AthelingWilliam FitzOsbern
Earl of Hereford. 1020 to 1071.
What is known, and how well
| Fact | Value | Certainty |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1020 | Year |
| Death | 1071 | Year |
| Parents | Not recorded | |
| House | House of Normandy | |
| Realm | England | |
| How sure we are | Not rated | Of this record as a whole |
Events
- William sails for Normandy
The new king spends most of 1067 across the Channel, leaving Odo and fitzOsbern to govern.
With William, Odo, FitzOsbern, Edgar - William fitzOsbern is killed at Cassel
The king’s closest companion dies in a Flemish succession war.
With FitzOsbern, Roger
Family
Children Roger.
What is uncertain
- Parentage is not recorded here.
Related people
Sources
Where this is recorded
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Avalon Project)
- William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi, ed. R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall, Oxford Medieval Texts, 1998
- Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester
Reference works
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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