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Birth:          ABT  950 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfast_de_Cr%C3%A9pon
Herfast de Crepon was the brother of Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy, the wife of 
Richard I of Normandy. His parentage is unknown, but it is stated by Dudo of St. 
Quentin that the family was of noble Danish blood, while Robert of Torigni stated his 
father was a forester in the Pays de Caux in northern France. About 1015, he 
witnessed a grant of Gunnora to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.

It has been suggested that he is identical to the Arfast who in December 1022 at the 
church of St. Croix, Orléans, testified before king Robert II of France at the trial of 
several canons accused of neo-Manachaeism. Arfast testified that though 
uninfluenced by their heresy he pretended to share their beliefs so as to gain 
knowledge that could be used to denounce them. Public sentiment was so inflamed 
against the heresy that the king was forced to station queen Constance at the church 
door to prevent the crowd from immediately killing the heretics. On their conviction, 
the majority were taken out of the church and burned. Arfast then retired as a monk to 
the abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée, Chartres, to which he donated land, as did 
Gunnora and her children Richard II of Normandy and Robert, archbishop of Rouen.

By an unknown wife, Herfast was the father of Osbern, the steward under two of the 
dukes of Normandy, and of Ranulf, known from ducal charters. Herfast died before 22 
August 1026 or 1027.

Parents
DE ARQUE Herbastus (ABT  911 -  979)
OLAFSDOTTIR Gunild (ABT  920 - )

Siblings
DE CREPON Gunnora (ABT  942 - 5 Jan 1031)
DE ARQUE ----- (ABT  944 - )
DE ARQUE Senfrie (Senfria) (Seinfreda) (ABT  950 - )
DE CREPON Herfast (ABT  950 - )
DE CREPON Duvelina (Eva) (Dulceline) (ABT  953 - )
DE CREPON Avelina (Wevia) (ABT  957 - )

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DE CREPON Osbern ("the Steward") (ABT  990 - ABT 1040)

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