Nigel (Niel) de St. Sauveur (Viscount of St. Sanveur)

Nigel (Niel) was born in 0996.  Nigel (Niel)'s father was Nigel II and his mother was Helena of Normandy.  His paternal grandparents were Roger and <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.

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