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 , by Goda, or Ehtda [Edith ?], da of Ethelred, King of England. His mother was not improbably the heiress of the estates of Gael and Montfort(a) which undoubtedly be somehow inherited. He was b. before 1046; knighted before Oct.1066 when as commander of a band of Bretons he was styled "Le Breton" at the battle of Hastings, receiving shortly afterwards, as a reward from the Conqueror, the district known as the Consulate of the East Angles, comprising the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and part of that of Cambridge, and thus apparently becoming EARL OF NORFOLK, being styled(b) in 1071 Earl of Norwich. He bad two years previously in April 1069 repulsed an invasion of the Danes at Norwich. He m. about 1074 Emma, da, of, (who was Seigneur de Breteuil and Dapiser of Normandy), by Adeliza, da, of Roger. He joined with Roger de Breteuil in the rebellion of 1074(c) against the Conqueror planned(d) of at the fatal "brideale" of Ixingham whereby his English Earldom and estates became forfeited when, with his wife, he retired to Britanny, both of them finally joining the Crusade in the time of Pope Urban and dying on the journey(e) to Palestine.(f)