Galpin Surname Norman Origin

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Yes I heard that the Galpin's went to England with William the Conquerer in 1066.

There is a book called the Galpin family of Staffordshire and Dorset, that many Galpin researchers have read.

Susposedly with William I's wife was a Johannes de Galpenberg, who worked in her household. Galpenberg was also a village, a commune of Belgium in the Province of East Flanders, a department of Ophasselt. There is also a river and a village of Gulpen in the Duchy of Limbourg. The name Galpin is now more common in France than in England.. Apparently, so it is said, all Galpins in England are descended from Johannes.

The book was written a number of years ago and there are not many copies, one in the Exeter Library and one I believe in the London Museum (something like that anyway). I can't say how much the writer researched his book.

If you go to the website familysearch.org and go to a search page on their catalogue and put in Galpin you will get the details of the book.
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Subject: Matilda, Countess of Flanders 
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:15:46 GMT 

Is there a list of Matilda's staff that served with her when she moved to
Normandy and susbsequently into England with William the Conqueror? My surname is derived from Gapenberg (Galpenberg) a small village in East Flanders where Johanne de Gapenberg reportedly lived before serving for Matilda. The source of my info is a Galpin family ancestry book by George Luck Galpin without footnotes for this clue. However, if it existed for the author early this century, I hope someone still knows how to find it.

btw, Gapenberg, Flanders, still exists today

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