
Osbern Cripon, The Steward The Seneschal

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Name Osbern Cripon Title The Steward The Seneschal Birth Abt 1000 Picardie, France Gender Male Death 1040 Midi-Pyrénées, France Person ID I7452 footsteps | Ancestors Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
Father Herfast Cripon, b. Abt 940, Normandie, France d. 1005, Normandie, France
(Age 65 years)
Relationship natural Family ID F4355 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Emma Ivry, b. Abt 1008, Ivry, France d. Bef 1034, France
(Age < 25 years)
Marriage 1029 France Children + 1. William Fitzosbern, b. Abt 1023, Normandie, France d. 20 Feb 1071, Flanders, Belgium
(Age 48 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
Family ID F4519 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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Notes
Through his wife Emma, he inherited a large property in central Normand y , i n c l uding the honours of Pacy, Jouy, and Cocherel on the Eure, lands d e p e n d ant on Breteuil and centred on Ivry, the earliest demesne of the N o r m a n ' dukes' (D . C. Douglas, William the Conqueror, pp. 89-90, 1964). T h e s e l a nds included the fief of Freschenes.
Guardian to the young Duke William (later known as William the Conquero r ) , h e w a s a nephew of Duchess Gunnora. A number of Norman barons would n o t a c c e pt an illegitimate son as their leader and in 1040 an attempt wa s m a d e t o k ill William (the Conqueror). The plot failed but they did ki ll t h e g u a rdians, one of whom was Osbern. He was murdered by William d e M o n g o mery.