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.