Hugues d'Eu, Bishop of Lisieux

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Hugues d'Eu, Bishop of Lisieux

Birthdate:
Death: July 17, 1077
Lisieux, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France
Place of Burial: Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
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Son of William I, count of Eu and Lesceline de Tourville, Countess of Eu
Brother of Robert fitz Guillaume, comte d'Eû; Pons FitzWilliam; William II Busac d'Eu, comte d'Eu, comte de Soissons in jure uxoris; Margaret d'Eu and Beatrice d'Eu

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About Hugues d'Eu, Bishop of Lisieux

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son of Guillaume de Normandie [illegitimate son of RICHARD I "Sans Peur" Comte de Normandie & his mistress --- (978-1057)] and Lesceline de Tourville

HUGUES d'Eu (-17 Jul 1077, bur Lisieux Sainte-Marie). Guillaume of Jumièges names “Rodbertum...Willelmum Suessionensem comitem atque Hugonem Luxoviensem præsulem” as the three sons of “ducis uno ex patre fratrem progenitum...Willelmum” and his wife “Lezscelinam...filiam...Turchetilli”[2301]. An undated charter, dated to [1049], records that "Lezelina comitissa…cum filiis suis" was expelled "de castro Ou" and donated land on the banks of the Seine to Sainte-Trinité de Rouen, with the consent of "filiis suis Hugone, Willelmo, Rotberto"[2302]. He is named as brother of Robert Comte d'Eu by Orderic Vitalis[2303]. Bishop of Lisieux . Orderic Vitalis records that “Hugo Willermi Aucensis comitis filius” was bishop of Lisieux[2304]. Robert of Torigny's De Immutatione Ordinis Monachorum records that "Lecelina comitissa Aucensis relicta Willermi comitis" founded "mon. Sancti Petri super Divam virorum et mon. fem. ante urbem Lexoviensem" with "filiis suis Roberto comite Aucensi et Hugone episcopo Lexoviensi"[2305]. Orderic Vitalis records the death “XVI Kal Aug” 1077 of "Hugo Lexoviensis episcopus" while he was being carried from Pont-l’Evêque to Lisieux, the dispute about his place of burial, and his eventual burial at Lisieux Sainte-Marie in the presence of “Roberto Aucensi comite...germanus eius”[2306].

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1045
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1077
July 17, 1077
Age 32
Lisieux, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France
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Lisieux Sainte-Marie, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France