His parents are not known. His wife is not known.

His sister (NN) was likely the wife of Radbod, Bishop of Sees and mother of Guillaume Bonne-Âme, archevêque de Rouen. (Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Bonne-%C3%82me)

Children:

• Guillaume / William, Bishop of Evreux
• Anscher
• Robert
• Albert?
• Ermengarde, wife of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville
• Basilie, wife of Raoul de Gacé then of Hugh / Hugues de Gournay

In his 2013 book The King's Bishops: The Politics of Patronage in England and Normandy, 1066-1216, Everett U. Crosby writes, "In a scenario now familiar in Normandy, the Bishops of Evreux from the time of the Conquest throughout the twelfth century were men drawn from the royal household or from important aristocratic families. The last in line before 1066 was William Fleitel, whose place of origin was a barony established in the Hiemois early in the 11th century. Gerard Fleitel his father, described by Orderic Vitalis as one of the greatest lords in Normandy at the time of Duke Richard, was a major donor to the Abbey of St. Wandrille, and it was there that he retired as a monk to spend the last of his days. Of particular interest for our purposes was the relationship between Gerard and Radbod, Bishop of Sees, who was also descended from aristocratic parents, that came about either because Radbod married a sister of Gerard or because the wives of Gerard and Radbod were themselves sisters. William Bona ANima, therefore, as noted earlier, the son of Radbod and archbishop of Rouen in 1079, and Gerard's son William were first cousins. If "to know a duke is to know enough," then both Williams had been well-placed for promotion to high office. Orderic lists the three bishops of the adjacent dioceses: William of Evreux,, son of Gerard Fleitel, Hugh of Lisieux, son of William Count of Eu, and Ivo of Sees, son of William of Belleme, as "men of noble families who were skilled in the law.".... (p. 223-24)

Crosby goes on to note William of Evreux's sister Basilica, brother Anscherius, a brother Robert and possibly Albert. He also notes that Bishop William Giffard was a son of William Giffard and a daughter of Gerard Fleitel,

- http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/normacre.htm#_Toc492794582

GERARD Flaitel (-[1047]). “Ricardus princeps et dux Normannorum, filius Ricardi seniroris” donated “villam...Fontes in Braio...Brendelcurt cum ecclesia...æcclesiam de Nouobosco, æcclesiam de Bosmesnil...” to Saint-Wandrille, at the request of “Yvonis...militis”, by charter dated to [1024], subscribed by “Riccardi principis Normannorum, Papie comitisse, Roberti archipresulis fratris eiusdem principis, Yvonis militis...Hugonis Baiocensis episcopi, Girardi Flagitelli...”[703]. “Gerardus cognomento Pernotus videlicet Flagitellus”, gravely ill, donated “æcclesiarum Cambagi et Ulmiri et Avesnelle et Marculfiuille qui vulgo dicitur Boscgerard...et...in Longoilo villa” to Saint-Wandrille and became a monk there by charter dated to [1038/47], subscribed by “Willelmus episcopus, W. comitis de vicecomitis G., Anscherii, Rodberti filii G., H. filii Withsonis...”[704].

m ---, daughter of ---. The name of Gérard´s wife is not known. The wife of Gérard Flaitel may have been the sister of Radbod Bishop of Sées: Orderic Vitalis records that “Guillelmus Radbodi Sagiensis episcopi filius...consobrinus Guillelmi præsulis Ebroicensium, filii Girardi Fleitelli” succeeded Lanfranc “in Cadomensi ecclesia” when the latter was appointed archbishop of Canterbury, dated to 1070, adding that Gullaume was appointed archbishop of Rouen nine years later[705].

