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Birth:          ABT 1001 Varenne, Normandy
Death:          AFT 1074 Varenne, Normandy

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I04787
RODULF (e) DE WARENNE derived his name from the hamlet of Varenne (dept. 
Seine-Inférieure) on the little river Varenne in Normandy. His parentage is unknown. 
He is said to have held land outside the walls of Rouen under Robert I, Duke of 
Normandy (died 1035), and the Cartulary of the abbey of the Holy Trinity on the Mont 
de Rouen proves that he held a considerable territory on both banks of the Seine 
upstream from Rouen. He also held land at Vascoeuil (dept. Eure), which he gave 
about 1053 to the abbey of St. Pierre de Préaux (b), and in the pays de Caux, north of 
Rouen, where he sold 4 churches with tithes to the Holy Trinity in 1059, and gave 
another church, also with tithes, in 1074. He married Beatrice, whose mother was 
almost certainly a sister of Gotmund Rufus DE VASCOEUIL, daughter of Tesselin, 
Vicomte of Rouen. She was living about 1053. [Complete Peerage XII/1:491-2, 
XIV:603, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(e) His christian name is Latinised both as Rodulfus and as Radulfus (Ralph), This 
confusion occurs in other families (eg. the founder of the "Tancarvilles") and is 
probably due to two somewhat similar names having been assimilated into one; eg. 
Ranulf (from Hrabenwulf) and Randolf (from Randwulf). Scribes were then likely to 
change Rodulfus when copying early charters.

(b) Before May 1055 Rodulf sold to the monks land at Blosseville and Eauplet, on the 
right bank of the Seine, and Sotteville on the left bank. Subsequently he sold them all 
his rights in Blosseville, Mesnil-Esnard, Neuvillette, Lescure and Eauplet.

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[From "The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families"]

For this identification see Mr. Loyd's paper 'The Origin of the Family of Warenne' in 
Yorkshire Arch. Journal, vol. xxxi, pp. 97-113. The hamlet of Varenne lies on the river 
Varenne c. 2 miles S of Arques and c. 13 miles N of Bellencombre. The latter place, 
arr. Dieppe, cant. Bellencombre, where there was a castle, became the caput of the 
Warenne honour in Normandy.

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Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann AT yahoo.com, provided the
following additional information on Rodulf, in a post-em:
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Rodulf (Ralph) I de Warenne

K.S.B. Keats-Rohan "Poppa of Bayeux and her Family":

1027-35: first occurrence of Ralph de Warenne in a charter for Saint-Amand [p22]

c1050: grant of land in Vascoeuil by Ralph de Warenne and wife Beatrice; charter 
mentions Ralph's brother Godfrey and was attested by Gotmund miles abbatis. 
Dateable to c1050 by a reference to Roger de Beaumont as Vicomte of Rouen [p22]

1050's: well known charters of early 1050s by which Ralph de Warenne and his wife 
Beatrice were associated with the lands of Roger fitz Bishop Hugh of Coutances and 
his sons. [p23]

Research note: K-R p22 contradicts CP (& Holloway & Wagner) by stating 
Rodulph/Ralph died before Beatrice. Beatrice is listed as living 1053 (CP XII/1:492 & 
ES III:698) & dead before 1059 (CP XII/1:492, K-R p22, Moriarty p184, Wagner p46]. 
K-R states a grant "made by widow Beatrice" to Preaux of land near Dozule, Eure was 
"dated during the time of William son of Count Robert, suggesting that William had not 
yet begun the series of military achievements that enabled him to be detached from his 
father in such references, i.e. before c1054-60". To do: check CP's source of the 
1074 grant. Also is the term "widow" K-R's or stated in the grant of the land near 
Dozule?... Curt

Regards,
Curt

Parents
DE WARENNE Roger (ABT  980 - )
DE TORTE ----- (ABT  981 - )

Siblings
DE WARENNE Rodulf (Ralph) I (ABT 1001 - AFT 1074)

Marriage To DE VASCOEUIL Beatrice (Beatrix) (ABT 1003 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Tesselin (ABT  973 - )
DE BOLBEC ----- (ABT  985 - )

Children by DE VASCOEUIL Beatrice (Beatrix) ABT 1003 - 
DE MORTIMER Roger (ABT 1030 - ABT 1080)
DE WARENNE William I (ABT 1045 - 24 Jun 1088)

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