William II, Count of Eu
William II, Count of Eu, feudal baron of Hastings( d. circa 1095) was a first generation Anglo- Norman nobleman, Count of Eu and rebel.
William I, Count of Eu
William I, Count of Eu (978-after 1057), illegitimate son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy.
Count of Eu and Count of Hiémois.
William succeeded his nephew, Gilbert, as Count of Eu and Hiémois after his murder in 1040.
William rebelled against his half-brother Richard II, Duke of Normandy, and was captured by Raoul d’Ivry and imprisoned by Turquetil of Harcourt, former governor of William the Conqueror..
He escaped five years later and, eventually, was pardoned by Richard and given leave to marry into the Harcourt family.
William married Lesceline, daughter of Turquetil.
William and Lesceline had three children:
William’s son, Robert, succeeded him as count of Eu.
Robert, Count of Eu
Robert, Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings( d. between 1089- 1093), son of William I, Count of Eu, and his wife Lesceline.
Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings.
Robert commanded 60 ships in the fleet supporting the landing of William I of England and the Norman conquest of England.
Around 1068, Robert was given the Hastings Castle and the adjacent territories previously owned by Onfroy du Tilleul.
According to the Domesday Book, Robert and his son William each possessed lands in separate counties.
The sum of the annual income generated by the lands of the two men amounted to about 690 pounds sterling.
In 1069 he was charged by the king to support Robert, Count of Mortain, to monitor the Danes, whose fleet moored in the mouth of the Humber, while the latter was to repress the revolt initiated by Eadric the Wild the west.
When the Danes left their sanctuary to plunder the neighbourhood, the two commanders and their army fell upon them unexpectedly, crushing them, and forcing them to flee by sea.
After the death of King William, Robert followed the party of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy.
Dismayed by his softness and debauchery, he turned, along with several other Norman lords, towards the king William II the Red, from whom he received several garrisons for his castles.
During the attempted intervention of the English king in Normandy in February 1091, he was one of his supporters.
He died after this episode and his son William II succeeded him as count.
Robert married first Beatrix de Falaise, sister of Arlette de Falaise.
Robert and Beatrix had four children:
Very devout, he made numerous donations to the Church, notably lands at Fécamp Abbey of Rouen in 1051.
After being widowed, he remarried, to Mathilde de Hauteville, daughter of Roger I, Count of Sicily, and Judith of Evreux, a second cousin of William the Conqueror.
He repudiated her, however, and in 1080 she was married to Raymond IV of Saint- Gilles, Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence.
He was buried in the Abbey of Saint- Michel du Tréport, which he had founded in Tréport, near the town of Eu, between 1057 and 1066, in memory of his first wife.
Robert was assisted by the council of Duke William and Maurilius, archbishop of Rouen.
Robert was succeeded as Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings by his son William.
Mary of Avesnes
Marie of Hainaut( 1280–1354) was the daughter of John II, Count of Holland and Philippa of Luxembourg, her brother was William I, Count of Hainaut.
William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu
William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu( 1374- 28 May 1420), was an English knight created by King Henry V 1st Count of Eu, in Normandy.
Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex
Henry Bourchier, 5th Baron Bourchier, 2nd Count of Eu, 1st Viscount Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, KG( c. 1404/ c.
1406 – 4 April 1483), was the eldest son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu and Anne of Gloucester.
On his mother's side, he was a great- grandson of Edward III of England.
Richard I of Normandy
Richard I (28 August 932 – 20 November 996), also known as Richard the Fearless (French: "Richard Sans-Peur"; Old Norse: "Jarl Richart"), was the Count of Rouen or Jarl of Rouen from 942 to 996.
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, whom Richard commissioned to write the De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum
(Latin, On the Customs and Deeds of the First Dukes of Normandy), called him a "Dux."
However, this use of the word may have been in the context of Richard's renowned leadership in war, and not as a reference to a title of nobility.
Richard either introduced feudalism into Normandy or he greatly expanded it.
By the end of his reign, the most important Norman landholders held their lands in feudal tenure.
John, Count of Eu
John, Count of Eu,( died 26 June 1170), son of Henry I, Count of Eu, and Marguerite, daughter of William, Count of Sully, who was brother of Stephen, King of England.
John was Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings.
John obtained from Étienne d' Angleterre( later Stephen, King of England) the honors of Tickhill and Blyth, being a descendant of their original owner, Roger de Busli, by his paternal grandmother Beatrice.
John lost his holdings after his capture by Ranulf de Gernon, the 4th Earl of Chester, at the Battle of Lincoln in February 1141.
In 1148, John returned to Hilaire, Bishop of Chichester, lands belonging to his diocese which his father had usurped during the troubled reign of Stephen.
John had to take refuge in the summer of 1167 in Drincourt( now Neufchâ tel- en- Bray) during the invasion of his estates by the troops of Louis VII, an ally of Thierry, Count of Flanders.
John married Alice, daughter of William d' Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, and Adeliza of Louvain, the widow of King Henry I of England.
John and Alice had three children:
In addition, Like his father Henry, John became canon at the abbey of Eu, where he died on June 26, 1170, after devoting the rest of his days to the monastic state.
He was placed in the tomb of his father behind the altar.
At the time of the destruction of the Abbey of Foucarmont in 1791, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre and Count of Eu, had the remains of the counts Henry and John reclaimed and moved to the chapel of the.
John was succeeded as Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings by his son Henry upon his death.
John was buried at Fécamp Abbey, where many of his sons and grandsons would also be interred.
William Busac
William Busac( 1020- 1076), son of William I, Count of Eu, and his wife Lesceline.
Count of Eu, Count of Soissons," de jure uxoris".
William was given the nickname Busac by the medieval chronicler Robert of Torigni.
William appealed to King Henry
I of France, who gave him in marriage Adelaide, the heiress of the county of Soissons.
Adelaide was daughter of Renaud I, Count of Soissons, and Grand Master of the Hotel de France.
William then became Count of Soissons in right of his wife.
William and Adelaide had four children:
His son Renaud became Count of Soissons upon William ’s death, and he was succeeded by his brother John.
Henry II, Count of Eu
Henry II, Count of Eu( died 1191), son of John, Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings, and Alice d'Aubigny.
Henry inherited the countship of Eu and lordship of Hastings upon the death of his father( 1170).
Henry married Matilda, daughter of Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey.
Henry and Matilda had:
Upon the death of Henry, his daughter became Countess of Eu and Lady of Hastings.
Henry was buried at Foucarmont.

Question: What is the date of death of William I, Count Of Eu's father?
Answer: 20 November 996