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Birth:          ABT 1014 Avranches, Normandy
Death:          AFT 1082 

Notes
witnessed charters 1064, 1066
there is doubt as to whether he married Emma (someone else is mother of Judith and 
Maud?)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I01867
HUGH D'AVRANCHES, EARL OF CHESTER
The Conqueror and His Companions
by J.R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

Richard Goz, Vicomte d'Avranches, or more properly of the Avranchin, was one of the 
sons of the aforesaid Turstain, by his wife Judith de Montanolier, and appears not only 
to have avoided being implicated in the rebellion of his father, but obtained his pardon 
and restoration to the Vicomté of the Hiemois, to which at his death he succeeded, 
and to have strengthened his position at court by securing the hand of Emma de 
Conteville, one of the daughters of Herluin and Herleve, and half-sister of his 
sovereign. By this fortunate marriage he naturally recovered the lands forfeited by his 
father and bestowed on his mother-in-law, and acquired also much property in the 
Avranchin, of which he obtained the Vicomté, in addition to that of the Hiemois.

There was every reason, therefore, that he should follow his three brothers-in-law in 
the expedition to England, if not prevented by illness or imperative circumstances. He 
must have been their senior by some twenty years, but still scarcely past the prime of 
life, and his son Hugh a stripling under age, as his mother, if even older than her 
brothers Odo and Robert, could not have been born before 1030, and if married at 
sixteen, her son in 1066 would not be more than nineteen at the utmost. Mr. Freeman, 
who places the marriage of Herleve with Herluin after the death of Duke Robert in 
1035, would reduce this calculation by at least six years, rendering the presence of 
her grandson Hugh at Senlac more than problematical.

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Crispin, M 1969 (pp. 79-80) is no doubt incorrect in showing Emma de Conteville as 
Richard's wife. Moriarty, 1985 (p. 11) says the marriage is probably unfounded. 
However Todd A. Farmerie cited the marriage, 7 July 2000, based upon an article by 
Keats-Rohan. But Todd says the mother was "Turuvai".

Parents
LE GOZ Thurstan (Toustein) (ABT  990 - AFT 1040)
DE MONTANOLIER Judith (ABT  995 - )

Siblings
LE GOZ Richard "le Goz" (ABT 1014 - AFT 1082)
BIGOD Robert (ABT 1015 - 1071)

Marriage To ----- ----- (unknown wife or mistress) (ABT 1015 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- (unknown wife or mistress) ABT 1015 - 
LE GOZ Albreda (Auberee) (Emma) (ABT 1032 - )

Marriage To DE CONTEVILLE Emma (ABT 1033 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE CONTEVILLE Herlevin (Harlevin) (ABT 1001 - ABT 1066)
DE FALAISE Herleve (Harlette) (Arlotta) (ABT 1003 - ABT 1050)

Children by DE CONTEVILLE Emma ABT 1033 - 
D'AVRANCHES Hugh ("Lupus") (ABT 1047 - 27 Jul 1101)
DE GRESLET Albert (ABT 1049 - ABT 1100)
AVRANCHES Judith (Le Goz) (ABT 1052 - )
D'AVRANCHES Maud (or Margaret) (ABT 1054 - )

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