@ It has been suggested that he was a son of Bernard the Dane, the most powerful of the feudal nobles of Normandy during the reign of Duke William I. (927-943) and Regent during the minority of Duke Richard I. (943-955); but this claim has not been proved.
By J Gardner Bartlett
Member of the New England Historic Society
Bartlett, J.G. (Joseph G. and Boston Public Library (1914). Newberry genealogy : the ancestors and descendants of Thomas Newberry, of Dorchester, Mass., 1634. 920-1914. [online] Internet Archive. Boston, Mass. : Pub. by the author for J.S. Newberry. Available at: https://archive.org/details/newberrygenealog00bart/page/n15/mode/2u... [Accessed 16 Jun. 2021].