William, count of Eu
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: in 1095/6 or soon afterwards.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (5:154). William was charged with treason at the Council of Salisbury in January 1095/6. He was defeated by his accuser in single combat, and thereafter condemned to be blinded and emasculated. He is assumed to have died shortly afterwards.
Place of Burial: in the free chapel within the castle of Hastings.
The place is given by the Complete Peerage (5:154).
Relationships
Father: Robert (died between 1089 and 1093), count of Eu.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:153) and by Power.
Mother: Beatrice (died about 1085).
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:153) and by Power.
Spouse: Beatrice, sister of Roger de Builly, lord of Tickhill.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:154). Power gives Beatrice as Roger's daughter.
Spouse: Helisende, daughter of Richard fitz Toustain Goz, vicomte of Avranches.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:154) and by Power.
Children:
(The Complete Peerage (5:155) makes Beatrice the mother of Henry. Power makes Beatrice the mother of all the children. Père Anselme (2:495) makes Helisende the mother of both Henry and William.)
Henry (died 1140), count of Eu, lord of Hastings, married Margaret, daughter of Guillaume de Champagne.
Robert
William, lord of Grandcourt.
William
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 5.
Power, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).