Robert (Estouteville) d'Estouteville I (abt. 1040 - aft. 1106)

Born about 1040 in Estouteville Sur Mer, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France

Descendants

Died after 1106 after about age 66 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Robert Estouteville was a member of the aristocracy in England.

From Patp webpage:

The "Sire d'Estoteville" of the Roman de Rou (l. 13,561) was in all probability Robert, surnamed Fronteboeuf, Granteboef, or, according to the French antiquaries, Grand-bois; but whether he was of Estouteville-sur-Cailly or Estouteville-sur-Mer may be an open question. There was a knightly family deriving their name from the former (at present a commune in the canton of Bouchy, arrondissement de Rouen), one of whom, Nicholas d'Estouteville, the great-great-grandson of Robert, married Gunnor or Gunnora, daughter of Hugh IV de Gournay, and widow of Robert de Gant, in the 12th century, and received with her in dower the manors of Beddingfield and Kimberly in Norfolk, which remained for many generations in the family of Stuteville, as it is called in England. This Estouteville was formerly a mouvance, i.e, a dependency on the fief of La Ferté en-Brai, of which the Gournays were the lords, and it is therefore likely that Robert d'Estouteville followed Hugh II de Gournay to England in the invading army.

Dugdale's account of him and his son is very meagre and incorrect, and neither M. le Prévost nor Mr. Edward Taylor has taken any trouble on the subject, although some information has been furnished us by Orderic which enables me to correct Dugdale and answer the observation of M. le Prévost, echoed by Mr. Taylor, that he (Robert) must have been very young if he was the same who fell forty years after at Tenchebrai, in 1106, by the simple assurance to them that he was not the same.

Some ten or eleven years previous to the Conquest, Robert I d'Estouteville was governor of the Castle of Ambriegrave, and stoutly defended it against Geoffrey Martel until relieved by the approach of Duke William. He could not therefore have been very young even at that time-say between twenty and thirty, and in 1066 he would have been between thirty and forty. Of his exploits at Senlac we hear nothing, and his name does not appear in Domesday, so we are in ignorance of the reward, if any, which he received for his services. The latest mention of him is by Orderic, who records him as a witness to a confirmation charter of William son of Fulk de Querneville, Dean of Evreux, to the Abbey of Ouche or St. Evroult, before the year 1089.^[1]

Note

• Wife of Robert I and mother to Robert II, as shown in the FMG, is BEATRICE (Beatrix).

Roberto de Stutevill & Beatrix his wife had children:

• Robert
• Graulfus
• William

FMG quoting The Liber Vitæ of Durham

Sources

1. ↑ http://patp.us/genealogy/conq/estoute.aspx

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~havens5/p34413.htm
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/27624422/family
• Durham Liber Vitæ, folio 44, p. 60, and folio 47b, p. 68.