Anquetil, Seigneur d'Harcourt

Not the same as Anschitil de Turville

Anquetil, ou Anchetil, seigneur d'Harcourt, chevalier, est le fils de Turquetil d'Harcourt et d'Anceline de Montfort.

Il prend le nom d'Harcourt, seigneurie qui avait été donnée par Rollon à son arrière-grand-père Bernard le Danois, et le transmet à sa postérité.

Il fait une donation à l'abbaye de Fécamp et assiste, avec son père, à celle faite à l'abbaye Notre-Dame de Bernay par Judith de Bretagne, duchesse de Normandie, en 1024. (translation of above) Anquetil, or Anchetil, Lord of Harcourt, knight, was the son of Turquetil d’Harcourt and Anceline de Montfort.

He took the name of Harcourt, seigneurie which had been given by Rollo to his great-grandfather Bernard the Dane, and transmitted it to his posterity.

He made a donation to the abbey of Fecamp and assisted, with his father, the one made to the Abbey of Our Lady of Bernay by Judith of Brittany, Duchess of Normandy in 1024.

Descendance

De son mariage avec Ève de Boissey, dame de Boissey-le-Châtel, il eut huit enfants, dont quatre prirent part à la conquête de l'Angleterre en 1066 et certains s'y établirent :

• Errand d'Harcourt, seigneur d'Harcourt, participe à la conquête de l'Angleterre aux côtés de Guillaume le Conquérant
• Robert Ier d'Harcourt, seigneur d'Harcourt, bâtisseur du château d'Harcourt, participe à la conquête de l'Angleterre
• Jean d'Harcourt
• Arnould d'Harcourt, participe à la conquête de l'Angleterre et y est tué lors d'un combat contre les Danois sur la côte Est
• Gervais d'Harcourt
• Yves d'Harcourt, participe à la conquête de l'Angleterre et s'y établit
• Renaud d'Harcourt
• Agnès d'Harcourt, dame de Formeville (Fort-Moville) (from wikipedia.fr)

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Anchetil was the first to assume the name of Harcourt from the bourg of Harcourt, near Brionne.

Anquetil (Anchetil), assumed the name of Harcourt, Sire de Harcourt, occurs Charter Bernay, 1014, very young. He married Eve de Boessey-le-Chapel. They had the following children:

• 1. Errand (Anguerrand) de Harcourt, successor to his father, attended William the Conqueror at Hastings, and he returned to Normandy in 1078. See Crispin and Macary, pg. 14.
• 2. Robert I. de Harcourt le Fort. See below.
• 3. Jean de Harcourt.
• 4. Arnoul de Harcourt.
• 5. Gervais de Harcourt.
• 6. Yves de Harcourt.
• 7. Renaud de Harcourt.

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Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harcourt-18

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical, pg 430. < GoogleBooks >

"The said Turghetil was Lord of Turquevile, Turqueray, &c. and joint guardian and governor, with his said elder brother, Touroude, to William Duke of Normandy, as before taken notice of; and at last basely murdered for his attachment to that prince. He married Adeline de Montfort, sister of Toustain Lord of Montfort sur Risle ; and by her had Anchitel, his heir; Walter de Turqueville; and Lesseiine, the wife of William Earl of Eu, Exmes, and Montreuil."

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

"This was a family of major importance in the central midlands, and was first to be found in Normandy before 1066 where sources deriving from the abbey of Bec-Hellouin identify one Anschetil as lord of Harcourt (Eure) and as a close cousin of the magnate family known as the Beaumonts, lords of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont-Audemer. His son Robert fitz Anschetil (d. in or before 1118) held a large barony from the Beaumonts."

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jweber -- The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest < rootsweb >

Anchetil Sire de Harcourt was born ABT 991 in Harcourt, Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France, and died ABT 1024. He married Eve de Boessy. He was the son of Turchetil de Harcourt and Adeline de Montfort.

