Mon arbre généalogique

Act of Richard de Harcourt, granting 40 shillings p.a. from his port at Elbeuf-sur-Seine to the abbey of Le Valasse near Lillebonne (15 Mar. 1208, n.s.). Rouen, AD Seine-Maritime, 18 HP 2 (reproduced by permission of the Archives de la Seine-Maritime).

Richard de Harcourt had been granted Elbeuf (SM, ar. Rouen) by Count Robert of Meulan, and retained it when the count lost all his lands in 1204. The Harcourtsm a prominent family in central Normandy, had already divided into an 'English' and a 'Norman' branch by 1204, but Richard de Harcourt, head of the 'Norman' branch, managed to recover his lands in England and held them for much of the period until his death in 1236. Through his marriage to Matilda, one of the coheiresses of Ralph IV Taisson, he acquired the lordship of St-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Cotentin, which Ralph Taisson had inherited from his mother Leticia de St-Sauveur.