ROGER de BRETEUIL.

Breteuil is a canton in the arrondissement of Evreux. Roger de Breteuil was the second son of William Fitz Osberne, first earl of Hereford, whom, according to Delisle, he accompanied to England at the conquest. On the death of his father in 1071, Roger inherited the earldom and the English estates, and he thus became the second earl of Hereford. He "shortly afterwards lost it by his perfidy and folly" toward his sovereign. In 1075, during the absence of king William in Normandy, he joined a rebellion against that monarch with Raoul de Gael, earl of Norfolk, who had taken advantage of the king's absence to marry Roger's sister, Emma, which union the king had positively forbidden. Roger was captured, his properties confiscated and he was thrown into prison where he died.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll).