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    St William of Breteuil or William de Breteuil (French: Guillaume de Breteuil; d. 12 January 1103) was a Norman abbot and magnate who held extensive lands...
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    William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Breteuil (c. 1011 – 22 February 1071), was a relative and close counsellor of William the Conqueror...
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    body. William's younger brother, Henry, hastened to Winchester to secure the royal treasury (initially defended by the Norman St William of Breteuil in deference...
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  • Matilda, William Adelin, Sybilla, Queen of Scots and Robert of Gloucester. Juliane was married to Eustace of Breteuil, the illegitimate son of William of Breteuil...
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    Duchess of Brittany. Juliane, wife of Eustace of Breteuil, possibly born to Ansfrida; Mabel, wife of William Gouet; Constance, Viscountess of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe;...
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  • de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1056 – after 1087), succeeded in 1071 to the earldom of Hereford and the English estate of his father, William Fitz-Osbern...
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    men, many of them the sons of William's supporters. Included among them were Robert of Belleme, William de Breteuil, and Roger, the son of Richard fitzGilbert...
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  • of treason in 1107 Hugh III de Montfort, Lord of Haughley (d. before 1100) Adeline de Montfort-sur-Risle, married William of Breteuil, eldest son of William...
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    into Breteuil. During the Middle Ages, Breteuil was the seat of a lordship in the duchy of Normandy. Its lord William FitzOsbern was a companion of William...
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    l'Espagnol de Toeni. Adelise de Toeni married Guillaume Fils Osbern. William of Breteuil, who succeeded his father in Normandy. He was held captive and tortured...
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    succeeded his father as Seigneur de Gael. He claimed Breteuil after the death of his uncle William de Breteuil in 1103, but died shortly thereafter, according...
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  • and Feasts of the Liturgical Year. Georgetown University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-87840-399-8. Johnston, William M. (2013). Encyclopedia of Monasticism...
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  • Curthose in 1088. In 1090, he fought against William of Breteuil and his half-brother William, Count of Évreux, sealing a victory when he captured the...
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    Emma de Breteuil, and later Emma de Guader (died after 1096), was a Norman noblewoman, the wife of Ralph de Guader and the daughter of William FitzOsbern...
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    Welsh Kingdom of Gwent. However, the attacks in south-east Wales "faltered badly when [the earl of Hereford’s] son [Roger de Breteuil]... forfeited his...
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  • Minister Breteuil comes upon an anxious Boehmer on his way to the Cardinal's estate. The Cardinal is invited to visit the palace on the Feast of the Assumption...
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  • the Forest of Vievre against William of Breteuil, he went to the court of the archbishop of Rouen, and not to the ducal court or the court of his overlord...
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    Tonnelier de Breteuil (1848-1916) was a French aristocrat and politician. Henri Le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born in 1848. He was the son of Alexandre Le...
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    Hippolyte Bayard (category People from Breteuil, Oise)
    l'ombre (Proceedings of the colloquy in Breteuil-sur-Noye, 16–17 November 2001), Breteuil-sur-Noye: Société historique de Breteuil-sur-Noye, 2005. Lerner...
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    Calonne, a close friend of the Polignacs, as Controller-General of Finances, and of the Baron de Breteuil as the Minister of the Royal Household, making...
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  • succeeded by his son Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford, whose surname was taken from his father's lordship of Breteuil in Normandy. Roger is known...
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  • the Battle of Cassel, leaving his son Roger de Breteuil as the new earl. In 1075, Roger conspired with his brother-in-law Ralph Guader, Earl of Norfolk while...
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  • Normandy. Count William struck first, invading again in November 1091 with the support of St William, lord of Breteuil, and Richard, lord of Montfort, half-brother...
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  • de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1071–1074) Earl of Huntingdon Earl of Northampton Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (1065–1076) Earl of Kent Odo of Bayeux...
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  • permission. Then, in William's absence, Ralph, Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford (his new brother-in-law), and Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northumberland began...
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    during William's absence, Ralph de Gael, the Earl of Norfolk, and Roger de Breteuil the Earl of Hereford, conspired to overthrow him in the Revolt of the...
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    Lyre Abbey (category Duchy of Normandy)
    (Saint-Étienne). William FitzOsbern, (c. 1020-1071), Lord of Breteuil, and his wife Adeliza de Tosny founded the abbey. FitzOsbern is one of the very few...
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    plans of their own. Louis had appointed Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil to act as plenipotentiary, dealing with other foreign heads of state in...
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    Honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals...
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    and Breteuil. He might have been a Seigneur of Nesle also, or used the title "Sire of Nesle" due to his family. Difficulties about the seigneurie of Breteuil...
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