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Birth:          ABT 1019 Eu, Normandy
Death:          AFT 1052 Shanton, Leicestershire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert,_Count_of_Eu
Robert, Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings (d. between 1091 and 1093), son of William 
I, Count of Eu, and his wife Lesceline. Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings. Robert 
assumed the countship of Eu after the rebellion of his brother William Busac.

When Henry I, King of France, sent his army, under command of his brother Odo, to 
Normandy in 1054, he was met by the army of William, then the Duke of Normandy. 
William’s forces were under the command of Robert and Walter Giffard, Lord of 
Longueville. The Battle of Mortemer was decisive in defeating the French, resulting in 
what has been described as a blood-bath. Odo escaped and Henry promptly withdrew 
his forces.

Robert commanded 60 ships in the fleet supporting the landing of William in England 
and the Norman conquest of England. Around 1068, William awarded to Robert the 
Hastings Castle and the adjacent territories previously owned by Onfroy du Tilleul, the 
nephew of Hugh de Grandmesnil, a proven companion of William the Conqueror. 
According to the Domesday Book, Robert and his son William each possessed lands in 
separate counties. The sum of the annual income generated by the lands of the two 
men amounted to about 690 pounds sterling.

In 1069 he was charged by the king to support Robert, Count of Mortain, to monitor 
the Danes, whose fleet moored in the mouth of the Humber, while the latter was to 
repress the revolt initiated by Eadric the Wild the west. When the Danes left their 
sanctuary to plunder the neighborhood, the two commanders and their army fell upon 
them unexpectedly, crushing them, and forcing them to flee by sea.

After the death of William, the Robert followed the party of Robert Curthose, Duke of 
Normandy. Rejected by his softness and debauchery, he turned, along with several 
other Norman lords, towards the king William II the Red, from whom he received 
several garrisons for his castles. During the attempted intervention of the English king 
in Normandy in February 1091, he was one of his supporters. He died after this 
episode and his son William II assumed the countship of the county.

Robert married first Beatrix de Falaise, sister of Arlette de Falaise. Robert and Beatrix 
had four children:
Raoul d'Eu (d. after 1036)
Robert d'Eu (d. 1149)
Condoha (Condor) (d. after 1087) married in 1058 to Fulk d'Angoulême, and was 
mother of William V d'Angoulême and grandmother of Wulgrin II d'Angoulême.
William II, who succeeded his father as Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings
Eremburga of Mortain (possible), the second wife of Roger i, Count of Sicily.
Armand of Mortain (possible), married to Beatrix, daughter of Tancred of Hauteville.

Very devout, he donated all his life to the Church, notably lands at Fécamp Abbey of 
Rouen in 1051. Widowed, he remarried, to Mathilde de Hauteville, daughter of Roger 
I, Count of Sicily, and Judith of Evreux, a second cousin of William the Conqueror.. 
But he repudiated her and she remarried in 1080 to Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles, Count 
of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence

He was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Michel du Tréport,[1] which he had founded in 
Tréport, near the town of Eu, between 1057 and 1066, in memory of his first wife and 
by the council of Duke William and Maurilius, archbishop of Rouen.

Robert was succeeded as Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings by his son William.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I03514

Parents
DE HEIMOIS William (Guillaume) (ABT  970 - BEF 4 Jan 1039)
DE HARCOURT (DE TURQUEVILLE) Lesceline (Lezieline) (ABT  996 - 26 Jan 1079)

Siblings
FITZ WILLIAM Pons (ABT 1017 - )
D'EU Robert (ABT 1019 - AFT 1052)
D'EU William (1027 - AFT 1076)

Marriage To DE FALAISE Beatrice (ABT 1015 - 10 Apr 1085)
    m. ABT 1042 Le Treport, Normandy

Notes

Parents
DE FALAISE Fulbert (ABT  978 - ABT 1017)
DE FALAISE Doda (ABT  985 - )

Children by DE FALAISE Beatrice ABT 1015 - 10 Apr 1085
D'EU William (ABT 1045 - 1096)
DE CRIOL Robert (ABT 1047 - AFT 1086)
OF MORTAIN Eremburga (ABT 1048 - )

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