Fulbert of Falaise
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Fulbert of Falaise (fl. 11th century) was the father of Herleva, mother of the illegitimate William the Conqueror, the 11th-century Duke of Normandy and King of England.
The evidence is not beyond dispute, but Fulbert has traditionally been held to be a tanner, which was a common occupation in Falaise, and in King William's later life he was often taunted by enemies who pretended he stank of the tannery. After the birth of William, Fulbert was given a subordinate office at the Norman court, along with his two sons, Osbert and Walter.
He wrote a Christian hymn in Latin, "Chorus Novae Jerusalem, nine years before his death in 1029. This hymn was translated into English in 1850, Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (The Church Hymn Book, 491/1872), by Robert Campbell.
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- Douglas, David C. (1963). William the Conqueror.
- Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 121-23, 121E-22, 130-23
- The Church Hymn Book for the Worship of God. New York and Chicago, 1872. Editor Edwin F. Hatfield. (In the Librarian of the Congress at Washington D. C., 1872.)
