Husband Gundobad , King of Burgundy 1
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Died: 516
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Father: Gondioc , King of the Burgundians (Abt 0420-0473) 2 3
Mother: < > , [Sister of Ricimer] 4
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Wife
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1 M Sigismund , of Burgundy 5
Born:
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Died: 524
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Spouse: Ostrogotha (Abt 0475- ) 6 7
Marr: 494 or 496
2 M Godomar (details suppressed for this person)
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Research Notes: Husband - Gundobad , King of Burgundy
From Wikipedia - Gondioc :
Gundobad , the son of Gondioc, succeeded Ricimer in 472, but abdicated after the death of his father in the following year as Gondioc was succeeded by his brother Chilperic I . After the death of Chilperic, Burgundy was divided among the sons of Gondioc, Gundobad, Chilperic II of Burgundy , Godomar and Godegisel .
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From Wikipedia - Gundobad :
Gundobad, Patrician of the Western Roman Empire (472 -473 ) also became King of the Burgundians (473 -516 ), after his father Gundioc of Burgundy, though he had to fight off three brothers to seize his title.
When the former Patrician Ricimer , who had been the power behind the throne for the Western Empire , died in 472 , his nephew Gundobad seized the title. With his new power he elevated the current Count of the Domestics, Glycerius , to the position of Western Roman Emperor . Gundobad, however left office in 473, as his father, Gundioc, had died and he had inherited Burgundy along with his three brothers; Godegisel , Chilperic II and Gundomar .
But Gundobad was not content with his fractured portion of Burgundy, and turned against his brothers with hope of control over all the land.
In 486 he killed Gundomar, though little is known of this encounter.
In 493 he turned his sword against Chilperic, and drowned his wife. Gundobad exiled his two daughters, Chroma becoming a nun. The other, Clotilde , was found by the men of Clovis I , King of the Franks , who sent word to Gundobad, asking Clotilde's hand in marriage. Gundobad was too afraid to decline.
Gundobad's battle with Godegisel raged long. Unknowingly, both called upon Clovis trying to persuade him to join forces against the other. Clovis sided with Godegisel, who had offered him his pleasure of tribute and crushed Gundobad's force. Gundobad fled but King Clovis pursued him to Avignon . Gundobad feared the worst with Clovis's mighty army at the gates. But a man of wit called Aridius went from Gundobad to Clovis and charmed him into taking his advice, which was to spare Gundobad but force him into paying a yearly tribute.
Gundobad later broke his promise of tribute as he regained his power and besieged Godegisel, locked up in the city of Vienne . As famine devoured Vienne, Godegisel expelled the common people from the city for fear for himself. An outraged expelled artisan seeking vengeance on Godegisel went to Gundobad, and with his help he navigated the aqueduct and broke into the city. He murdered Godegisel in 501 in an Arian church along with the bishop.
Gundobad was now sole king of Burgundy. He made peace with the Franks, converted to Catholicism , and died peacefully succeeded by his son Sigismund in 516. He also had another son: Godomar . Godomar would succeed his brother after his death in 524.
Husband William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey 8 9
AKA: William de Warren 1st Earl of Surrey
Born: Abt 1055 - <Bellencombe, Seine Inferieure, France>
Christened:
Died: 20 Jun 1088 - <Lewes, Sussex, England>
Buried: - Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England
Father: Ralph de Warenne (Abt 0998- ) 8 9
Mother: Emma
Marriage:
Wife Gundred , Countess of Surrey 8 10
AKA: Gundrada
Born: Abt 1063 - <Flanders>
Christened:
Died: 27 May 1085 - Castle Acre, Acre, Norfolk, England
Buried: - Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England
Children
1 M William II de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey 11 8 12
AKA: William Earl of Warren and Surrey, William Earl Warenne, William Earl of Warenne
Born: Abt 1065 - <Sussex, England>
Christened:
Died: 11 May 1138 - <England>
Buried: - Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England
Spouse: Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (Abt 1081-1131) 13 14
Marr: Aft 1118
2 F Edith de Warenne (details suppressed for this person)
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3 M Reginald de Warenne
AKA: Reynold de Warenne
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Died: Bef 1118
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Research Notes: Husband - William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey
From Wikipedia - William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey : FamilySearch has b. abt. 1063 in Normandy.
Source: William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey by his father, after the death of Duke Henry V.
