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Richard Goz, Vicomte d'Avranches, or more properly of the Avranchin, wa s o n e o f t h e sons of the aforesaid Turstain, by his wife Judith deMonta no l i er , a nd appears not only to have avoided being implicated in the re b e l l i on of his father, but obtained his pardon and restoration to the V i c o m t â e of the Hiemois, to which at his death he succeeded, and to hav e s t r e n gthened his position at court by securing the hand of Emma deCon te v i l l e, one of the daughters of Herluin and Herleve, and half-sister o f h i s s o v ereign. By this fortunate marriage he naturally recovered the l a n d s f o rfeited by his father and bestowed on his mother-in-law, and acq u i r e d a lso much property in the Avranchin, of which he obtained the Vic o m t â e , i n addition to that of the Hiemois. There was every reason, the r e f o r e, that he should follow his three brothers-in-law in the expediti o n t o E n g land, if not prevented by illness or imperative circumstances. H e m u s t h a ve been their senior by some twenty years, but still scarcely p a s t t h e p rime of life, and his son Hugh a stripling under age, as his m o t h e r , if even older than her brothers Odo and Robert, could not have b e e n b o r n before 1030, and if married at sixteen, her son in 1066 would n o t b e m o r e than nineteen at the utmost. Mr. Freeman , who places the ma r r ia g e o f Herleve with Herluin after the death of Duke Robert in 1035, w o u l d r e duce this calculation by at least six years, rendering the prese n c e o f h e r grandson Hugh at Senlac more than problematical.
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Abt 1008 - Aft 1084 (> 77 years)