Gérard & his wife had [seven] children:

a) GUILLAUME Flaitel (-1066). Orderic Vitalis names "…Willermus episcopus Ebroicensis, filius Gerardi Fleitelli…" among the subscribers of a charter of Guillaume II Duke of Normandy dated to [1050][706]. Bishop of Evreux 1046. “Gerardus cognomento Pernotus videlicet Flagitellus”, gravely ill, donated “æcclesiarum Cambagi et Ulmiri et Avesnelle et Marculfiuille qui vulgo dicitur Boscgerard...et...in Longoilo villa” to Saint-Wandrille and became a monk there by charter dated to [1038/47], subscribed by “Willelmus episcopus, W. comitis de vicecomitis G., Anscherii, Rodberti filii G., H. filii Withsonis...”[707]. "Willelmus…Ebrocassine civitatis episcopus" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Wandrille, in memory of "patris mei Girardi" and for the souls of "fratrum meorum", by undated charter[708]. Orderic Vitalis records that, after the death of “Guillelmo Ebroicensium episcopo”, “Balduinus ducis capellanus” was appointed and was bishop for seven years, dated to 1070, and was in turn succeeded by “Gislebertus Osberni filius canonicus et archidiaconus Lexoviensis” who was bishop for more than 30 years[709].

b) ANSCHER Flaitel (-after [1047]). “...Anscherius filius Gerardi Flagitel...” subscribed the charter under which Guillaume Duke of Normandy donated the church of Arques to Saint-Wandrille, dated to [1035/55][710]. “Gerardus cognomento Pernotus videlicet Flagitellus”, gravely ill, donated “æcclesiarum Cambagi et Ulmiri et Avesnelle et Marculfiuille qui vulgo dicitur Boscgerard...et...in Longoilo villa” to Saint-Wandrille and became a monk there by charter dated to [1038/47], subscribed by “Willelmus episcopus, W. comitis de vicecomitis G., Anscherii, Rodberti filii G., H. filii Withsonis...”[711].

c) ROBERT Flaitel (-after [1047]). “Gerardus cognomento Pernotus videlicet Flagitellus”, gravely ill, donated “æcclesiarum Cambagi et Ulmiri et Avesnelle et Marculfiuille qui vulgo dicitur Boscgerard...et...in Longoilo villa” to Saint-Wandrille and became a monk there by charter dated to [1038/47], subscribed by “Willelmus episcopus, W. comitis de vicecomitis G., Anscherii, Rodberti filii G., H. filii Withsonis...”[712].

d) [son[s] (-[after 1047]). "Willelmus…Ebrocassine civitatis episcopus" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Wandrille, in memory of "patris mei Girardi" and for the souls of "fratrum meorum", by undated charter[713].]

e) [ALBERT . Guillaume of Jumièges records that “Avesgotus” invaded “Cambeiam super Albertum Girardi Fleitelli filium”, after Ives Bishop of Seés had expelled Avesgod and his brothers from the church of Saint-Gervais, and was killed[714]. It is not known whether “Albertum” in this passage represents an error for one of the other sons of Gérard Flaitel who are named above. No other reference to Albert has been found.]

f) ERMENGARDE . Guillaume de Jumièges records that "Galterium Giffardum primum” married “unam filiarum Girardi Flatelli”[715]. [The necrology of Longueville records the death 13 May of “domina Hermengauda comitissa condam hujus loci” and her confirmation of the donation made by “illos de Saukervilla” of “molendino de Longa Villa”[716]. It is not certain whether this entry refers to the wife of Gauthier Giffard or to the wife of his son Walter Giffard.] m GAUTHIER Giffard, son of OSBERN de Bolbec & his [first/second wife [Aveline] ---/Hawise ---] (-before 1085).

