A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Arlotta
ARLOTTA,
A beautiful woman of Falaise, daughter of a tanner. She was seen, standing at her door, by Robert, duke of Normandy, as he passed through the street; and he made her his mistress. She had by him William the Conqueror, who was born 1044. After Robert's death, she married Herluin, a Norman gentleman, by whom she had three children, for whom William honourably provided.