Helvise Pantulf

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2. HELVISE . Her parentage is confirmed by Orderic Vitalis who records the donations made by "Guillelmus miles cognomento Pantol" and also that "Helvis soror eiusdem Guillelmi" donated "totum mariagium suum de Alberi-Vico" to "S. Petro"[28]. same person as…? daughter . Assuming that "nepotem" in the passage from Orderic Vitalis, quoted below, indicates nephew, it is likely that Robert de Cordai was the son of a sister of William Pantulf. If that is correct, it is also possible that he was the son of William’s sister Helvise, who is the only sibling mentioned in the same source.

m --- de Cordai, son of ---. One child: a) ROBERT de Cordaie (-after 1077). Orderic Vitalis records that "Willelmum Pantol et Rodbertum de Cordaio nepotem suum" accompanied "Rodbertus…abbas, frater Hugonis de Grentemaisnilio" to Apulia in 1077[29].