Herleva
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1050.
Place of Death: unknown.
The estimated date is given by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: Fulbert.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by van Houts, who states that Fulbert was a pollincter (laying out corpses for burial and perhaps embalming them), and later became ducal chamberlain.
Mother: Doda.
This relationship is given by Cawley.
Partner: Robert “le Magnifique”, duke of Normandy.
This relationship is given by Golding (ODNB) and by Baldwin.
Spouse: Herluin de Conteville, vicomte. Married about 1030.
This relationship is given by Golding (ODNB), by Bates (p. 21), and by Tanner.
Children (by Robert):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin and from Cawley.)
William I “the Conqueror” (about 1027 or 1028 - 9 September 1087), duke of Normandy, king of England.
Children (by Herluin):
Eudes, bishop of Bayeux, earl of Kent.
Robert de Mortain, count of Mortain, married (1) Mathilde de Montgomery; married (2) Almodis.
References
Baldwin, Stewart. “Robert I "le Magnifique" ("the Magnificent")” in The Henry Project.
Bates, D.R. "Notes sur l'Aristocratie Normande" in Annales de Normandie (1973: 23:1) pp. 7-38.
Cawley, Charles. “Robert de Mortain” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Gazeau, Véronique, and David Bates "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville" in Annales de Normandie (1990:40) pp. 5-30.
Golding, Brian. “Robert, count of Mortain (d. 1095)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press: 2004).
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).
Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C. "The Origins of Herleva, Mother of William the Conqueror" in The English Historical Review Vol. 101, no. 399 (April 1986), pp. 399-404.