- RODULF D’IVRY, I10627 Esperleng Radulf / Raoul / Ralph of Ivrea? / Roger d’Ivry? / Robert d’Ivry? ‘Comte d’Ivry et de Bayeux’, ‘Comte de Bayeux’ was born about 945; he died after 1011. Guillaume de Jumièges names him as uterine brother of Richard Comte [de Normandie], specifying that the latter consulted him about arrangements for the succession in Normandy when dying. He was a Norman noble and regent of Normandy and the Duke’s half-brother. When Richard I died in 996, Rodulf took effective power during the minority of his nephew, Richard II of Normandy, alongside the boy’s mother, Gunnor. According to William of Jumieges he had to quell dual rebellions in 996, of peasants and nobility; against the former he cut off feet and hands. He arrested the chief aristocratic rebel, Guillame, Comte d’Exmes.
Orderic Vitalis names Rodulf’s wife as Albereda (Aubree) and appears to be writing from oral history since he was born nearly a century after these events he described. Guillaume [monk] of Jumièges, calls Rodulf’s wife Erembergam. Since he was a contemporary of the events of 1066, and one of the earliest writers on the subject of the Norman Conquest and he mentions that he was an eyewitness of some events from the reign of Richard II (1026-7), it seems reasonable to assume he was living during these events and therefore is a more reliable source. Some say Radulf had two wives and others make the women the same person. Guillaume de Jumièges records the marriage, "Eranberge…née dans une certaine terre du pays de Caux que l'on appelle Caville ou Cacheville" and “Rodulphum” married “Erembergam…natam in quadam villa Calcini territorii…Cavilla” and that they had “duos filos Hugonem postea episcopium Baiocensem et Ioannem Abricatensem…” She is named, Albereda, uxor Radulfi, by Orderic Vitalis, who says that she built the castle of Ivry, executed the architect Lanfred to prevent him from completing a similar construction elsewhere, attempted to expel her husband from the castle, and was killed by him by 1011.
The problem with Albereda being an only wife is that all their children would then have been born no later than 1011. For Raoul (d’Ivry) de Sancto Johanne to be alive 1100-1121, he’d be aged over 110 years if born before 1011 and died in or after 1121. So to resolve this Albereda and Erembergam would need to be first and second wife respectively or there is a missing generation before Raoul (d’Ivry) de Sancto Johanne. This could be explained by adding Robert d’Ivry as the son of Radulfi and the father of Roger or Raoul d’Ivry de Sancto Johanne but that is mere speculation; in such a situation, Albreda would then likely be the only wife of Radulfi, Erembergam would then have married the son Robert, and Raoul d’Ivry would equally be Roger d’Ivry who married Adeline Grandmesnil. Another possibility is that the charter posthumously dated 1121 by I J. H. Round, regarding Thomas St. John making amends to the monks at Mont St. Michel, is actually much older.
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- Witnessed by Radulpho de Sumeri (father)?
bef. 1161
RALPH [I] de Somery (-after [1161]). ?G. Painel?, considering the proposal of ?Radulfi Painel patris mei?, founded Dudley priory, for the salvation of ?Isabellæ uxoris meæ et Roberti filii mei?, by undated charter (dated by Dugdale to "before 1161"), witn
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Abt 945 - Aft 1011 (~ 67 years)
