Osbern the Steward

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Osbern the Steward, known in French as Osbern de Crépon

Dukes of Normandy and the father of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of William the Conqueror
's closest counsellors.

Biography

Osbern was the son of

Robert the Magnificent (1027–1035), he had the role of Steward or Seneschal.[4] He kept this role after the Duke's death in 1035.[5] He became one of the legal protectors of the young successor to the duchy, William the Bastard, known later as William the Conqueror, then aged 8.[5]

The young Duke William was in danger, as other members of the ducal family were trying to assassinate him to regain power in the duchy, and the Norman barons were rebelling. Osbern was murdered at

Guillaume de Jumièges, his throat was cut by William, son of Roger I of Montgomery.[7] Barnon de Glos-la-Ferrières avenged the death of his lord by killing the murderer.[8]

Historians of the Normans disagree on the origin of the benefices held by Osbern,[9] specifically which of them came from his father Herfast and which via his marriage to Emma, daughter of the powerful Count Rodulf of Ivry and sister of Hugues, Bishop of Bayeux.[10] He possessed land widely spread across Normandy: in the Bessin at Crépon, at Hiémois (near Falaise), near the confluence of the rivers Seine and Andelle, around Cormeilles, in Talou, in Pays d'Ouche at Breteuil, and at La Neuve-Lyre.

Family and descendants

Osbern married Emma d'Ivry, daughter of Count

Richard I, Duke of Normandy
. Their children included :

See also

References

  1. Robert de Torigni
    called him.
  2. ^ David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror, University of California Press, 1964, réédition 1992, p90, 145.
  3. ^ a b c C. P. Lewis, "William fitz Osbern, earl (d. 1071)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  4. ^ David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror, p35.
  5. ^ a b David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror, p37.
  6. ^ David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror, p40.
  7. Robert de Torigni
    , M. Guizot, Histoire des Normands, Caen : Librairie Mancel, 1826, p 168.
  8. ^ David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror, p 42.
  9. ^ Pierre Bauduin, David Douglas, David Bates, Élisabeth Van Houts.
  10. Robert the Magnificent
    and was exiled. The duke took the opportunity to give some of the exile's lands to his Steward.
  11. ^ C. L. Kingsford, "Osbern (d. 1103)", revised by Marios Costambeys, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Further reading

  • David Douglas, "The Ancestors of William Fitz Osbern", The English Historical Review, vol. 59, no. 233 (Jan 1944), p. 62-79.
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