Engenulf (Aigle) de l'Aigle (abt. 1010 - 1066)

Born about 1010 in Normandy, France

Descendants

Died 14 Oct 1066 at about age 56 in Hastings, Sussex, England

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Biography

"Engenulf de l’Aigle, 2nd baron de l’Aigle, is well document as a companion of the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. He was gouverneur de l'Aigle and probably one of the knights in the service of Robert, Comte de Mortain. Very briefly, he was born in the town of "Laigle" in ca 1005, was one of the 32 people proven to have been at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. By Engenulf's time the lordship was prospering and its lord could make a number of religious benefactions. He gave property to Saint-Evroul, for example, and also endowed the church of Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle, which lay some three kilometres from Laigle, in prospectu...castri sitam, as a priory of Saint-Laumer of Blois. “Our earliest evidence of the family in ducal service is Engenulf's attestation of a ducal charter at Fécamp in the summer of 1066.” According to minstrel songs about his bravery, he died after the Battle whilst pursuing the Saxons that ran from the battle and he was one of many who died in what the French call "Malfosse" as depicted at the end of the Bayeau Tapestry and he is the man on horseback between the letters DERVN and SIMVL and to the left is a saxon with a hatchet. From Puck's Tales by Rudyard Kipling: 'At Santlache, over the hill yonder'- he pointed south-eastward towards Fairlight - 'we found Harold's men. We fought. At the day's end they ran. My men went with De Aquila's to chase and plunder, and in that chase ENGERRARD of the EAGLE was slain, and his son GILBERT took his banner and his men forward." In the words of G.H. White Engenulf was 'the only prominent Norman who lost his life in the battle'. Engenulf married Richerede, and “by her had several children.”^[1]

"Fulbert's son, Engenulf, lord of L'Aigle, was a benefactor of the local religious houses at Saint-Evroul and Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle, their own foundation. To the former, he and his wife, Richeroeda, donated the warhorse of their eldest son, Roger, following his death. Engenulf only appears with the Norman Duke in a document from Fecamp, just prior to the Norman conquest of England, in which Engenulf became the only prominent Norman nobleman to be killed at the Battle of Hastings."^[2]

Engenulf and his wife Richereda had the following known children:^[3]

• Roger (killed c 1059)
• Richer (killed in battle Sainte-Suzanne 18 Nov 1085)
• Gilbert (died 1092)
• Robert

Sources

See also:

1. ↑ http://oursoutherncousins.com/normandelaigles.html
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aigle_family
3. ↑ https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#EngenulfLaigledied1066

• Kathleen Thompson, "The Lords of Laigle: Ambition and Insecurity on the borders of Normandy" in Anglo-Norman Studies; XVIII; ed. Christopher Harper-Bill, Woodbridge, 1996, pp. 179-180.
• The World of Orderic Vitalis: Norman Monks and Norman Knights, by Marjorie Chibnall, publ. 1996, p. 26 - https://books.google.com/books?id=FzvyqCpoYJwC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=engenulf+de+l%27aigle&source=bl&ots=wRpTU1JM_W&sig=ACfU3U25IvnqGB-xvjuFTaXkbuer8-9fUQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiujuyNpv_pAhWGXc0KHT6TAYYQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=engenulf%20de%20l'aigle&f=false
• http://mauriceboddy.org.uk/Aigle.htm

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