Husband Humphrey de Vielles, Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger
AKA: Onfroi de Vielles, Umfrid of Vielles
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1 M Roger de Beaumont Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont-Audemer
AKA: Roger "le Barbu" de Beaumont Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger, Roger Barbatus de Beaumont Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont-Audemer, Roger de Beaumont-le-Roger
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2 M Robert de Vielles
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From Wikipedia - Humphrey de Vielles : Source: Wikipedia - Roger de Beaumont
Lawgiver of Cambria Source: http://www.varrall.net/pafg58.htm#1158 Lord of Llechwedd Uchaf and Creuddyn, and Grand Forester of Snowdon. Source: Wikipedia - Agnes of Germany
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Humphrey (or Onfroi or Umfrid) of Vieilles[1] († c. 1050 ), was the first holder of the "grand honneur" of Beaumont-le-Roger , one of the most important groups of domains in eastern Normandy[2].
Life
His early life and origins are the subject of much discussion. He was the grandson of Torf (or Turolf), who some historians identify with Turstin le Riche , the father-in-law of Robert the Dane , and by others with an ancestor of the lords of Harcourt [3]. Whichever is the better hypothesis, we can be sure Humphrey descended from a Scandinavian Viking family.
Besides Beaumont-le-Roger , he had lands dispersed through the whole of Normandy, in Cotentin , in Hiémois , in the Pays d'Auge , in Basse Seine (Vatteville-la-Rue ), in Évrecin (Normanville ) and in Vexin normand (Bouafles ). These lands originated in the favour of the dukes Richard II and Robert II , from confiscated church lands. The "honneur" of Beaumont was, for example, constituted from the remains of the lands of the abbey of Bernay [4]. On the other hand, the possessions around Pont-Audemer came to him by family inheritance.
In 1034 , he 'founded' (or, rather, restored) the male monastery at Préaux , a few kilometres from Pont-Audemer , with monks from the Saint-Wandrille .
During the minority of Duke William the Bastard , Roger I of Tosny , holder of the "honneur" of Conches , attacked Humphrey's domains. But around 1040, Humphrey's son, Roger de Beumont , met and defeated Roger in battle, during which Roger was killed.
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^ Vieilles is the name of a former village, now merged with Beaumont-le-Roger
^ Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècles), Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004, p.216-217. Among the other grands honneurs of the Pays d'Ouche, were those of Breteuil and of Conches
^ William of Jumièges reports that this Turolf was the brother of Turquetil, the first lord of Harcourt, and the uncle of Ansketil de Harcourt. The archaeologist Jacques Le Maho supports Torf's identification with Turstin
^ Veronica Gazeau, Monachisme et aristocratie au XIe siècle : l'exemple de la famille de Beaumont,, PhD thesis, University of Caen, 1986-1987 (dactyl.), p.67-73. The abbot of Bernay, Raoul, parent of Humphrey, would have entrusted to him between 1027 and 1040, part of the heritage of his monastery. Like other lords of the beginning of the 11th century, like the family of Bellême , he increased the family's power by recovering or winning of ecclesiastical lands
^ Orderic Vitalis , History of Normandy, Éd. Guizot, 1826, vol. III, livre VIII, p. 373. Charpillon et Caresme, Dictionnaire historique des communes de l'Eure, vol I, 1879, art. Beaumont-le-Roger
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Husband Hywel Dda King of Deheubarth
AKA: Howel Dda King of Deheubarth, Howell Dha King of South Wales, Hywel the Good, Hywel ap Cadell ap Rhodri, Hywel ap Cadell ap Rhodri Mawr King of Deheubarth
Born: Cir 880 - Dynevor Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
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Father: Cadell ap Rhodri Mawr King of Seisyllwg (Cir 0827-0909)
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Wife Elen ferch Llywarch
Born: Abt 885 - Dyfed, , Wales
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1 F Angharad ferch Hywel Dda
Born: Cir 900 - Deheubarth, Wales
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2 M Owain ap Hywel Dda King of Deheubarth
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Source: http://www.varrall.net/pafg58.htm#1158
From A History of Wales by John Davies, London, 2007, p. 83:
"If the intention of the rulers of Dyfed and Brycheiniog in seeking the patronage of Alfred was to remain free from the clutches of the house of Rhodri, they failed. About 904, Llywarch ap Hyfaidd, king of Dyfed, died; his kingdom came into the possession of Hywel ap Cadell ap Rhodri, the ruler of Seisyllwg and the husband of Elen, Llywarch's daughter. It would appear that Hywel also took possession of Brycheiniog, for its royal line ends with Tewdwr ap Griffri, who died about 930. The enlarged kingdom came to be known as Deheubarth, a unit of central importance in the history of Wales during the following four centuries.
"...Deheubarth was united with the territories of Idwal ab Anarawd ap Rhodri--Gwynedd and Powys--in 942, and Hywel died in 950 (or perhaps 949) the ruler of a kingdom which extended from Prestatyn to Pembroke."
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From A History of Wales by John Davies, London, 2007, p. 83:
"If the intention of the rulers of Dyfed and Brycheiniog in seeking the patronage of Alfred was to remain free from the clutches of the house of Rhodri, they failed. About 904, Llywarch ap Hyfaidd, king of Dyfed, died; his kingdom came into the possession of Hywel [Dda] ap Cadell ap Rhodri, the ruler of Seisyllwg and the husband of Elen, Llywarch's daughter. It would appear that Hywel also took possession of Brycheiniog, for its royal line ends with Tewdwr ap Griffri, who died about 930. The enlarged kingdom came to be known as Deheubarth, a unit of central importance in the history of Wales during the following four centuries."
