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Elias married in 1127 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gifford, Matilda was born in 1125 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England; died on 19 Jun 1227 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England.

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• Nickname: Helias
• FSID: M85X-27H

Elias married Devereux, Ala in 1099 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England. Ala (daughter of Devereux, Count Walter I and de Ewrus, Philippa) was born in 1065 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1121 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L786-G4G

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• FSID: 9CZK-FK2
• Name: Osbern Giffard
• Name: Osbern Giffard

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• Appointments / Titles: Earl of Roumare
• Nickname: The Fortunate
• FSID: LDL4-HYW

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geni.com

Gautier Walter Evreux (d'Evreux)
Also Known As: "Walter", "De Ewrus", "Evereux", "of Rosmar", "Walter "the Fortunate" d'Evreux"
Birthdate: 1033
Birthplace: Rosmar, Normandy, France
Death: 1070 (36-37)
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Father of
Gerold Le Gros;
Ala d'Evereaux;
Robert d'Evreux (le Devereux) and
Philippa d'Evereux

Walter married de Ewrus, Philippa in 1055 in France. Philippa was born in 1037 in Roumare, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died in 1066 in Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England; Countess of Ewrus
• FSID: G49N-2JZ
• Name: Philippa de Normandie
• Birth: 1027, Roumare, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
• Death: 1060, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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Philippa d'Evreux
Born about 1037 in Rosimar, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Daughter of Richard (Normandie) Normandy and Adèle (Capet) Flandre
Wife of Walter (Evreux) d'Evreux — married 1055 in Francemap
Mother of Edward (Evreux) of Salisbury, Robert (Evreux) Ebrois and Philippa (Evreux) de Brampton
Died 1066 in Herefordshire, England
Per Wikitree.com

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• Appointments / Titles: Baron of Normandy
• Appointments / Titles: Longueville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; Lord
• FSID: 9ZCG-TZ1
• Life Event: 1066, Hastings, Sussex, England; Companion of William the Conqueror

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From LifeSketch

Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, Normandy (a.k.a. 'Giffard of Barbastre'), was a Norman baron, a Tenant-in-chief in England, a Christian knight who fought against the Saracens in Spain during the Reconquista and was one of the 15 or so known Companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Life
Walter[a] was the son of Osborne de Bolbec, Lord of Longueville and Avelina,[b] sister of Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy. As such he was a cousin of William the Conqueror.

From the mid 1040s Walter's name appears among the loyal supporters of William the Conqueror. Walter was at the Battle of Mortemer and was among the Norman barons who surprised and defeated Counts Odo and Renaud leading the French contingent attacking Normandy from the east. In particular, he and another great vassal Robert of Eu encountered Odo's army encamped in the village of Mortemer with no sentries and the soldiers were drunk. The Normans attacked the French while they slept, most being either killed or taken prisoner. While Odo himself escaped, when King Henry I learned of the fate of his brother Odo's army he promptly withdrew his remaining forces and left Normandy. In 1054 Walter was in charge of maintaining the siege of Arques castle, against William of Talou, who had rebelled against the Conqueror.
Like many other Norman and French knights during the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, Walter served as a Christian knight in Spain (c. 1064-65) against the Saracens. His epithet le Barbastre[c] was earned when he took part in the Siege of Barbastro, an undertaking sanctioned by Pope Alexander II against the Moors in 1064, one of the more famous exploits of that time. By the time of the Conquest, Walter had returned to Normandy bearing a gift of the King of Spain for Duke William, a magnificent war-horse. The same Spanish war-horse duke William called for on the morning of the Battle of Hastings. The Spanish king in question was in all probability Sancho Ramírez of Aragon (1063–94) who was known for making friends and recruiting knights and soldiers from Northern France. Walter was also one of the first, if not the first in England to go on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, which he did after the siege of Barbastro and before returning to Normandy.

In early January of 1066, after Duke William received news of the crowning of Harold Godwinson as king of England, he called together a meeting that included six of his key magnates, Walter Giffard being one of them. After telling them of his plan to invade England and take the crown they all advised him they supported him fully but suggested he call a meeting of all his vassals, which William did. In the preparation stage for the Battle of Hastings, Walter was one of the Norman magnates who provided ships for William's invasion fleet. In his case, he provided thirty. Walter was one of two who, having been offered the privilege of carrying William's standard in the battle, respectfully refused. Although by this time an older warrior with white hair, he wanted both hands free to fight. As a reward for his participation, Walter was granted the feudal barony of Long Crendon, comprising 107 manors, 48 of which were in Buckinghamshire, of which the caput was at Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire. The date of his death is not recorded, but his son Walter succeeded him before 1085.
Family
Walter was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel. Walter and Ermengarde were the parents of:
Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.
William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester.
Rohese Giffard (d. aft. 1113), married Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare.
Lora Giffard, married Sir Robert de Hampden.
Notes
This Walter has been confused with his son, Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham. Orderic confused reports of father and son while Freeman, not realizing that the elder Walter had died in the lifetime of the Conqueror, assumed William Rufus had created the first Walter as earl of Buckingham when in fact it was his son Walter who became the first earl. See: Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol 8, Ed. John Parker (Aylesbury: G.T. de Fraine, "Bucks Herald" Office, 1903), pp. 289-293.
Robert of Torigni calls her Weva, The Complete Peerage, Vol II, 386 note (a) states she was Avelina, and both were names of sisters of Gunnora, but it remains uncertain which was which. Also Europäische Stammtäfeln II, 695 calls her Weva.

