William de Vernon1: Complete Peerage-v4-p310fn(a) Married ± 1055 to: Emma fitz Osborn 1: Complete Peerage-v4-p310fn(a) KINSHIP: Investigate> The continuator of William of Jumièges states that a niece of Gunnor the wife of Duke Richard was married to Osmund de Centumvillis, Vicomte de Vernon, and was mother of the first Fulk de Aneio and of the mother of the first Baldwin de Reviers. See "The Complete Peerage" vol. 4 p. 310 fn. a. Children: | |||
1) Richard de Reviers/ seigneur de Reviers, Vernon, and NéhouDIED_SHORT 8 sep 1107, BURIED_SHORT Abbey of Montebourg, Montebourg, Normandy, France KINSHIP: Conjectured to have been son and heir of William DE VERNON. CHURCH: Property> Restored to the Abbey of Montebourg some lands of which it had been deprived, and made fresh grants - he was therefore esteemed the founder; actually the said Abbey was founded by William the Conqueror - see 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 4 p. 310-311, 311 fn. a. TITLES: Clarification> It has been erroneously considered that he was created Earl of Devon by Henry I. The authorities for this are the statements made in two monastic chronicles. There is abundant charter evidence that he never styled himself an Earl, that his wife in her widowhood never styled herself a Countess, and that none of their children, nor their grandchildren, ever so styled them - see 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 4 p. 309, 310 fn. c. PROPERTY: Reviers, on the Seulles, in the Bessin. PROPERTY:Vernon, on the Seine, in the Vexin normand. PROPERTY: In Domesday he appears as the possessor of a single manor, Mosterton, Dorset {Mosterton, Dorset, England}. PROPERTY: Inherited from his uncle William fitz Osborn, the Isle of Wight (, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England}. | |||
2) Hugh de ReviersBORN_SHORT ± 1056 of, , Normandy, France IDENTITY: Mentioned in a memorandum of La Trinité at Caen and in a document dated about 1067 in the cartulary of La Trinité at Rouen. | |||
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William de Vernon
Emma fitz Osborn