- new
commune of
Mortain-Bocage.
Mortain is
situated on a
rocky hill
rising above the
gorge of the Cance, a
tributary of the Sélune.
Mortain is the seat of...
- Robert,
Count of
Mortain,
first Earl of
Cornwall of 2nd
creation (c. 1031–c. 1095) was a
Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on
their mother's side)...
-
Following the
battle of
Tinchebray in 1106,
Henry confiscated the
County of
Mortain from his
cousin William and the
Honour of Eye from
Robert Malet. In 1113...
-
during the
Battle of Normandy,
which occurred near U.S.
positions near
Mortain, in
northwestern France. Lüttich is the
German name for the city of Liège...
- The
County of
Mortain was a
medieval county in
France centered on the town of
Mortain. A
choice landholding,
usually either kept
within the
family of...
- of William's
prominent half-brothers Odo of
Bayeux and Robert,
Count of
Mortain, born to Herleva's
marriage to
Herluin de Conteville. Herleva's background...
-
before becoming chaplain to Duke
William the Conqueror's brother,
Robert of
Mortain (died 1090). The Vita (biography) of
Vitalis tells that
Robert was beating...
-
Eremburga of
Mortain (Eremburge de
Mortain) was the
second wife of
Count Roger I of
Sicily and thus the
second Sicilian countess. She is very obscure...
-
landholdings he
appears to have been a
knight or
follower of Robert,
Count of
Mortain, the half-brother of King
William the Conqueror. Most of his
sixteen English...
-
Mortain (bef. 1084–aft. 1140) was
Count of
Mortain and the
second Earl of
Cornwall of 2nd creation.
William was the son of Robert,
Count of
Mortain,...