• Crowned, King of Germany, Easter Day 1028 - Cathedra of Aachen
by Pilgrim, Archbishop of Cologne
• Crowned, Holy Roman Emperor, 1046 - Rome, (Italy)
by Pope Clement II
From Wikipedia - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor : Source: Wikipedia - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Ancestral Roots has b. abt 933 in Fecamp, France.
From Wikipedia - Richard I, Duke of Normandy : First wife of Richard I - Danish wife. Then married Emma. After Emma died about 968, married Gunnora in a Christian marriage to legitimize their children. Semi-legendary king of Burgundy.
• Seigneur de St. Dizier
• Seigneur de Moëlan
• Seigneur de St. Just
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William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, (died 1088 ) was one of the Norman aristocrats who fought at the Battle of Hastings and became great landowners in England .
He was a son of Ralph de Warenne and Emma and a grandnephew of duchess Gunnor , wife of duke Richard I of Normandy . As a young man he helped secure duke William 's hold on Normandy , most notably in the campaigns of 1052 through 1054 which culminated in the Battle of Mortemer [1]. After this battle Roger de Mortemer forfeited most of his lands, and the duke gave them to William[2]. The de Warenne surname derives from the castle of that name on the River Varenne , which flows through the territory William acquired in Upper Normandy[3].
William was one of the nobles who advised duke William when the decision to invade England was being considered. He fought at Hastings[4], and afterwards received the Rape of Lewes in Sussex [5], and subsequently lands in twelve other shires. In addition to the cluster around Lewes, there were clusters around the castles he built at Castle Acre in Norfolk and Conisbrough in Yorkshire. By the time of the Domesday survey he was one of the wealthiest landholders in England.
William was loyal to William II [6], and it was probably in early 1088 that he was created Earl of Surrey [7]. He died shortly afterwards of wounds he received while helping suppress the rebellion of 1088 . At the time of his death, it has been estimated that his wealth was equivalent to £73.9 billion in today's money.
Family
He married twice:
Children of William and Gundred
Birth Notes: Wife - Gundred , Countess of Surrey
Research Notes: Wife - Gundred , Countess of Surrey
Sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.
From Wikipedia - Gundred :
Gundred, Countess of Surrey (died May 27 , 1085 ) was probably born in Flanders , sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester .[1]
Gundred married William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (d. June 20 , 1088 ), who rebuilt Lewes Castle , making it his chief residence. In 1078 he and Gundred founded a Cluniac Priory at Southover, adjoining Lewes , where both were buried.[2] [3]
The Countess had died at Castle Acre, Norfolk , one of her husband's estates.
In the course of the centuries which followed both tombstones disappeared from the priory but in 1774 William Burrell, Esq., an antiquary, discovered Gundred's in Isfield Church (seven miles from Lewes), over the remains of Edward Shirley, Esq., (d. 1550), whose father John was Clerk of the Kitchen to King Henry VII , and had it removed on October 2, 1775, to St. John's Church, Southover , the nearest place to its original site, and placed inside and at the south-west corner of the church, where, until 1847, it could be seen on the floor between pews with a very fine inscription detailing its origins etc.
In 1845, during excavations through the Priory grounds for the South Coast Railway, the lead chests containing the remains of the Earl and his Countess were discovered, and deposited temporarily, for the next two years, beneath Gundred's tombstone. In 1847 a Norman Chapel was erected by public subscription, adjoining the present vestry and chancel. Prior to re-interring the remains in this chapel, both cysts were opened to ascertain if there were any contents, which was found to be the case. New cysts were made and used, and the ancient ones preserved and placed in two recessed arches in the southern wall. Gundred's remains in a good state of preservation although the Earl's has lost some lead. Across the upper part of the right arch is the name Gvndrada. Her tombstone is of black marble.[4]
The children of William de Warenne and Gundred were:
Notes
^ She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis , as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey. Historically, she has been made a daughter of William the Conqueror by his spouse Matilda of Flanders , (Bannerman, vol.IV, p.207-209; Burke,The Royal Families vol.1, "Descendants of William the Conqueror", p.iv-v & pedigree LXVIII; Burke,The Roll of Battle Abbey, p.106; Barlow, pages 16 and 160) or of Matilda alone (Stapleton), but Waters and Freeman showed that this could not be supported (Waters, Freeman). See Chandler for an extensive discussion.
