Robert de Mortain

1031 - 1090  (59 years)

• Name	Robert de Mortain  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Born	1031	Mortain, Manche, Avranches, France
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1055
  	Comte de Mortain et de Cornouaille (titre accordé par son demi-frère Guillaume de Normandie)
  Occupation	14 Oct 1066
  	In command of the Côtentin chivalry at the battle of Hastings
  Occupation	1067
  	Earl of Cornwall (Comes Moritoniensis)
  Occupation	1067
  	Received nearly all of Cornwall County as his share of the spoil
  Occupation	1069
  	Defeated the Danes near Lindsey with the help of Robert, Count of Eu
  Occupation	1088
  	Joined his brother (Earl of Kent) in a rebellion against William II in favor of Robert Courthose (subsequently pardoned)
  Property	Possessed 797 manors in various counties besides the borough of Pevensey in Sussex at the time of Domesday
  Died	8 Dec 1090	France
  Buried	Abbaye de Grestain (commune de Fatouville-Grestain), Normandie, France
  Person ID	I8753	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Herluin de Conteville,   b. Abt 1001, Conteville, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France ,   d. Abt 1066, France  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Herlève de Falaise,   b. Abt 1003, Falaise, Calvados, Normandie, France ,   d. Aft 1062  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Married	Abt 1029
  Family ID	F4458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Matildis de Montgomery,   b. Abt 1045, St-Germain-de-Montgomery, Calvados, Normandie, France ,   d. 1082, Abbaye de Grestain (commune de Fatouville-Grestain), Normandie, France  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	Abt 1060	France
  Children	1. Emma de Mortain,   b. Abt 1060, Mortain, Manche, Avranches, France ,   d. 1080  (Age ~ 20 years)   2. Denise de Mortain,   b. Abt 1062, France   3. Agnès de Mortain,   b. Abt 1070, Mortain, Manche, Avranches, France   4. Dame de Mortain,   b. Abt 1075
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F4459	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

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