Robert comté de Mortaigne Earl of Cornwall

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 185:2, Willaim IV, count of Toulouse & Péregord was the son of Pons, comté de Toulouse, Albi et Dijon by his wife Almode, daughter of Bernard I, comté de la Marche et Périgord & his wife Amelia. William married Emma Mortain, daughter of Robert Mortain and his first wife Mathilda de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomery.¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage (Derby), identifies him as Agnes' father. Also Count of Mortain. ¹⁴¹

~Annals and Antiquities of Lacok Abbey, Pedigree V. pg. 264, shows him as Agnes' father and Comte de Mortaigne. ⁷⁵⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁸²
Robert, Count of Mortaigne or Robert de Burgh, Count of Mortaigne, in Normandy, the son of Herleva or Arletta and Herluinus de Burgh, and the half brother of William the Conqueror. Robert was made the Earl of Cornwall soon after the conquest. He held 793 manors, 249 in cornwall and 454 in seventeen other counties. He married Matilda, the youngest daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. He was also a great benefactor to the abbey of Gestein, in Normany. He died in 1091.

~An Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk, pgs. 7-8

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Robert, Count of Mortain in Normandy, one of the two sons of Herluin de Conteville, by Herleve, mother of William the Conqueror, was born about 1031. About 1050, he received, from his uterine brother, William, then Duke of Normandy, the comté de Mortaigne, and was thenceforth known as Count of Mortain. He accompanied William in the invasion of England, where he was in command of the chivalry of the Cotentin at the battle of Hastings, 1066. His share of the spoil was one of the greatest, as, with the exception of the lands of the King and the Church, he received nearly the whole of the county of Cornwall, and is, consequently, usually considered Earl of Cornwall, though only known as Comes Moritoniensis. At the time of Domesday, he was possessed of 797 manors in various counties, besides the borough of Pevensey in Sussex, etc. In 1069 he, with Robert, Count of Eu, defeated the Danes in the parts of Lindsey, with great slaughter. He joined his brother, the Earl of Kent in 1088 in a rebellion against William II in favor of his brother Robert Courthose, but was subsequently pardoned.

Robert married 1^st, before 1066, Maud, daughter of Robert de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heir of William Talvas (5th son of William de Bellême, Seigneur of Alençon and Bellême). She was buried in the Abbey of Grestain. He married, 2^nd, Almodis. He died 8 Dec 1090, and was buried with his 1^st wife.

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Cornwall), Vol. III, p. 427-428 and Vol. XIV, p. 207

Robert married Matilda de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomery et Vicomté de Hiémois and Mabel de Bellêsme Dame d'Alençon ¹⁴¹.^,782 (Matilda de Montgomery was born about 1030 in Abbaye St-Germain-de-Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy, died about 1084 in Abbaye St-Germain-de-Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy and was buried in Abbaye St-Germain-de-Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy ¹⁴¹.)

Robert next married Almodis. ¹⁴¹