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1 M Madog ap Iarddur of Penrhyn and Cwchwillan
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Source: The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd by J. Y. W. Lloyd, Vol. IV, London, 1884, p. 341, has "Eva, d. and heiress of Gruffydd ab David ab Tudor ab Madog of Penrhyn and Cwchwillan, son and heir of Iarddur, of Penrhyn and Cwchwillan, Lord of Llecchwedd Uchaf and Creuddyn, and Grand Forester of Snowdon."
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1 M Leopold III Margrave of Austria
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1 M Philip ap Ifor Lord of Is Coed
AKA: Philip ap Ivor Lord of Iscoed
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Husband Igor Grand Prince of Kiev
AKA: Ingvar
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Wife Olga of Kiev
AKA: Saint Olga of Kiev, Olga Prekrasa
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1 M Sviatoslav I of Kiev
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From Wikipedia - Igor, Grand Prince of Kiev :
Igor (Old East Slavic : , Old Norse : Ingvar, Ukrainian: ) was a Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus from 912 to 945 . Very little is known about him from the Primary Chronicle . It has been speculated that the chroniclers chose not to enlarge on his reign, as the region was dominated by Khazaria at that time. That he was Rurik 's son is also questioned on chronological grounds.
He twice besieged Constantinople , in 941 and 944 , and in spite of his fleet being destroyed by Greek fire , concluded with the Emperor a favourable treaty whose text is preserved in the chronicle. In 913 and 944 , the Rus plundered the Arabs in the Caspian Sea during the Caspian expeditions of the Rus , but it's not clear whether Igor had anything to do with these campaigns.
Drastically revising the chronology of the Primary Chronicle, Constantine Zuckerman argues that Igor actually reigned for three years, between summer 941 and his death in early 945. He explains the epic 33-year span of his reign in the chronicle by its author's faulty interpretation of Byzantine sources.[1] Indeed, none of Igor's activity are recorded in the chronicle prior to 941.
Igor was killed[2] while collecting tribute from the Drevlians in 945 and revenged by his wife, Olga of Kiev . The Primary Chronicle blames his death on his own excessive greed, indicating that he was attempting to collect tribute a second time in a month. As a result, Olga changed the system of tribute gathering (poliudie ) in what may be regarded as the first legal reform recorded in Eastern Europe.
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^ Zuckerman, Constantine. On the Date of the Khazars' Conversion to Judaism and the Chronology of the Kings of the Rus Oleg and Igor. A Study of the Anonymous Khazar Letter from the Genizah of Cairo. // Revue des études byzantines. 1995. 53. Pp. 237-270.
^ Leo the Deacon describes how Igor met his death: "They had bent down two birch trees to the prince's feet and tied them to his legs; then they let the trees straighten again, thus tearing the prince's body apart."[1]
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From Wikiepdia - Olga of Kiev :
Saint Olga (Russian and Ukrainian : also called Olga Prekrasa ( or Olga the Beauty, Old Norse : Helga; born c. 890 died July 11 , 969 , Kiev ) was a Pskov woman of Varangian extraction who married the future Igor of Kiev , arguably in 903 . The Primary Chronicle gives 879 as her date of birth, which is rather unlikely, given the fact that her only son was probably born some 65 years after that date. After Igor's death, she ruled Kievan Rus as regent (945 -c. 963 ) for their son, Svyatoslav .
At the start of her reign, Olga spent great effort to avenge her husband's death at the hands of the Drevlians , and succeeded in slaughtering many of them and interring some in a ship burial , while still alive. She is reputed to have scalded captives to death and another, probably apocryphal, story tells of how she destroyed a town hostile to her. She asked that each household present her with a dove as a gift, then tied burning papers to the legs of each dove which she then released to fly back to their homes. Each avian incendiary set fire to the thatched roof of their respective home and the town was destroyed. More importantly in the long term, Olga changed the system of tribute gathering (poliudie ) in what may be regarded as the first legal reform recorded in Eastern Europe.
She was the first Rus ruler to convert to Christianity , either in 945 or in 957 . The ceremonies of her formal reception in Constantinople were minutely described by Emperor Constantine VII in his book De Ceremoniis . Following her baptism she took the Christian name Yelena, after the reigning Empress Helena Lekapena. The Slavonic chronicles add apocryphal details to the account of her baptism, such as the story how she charmed and "outwitted" Constantine and how she spurned his matrimonial proposals. In truth, at the time of her baptism, Olga was an old woman, while Constantine had a wife.
Seven Latin sources document Olga's embassy to Emperor Otto I in 959 . The continuation of Regino of Prüm mentions that the envoys requested the Emperor to appoint a bishop and priests for their nation. The chronicler accuses the envoys of lies, commenting that their trick was not exposed until later. Thietmar of Merseburg says that the first archbishop of Magdeburg , before being promoted to this high rank, was sent by Emperor Otto to the country of the Rus (Rusciae) as a simple bishop but was expelled by pagans. The same data is duplicated in the annals of Quedlinburg and Hildesheim , among others.
Olga was one of the first people of Rus to be proclaimed saint, for her efforts to spread the Christian religion in the country. However, she failed to convert Svyatoslav , and it was left to her grandson and pupil Vladimir I to make Christianity the lasting state religion . During her son's prolonged military campaigns, she remained in charge of Kiev, residing in the castle of Vyshgorod together with her grandsons. She died soon after the city's siege by the Pechenegs in 968 .
Husband Ilus King of Troy
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2 M Laomedon King of Troy
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Husband Dorman Edwards
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1 F Sharon Edwards
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Husband Imanuentius King of the Trinovantes
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1 M Mandubracius King of the Trinovantes
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