MaugerMauger (or Malger according to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum

Gesta Normannorum Ducum

Gesta Normannorum Ducum is a chronicle originally created by the monk William of Jumièges just before 1060. In 1070 William I had William of Jumièges extend the work to detail his rights to the throne of England. In later times, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds...

) was the son of Richard II, duke of Normandy

Duke of Normandy

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, and Papia, daughter of Richildis of Envermeu. His brother was William of Talou

William of Talou

William of Talou was the son of duke Richard II of Normandy and Papia from Envermeu. His brother was Mauger, who became archbishop of Rouen in 1037...

, the count of Arques

Arques

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Mauger was the archbishop of Rouen

Archbishop of Rouen

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 from c.1037 to 1054 (or 1055). His brother William was defeated in a failed rebellion against their nephew, Duke William II, near Arques in 1053, resulting in the banishment of Talou. Perhaps because of his connection to his brother's rebellion, Mauger was deposed from his archbishopric at the council of Lisieux

Lisieux

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. He was banished to the Isle of Guernsey

Guernsey

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. According to Wace

Wace

Wace was a Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy , ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.-Life:...

, Mauger had a son named Michael de Baines and died by drowning.

Sources

• Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges
  William of Jumièges
  William of Jumièges was a contemporary of the events of 1066, and one of our earliest writers on the subject of the Norman Conquest. He is himself a "shadowy figure", only known by his dedicatory letter to King William as a monk of Jumièges...
  
  , Orderic Vitalis
  Orderic Vitalis
  Orderic Vitalis was an English chronicler of Norman ancestry who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England. The modern biographer of Henry I of England, C...
  
  , and Robert of Torigni
  Robert of Torigni
  Robert of Torigni was a Norman monk and chronicler. He was born at Torigni-sur-Vire in central Normandy, at an unknown date. He entered the monastery of Le Bec in 1128 and became prior there about 1149. He was elected abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel in 1154, and served there until his death.Robert was...
  
  , edited and translated by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.
• William the Conqueror, David C. Douglas, University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1964.