Thorold de Pont-Audemer

   Cause of his death was Murdered.

  General Notes:

THOROLD [Turold] de Pont-Audemer (-murdered after 1040). Guillaume de Jumièges records that "Gunnor" had "excepta Sainfria...duas sorores Wewam et Avelinam", adding that Wewa married "Turulfo de Ponte-Audomari...filius...Torf" by whom she had"Humfridum de Vetulis patrem Rogerii de Bellomonte". "…Turaldus…" is named as present in the charter dated 1035 under which "Willelmus adhuc puerulus…Roberti comitis filius" donated "Turstini villa" to the abbey of Préaux. He was strangled. Guillaume of Jumièges records that "Turoldus teneri ducis pædagogus" was killed, dated to early in the reign of Duke Guillaume II from the context.

m WEWA, sister of GUNNORA [mistress of Richard I Duke of Normandy]. Guillaume de Jumièges records that "Gunnor" had "excepta Sainfria...duas sorores Wewam et Avelinam", adding that Wewa married "Turulfo de Ponte-Audomari...filius...Torf"by whom she had "Humfridum de Vetulis patrem Rogerii de Bellomonte". The Genealogia Fundatoris of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire records that the (unnamed) sister of "Gunnora comitissa Normanniæ" married "Turulpho de Ponte-Adomaro".

Thorold & his wife had [two] children: Honfroi and Roger. ¹

Thorold married Wewa.