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♀Herleve (surname unknown)
Dates not yet known.
Herleve was the daughter of a skinner of Falaise in Normandy, and the mother of William the Conqueror by Robert of Normandy, Duke of the Normans. She was the twenty-eighth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Adelaide of Normandy.
Life
Her father is named as Fulbert, or Robert, a skinner (pelliparius) of Falaise. She was the Duke’s mistress, not his wife. Her son William became Duke of Normandy and later King of England. Adelaide of Normandy is said to have been her daughter by Robert, and it is through Adelaide that Nancy Jane Blanchard descends from her.
Notes
Adelaide as her daughter
The Complete Peerage (new edition, vol. 1, Aumale, p. 351) gives Adelaide as the illegitimate daughter of Robert, Duke of the Normans, by Herleve, and a sister of William the Conqueror; the first edition (vol. 1, p. 54) agrees. It cites no record of her birth, so the grade is compiled.
Her father’s name
The same entry gives him as “Fulbert or Robert”, so his name is not settled.
Dates
The Complete Peerage entry gives no birth or death date for Herleve.
Family time line
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living at | abt 1005 | Falaise, Calvados, Normandie, France | on record |
Sources
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org) - articles on medieval royal and noble ancestors, read s1409 — Living at, about this person
- Cokayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs, vol. 1, Ab-Adam to Basing (London: St Catherine Press, 1910) — about this person, family with Robert of Normandy
Borders as they stood about 1500, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.
Line of descent
- Fulbert of Falaise
- not yet known