William the Conqueror's Uncle Walter

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William the Conqueror's Uncle Walter

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David C. Douglas' *William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England*
(University of California Press, 1964), Appendix A, p. 381, adds a few
details and sources for Herleva's relatives.

Herleva had 2 brothers, Walter & Osbern (the latter's existence apparently
known from a single charter: Ferdinand Lot, Etudes critiques sur l'abbaye de
Saint-Wandrille [1912], no. 17). For Walter as "avunculi comitis," see
Recueil des Actes des Ducs de Normandie (911-1066), ed. M. Fauroux (1961),
no. 134

Walter was one of William's guardians in the young duke's difficult early
career and is said on one occasion to have saved the boy's life by taking
him from his bed and hiding him for safety's sake in the dwellings of poor
people (Ordericus Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. A. Le Prevost & L.
Delisle, 5 vols. [Paris, 1838-1855], 3: 229).

Walter had two daughters. Clara was a nun at Montivilliers (Gallia
Christiana, 11, instrumenta col. 329). Matilda married Raoul or Ralph
Tesson [sic]: Gallia Christiana, 11, instrumenta col. 65a.

Douglas does not describe Matilda's Tesson descendants but states that the
Tessons "were a very considerable family in Middle Normandy, and this
marriage further illustrates the advancement of Herleve's relatives [p.
381]."

John P.

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