Husband Henry III "the Black" , Holy Roman Emperor 15 16
AKA: Heinrich III Holy Roman Emperor, Henry III "the Pious" Holy Roman Emperor
Born: 29 Oct 1017
Christened:
Died: 5 Oct 1056 - Bodfeld, Hartz
Buried:
Father: Conrad II "the Salic" , of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor ( -1039) 17
Mother: Gisele , of Swabia (0995-1043) 18
Marriage: - Nijmegen, (Netherlands)
Other Spouse: Agnes , of Poitou (Abt 1025-1077) 16 - 21 Nov 1043 - Ingelheim, Besançon
Noted events in his life were:
• Made, Duke of Bavaria as Henry VI, 1026
Wife Gunhilda , of Denmark
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1038 - Adriatic coast
Buried:
Father: Canute the Great , King of Denmark, England and Norway
Mother: Emma , of Normandy
Children
1 F Beatrice , Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim
Born: 1037
Christened:
Died: 13 Jul 1061
Buried:
Research Notes: Husband - Henry III "the Black" , Holy Roman Emperor
Henry III (29 October 1017 - 5 October 1056 ), called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors . He was the eldest son of Conrad II of Germany and Gisela of Swabia and his father made him duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI) in 1026, after the death of Duke Henry V . Then, on Easter Day 1028, his father having been crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Henry was elected and crowned King of Germany in the cathedral of Aachen by Pilgrim, Archbishop of Cologne . After the death of Herman IV, Duke of Swabia in 1038, his father gave him that duchy (as Henry I) as well as the kingdom of Burgundy , which Conrad had inherited in 1033. Upon the death of his father on June 4 , 1039 , he became sole ruler of the kingdom and was crowned emperor by Pope Clement II in Rome (1046).
Early life and reign
Henry's first tutor was Bruno , Bishop of Augsburg . On Bruno's death in 1029, Egilbert, Bishop of Freising , was appointed to take his place. In 1033, at the age of sixteen, Henry came of age and Egilbert was compensated for his services. In 1035, Adalbero , Duke of Carinthia , was deposed by Conrad, but Egilbert convinced Henry to refuse this injustice and the princes of Germany, having legally elected Henry, would not recognise the deposition unless their king did also. Henry, in accordance with his promise to Egilbert, did not consent to his father's act and Conrad, stupefied, fell unconscious after many attempts to turn Henry. Upon recovering, Conrad knelt before his son and exacted the desired consent. Egilbert was penalised dearly by the emperor.
In 1036, Henry was married to Gunhilda of Denmark . She was a daughter of Canute the Great , King of Denmark , England , and Norway , by his wife Emma of Normandy . Early on, Henry's father had arranged with Canute to have him rule over some parts of northern Germany (the Kiel ) and in turn to have their children married. The marriage took place in Nijmegen at the earliest legal age.
In 1038, Henry was called to aid his father in Italy (1038) and Gunhilda died on the Adriatic Coast , during the return trip (during the same epidemic in which Herman IV of Swabia died). In 1039, his father, too, died and Henry became sole ruler and imperator in spe. pcnr...
Children
By his first wife, Gunhilda of Denmark , he had:
By his second wife, Agnes , he had:
Sources
Research Notes: Wife - Gunhilda , of Denmark
Husband Uchtred , Lord of Galloway 19 20
AKA: Uchtred of Galloway
Born: Abt 1118 - <Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland>
Christened:
Died: 22 Sep 1174
Buried:
Father: Fergus , Lord of Galloway (Abt 1090-1161) 19 20
Mother: Elizabeth , Princess of England (Abt 1095- ) 20 21
Marriage: Abt 1156 - Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
Wife Gunnild , of Dunbar 20 22
Born: Abt 1134 - <Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland>
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Waltheof , Lord of Allerdale (Abt 1062-1138) 20 23
Mother: Sigrid (Abt 1075-Aft 1126) 24 25
Children
1 M Roland , Lord of Galloway 20 26
AKA: Roland of Galloway
Born: Abt 1164 - <Galloway, Perthshire, Scotland>
Christened:
Died: 19 Dec 1200 - Northamptonshire, England
Buried: - Abbey of Saint Andrew, Northamptonshire, England
Spouse: Elena de Morville (Abt 1172-1217) 25 27
Husband Richard I , Duke of Normandy 28 29 30 31
AKA: Richard I "Sans Peur" Duke of Normandy, Richard I "the Fearless" Duke of Normandy
Born: 28 Aug 933 - <Fécamp>, Normandy, (France)
Christened:
Died: 20 Nov 996 - Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
