William d'Évreux

For the count with this name, see William, Count of Évreux.
William d'Évreux
Spouse(s) Hawise d'Échauffour
Noble family House of Normandy
Father Robert II, Archbishop of Rouen, Count of Évreux
Mother Herlevea

William d'Évreux was a member of the Norman nobility at the time of William the Conqueror's ascendancy in Normandy.

William was a son of Robert II Archbishop of Rouen and Count of Évreux and Herlevea.[1] As a member of the comital dynasty of Evreux, he was probably a supporter of Duke William during his consolidation of control in Normandy. He may also have been a member of the clergy as later generations of Devereux were hereditary chaplains to King Henry and King Stephen, and identified as members of the early form of the Exchequer in Normandy.[2][3][4][lower-alpha 1] The Devereux family had lands at Lieuvin and Baiocasino in the pays d'Auge.[4][lower-alpha 2]

William married, c. 1040, Hawisa d'Échauffour, widow of Robert de Grandmesnil[5] and daughter of Giroie, Lord of Échauffour[6] and Gisle de Montfort-sur-Risle.[lower-alpha 3][7] Orderic Vitalis names her, gives her parentage, her two husbands and seven children: six by her first marriage, one by her second to William.[8] Hawise eventually retired to become a nun at Montivilliers along with two of Judith's half-sisters.[6] Together William and Hawisa had a daughter:

The Devereux family in England which gave rise to the Viscounts of Hereford claims descent from the Norman family of d'Évreux. As William d'Évreux's older siblings are well documented to have had no surviving male heirs, William provides the only potential source of this connection. One source[10] claims that William, by an unidentified woman, was the father of:

Notes

  1. ↑ Gilbert Devereux was precentor of Rouen Cathedral, chaplain to Henry I, and treasurer of Normandy. He died in the mid-1120's, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William Devereux. William retired from the court to become Prior of Sainte-Barbe in 1128, and was followed by his brother, Robert Devereux, who was treasurer into Stephen's reign. Gilbert had 5 sons all of whom were involved with the treasury, and two followed their brother to Saint-Barbe.
  2. ↑ Lands here were granted to the Priory of Sainte-Barbe by William Devereux for the soul of his father, Gilbert, before 1133, and the grant was confirmed by King Stephen in 1137. These lands were in the same region as d'Evreux's brother, Ralph de Gacé, Sire de Gace.
  3. ↑ The necrology of the monastery of Ouche records the death "10 May" of "Haudvisa mater Hugonis de Grentesmesnil".

References

  1. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 79
  2. ↑ Charles Johnson and HA Cronne (editors). Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154; Volume II, Regesta Henrici Primi, 1100-1135. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1956. Page 226
  3. ↑ Sylvia Lettice Thrupp. Change in Medieval Society: Europe North of the Alps, 1050-1500. University of Toronto Press, 1988. Page 57 and 67
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charles Homer Haskins. Norman Institutions. Harvard Historical Studies. Published Under the Direction of the Department of History. Volume XXIV. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918). Page 88, 108-9
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 M. Jackson Crispin and Leonce Macary. Falaise Roll. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1985). page 41
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166, Vol I (Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 1999), p. 262
  7. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1989), Tafel 697
  8. ↑ Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester, Vol. I (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853), p. 395
  9. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Vol. II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 206
  10. ↑ The Norman People, And Their Existing Descendants In The British Dominions And The United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975. Page 225
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Cleveland, Duchess of Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll, with some account of the Norman Lines, Vol. 1 (London: John Murray, 1889), p. 325