CHAPTER III. 

 HARTING IN THE TIME OF THE HUSSEYS. 



THE variations of Hoese, or De Hoese, Hosatus, 

 Husee, Huse, Huss, Hussey, are all derivable from the 

 name of a place in Normandy, a mile to the north of 

 Rouen, called " La Houssaie," the " Holly-wood." 



Thus Froissart mentions Sir Alayne of Houssaye as 

 being, with other Englishmen, at the siege of the 

 Castle of Mount Paon in France. The West Hartinge 

 Leager, or Ledger Book, 1632 (Add. MSS., 28, 529, 

 p. 16), says "that a certain Allane Hussey was son to 

 Ravletta, sister by the mother's side to William the 

 Conqueror." This claim of the Hussey family of 

 descent from the Conqueror seems a little uncertain. 

 " The mother of William the Conqueror," writes Mr. 

 Edward Hussey, of Scotney Castle, " was Havlette, or 

 Avlotta, daughter of Fulbert, a tanner of Falaise, said 

 to be ancestor of the noble English family of Grey. 

 Havlette, after the death of Robert Duke of Normandy, 

 father of the Conqueror, married Herlonin, or Harlevin, 

 seigneur de Conteville, and had issue Odo, or Eucles, 

 Bishop of Bayeux, and Robert, Count of Mortaire, but 

 I do not hear of any daughters being mentioned. 

 Probably several of the name of Hussey came over at 

 the Conquest. Gautier Heuse is mentioned in ' Les 

 compagnons de Guillaume a la Conquete de 1'Angle- 

 terre en 1066,' by De Lisle, and in the ' Nobiliare de 

 Normandie,' by Le Vicomte de Magny. Hubert Huse, 

 who married the daughter of Richard III., Duke of 

 Normandy, and is said by Segar to be ancestor of 

 the Lords of Harting, is also mentioned in Norman 

 records." 



The Harting branch of these powerful barons, the 