Buried: - Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
Father: William I "Longsword" , Duke of Normandy (Abt 0892-0942) 30 32 33
Mother: Sprote , de Bretagne (Abt 0911- ) 30 34
Marriage:
Other Spouse: < > , [Concubine of Richard I]
Other Spouse: Emma , of Paris ( -Abt 0968) - 960
Noted events in his life were:
• Named, his father's heir, 29 May 942
Wife Gunnora , de Crepon 30 35 36
AKA: Gonnor de Crepon
Born: Abt 936 - <Normandy, (France)>
Christened:
Died: Abt 1031 - France
Buried:
Children
1 F Emma , Princess of Normandy 37 38
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1052
Buried:
Spouse: Æthelred II "the Redeless" , King of England (Abt 0968-1016) 39 38 40
Marr: Abt 1002
Spouse: Canute , King of Denmark and England (living)
2 M Richard II , Duke of Normandy 41 42 43
AKA: Richard II "the Good" Duke of Normandy
Born: abt 0985 - Normandy, (France)
Christened:
Died: 28 Aug 1027 - Fécamp, Normandy, France
Buried: - Fécamp, Normandy, France
Spouse: Judith , of Brittany (Abt 0982-1017) 41 44 45
Marr: Abt 996 - Normandy, France
Spouse: Astrid , of Denmark (living)
Spouse: Poppa (living)
3 M Geoffrey , Count of Eu & Count of Brionne 30 46
AKA: Geoffroy Comte d'Eu et Brionne
Born: Abt 953 - <Brionne>, Normandy, (France)
Christened:
Died: Abt 1015
Buried:
Spouse: Haloise de Guînes (Abt 0942- ) 47
4 M Robert II d'Évreux, Count of Évreux 48
AKA: Robert de Normandie
Born: Abt 965 - Normandy, France
Christened:
Died: 1037
Buried:
Spouse: Harleve , of Rouen (Abt 0968- ) 48 49
Birth Notes: Husband - Richard I , Duke of Normandy
Research Notes: Husband - Richard I , Duke of Normandy
Richard I of Normandy (born 28 August 933 , in Fécamp Normandy , France died November 20 , 996 , in Fécamp) was the Duke of Normandy from 942 to 996; he is considered the first to actually have held that title. He was called Richard the Fearless (French, Sans Peur).
Birth
He was born to William I of Normandy , ruler of Normandy, and his wife, Sprota . He was still a boy when his father died in 942. His mother was a Breton concubine captured in war and bound to William by a Danish marriage. After William died, Sprota became the wife of Esperleng, a wealthy miller; Rodulf of Ivry was their son and Richard's half-brother.
Life
Richard was still a boy when his father died, and so he was powerless to stop Louis IV of France when he seized Normandy. Louis kept him in confinement in his youth at Lâon, but he escaped with the assistance of Osmond de Centville , Bernard de Senlis (who had been a companion of Rollo of Normandy ), Ivo de Bellèsme , and Bernard the Dane (ancestor of families of Harcourt and Beaumont ). In 968, Richard agreed to "commend" himself to Hugh, Count of Paris. He then allied himself with the Norman and Viking leaders, drove Louis out of Rouen, and took back Normandy by 947. He later quarrelled with Ethelred II of England regarding Viking invasions of England because Normandy had been buying up much of the stolen booty.
Richard was bilingual, having been well educated at Bayeux. He was more partial to his Danish subjects than to the French. During his reign, Normandy became completely Gallicized and Christianized. He introduced the feudal system and Normandy became one of the most thoroughly feudalized states on the continent. He carried out a major reorganization of the Norman military system, based on heavy cavalry. He also became guardian of the young Hugh, Count of Paris, on the elder Hugh's death in 956.
Marriages
He married 1st (960) Emma (not to be confused with Emma of France ), daughter of Hugh "The Great" of France , and Hedwiga de Sachsen . They were betrothed when both were very young. She died 19 Mar 968, with no issue.
According to Robert of Torigni , not long after Emma's death, Duke Richard went out hunting and stopped at the house of a local forester. He became enamoured of the forester's wife, Seinfreda, but she being a virtuous woman, suggested he court her unmarried sister, Gunnor , instead. Gunnor became his mistress, and her family rose to prominence. Her brother, Herefast de Crepon , may have been involved in a controversial heresy trial. Gunnor was, like Richard, of Norse descent, being a Dane by blood. Richard finally married her to legitimize their children:
Mistresses
Richard was known to have had several other mistresses and produced children with many of them. Known children are:
Death
He died in Fecamp , France on November 20 , 996 of natural causes.
Research Notes: Wife - Gunnora , de Crepon
Herfast de Crepon was her brother.
