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• Name: Senfrie
• Sex: F
• Birth: 1 ^b


Parents:

• Father:
  
• (Unk) Forquelar Of Cirques

Family:
Children:

1. Josceline Death: After 1068
2. (Unk Dau)

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

eldest sister [Ref: Farmerie Gunnor],

sister:

Gunnor Duchess of Normandy [Ref: ES III.4 #695, Farmerie Gunnor, Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p24, Thompson Montgomerys p259, Wagner PedigreeProgress #46, White Gunnor p57]

Sources with Information about marriage to unknown

names:

one of the foresters of Richard I & Senfrie [Ref: ES III.4 #695, Farmerie Gunnor, Wagner PedigreeProgress #46, White Gunnor p57],

child:

[Ref: Farmerie Gunnor, Moriarty Plantagenet p44, Thompson Montgomerys p259, Wagner PedigreeProgress #46, White Gunnor p60]

Research Notes:
wife of one of the foresters of Richard I [Ref: White Gunnor p57]

married an unnamed forester from the area of St Vaast d'Equiqueville [Ref: Farmerie Gunnor]

m. forester of the Duke of Normandy at Sauqueille near Arques [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #46]

From Gesta Normannorum Ducum, Rogert de Torigni's autographed redaction (trans. van Houts):
"Because we have refered to Countess Gunnor on account of Roger de Montgomery's mother, her niece, I should like to write down the story as reported by people of old of how Gunnor cane to be Duke Richard's wife. One day when Duke Richard was told of the celebrated beauty of the wife of one of his foresters, who lived at a place called Equiqueville near the town of Arques, he deliberately went hunting there in order to see for himself whether the report he had learned from several folk was true. While staying in the forester's house, the duke was so struck by the beauty of his wife's face that he summonedhis host to bring his wife, called Sainsfrida, that night to his bedchamber. Very sadly the man told this to Sainsfrida, a wise woman, who comforted him by saying that she would send in her place her sister Gunnor, a virgin even more beautiful than her. And thus it happened. Once the duke perceived the trick he was delighted that he had not committed the sin of adultery with another man's wife. . . .
Apart from Sainsfrida, Gunnor had two sisters, Wevia and Duvelina. The latter (Duvelina)*, with the help of the countess, who was a very wise woman, married Turulf of Pont-Audemer. He was the son of someone called Torf, after whome several towns are called Tourville to the present day. Turulf's brother was Turketil, father of Ansketil of Harcourt. Turulf had by his wife Humphrey of Vieilles, father of Roger of Beaumont. The third of Countess Gunnor's sisters (Wevia)* married Osbern de Bolbec, by whom she bore the first Walter Giffard, and then Godfrey, father of William of Arques. . . ."
* The original manuscript, of which several copies survive, did not further identify these sisters, other than as "the latter" and "the third". This resulted in a certain degree of confusion, since Duvelina is actually named third, but had already been described as "the latter". However, in Robert's autographed copy, he has specifically inserted their names, which removes all ambiguity. Thus we have Sainsfrida married to the unnamed forester of (St. Vaast d')Equiqueville, Wevia married to Osbern de Bolbec, and Duvelina married to Turulf de Pont-Audemer. [Ref: Todd Farmerie SGM 8/25/1999]



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 /-----(Unk) Forquelar Of Cirques
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