g) BASILIE (-16 Jan [1099/1100]). Guillaume de Jumièges records that "Galterium Giffardum primum” married “unam filiarum Girardi Flatelli” and that “alteram...Basiliam relictam Rodulphi de Waceio” married [secondly] “Hugo de Gornaco”[717]. "Domino meo Hugone Gurnacensi et filio eius Girardo et uxore eius Basilia" consented to the donation by "Radulfus cognomine Havoth" to Jumièges by charter dated to [1040][718], although presumably the document is misdated. Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury wrote to "Basiliæ amicæ Filiæ in Domino", dated to after 1093[719]. The Chronicon Beccensis Abbatiæ records that "tempore S. Anselmi abbatis Becci tres matronæ nobiles…Basilia uxor Hugonis de Gornaco, et Amfrida neptis ipsius Basiliæ, et Eva uxor Guillelmi Crispini" entered Bec and lived at the abbey, adding that they died on three consecutive Sundays "Amfrida Basiliæ neptis...minor...ætate, virgo…IV Non Jan, qua sepulta…Basilia domina eius…XVII Kal Feb…tertia Eva…X Kal Feb...post mortem...viri sui Guillermi Crispini...Beccique usque ad finem vitæ...perseuerauit"[720]. Gurney dates the passage to [1099/1100][721]. Henry II King of England confirmed the possessions of the abbey of Bec, including donations by "Hugonis de Gornaco et Girardi filii…Girardi de Gornaio et Basilie matris sue", by charter dated to [1181/89][722]. m firstly RAOUL de Gacé, son of ROBERT Comte d'Evreux Archbishop of Rouen [Normandy] & his mistress Herleva --- (-1051). m secondly HUGUES [III] Seigneur de Gournay, son of --- (- [1093]).

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Gerard Flaitel

• This article is based in part on a translation of the article fr:Gérard Flaitel from the French Wikipedia on 21 August 2012.

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Gerard Flaitel († c.?1047) was a Norman knight and a ' most powerful lord in Normandy at the time of the Richards' according to Orderic Vitalis.

Life

Gerard was a Norman baron with substantial estates in the Pays de Caux, the Hiemois, the Evrecin and Risle valley.[1] He was a vassal of William of Talou in Arques.[2]

In 1035, when Robert I, Duke of Normandy left on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Gerard Flaitel was one of his companions.[3] In the spring of 1035 the group left Normandy probably taking the favored route through the Danube river basin to Constantinople.[4] Duke Robert obtained permission for he and his retinue to continue on to Muslim-controlled Jerusalem.[4] In Turkey Robert paid the required mussella (pilgrim tax).[3] They arrived in time to spend Holy Week in Jerusalem.[3] On their return through Asia Minor, Duke Robert fell ill while they were in Nicaea, and died there about 2 July. As he lay dying Gerard was asked to take possession of a Holy relic Robert acquired in Jerusalem, reputedly a finger-bone of Saint Stephen, and to make a gift of it to the abbey or monastery of his choosing.[3] Gerard returned to Normandy and became a monk at the Abbey of St. Wandrille taking the relic with him.[3] He died after 1047.[5]

Family

While the name of his wife (or wives) is not known Gerard Flaitel had the following children:

• William Flaitel, Bishop of Évreux († 1066).[6]
• Ermengarde, wife of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville.[6]
• Basilla, wife of Ralph de Gacé, son of Robert, Archbishop of Rouen and secondly of Hugh de Gournay.[7]
• Anscherius[8]

References

1.Jump up ^ Véronique Gazeau, Normannia Monastica (xe–XIIe Siècle) (Caen : Publications du CRAHM, 2007), p. 492 2.Jump up ^ Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Trans. Robert Forester, Vol. I (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853), p. 400 3.^ Jump up to: a b c d e David Crouch, The Normans (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), p. 54 4.^ Jump up to: a b David Crouch, The Normans (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), p. 53 5.Jump up ^ David Douglas, 'The Norman Episcopate before the Norman Conquest', Cambridge Historical Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1957), p. 102 n. 15 6.^ Jump up to: a b Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III, Tielband 4 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1989), Tafel 695 7.Jump up ^ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166, Volume I, Domesday Book (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999), p. 263 8.Jump up ^ T.J. Pettigrew, 'On the House of Gournay', Collectanea Archæologica: Communications made to the British Archaeological Association, Vol. II (1871). p. 184

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