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This little gem by the Director of the Society of Genealogists (London) contains a consolidated list of the Companions of William the Conqueror and is in effect a synthesized edition of the famous Battle Abbey Roll. In addition to being the most comprehensive version of the Battle Abbey Roll ever compiled, it includes three scholarly papers which discuss the validity of the evidence and form a basis for testing conclusions. Mr. Camp also references those Companions of the Conqueror whose names appear in the Domesday Book of 1086 and cross-references from the Roll to the Duchess of Cleveland's three-volume work on the Battle Abbey Roll and Lewis Loyd's Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Genealogical Publishing Company; No Edition Stated (January 1, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 92 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806313900
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806313900
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.19 x 9 inches

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Faithful Reader

Conference papers presented long ago

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021

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This reprints papers first presented in 1930s conferences in UK, written to debunk a then-current French version of who went over with The Conqueror, w/which a lot of history-minded Brits apparently disagreed. So much more info can be discovered now that I wonder what a current assessment would be. But the conclusion, that there was exactly one verified Norman whose male line had anybody alive in 1930s, is hardly surprising, considering that all my genealogy classes have taught that it's highly unusual for a family to have a male line last for 10 generations, and this is a lot longer than that.

William the Conqueror is Even My Granddad!

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016

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This is without a doubt the best book available for researching your Norman relatives. I had joined Ancestry.com. This book enabled me to find out that I have over 150 ancestors that came to England with the Conqueror.

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017

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helpful with my genealogy

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017

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Excellent information

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2014

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The book shows water damage but the mailing package did not.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2015

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its all good

Michael K. Smith

All the arguments under one roof

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2005

Probably more than 8,000 mounted knights fought for Duke William of Normandy at Hastings in 1066, but only a very small number of those can actually be identified. In 1931, a bronze commemorative tablet was erected at Falaise in Normandy which included the names of 315 men who were claimed to be proven Companions of the Conqueror, but even that number turns out to be too large by more than a factor of ten. The names were taken from several sources: Guillaume de Poitiers, who was William's chaplain; Bishop Guy of Amiens, almoner to Queen Matilda, who wrote a Latin poem on the battle; Guillaume de Jumieges, who dedicated his _Gesta Normanorum_ to the Conqueror; Roger du Mont and Robert Torigny, who continued that work; Oderic Vital, a monk born nine years after Hastings, who spent several years in England collecting evidence on the battle; and Wace, a Jersey-born poet born in 1100 who mentions 118 knights by name in his _Roman de Rou_. The Bayeux Tapestry is another source which names a very few of those present at Hastings. The principal source for the list of Companions was for many years the Roll of Battle Abbey, but that was shown in the past century to be very unreliable. Dr. T. R. Thomson, spurred by the Falaise celebrations, re-examined the sources in a key article late in 1931, and the following year Geoffrey H. White read an important paper before the Society of Genealogists confirming Thomson's conclusions. Prof. David C. Douglas went back to the beginning in another major paper in 1944 and White published an extensive commentary on that effort, as well. And how many Companions' names have survived this rigorous academic process? Nineteen -- fifteen of them certain and four others highly probable. All, of course (with the exception of Bishop Odo), were founders of great noble families in England.

All the articles mentioned above have been conveniently reprinted in this slender volume, together with a list of all the names claimed by all the sources, including six variant copies of the Battle Abbey Roll, the Falaise Roll of 1931, and Leopold Delisle's Dives Roll, published in 1863.

This book is a key source not only for sorting out the claims of various ancient families to ancestral presence at Hastings, but also as a nearly complete list of all those families whose progenitors showed up in England anywhere from a year to several generations later.

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Mrs. M. Machen

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2015

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Not a book to enjoy reading, but I found information I was looking for.

Marguerite Susan Perry

it is an interesting resource

Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2018

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I found my family

Michael James Talbot

My Ancestors in the Battle of Hastings

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2014

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Researching my Talbot ancestors who fought with William the Conqueror in 1066. Maybe I am related, maybe I am not but it is fun trying to find out.

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