The name AVESNES is associated with Carpenter history.
About the year 1200 a Flemish knight, Godefroy le Carpentier,
Had descendants that moved to England. Carpentier was known as Sire de
Daniel and lived in Avesnes-les-Obert or Avesnes-les-Aubert as it is now
known. This is just a place name and is located just a few miles outside the
city of Cambrai. An easy confusion that can result from this
concerns the royal house of d'Avesnes that began with a Nicholas d'Avesnes
in the 1100s. His descendants were the counts of d'Avesne. Their area of
habitation was the Avesnes in the Pas-de-Calais region, many miles from
Cambrai.
If any of you read that Godefroy Carpentier was one of the counts of
d'Avesnes, don't take it seriously.
In addition the birthdate for Godefroy Carpentier at the LDS is 1215 and
shouldn't be taken seriously either. The historian who wrote about
Godefroy le Carpentier made it clear Godefroy was a grown man by about 1200.
All the early carpenter dates at the LDS seem to be Joseph Hatten
Carpenter's work and should be accepted with extreme suspicion.
Cordially,
Bruce Carpenter