TURCHIL LE ROUX.

The family Le Rufus, Le Rous or Le Roux was Norman and held lands near Rouen from the county of Breteuil. It was represented at the conquest of England, according to 'Norman People', by Turchil Le Roux, who held lands in Norfolk from Allen Fitz Flaald, which statement is published by Cleveland without comment. Burke is of the opinion that this personage was Radulfus Le Rufus. Be this as it may, the representative at Hastings was probably the father or grandfather of Ralph the Red (Le Roux), who stood very high in the favour of king Henry I, to whom he rendered great service. He went to the Crusade in 1106 and on his return was in command of king Henry's forces which opposed Amaury de Montfort and William Crispin III in their bitter feud with the king. He operated from his castle of Pont-Echanfre, near Bernai in the Norman Vexin, in their war early in 1119 and during the same year saved the life of Richard, king Henry's son. He perished in the wreck of the Blanche-Nef with the king's two sons, and his death was more greatly lamented by that monarch than any of the many others of the English nobility who were drowned in that unfortunate accident. The name is carried on the rolls of Holinshed, Duchesne and Scriven.

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