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**DNB is Dictionary of National Biography.  The article 2, 376 is "Bernard (fl 1093) of Neufmarche" which I extract, in part, next.
 
**DNB is Dictionary of National Biography.  The article 2, 376 is "Bernard (fl 1093) of Neufmarche" which I extract, in part, next.
  
*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/View.aspx?dbid=6892&path=Beal+-+Browell.Dictionary+Of+National+Biography.BE.376&cr=1&sid=&gskw= Dictionary of National Biography (1922), 2, 376], "Bernard (fl. 1093), of Neufmarche (de Novo-mercatu), often called in English 'of Newmarch,' was the son of Geoffrey, son of Thurcytel, lord of Newmarche by the forest of Lions, and of Ada, daughter of Richard of Hugleville....He married the daughter of Osbern, son of Richard Fitz Scrob, the Norman lord who built his castle in Herefordshire before the Conquest....He married, probably as his second wife, Nest, the daughter of another Nest, daughter of Gruffyydd ap Llewellyn and his English wife Ealdgyth, though it is possible that the elder Nest was the wife of Osbern, and that her daughter was the only wife of Bernard....The date of his death is not known....In spite of the pious benefaction made by Nest to her husband's priory, her wickedness caused her son Mahel the loss of his father's estates.  Mahel caught her lover coming from her, and beat and mutilated him.  In revenge Nest went to King Henry and swore that her son was not the son of her husband Bernard. The king...made Nest's daughter Sibyl...heiress...and gave her in marriage to Miles FitzWalter, constable of Gloucester...."
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*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/View.aspx?dbid=6892&path=Beal+-+Browell.Dictionary+Of+National+Biography.BE.376&cr=1&sid=&gskw= Dictionary of National Biography (1922), 2, 376], "Bernard (fl. 1093), of Neufmarche (de Novo-mercatu), often called in English 'of Newmarch,' was the son of Geoffrey, son of Thurcytel, lord of Newmarche by the forest of Lions, and of Ada, daughter of Richard of Hugleville....He married the daughter of Osbern, son of Richard Fitz Scrob, the Norman lord who built his castle in Herefordshire before the Conquest....He married, probably as his second wife, Nest, the daughter of another Nest, daughter of Gruffyydd ap Llewellyn and his English wife Ealdgyth, though it is possible that the elder Nest was the wife of Osbern, and that her daughter was the only wife of Bernard....The date of his death is not known....In spite of the pious benefaction made by Nest to her husband's priory, her wickedness caused her son Mahel the loss of his father's estates.  Mahel caught her lover coming from her, and beat and mutilated him.  In revenge Nest went to King Henry and swore that her son was not the son of her husband Bernard. The king...made Nest's daughter Sibyl...heiress...and gave her in marriage to Miles FitzWalter, constable of Gloucester...." The articles cites it's authorites as : "Giraldus Cambrensis, Itin. Kambriae, i. 12; Orderic, 606; Florence, 1088; Anglo-Sax. Chron. 1088; Brut y Tywysogion, 1091; Chron. de Bello, 34, 35; Monasticon, i. 545, iii. 264, 245; Freeman's Norman Conquest, iii. 132, v. 109, and William Rufus, i. 34, ii. 89-91."
  
 
*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=49030&iid=FLHG_AncestralRoots-0189&sid=&gskw=Record+Godiva&cr=1 Ancestral Roots, 7th edition, line 176] stating :<blockquote>2 Gruffydd I ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, king of Gwynedd and Powys, 1039, and of Deheubarth, 1055, slain 5 Aug 1063; m as 1st husb., abt 1057, Edith (or Aldgyth) (176A-4), dau of Aelfgar (176A-3). (ASC 1035, 1051, 1053, 1055, 1057, 1058; CCN 444, 604). She m (2) abt 1064, (Harold II (1B-23), King of England, (CP VI, 451-453, DNB 23: 307; NGSQ 50 (1962): 76-77; Dict of Welsh Biog., cit., p 312)</blockquote>
 
*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=49030&iid=FLHG_AncestralRoots-0189&sid=&gskw=Record+Godiva&cr=1 Ancestral Roots, 7th edition, line 176] stating :<blockquote>2 Gruffydd I ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, king of Gwynedd and Powys, 1039, and of Deheubarth, 1055, slain 5 Aug 1063; m as 1st husb., abt 1057, Edith (or Aldgyth) (176A-4), dau of Aelfgar (176A-3). (ASC 1035, 1051, 1053, 1055, 1057, 1058; CCN 444, 604). She m (2) abt 1064, (Harold II (1B-23), King of England, (CP VI, 451-453, DNB 23: 307; NGSQ 50 (1962): 76-77; Dict of Welsh Biog., cit., p 312)</blockquote>

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