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- Thurstan le Goz, vicomte d' Avranches was born circa 975?. He was the son of Ansfrid II Onfror le Goz.2 Thurstan le Goz, vicomte d' Avranches married Judith de Montanolier.2 Thurstan le Goz, vicomte d' Avranches was the great favourite of Robert Duke of Normandy, the father of the Conqueror, and accompanied him to the Holy Land, and was intrusted to bring back the relics the Duke had obtained from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to present to the Abbey of Cerisi, in 1035.3 He was a witness where Richard le Goz, vicomte d' Avranches managed to avoid being implicated in the rebellion of his father, but obtained his pardon and restoration, in 1041.3 Thurstan le Goz, vicomte d' Avranches was living in 1041.2 He was exiled, following a failed revolt against Duke William, and his lands confiscated and given by the Duke to his mother, Herleve, wife of Herluin de Conteville, in 1041.3,2
- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p55.htm#i6647
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