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Nigel (Niel) de St. Sauveur

Nigel (Niel) was born in 0996. Nigel (Niel)'s father was Nigel II and his mother was Helena of Normandy. His paternal grandfather was Roger and his paternal grandmother is <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were Duke Richard II (The Good) de Normandie and Judith de Bretagne. He was an only child.

General Notes
- Vicomte de Contentin. The annals of the House of Arundel, however, contain an earlier notice of the family, and it was to this that Lord Arundel directed the writer's attention. The head of the family of Albini, Niel or Nigel, Vicomte of St. Sanveur, with Hamon aux Dents, his brother, was the leader of the conspiracy to drive the Bastard of Robert II. from the throne of Normandy, and to place upon it its legitimate heir, Guy, Duke of Burgundy. That conspiracy culminated disastrously for the conspirators at the famous battle of Val de Dunes, which was fought about 1047, and Niel de St. Sauveur fled into exile, whilst Hamon aux Dents was taken prisoner. Niel was himself the head of a younger branch of the ducal family of Normandy, and closely allied to the neighbouring House of Brittany, and in Brittany some of his family, and probably he himself, for a time found shelter, whilst others settled in England, and possibly there obtained their appellation of Albini.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Malahule Eysteinsson ^*
  - b.  0832 in Maer-Nord Trondelag Norway
  
  Richard de St. Sauveur
  - b.  0893 d.  0933
  
  Dame Maud De Flanders
  - b.  0912 d.  0965
  
  Nigel I
  
  Roger
  - b.  0944
  
  Nigel II
  - b.  0968 d.  1045
  
  Nigel (Niel) de St. Sauveur
  - b.  0996
  
  Count Rollo (The Dane) Rognvaldsson ^*
  - b.  0860 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.  0932
  
  Duke   Guillaume I  de Normandie
  - b.  0900 in Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942
  
  Poppa de Normandie ^*
  - b.  0872 in Evreux, Nuestria, France d.  0931
  
  Duke Richard I (The Fearless) de Normandie
  - b.28 Aug 0933 in Fecamp, Normandie, France d.20 Nov 0996
  
  Sprote de Bretagne
  - b.  0911 in Bretagne, France
  
  Duke Richard II (The Good) de Normandie
  - b.  0963 in Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1027
  
  Gunnor De Crepon
  - b.  0947 in Normandy, France d.  1031 in France
  
  Helena of Normandy
  
  Judith de Bretagne
  - b.  0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

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