays d'Auge, in
Basse Seine (
Vatteville-la-Rue), in
Évrecin (
Normanville) and in
Vexin normand (
Bouafles). These lands originated in the favour of the dukes
Richard II and
Robert II, from confiscated church lands. The "honneur" of Beaumont was, for example, constituted from the remains of the lands of the
abbey of Bernay.
[4] On the other hand, the possessions around
Pont-Audemer came to him by family inheritance.
In 1034, he 'founded' (or, rather, restored) the
monastery at Préaux, a few kilometres from
Pont-Audemer, with monks from the
Saint-Wandrille.
During the minority of Duke
William the Bastard,
Roger I of Tosny, holder of the "honneur" of
Conches, attacked Humphrey's domains. But around 1040, Humphrey's son,
Roger de Beumont, met and defeated Roger in battle, during which Roger was killed.
[edit] Family and descendants
Normandy portalHis known children by his wife Albreda or Alberée de la Haye Auberie:
• Robert, the elder, assassinated by Roger de Clères
[5] after 1066 and buried at the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Préaux;
• Roger de Beaumont, known as le Barbe († 1094), who succeeded his father.
• Dunelma (perhaps a corrupted form of Duvelina, the name of her grandmother) sister of Roger of Beaumont and mother of a daughter who was a
Nun at Saint-Léger de Préaux
One other possible child :
• Guillaume de Beaumont,
Monk at the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Préaux
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