The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameWilliam (Lord Guillaume) Crispin I (de Colleville) 
Birth1030, Normandy, France
FatherGilbert Crispin I
MotherGunnor d’Anjou (1000-1090)
Misc. Notes
Name of Guillaume de Colleville from Cynthia Glover (nee Coleman), whose great-great-grandfather was William Samuel Allen b.1843. (William's sister, Martha Allen, married Charles Oliver, youngest son of James and Ruth Oliver).
Cynthia says Guillaume was, “a Companion of William the Conqueror, in the Norman Invasion of England 1066AD”. “His name and that of his brother, Gilbert de Colleville, also a companion, is on the commemoration plaque in the chapel at Falaise Castle, Falaise, Normandy, France.
The ‘Companions’ were the nobles who fought with William the Conqueror, than known as ‘Duke William’, in the Battle of Hastings
The names of Guillaume de Colleville and Gilbert de Colleville are listed on the roll at:
http://www.robertsewell.ca/falaise.html
The website says the “Falaise Roll” is a, “recording of the Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England. Names applied to the Falaise Roll were compiled from Vital, Wace, the Bayeux Tapestry and the Researches of La Rue 24 and others. These 400 names are shown as they were written in the time of William the Conqueror. The names, of course, have altered with time. Guillaume is now more often rendered as William”.
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Brian of nzolivers.com writes:
William Duke of Normandy became the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. He was born in 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France, and became Duke of Normandy in 1035 at the age of only seven years old. He was also known as William the Bastard. His parents were unmarried - hence the nickname. His father was Robert I, the sixth Duke of Normandy.
Edward the Confessor, the King of England, was William’s first cousin once removed and took refuge in Normandy after the Danes conquered England, he stayed at the palace of William. He was very kindly treated there, and William claimed that in 1051 Edward had promised in gratitude that William should succeed him as king of England.
However, upon the death of King Edward on 5 January 1066, the king’s council, called the ‘Witan’, chose Harold Godwinsson over William Duke of Normandy. The Archbishop of York, not Canterbury, crowned him king the following day. Harold’s father in earlier times had removed a lot of Norman bishops, including the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Pope wasn’t happy about these changes and supported William’s claim to the throne.
William built a large fleet and invaded England in September 1066, decisively defeating and killing Harold at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. After further military efforts William was crowned king on Christmas Day 1066, in London, England.
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The name of “William Crispin I” and “Lord Guillaume”, and place of birth, from "The History of the Stanhope Family" by Michael Stanhope, 2007. Website as at July 2014:
http://stanhopefamilyhistory.webs.com
Michael writes, “He [William Crispin I] is reported in some accounts as being present at the Battle of Hastings, 1066, as a young squire. He was alive in 1132, being noted in charters as holding Colleville as tenant of Ranulph of Chester, his distant kinsman.
Cynthia says Guillaume was, “a Companion of William the Conqueror, in the Norman Invasion of England 1066AD”. “His name and that of his brother, Gilbert de Colleville, also a companion, is on the commemoration plaque in the chapel at Falaise Castle, Falaise, Normandy, France.
The ‘Companions’ were the nobles who fought with William the Conqueror, than known as ‘Duke William’, in the Battle of Hastings
The names of Guillaume de Colleville and Gilbert de Colleville are listed on the roll at:
http://www.robertsewell.ca/falaise.html
The website says the “Falaise Roll” is a, “recording of the Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England. Names applied to the Falaise Roll were compiled from Vital, Wace, the Bayeux Tapestry and the Researches of La Rue 24 and others. These 400 names are shown as they were written in the time of William the Conqueror. The names, of course, have altered with time. Guillaume is now more often rendered as William”.
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Brian of nzolivers.com writes:
William Duke of Normandy became the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. He was born in 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France, and became Duke of Normandy in 1035 at the age of only seven years old. He was also known as William the Bastard. His parents were unmarried - hence the nickname. His father was Robert I, the sixth Duke of Normandy.
Edward the Confessor, the King of England, was William’s first cousin once removed and took refuge in Normandy after the Danes conquered England, he stayed at the palace of William. He was very kindly treated there, and William claimed that in 1051 Edward had promised in gratitude that William should succeed him as king of England.
However, upon the death of King Edward on 5 January 1066, the king’s council, called the ‘Witan’, chose Harold Godwinsson over William Duke of Normandy. The Archbishop of York, not Canterbury, crowned him king the following day. Harold’s father in earlier times had removed a lot of Norman bishops, including the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Pope wasn’t happy about these changes and supported William’s claim to the throne.
William built a large fleet and invaded England in September 1066, decisively defeating and killing Harold at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. After further military efforts William was crowned king on Christmas Day 1066, in London, England.
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The name of “William Crispin I” and “Lord Guillaume”, and place of birth, from "The History of the Stanhope Family" by Michael Stanhope, 2007. Website as at July 2014:
http://stanhopefamilyhistory.webs.com
Michael writes, “He [William Crispin I] is reported in some accounts as being present at the Battle of Hastings, 1066, as a young squire. He was alive in 1132, being noted in charters as holding Colleville as tenant of Ranulph of Chester, his distant kinsman.