• Born: Tournai, Walloon Region, Belgium
• Married:
• Died:Between 1159 and 1166, Mortagne, Artois/Pas-de-Calais, France

  Research Notes:

Châtelain de Tournai. The abbot of Saint-Amand-en-Pèvele recorded a donation of property “apud Heines super alodium patris sui Gualteri Tornacensis castellani” made to the abbey by “Gualterus”, when “pie memorie Ratbodus Tornacensis ecclesie archidiaconus” became a monk there, in the presence of “Perona uxor ipsius Gualteri, Everardus castellanus filius eius et uxor ipsius Richeldis, Siherus et Alardus fratres Evrardi, quorum Alardus noster monachus factus prior patre suo obiit, sorores etiam ipsorum : Helewidis, Yda et Elizabeth”, and excommunicated anyone who failed to respect the donations, by charter dated 1144. Godeschalk Bishop of Arras recorded donations to the abbey du Château, including the donations made by “Evrardus castellanus”, including land “apud Mauritaniam”, by charter dated 1157, witnessed by “...Euvrardi castellani, Euvrardi filii eius...Robodi castellani”.

Seigneur de Mortagne. Géraud Bishop of Tournai, at the request of “castellanus Tornacensis Evrardus et filius eiusdem equivocus Evrardus cognomento Radullus”, confirmed toll exemptions “de Tornaco et de Mauritania” granted by the latter to Marchiennes abbey by charter dated 1159. He died before 1166, the date of his son’s charter.... ¹