The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

of Eu · ◉ direct ancestor

Nobility

♂William of Eu

Dates not yet known.

William of EuW was Count of EuW in Normandy and lord of Hastings in England, a great baron of the generation after the Conquest. He was the twenty-sixth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Henry of Eu (died 1140).

William was the second son of Robert, Count of EuW, but the elder to survive, and so succeeded to his father’s lands. He is recorded as holding an extensive honor in England by the time of Domesday BookW in 1086. His first rising against King William IIW came in 1088. The king won him over in 1093 with bribes and promises, but in 1095 he joined Robert de Mowbray’s plot to kill the king and put the Count of Aumale on the throne. At the Council of Salisbury in January 1095/6 he was charged with treason as one of the conspirators.

William married twice. His first wife was Beatrice de Builly, a sister of Roger de Builly, lord of Tickhill, and their son Henry succeeded him as Count of Eu. He probably married a second time, to Helisende.

Notes

Sources

William’s parentage, his honor in 1086, his rebellions of 1088 and 1095, the charge at Salisbury and his two marriages are given in the Complete Peerage (2nd edition, vol. 5, 1926, under Eu, pp. 153–156), which numbers him third among the Counts of Eu. Its later addenda (vol. 14, p. 311) make the second marriage only probable and leave Helisende’s parentage unknown, where the 1926 entry had called her a sister of Hugh, Earl of Chester. The entry is a compiled one, and the descent from him to Nancy Jane Blanchard rests on the compiled pedigrees that carry the line back through Henry of Eu.

Family time line

◉ William of Eu, Count of Eu
◉ Beatrice de Builly, Countess of Eu
No marriage recorded
◉ Henry of Eu, Count of Eu –1140

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?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
Title (Nobility)
Count of Eu; Lord of Hastings (Complete Peerage, vol. v (1926) EU pp.153-156 - Count William No. 3; Sully; Champagne)
 from a compiled source

Sources

  • Cokayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs et al., vol. 5 (London: St Catherine Press, 1926) — Title (Nobility), about this person, family with Beatrice de Builly

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Henry of Eu –1140
    1. John of Eu
      1. Henry of Eu –1183
        1. Alice of Eu