As examples of some of the pitfalls found in translations of earlier works, Walter Giffard’s epithet de Barbastre appears in a verse by Geoffrey Gaimar. The first of his English translators guessed that De Barbastre referred to Walter being a barber. Geoffrey's second translator thought de Barbastre was a reference somehow to Walter's cousin, William the Conqueror, being a bastard. In fact, 'Walter de Barbastre' was an honorific gained at the successful siege of Barbastro in Aragon, near Saragossa. See: Archer, 'Giffard of Barbastre', EHR, 18, 70 (1903), pp. 304-05; Lomax, 'The First English Pilgrims ot Santiago de Compostela', Studies in Medieval History: Presented to R.H.C.Davis Ed. Henry Mayr-Harting, Hambldeon (1985), 165-176.

Walter married Flaitel, Agnès Ermengarde. Agnès (daughter of Fleitel, Gerard d'Ecouche) was born on 5 Sep 1014 in Longueville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1108 in Longueville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; was buried in 1108 in St Marys and St Chad Churchyard, Brewood, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Per Wikipedia.org: see WALTER GIFFARD II, 1ST EARL OF BUCKINGHAM--Walter was married to Agnes de Ribemont, sister of Anselm de Ribemont.
Walter Giffard I, Count of Longueville was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel.

Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.
William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester.
Rohese Giffard (d. aft. 1113), married Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare.
Lora Giffard, married Sir Robert de Hampden.

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• Appointments / Titles: Count of Évreux
• FSID: GHXD-WF2

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William d'Évreux
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William was a son of Robert II Archbishop of Rouen and Count of Évreux and Herlevea. As a member of the comital dynasty of Évreux, he was probably a supporter of Duke William during his consolidation of control in Normandy. He may also have been a member of the clergy as later generations of Devereux were hereditary chaplains to King Henry and King Stephen, and identified as members of the early form of the Exchequer in Normandy.[a] The Devereux family had lands at Lieuvin and Baiocasino in the pays d'Auge.[b]

William married, c. 1040, Hawisa d'Échauffour, widow of Robert de Grandmesnil and daughter of Giroie, Lord of Échauffour and Gisle de Montfort-sur-Risle.[c] Orderic Vitalis names her, gives her parentage, her two husbands and seven children: six by her first marriage, one by her second to William. Hawise eventually retired to become a nun at Montivilliers along with two of Judith's half-sisters. Together William and Hawisa had a daughter:

Judith d'Évreux († 1076), married Roger I of Sicily
The Devereux family in England which gave rise to the Viscounts of Hereford claims descent from the Norman family of d'Évreux. As William d'Évreux's older siblings are well documented to have had no surviving male heirs, William provides the only potential source of this connection. One source claims that William, by an unidentified woman, was the father of:

William Devereux, he married Helewysa de Lacy
Roger Devereux
Notes
Gilbert Devereux was precentor of Rouen Cathedral, chaplain to Henry I, and treasurer of Normandy. He died in the mid-1120's, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William Devereux. William retired from the court to become Prior of Sainte-Barbe in 1128, and was followed by his brother, Robert Devereux, who was treasurer into Stephen's reign. Gilbert had 5 sons all of whom were involved with the treasury, and two followed their brother to Saint-Barbe.
Lands here were granted to the Priory of Sainte-Barbe by William Devereux for the soul of his father, Gilbert, before 1133, and the grant was confirmed by King Stephen in 1137. These lands were in the same region as d'Evreux's brother, Ralph de Gacé, Sire de Gace.
The necrology of the monastery of Ouche records the death "10 May" of "Haudvisa mater Hugonis de Grentesmesnil".

William married de Echafour, Hawise in 1040. Hawise (daughter of de Echafour, Giroie and de Bastembourg, Gisela) was born in 1007 in Échauffour, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1070 in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Countess
• FSID: 9Q3G-4V9