• Emma de Conteville b abt 1130. She md Richard le Goz abt 1045.
• Sir Robert de Mortain, Earl of Cornwall, b 1031.

Sir Robert de Mortain [a], Earl of Cornwall, b 1031, d 1095. He md Maud de Montgomery abt 1062, daughter of Sir Roger II de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, and Mabel Talvas.
Children of Robert de Mortain and Maud de Montgomery were:

• Emma de Mortain b abt 1063, d 1080. She md William IV, Count of Toulouse and Norbonne, abt 1078, son of Pons III, Count of Toulouse, and Almodis de la Marche.
• Agnes de Mortain b abt 1072. She md Andre de Vitre abt 1085.
• Daughter de Mortain b abt 1075. She md Sir William Fitz Richard, Lord of Cardinan, abt 1092. Their daughter, Mabel Fitz Richard md Sir Reginald Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, abt 1133, son of Henry I Beauclerc, King of England, and mistress Sibyl Corbet.

NOTES:
a. One of the two sons of Herluin de Conteville and Herleve, he received, about 1050, from his his uterine brother William, then Duke of Normandy, the comte of Mortain. He accompanied William in the invasion of England, where he was in command of the chivalry of the Contentin at the battle of Hastings. His share of the spoils was one of the largest, as he received nearly the whole of Cornwall. At Domesday he was possessed of 797 manors in various counties. In 1069, with Robert, Count of Eu, he defeated the Danes "with great slaughter". In 1088 he joined his only brother of the full blood, Eudes, Earl of Kent, in the rebellion against William II in favor of Robert Curthose, but was subsequently pardoned. He was first married to Maud, the daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, and was secondly married to Almodis.

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SOURCES:
CP: Vol III[427-428]; AR: Line 121[26], Line 185[1-2].

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