According to one legend, still recounted by tour guides at Falaise, it all started when Robert, the young Duke of Normandy saw Herleva from the roof of his castle tower.

William was the son of the unmarried Robert I, Duke of Normandy by his mistress Herleva.

William was the illegitimate son of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy, and Herleva ( or Arlette ), a tanner's daughter.

Herleva ( c. 1003 – c. 1050 ) also known as Herleve, Arlette, Arletta and Arlotte, had three sons-William I of England, who was fathered by Robert I, Duke of Normandy, and Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain, who were both fathered by Herluin de Conteville.

Herleva refused, saying she would only enter the Duke's castle on horseback through the front gate, and not as an ordinary commoner.

In a few days, Herleva, dressed in the finest her father could provide, and sitting on a white horse, rode proudly through the front gate, her head held high.

However, David C. Douglas suggests that Herleva probably died before Herluin founded the abbey because her name does not appear on the list of benefactors, whereas the name of Herluin's second wife, Fredesendis, does.

This would put Herleva in her forties around the time of her death.

This gave Herleva a semi-official status as the Duke's mistress.

His mother, Herleva, was the daughter of Fulbert of Falaise ; Fulbert may have been a tanner or embalmer.

* Herleva, mother of William I of England ( d. c. 1050 )

He was the son of William the Conqueror's mother Herleva, and Herluin de Conteville.

The background of Herleva and the circumstances of William's birth are shrouded in mystery.

Also, the Count of Flanders later accepted Herleva as a proper guardian for his own daughter.

Herleva later married Herluin de Conteville in 1031.

Another source suggests that Herleva did not marry Herluin until after Robert died because there is no record of Robert ensuing another relationship, whereas Herluin married another woman, Fredesendis, by the time he founded the abbey of Grestain.

According to Robert of Torigni, Herleva was buried at the abbey of Grestain, which was founded by Herluin and their son Robert around 1050.

Robert was the son of Herluin de Conteville and Herleva of Falaise and brother of Odo of Bayeux.

About 1035, Herluin, as Vicomte of Conteville, along with his wife Herleva and Robert founded Grestain Abbey.

One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

The motif of Faust's love for Helen of Troy goes back to the sources of the Faustian legend.

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Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

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As the legend goes there was a mix up at the post office-a missing comma.

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Hence, he used " we " as " God and I ...," or so the legend goes.

In 1588 Brixham watched Sir Francis Drake attacking the Spanish Armada after he had ( so the legend goes ) finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe.

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The legend goes that he was so disgusted by the " primitive " Crucifix of Donatello in the Santa Croce church, that he made this one.

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The legend goes that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( ca.

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