Anchitel de Harcourt

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁹²⁷
Anchitel, the eldest son of Turchetil, was the first who took the surname of Harcourt, and by his wife, Eve de Boessey, Lady of Boessey la Chastel, had seven sons and one daughter. They were:

Errand, or Anguerrand de Harcourt, who married Emma d'Estouteville, was commander of the archers of Val de Ruel in the descent of William the Conqueror upon England, 1066, and returned to his native country after that Prince's coronation.

Robert de Harcourt, second son, named "the Strong" was the ancestor of the Earls of Harcourt.

John de Harcourt, the thrid son.

Arnold de Harcourt, fourth son, was sent for to England from Normandy by William the Conqueror, A. D. 1068, to assist against the Danes, by whom he was slain in an engagement.

Gervase de Harcourt, fifth son

Ivo de Harcourt, sixth son

Renauld de Harcourt, seventh son

Agnes, the wife of ______de Formeville.

~Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. IV, pp. 430-431

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Anschetil d'Harcourt "Guillaume de Jumièges records that "Turulfo de Ponte-Audomari...filius...Torf" was the brother of "Turchetillus pater Anschetilli de Harecurt" [Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Duchesne, 1619), Liber VIII, XXXVII, p. 312].