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Ivo de Taillebois or Tailbois (Ivo means a yew tree) was very close to Wiliam the Conqueror. They went to school together. Both were Norman-French and both were bastards in both senses of the word. Many believe they were brothers but there is no evidence of that.
Ivo accompanied William on his conquest of England in 1066 and was granted a whole lot of lands for his help. Ivo also led the attack on Hereward the Wake whose lands were given to Ivo. William I became king of England.
Ivo probably had three wives but that remains to be seen.
In about 1140, his great-grandson, Nicholas, changed the de Tailbois name to Radcliffe because that's where they
lived at a bend in the Irwell River (pictures of some of their buildings are online). He probably didn't want to be known as a descendant of the conquerors and wished to be thought of as an Englishman. These days it is considered an honor to be Norman-French and a descendant of the soldiers of 1066...at least among most English.
We have both Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French blood. That seems to be a good definition of an English person.
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