From Wikipedia - Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy :
Gunnora or Gunnor (c. 936-1031) was the wife and consort of Richard I of Normandy . Her parentage is unknown, earliest sources reporting solely that she was of Danish ancestry and naming siblings including brother Herfast de Crepon who is sometimes erroneously given as her father.
She was living with her sister Seinfreda, the wife of a local forester, when Richard, hunting nearby, heard of the beauty of the forester's wife. He is said to have ordered Seinfreda to come to his bed, but the lady substituted her unmarried sister, Gunnora. Richard, it is said, was pleased that by this subterfuge he had been saved from committing adultery, and the two became lovers. Gunnora long acted as Richard's mistress or wife by more danico , but when Richard was prevented from nominating their son Robert to be Archbishop of Rouen , the two were married, making their children legitimate in the eyes of the church.
Gunnora, both as mistress and duchess, was able to use her influence to see her kin favored, and several of the most prominent Conquest-era Norman magnates, including the Montgomery , Warenne , Mortimer , Vernon/Redvers , and Fitz Osbern families, were descendants of her brother and sisters.
Richard and Gunnora were parents to six children:
Birth Notes: Child - Richard II , Duke of Normandy
Husband Gunther , King of the Burgundians [Semi-legendary] 50 51
AKA: Gundahar King of the Burgundians, Gundahari King of the Burgundians, Gundicaire King of the Burgundians, Gundicar King of the Burgundians, Gundicus King of the Burgundians
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1 M Gondioc , King of the Burgundians 2 3
AKA: Gunderic King of the Burgundians, Gundioc King of the Burgundians, Gundioch King of the Burgundians, Gundowech King of the Burgundians
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Spouse: < > , [Sister of Ricimer] (living)
Research Notes: Husband - Gunther , King of the Burgundians [Semi-legendary]
From Wikipedia - Gunther :
Gunther (Gundahar, Gundahari, Latin Gundaharius or Gundicharius, Old English Gúðere, Old Norse Gunnarr, anglicised as Gunnar) is the German name of a semi-legendary king of Burgundy of the early 5th century . Legendary tales about him appear in Latin , medieval Middle High German , Old Norse , and Old English texts, especially concerning his relations with Siegfried (Sigurd in Old Norse) and his death by treachery in the hall of Attila the Hun .
Historical information
In AD 406 the Alans , Vandals , the Suevi , and possibly the Burgundians crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul . In 411 , the Burgundian king Gundahar or Gundicar set up a puppet emperor, Jovinus , in cooperation with Goar , king of the Alans. With the authority of the Gallic emperor that he controlled, Gundahar settled on the left or western (i.e. Roman) bank of the Rhine, between the river Lauter and the Nahe , seizing Worms , Speyer , and Straßburg . Apparently as part of a truce, the Emperor Honorius later officially "granted" them the land. Olympiodorus of Thebes also mentions a Guntiarios who was called "commander of the Burgundians" in the context of the 411 usurping of Germania Secunda by Jovinus. (Prosper, a. 386)
Despite their new status as foederati , Burgundian raids into Roman upper Gallia Belgica became intolerable and were ruthlessly brought to an end in 436 , when the Roman general Aëtius called in Hun mercenaries who overwhelmed the Rhineland kingdom (with its capital at the old Celtic Roman settlement of Borbetomagus , now called Worms) in 437. Gundahar was killed in the fighting, reportedly along with the majority of the Burgundian tribe. (Prosper; Chronica Gallica 452; Hydatius; and Sidonius Apollinaris)
Husband Guy I , Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil 53
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1 F Agnes 53
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Spouse: Robert II de Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (1056-1130) 54
Husband Guy I , Vicomte de Troyes 55
AKA: Gautier I de Moëlan
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Father: Thibaud , Seigneur de Dampierre ( -1107) 56
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• Seigneur de Dampierre
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1 F Helvis de Dampierre 58
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Spouse: Geoffroi IV de Joinville, Sénéchal of Champagne ( -1190) 59
Husband Guy II , of Ponthieu 60
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Father: William III Talvas, Count of Alençon & Ponthieu (Abt 1095-1172) 53 61
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1 M Jean I , Count of Ponthieu 64
AKA: John I of Ponthieu
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Research Notes: Husband - Guy II , of Ponthieu
Guy II of Ponthieu (c. 1120-1147), the son of William III of Ponthieu and Helie of Burgundy, succeeded his father as Count of Ponthieu during William's lifetime. He died on the Second Crusade and was succeeded by his son John I of Ponthieu .
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1 M Aeddan ap Gwaethfoed, Lord of Grismwnt (details suppressed for this person)
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