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Emma FitzOsbern
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Emma FitzOsbern held Norwich castle against the king's men while her husband's revolt collapsed, negotiated her own safe-conduct, and thirty years later took the cross and died beyond Jerusalem's road.
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✓ CP; ODNB: EMMA, dau. of WILLIAM FITZOSBERN by Adeliza de Tosny; wife of Ralph de Gael; mother of Amice (our line). One of the great women of the Conquest generation. Added 14 Sep 2026.