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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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Children
of Richard and Gunnor:
1. Richard II, Duke of Normandy; Chapter 6, Section 2.
2. Robert de Normandie,
Archbishop of Rouen, the first Count of Evreux.
3. *22. MAUGER or MAUGIS, Count of Mortagne and Count de Corbeil.
Chapter 6, Section 1. [Dudo, page 137. Hist. Angl. Scripta. in British Museum, 2070 d.p.
458. Speed. p. 413.]
4. and 5. N.N. ----- and N. N. ----- de Normandie,
two daughters whose names are unknown.
5. Emma de Normandie,
who married in 1002 Aethelred, King of England,
Chapter 11, Section 3, Subsec. 5. M., and in
1017 Canute, the Danish King of England. Her beauty and
accomplishments are highly extolled, but her long connection with England,
1002-1051, as the wife of two kings and the mother of two others, brought
with it nothing but present evil, and led directly to the Norman Conquest
of England. With that marriage began the settlement of Normans
in England,
their admission to English offices and estates, their general influence
in English affairs, everything, in short, that paved the way for the
actual conquest. Through Emma came that fatal kinship and friendship
between her English son and her Norman great-nephew, which suggested and
rendered possible the enterprise which seated her great-nephew on the throne
of England.
From the moment of this marriage, English and Norman history are
inextricably connected and Norman ingenuity was ever ready to take any
advantage that offered itself for strengthening the foreign influence in England.
The former dispute between Ethelred and the elder Richard was a mere
prologue; we have now reached the first act of the drama. By her first
marriage Emma became the mother of Edward the Confessor and by her second
of King Hardicanute. [The Norman Conquest, by Edward A. Freeman, vol. 1,
page 204-205.]
6. Hadwige de Normandie,
married Geoffrey I, Count of Brittany, in 1008 and died February 21,
1034. [Historie Genealogique
et Chronol. by Anselma.]
7. Mahaud de Normandie, first wife of Eudes
II, Count of Blois and de CharŽtres. [Historie Genealogique et Chronol. by Anselma.]
The
Norse Sagas speak of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy as follows:
King Olaf had been on warfare west in Valland
two summers and one winter. Two jarls were then in Valland,
Vilhjalm and Rodbert;
their father was Rikard Ruda-Jarl
(jarl of Rouen);
they ruled Nortmandi. Their sister was Queen
Emma, who was married to Adalrad (Engla-king); their sons were Jatmund,
Jatvard the Good, Jatvig
and Jatgeir. Rikard Ruda-jarl was the son of Rikard
son of Vilhjalm Langaspjbt
(longue epee); he was the son of Gongu Hrolf jarl who won Nordmandi;
he was the son of Rognvald Maera
jarl the Powerful, as before is written. From Gongu
Hrolf have sprung the Ruda jarls, and long
after they reckoned themselves to be the kinsmen of the chiefs of Norway, and thought so for a long time,
and were always great friends of the Northmen,
and all of these men had a peace-land in Normandy who would accept it. For the
autumn King Olaf came to Normandy, and
stayed during the winter in Signa (Seine), and had peace-land there. [St. Olaf's Saga,
ch. 19.]
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