CONTEVILLE Herluin

Abt 1001 - 1072  (70 years)

• Name	CONTEVILLE Herluin
  Birth	Abt 03 Sep 1001	Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	01 May 1072	Mortain, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France
  Notes	Herluin (d. 1066).[4] His parents are unknown. He has been detached from Jean Conteville and Harlette Meulan [1][2] He established Grestain monastery (c. 1050),[5] according to an account now lost, as a result of a vision that promised to cure his leprosy in return for the foundation.[3] Prayers for him (and for his son Robert and Robert's first wife, Matilda) were requested by the abbey on its entries in the mortuary rolls for Matilda, daughter of the Conqueror, and for Vital de Savigny.[citation needed] Titles Vicomte (shortly after marriage, circa 1030)[4] Marriage He married sometime after 1035 to Herleve (living 1049; d. abt. 1050/3), the mistress of Robert II, Duke of Normandy, and daughter of Fulbert. She presumably died before her husband founded the abbey of Grestain as she is not referred to in the abbey's confirmation charter.[5] They had three children: Robert de Mortain Eudes (Odo), Bishop of Bayeux Unknown daughter who married William de la Ferté-Macé.[6] (She may have been a child by his second wife.) He married secondly, after 1050, to Frendesendis. She is named as the wife of Herluin in the confirmation charter of the abbey of Grestain.[7] They had three children: Raoul de Conteville (b. after 1050 - d. after 1089). Jean de Conteville (unproven) Richard FitzHerluin (d. after 1082) Death and Burial Robert of Torigny's De Immutatione Ordinis Monachorum records that "Herluinus de Contevilla…et Herleve uxor eius" were buried in "mon. Sanctæ Mariæ Gresteni."[8] Sources ↑ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/normabc.htm#_ftnref15 ↑ Hollister, C. Warren (1987). The Greater Domesday Tenants-in-Chief.[1] ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herluin_de_Conteville ↑ [2] ↑ http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/willi001.htm ↑ According to Cawley (2006) Herluin had an unknown daughter, Guillaume II de la Ferté-Macé, by one of his two wives. Cawley (2006), seems to think it's more likely that her mother was Herleve. ↑ parents unknown (Cawley, 2006).[3] ↑ Robert de Torigny, Vol. II, p. 201 See also: Cawley, C. (2006). "Herluin." Medieval Lands v.4. Fmg.ac.[6] Project Medlands - Normandy Nobility - Comtes de Mortain, Vicomtes de Conteville Glover, R. (1885). "The genealogy of the earls of Chester (Harl. 1424, fo. 3. Harl. 1505, fo. 2)," in the Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, 18, pp. 4. Harleian Society. Google Books.[7] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Richardson, D. (n.d.). Royal Ancestry, V, pp .487. N.p. Stuart, R.W. (n.d.). Royalty for Commoners. N.p. https://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00076242&tree=LEO
  Person ID	I60102	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family	FALAISE Herlève,   b. Abt 1003, Falaise, Normandie, France d. Abt 1055, Mortain, Normandie, France (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1030
  Children	1. NORMANDIE Guillaume,   b. Abt 1027, Normandie, France d. 09 Sep 1087, Rouen, Normandie, France (Age 60 years)  [Father: Stepchild]  [Mother: natural]   2. CONTEVILLE Robert,   b. Abt 1031, Normandie, France d. 09 Dec 1095 (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. NORMANDIE Adelais,   b. Bef 1035, Falaise Castle, Falaise, Basse-Normandie, France d. Bef 1096, Gournay Sur Marne, Seine Saint Denis, Ile De France, France (Age < 61 years)  [Father: Stepchild]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026