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< “Lords and Counts of Harcourt“ > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When the Viking chieftain Rollo obtained via the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte the territories which would later make up Normandy, he distributed them as estates among his main supporters. Among these lands were the seigneurie of Harcourt, near Brionne, and the county of Pont-Audemer, both of which Rollo granted to Bernard the Dane, ancestor of the lords (seigneurs) of Harcourt. The first to use Harcourt as a name, however, was Anquetil d'Harcourt at the start of the 11th century.

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< “The first lords of Harcourt” > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first seigneurs of Harcourt from the early 11th to 13th centuries:

• Bernard the Dane, companion of Rollo, governor and regent of the duchy of Normandy until the death of William I, Duke of Normandy (942)
  • Torf
    • Turquetil (960–1020s), son of Torf and of Ertemberge of Briquebec. William the Conqueror's governor during his minority.
      • Anquetil of Harcourt, son of Turquetil and of Anceline of Montfort, was the first seigneur of Harcourt known under this title. In 1066, he accompanied William the Conqueror on his conquest of England, obtaining lands in England. His possessions stretched along both sides of the English Channel. He married Ève of Boissey.
        • Errand of Harcourt, seigneur of Harcourt, participated in the conquest of England on the side of William the Conqueror

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Anchetel, Sire de Harcourt, being lord of the place, was the first to assume the surname of Harcourt. Of his seven sons, the eldest, Anguerrand, or Errand de Harcourt, attended William, Duke of Normandy, at the Conquest, and returned to Normandy in 1078.

There is a detailed pedigree of the Harcourt Family of Normandy in Table XI. in Crispin and Macary, and also pages 14 and 93-94. Refer to Burke, pg. 261-262. A History of the family of Harcourt by William Harcourt-Bath publ 1931

The following material from Crispin and Macary (pg. 14) was derived from G. A. La Roque, "Hist. Geneal. Maison de Harcourt" and other sources:

"Errand de Harcourt. This family is one of the most illustrious in both France and England. Errand is mentioned by La Roque, the French historian of this great house, Pere Anselm, and other genealogists, as the personage referred to by Wace which reads "sire de Herervourt was there also, riding a very swift horse." They are supported in this conclusion by Le Prevost, as he favors Anchetil, the father of Errand, or Robert, his younger brother. The burden of opinion is, however, against this eminent historian. Turquetil, seigneur de Turqueville, and de Tanqueraye, about 1001, appears in several charters concerning the abbeys of Fecamp and Bernay. He was lord of Neufmarche-en-Lions, governor of the boy duke, William, and was treacherously assassinated between 1035 and 1040 by hirelings of Raoul de Gace. Turquetil was the second son of Torf, the son of Bernard the Dane, which latter was governor and regent of Normandy in 912, from whom descended the sires de Beaumont, comtes de Meulent, the barons of Cacelles and Saint-Pare, the lords of Gournay and Milly, the barons of Neubourg, the vicomtes of Evereux, the Earls of Leicester, and many other noble French and English houses. Turquetil married Anceline, sister of Toustain, seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle, and had issue: Anchetil, and Walter de Lescelina who married Beatrice, abbess of Montivilliers, natural daughter of Robert I., Duke of Normandy, as well as Leceline de Turqueville, the wife of William, comte d'Exmes (later(d'Eu), an illegitimate son on the same duke. Anchetil was the first to assume the name of Harcourt from the bourg of Harcourt, near Brionne, and married Eve de Boessey-le-Chapel, by whom he had seven sons and one daughter. The eldest was Errand, who predeceased his father, and was succeeded by Robert as head of the house. Jean, Arnoul, Gervais, Yves, and Renauld were the other sons. Errand de Harcourt commanded the archers of Val de Ruel at the battle of Hastings, but returned to Normandy in 1078 and probably died soon after. His younger brother, Robert, who accompanied him to the conquest, was the ancestor of this distinguished family."

