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Date Estimated based on historical events and/or calculated by ages of other family members. | Note: Birth year of "about 990" is estimated and may well have been earlier, as his known son Raoul FitzGerald was born by or before 1008. Geraldus was most likely the "Geraldo dapifero", who contributed 40 ships towards the invasion of England in 1066 and was surely alive at that point. |
The name of Tancarville does not appear until the early twelfth century, first shown in a charter in 1103 for Raoul's son, Earl "Willelmus de Tancarvilla".
The Chronique de Normandie, based on le Roman de Rou, names "le sire de Tancarville" among those who took part in the conquest of England in 1066.
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Update: Cawley has finally moved Gerald from "OTHER NORMAN NOBLILITY" to the head of "SEIGNEURS de TANCARVILLE", now shown as father to Raoul. This is a step forward.
A charter dated to [1034] records that “Hunfridus de Vetulis” donated property to Préaux Saint-Pierre, noting the presence of “...Radulfus camberarius filius Geraldi...”.[2]
"… Radulfus camberarius filius Geraldi…" are named as present in the charter dated 1035 under which "Willelmus adhuc puerulus…Roberti comitis filius" donated "Turstini villa" to the abbey of Préaux".
Châtelain de Neufmarché. Orderic Vitalis records that Guillaume Duke of Normandy expelled "Belvacenses" from "castrum…Novus-Mercatus" and granted it to "Geroldo dapifero", dated to c. 1061/66.
"…Gerald de Neufmarché…" (Giraldi di Novomercato), subscribed the charter dated Apr 1067 under which "Willelmus…dux Normannorum…Anglorum rex" confirmed rights to the abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire.
GERAUD (-after 1066). Dapifer. The Brevis Relatio de Origine Willelmi Conquestoris records that "Geraldo dapifero" contributed 40 ships towards the invasion of England in 1066.
No identification of this noble Norman has yet been made by any of the commentators on the "Roman de Rou," in which alone we find such a personage included in the list of the followers of the Duke of Normandy. Mr. Taylor says, "M. le Prévost rather inconclusively observes that Ralph, William's guardian, was too old and his children too young to be engaged," and adds, "Ralph's age is hardly itself a competent contradiction to Wace's statement; for his charter giving the Church of Mireville to Jumièges shows that he was living in 1079. William, his son and successor as Chamberlain, so appears in 1082." I certainly do not share the opinion of Le Prévost, and am at a loss to know where he found that Ralph, the Chamberlain of Tancarville, was guardian to Duke William. I have just mentioned this Ralph as the supposed brother of Gerold de Roumare and uncle of the William de Roumare I believe to have been at Hastings. Ralph was hereditary chamberlain of Normandy; but which of his family had first exercised that office is at present unknown.
The small Church of St. George, in the village of that name in the forest of Roumare, first endowed by Duke William, was subsequently rebuilt by Ralph, who is styled by the Duke in his charter of confirmation, “Meus magister Aulaque et Camera mea princeps.” (“My major-domo or master of the household and first chamberlain.”) Ralph also had the church re-decorated, and confirmed the grant which his father, Geraldus, and his brothers had given to St. George. A brother of Ralph, named Giraldus, was also an officer of William's household; and it was "Coram Giraldo Dapifer meo" that William, while yet Duke of the Normans, ratified a convention between Hugh de Pavilly and the Canons of St. George, the witnesses being the same Giraldus and Robert his son.
Now we have here two Gerolds, one who simply styles himself "a soldier of Christ," and the other the Dapifer (steward or seneschal) of William, King of the English. We also find one of these Gerolds rejoicing in two wives, named Albreda and Emicia, and who has a son, Robert, by the first. The other Gerold had a wife named Helisendis. Whether they were both Gerolds of Roumare; how they were connected; which was the father of Roger de Roumare, and which of Ralph the Chamberlain, has yet to be distinctly proved. The names of Gerald, Robert, Ralph, and William were much too common at that period to be of themselves sufficient identification; but that the chamberlain of Tancarville or Tankerville mentioned by Wace was Ralph, the son of Gerold and father of William the Chamberlain, I think cannot reasonably be doubted.
He fought at Hastings with William the Conqueror, Hastings, Sussex, England
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Categories: Medieval Project, France, needs biography | House of Tancarville | 11th Century
All that to point out that the Baron Gerald b. 940 listed here as a son to Tancred of Hauteville, is actually a de Tancarville, and born 40 some years before the listed father.