UNKNOWN Doda

Abt 0980 - Abt 1034  (54 years)

• Name	UNKNOWN Doda
  Birth	Abt 0980	Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1034	Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
  Notes	Doda (also Duwa, Dua) is named as the wife of 'Herbert of Falaise' (in other sources named as Fulbert), and mother of Herleva and therefore maternal grandmother of Willliam I 'the Conqueror', Duke of Normandy and King of England in the 'Chronicle of Alberic (Aubry) of Trois-Fontaines' (in Latin Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium).[1] Herbertus pelliparius et uxor Doda sive Duwa. However Alberic of Trois-Fontaines didn't start writing this chronicle until 1232[2] and Doda isn't named at all in earlier sources written closer to the time period when she would have lived. In fact Herleva and her father Fulbert, are themselves only first named by the historian Orderic Vitalis in his continuation of the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes) written in the early 12th century. So although Herleva had to have had a mother, there is no guarantee that her name was Doda, and a number of recent historians omit her altogether in any discussion of the family. Research Notes Need to investigate the other children; Walter, Osborne and Beatrice and either source them or remove them as her children. Sources ↑ Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium’, ed. Paulus Scheffer-Boichorst, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum, vol. 23 (Hanover, 1874), p. 785. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Alberic of Trois-Fontaines," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alberic_of_Trois-Fontaines&oldid=877368342 (accessed 11 July 2019).
  Person ID	I59950	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family	FALAISE Fulbert,   b. Abt 0978, Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France d. Abt 1022, Normandy, France (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	1002
  Children	1. FALAISE Herlève,   b. Abt 1003, Falaise, Normandie, France d. Abt 1055, Mortain, Normandie, France (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26617	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026