Vicomte de Cotentin Niel de Saint-Sauveur

Abt 964 - Abt 1045  (81 years)

• Name	Niel de Saint-Sauveur  [1, 2]
  Title	Vicomte de Cotentin
  Birth	Abt 964	Normandy, France   [2]
  	(Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte)
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1045	Somme, Picardie, France   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I27236	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Vicomte du Cotentin Roger de Saint-Sauveur,   b. Abt 940, Normandy, France d. 1026, Basse-Normandie, France (Age 86 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F14685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. Yvo 'Bellomontensis' de Cotentin,   b. 1005, Normandy, France d. 12 Apr 1059, Normandy, France (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F14684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - Abt 1045 - Somme, Picardie, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-SAINT-SAUVEUR Saint-Sauveur/Cotenton Coat of Arms

  
  

• Sources

  [S3228] Wikipedia: Neel de Saint-Sauveur, (Name: Wikipedia;), Neel Ist of Saint-Sauveur. His ancestry is certainly Scandinavian , Néel deriving from Iro-Norwegian [ie?] Niall [ 2 ] . The first name Néel has remained in common use in Normandy , it sometimes undergoes false Latinization in the texts in Nigellus derived from black niger , in Latin . This name is like many others, became family name to the xiii th century . Even today, it is especially very common in the north of Cotentin and in the country of Caux. It is found in toponyms: Néhou , Néville-sur-Mer(Cotentin) and Néville ( country of Caux ) [ 3 ] . It says son of Roger de Saint-Sauveur himself a descendant of a Malahulc Eysteinsson, an earl pagan Norwegian born around the middle of ix th century , younger brother of rognvald eysteinsson , the father of Rollo the Walker , 1 st " Duke of Normandy ”(actually Count of Rouen). https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/N%C3%A9el_Ier_de_Saint-Sauveur?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui,sc [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Niel de Saint Sauveur 964-1045. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90591534/niel-de_saint_sauveur