HUGUE DE CARBONNEL.

The Carbonnels were sires of Cerisy, arrondissement of St-Lo. Their ancient castle, Chateau Robert, was on the river Avre, of which the foundations still remain. According to the genealogy of the family, it was Hugue de Carbonnel, sire de Cerisy, who was at the conquest. He followed duke Robert to the Holy Land and distinguished himself at the taking of Jerusalem. He may have been the Carbonnel who held a Hereford manor of the king in capite in 1086 (Domesday). In the reign of Henry II the family of Carbonnel possessed property in Brevands, a parish in the deanery of Carentan, in the Cotentin, and William Carbonel owned an extensive tract of land within the diocese of Rouen on the left bank of the Seine at the same period. Cerisy was elevated into a marquessate in favour of Rene de Carbonnel in 1643. In England the family long flourished in Hereford, Buckingham and Oxford.

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