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D. SEIGNEURS d’HARCOURT, COMTES d’HARCOURT

Sources relating to the Harcourt family were published by La Roque in the 17th century[916]. The work is disappointing and compares unfavourably to similar studies, for instance, by Duchesne. Many of the documents in the “Preuves”, at least for the earlier generations of the family, are manuscript transcriptions for which source references are not provided. They are in most cases undated, but from the style and language many appear to be 16th and early 17th century copies. Other “sources” quoted by La Roque are clearly summaries of other documents, whose accuracy cannot be verified. Another problem with La Roque’s work is his long lists of children attributed to the heads of the Harcourt family in the 12th and 13th centuries, whose names are uncorroborated by source material (either his own “Preuves” or other sources). These names have not been included in the reconstruction shown below unless their parentage has been corroborated by primary source documentation. The tables showing the early generations of the Harcourt family in Europäische Stammtafeln appear to assume that the parentage of all these children is correctly reported by La Roque[917]. The branch of the family which settled in England (see UNTITLED ENGLISH NOBILITY D-K) is virtually ignored by La Roque.

1. ANSCHETIL d’Harcourt . Guillaume de Jumièges records that “Turulfo de Ponte-Audomari...filius...Torf” was the brother of “Turchetillus pater Anschetilli de Harecurt”[918].

m ---. The name of Anschetil’s wife is not known. The charter dated 13 Jan 1103, under which “Philippus de Braosa” confirmed agreement with the abbey of Fécamp witnessed by “ex parte Philippi, Robertus frater eius, Anchetilli filius...”[919], suggests that Anschetil’s widow may have married, as her second husband, Guillaume [I] de Briouse (-[11 Dec 1093/1095]). Anschetil & his wife had [three] children:

a) [ERRAND (-after 1078). La Roque does not quote any contemporary primary sources which name Errand. Père Anselme says that “Errand de Harcourt seigneur de Boeffey-le-Chatel” is called “seigneur, sire et baron de Harcourt” in “plusieurs histoires” [unspecified] which record that he took part in the Norman invasion of England in 1066[920]. Seigneur d’Harcourt.] [m as her first husband, EMMA d’Estouteville, daughter of ROBERT [I] d’Estouteville & his wife [Beatrix ---] (-bur Saint-Evroul[921]). La Roque states that “une généalogie de la maison d’Estouteville” names Errand’s wife as “Emme et la comprend entre ceux du sang...[de] Robert d’Estouteville”, suggesting that she was the same person who later married “Hugues de Grentesmesnil”[922]. The passage is somewhat garbled and in any case La Roque does not provide a citation reference to the source in question or quote it in his “Preuves”. It is suggested that, until further documentation comes to light, this supposed marriage of Errand should be treated with caution. She married secondly as his second wife, Robert de Grantmesnil. She is named as second wife of Robert de Grantmesnil by Orderic Vitalis, who also names her father[923].]

b) ROBERT d’Harcourt (-before 1118). Seigneur d’Harcourt, de Cailleville, de Beauficel et de Boissey-le-Châtel. Père Anselme says that Robert built the castle of Harcourt (undated)[924]. “Philippus de Braosa” confirmed agreement with the abbey of Fécamp by charter dated 13 Jan 1103 which names "Willielmus Philippi pater", and is witnessed by “ex parte Philippi, Robertus frater eius, Anchetilli filius...”[925]. m AGNES, daughter of --- (-after 1148). Her name is confirmed by the charter dated 1148 under which [her son] “Willielmus de Harvecurt” donated “totam terram Stantunie” to Garendon abbey (Leicestershire), with the consent of “Yvonis fratris mei et Agnetis matris mee”[926]. Robert & his wife had [eight] children: …

c) [WILLIAM FitzAnschetil . A charter of King Henry II records donations to York St Mary, including the donation of “unum molendinum juxta Bunebroc, Colegrim…et…in Beltona” by “Willielmus Aschetilli filius”[942].]