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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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CHAPTER EIGHT
REGNAULT
Twentieth
in Ancestry
Section 1, Family of Regnault-Section 2, Contemporary History.
SECTION
1.
*20.
REGNAULT, Count of Corbeil by courtesy, son of
Guillaume, Chapter 7, Section 1, married a daughter of the nobility of
Northumberland in England.
The Toesnis and other Norman nobles had also
found happy marriages in the same nobility. Robert de Toesni,
subsequently known as Robert de Stafford and overlord of Peshall in Staffordshire, was the son of Elizabeth
the daughter of Oswulf the son of Franc, who
was the son of Oswulf I, Earl of Northumberland.
The Albinis also married daughters of the royal house of Northumberland. Regnault was in Northumberland together with his wife
and infant son when his father Werlac was
banished from Normandy,
and all his titles and estates were forfeited. Later Regnault
returned to France
and entered the service of the King of France, who recognized him as de Corbeil and upon the death of Werlac
addressed him as Count de Corbeil. Children:
1. *19. GILBERT DE CORBEIL, Chapter 9,
Section 1.
2. Frederick de Corbeil.
3. Robert of Prestatyn
surnamed Banastre or Banaster,
resided County Flint, Wales. His descendants called
themselves Banistre.
4. Godifu, who
as a widow married Siward, Earl of
Northumberland, as his second wife.
In
a learned monograph on the Counts of Corbeil,
which was issued by the local historical society of Corbeil,
it is stated that not anything remarkable is known concerning this prince
who succeeded his father in the title of Count of Corbeil,
except that it is well established that he was one of the favorites of
King Philip I of France and was a member of his court.
He
affixed his seal to the act of dedication in 1067 of the new church of St. Martin des Champs. The charter
of confirmation, made 1067, confirming the gifts made by kings Robert and
Henry to the church
of St. Martin des
Champs and also to the letters of acquiescence by their heirs, carried as
witnesses the seal of Regnault Count of Corbeil as well as of Frederick de Corbeil his son. He is there described as Regnaldus Comes Corbeiliensi,
that is to say as one who should hold Corbeil,
and his son as de Corbeil, i.e. of the ruling
family of Corbeil. Regnault
also held the manor of Banestere in Calabria, Italy, which his father had
acquired from Robert Guiscard.
De
la Barre was not able to find where Regnault had allied himself by marriage, nor if he left
children, for the simple reason that they had remained in a place of
safety in Northumberland,
England,
where there existed both a strong colony
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