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William FitzOsbern
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William FitzOsbern, the Conqueror's closest friend, argued the invasion of England into being, was made Earl of Hereford, and died in a snowball fight of a battle in Flanders barely five years later.
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✓ standard (ODNB; CP 'Hereford'): WILLIAM FITZOSBERN (d.1071 at Cassel), Earl of Hereford, steward of Normandy; m.(1) ADELIZA DE TOSNY - dau. Emma (our line). OPEN above (his father Osbern the Steward, murdered protecting the boy Duke William, and the Crepon kin - one to two documented rungs; NB Osbern the Steward was a GUNNOR nephew - would loop to the frontier). Added 14 Sep 2026.