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Birth:          ABT  990 Crepon, Normandy
Death:          ABT 1040 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbern_the_Steward
Osbern the Steward, known in French as Osbern de Crépon[1] († about 1040), was the 
Steward of two Dukes of Normandy and the father of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of 
Hereford, one of William the Conqueror's closest counsellors.
Biography[edit]

Osbern was the son of Herfast de Crepon and the nephew of Gunnora, Duchess of 
Normandy,[2][3] first the mistress and then second wife of Richard I of Normandy. 
Under Robert the Magnificent (1027–1035), he had the role of Steward or Seneschal.
[4] He kept this role after the Duke's death in 1035.[5] He became one of the legal 
protectors of the young successor to the duchy, William the Bastard, known later as 
William the Conqueror, then aged 8.[5]

The young Duke William was in danger, as other members of the ducal family were 
trying to assassinate him to regain power in the duchy, and the Norman barons were 
rebelling. Osbern was murdered at Le Vaudreuil in the winter of 1040-1041, while 
protecting the young Duke in the child's bedroom.[6] According to Guillaume de 
Jumièges, his throat was cut by William, son of Roger I of Montgomery.[7] Barnon de 
Glos-la-Ferrières avenged the death of his lord by killing the murderer.[6]

Historians of the Normans disagree on the origin of the benefices held by Osbern,[8] 
specifically which of them came from his father Herfast and which via his marriage to 
Emma, daughter of the powerful Count Rodulf of Ivry and sister of Hugues, Bishop of 
Bayeux.[9] He possessed land widely spread across Normandy: in the Bessin at 
Crépon, at Hiémois (near Falaise, near the confluence of the rivers Seine and Andelle, 
around Cormeilles, in Talou, in Pays d'Ouche at Breteuil, and at La Neuve-Lyre.

Family and descendants[edit]

Osbern married Emma d'Ivry, daughter of Count Rodulf of Ivry,[3] who was half-brother 
of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. The children included?:
William Fitz Osbern (ca 1020–1071), 1st Earl of Hereford?;
Osbern FitzOsbern[3] († end of 1103[10]), Bishop of Exeter in 1072?.

Parents
DE CREPON Herfast (ABT  950 - )
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Siblings
DE CREPON Osbern ("the Steward") (ABT  990 - ABT 1040)

Marriage To DE IVRY Emma (ABT  990 - BEF 1034)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Ralph (Raoul) (ABT  945 - )
DE CANVILLE Albreda (Aubree) (ABT  975 - BEF 1011)

Children by DE IVRY Emma ABT  990 - BEF 1034
FITZ OSBERN Emma (ABT 1021 - )
FITZ OSBORNE William (ABT 1025 - 22 Feb 1071)

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