MONTGOMERY Guillaume

Aft 0927 -

• Name	MONTGOMERY Guillaume
  Birth	Aft 0927	France
  Gender	Male
  Notes	This early family has been well documented for one so early in England's history. They were related to the Ducal family of Normandy through the Gunnor, wife of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Her neice, Joscelina, married Hugh de Montgomery. “The earliest records of the family of Montgomery place its origin in the northern part of France in the ninth century, and the name it is suggested, probably had its origin, or is a corruption descent of Mons Gomeris. “Gomer’s Mount” the ancient Gauls claiming descent from Gomer, son of Japhet, the family taking their name from the locality or territory over which they ruled as feudal lords.” - from “Colonial Families of Philadelphia” by John W Jordan, 1911 The family held the castle of St. Foy de Montgomery, just south of Lisieux [Liseaux], in France. The village still exists and it was along a road near here that Field Marshall Erwin Rommel was strafed and badly injured by Allied fighters in WWII. Falaise, the birthplace of Duke William, was just to the west. One legend claims that Gomeric was a Viking, the son of Ingvar Ragnarson, the King of East Anglis and Northumberland. Gomeric settled in the Calvados area of Normandy and fortified a hill which gave the family its name - Mons Gomerici. Another part of the family, seeking deeper roots, claimed the name could be traced back to a Roman commander called Gomericus. Yet another, below, made the earliest members of the family part of the indigenous Frankish nobility of Normandy. Roger de Mont Gomerie (c880) From “Colonial Families of Philadelphia” - "The first known to bear the name, according to William, surnamed Calculus, the monk, of Jumieges, the earliest historian of Normandy, who died 1099. Whose work remains to this day an authority on the events of his time, was Roger de Montgomerie, who was Count of Montgomerie before the conquest of Normandy by the Northmen under Duke Rollo, A. D. 912. A native of Neustria, his ancestors were doubtless for many generations’ back natives of that province. When conquered it became known as Normandy, and he probably belonged to that numerous class of natives of noble lineage who welcomed Rollo as a relief from the internecine struggles with France was rent by the ambitious designs of the descendants of Charlemagne." If the above is true, and Roger was the Count before Rollo's conquest in 912, then he must have been at least in his thirties at the time, or born in about 880. Roger de Montgomery Magnus (c910) Roger de Mont Gomerie (c880) Roger de MOnte Gomerii or Gummeri. He married Hiemois. He had two sons, Roger [or William], and Bernard, who fathered the de Beaumont line of England. Roger de Montegomeri (c940) Son of Roger de Mont Gomerie (c880) and father of Roger de Montgomery Magnus (c910) Vicomte, of St. Germain de Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy, France. His motte, that is the raised hill and surronding ditch of a no-longer existing fortification, still survives. It has never been excavated. Alternately he may be William de Montegomeri who married Elizabeth de Tripon. This profile accepts this alternate hypothesis. Sources Guillaume's (or Roger de Montegomeri (c940)) ancestry collected from the shissem.com website by Varnell-40 17:21, 5 April 2015 (EDT). Geni World Family Trees (http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-40000/geni-world-family-tree?s=178346832&itemId=85492189&action=showRecord&indId=individual-178346832-1500425) accessed Feb 22, 2015
  Person ID	I60012	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family	TRIPON Elizabeth,   b. 0932, Botinet, Normandy, France d. 1026, Mt. Gomeric, Normandy, France (Age ~ 93 years)
  Marriage	0953	France
  Children	1. MONTGOMERY Hugues,   b. Abt 0958, St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d. 0994, St Foye De Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy, France (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26645	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026