Anne of Kiev, Queen Consort of France

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1079

Notes:

Also known as Agnes of Kiev and Anna Yaroslavna.

According to Royal Ancestry, she died "5 Sept., between 1075 and 1078."

Anne married Henri I, King Of France on 19 May 1051 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Henri (son of Robert II, King of France and Constance of Provence, Queen Consort of France) was born before 17 May 1008; died on 4 Aug 1060; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Bertha of Holland, Queen Consort of France in 1072. Bertha (daughter of Floris I of Holland and Gertrude of Saxony) was born about 1055; died on 30 Jul 1093 in Montreuil-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Bertrade de Montfort in 1093. Bertrade (daughter of Simon I de Montfort l'Aumary and Agnès d'Évreux) was born about 1070; died between 1115 and 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 18 Oct 1102, Tarsus, Cilicia

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Count of Crépy. Count of Vermandois and Valois. Duke of France.

Also called Hugh "Magnus".

The place where he died, in what is now south-central Turkey, is the same Tarsus as in "Saul of Tarsus," before he turned into St. Paul.

Post to SGM by Nathaniel Lane Taylor, 22 Jan 2004, about the battle in which Hugues died:

[I]t was I who first first posted the death date & circumstances on Hugh of Vermandois when I started this whole messy thread. But the 1101 date is clearly correct, because Hugh died of wounds after the battle in which a Crusader force was annihilated at Heraklea (Asia Minor) in late September of 1101. There is no mistaking the year, in the chronology of the first Crusade's aftermath. Runciman (2:28-29) does not provide a precise date for that battle, but it was one of three major failures of Western forces the Summer and Fall of 1101. See generally his History of the Crusades, vol. 2, chapter 2, "The Crusades of 1101." On the battle at Heraklea, he says:

"Early in September they [see below] entered Heraclea, which they found deserted as Konya had been. Just beyond the town flowed the river, one of the few Anatolian streams to flow abundantly throughout the summer. The Christian warriors, half-mad from thirst, broke their ranks to rush to the welcoming water. But the Turkish army lay concealed in the thickets on the river banks. As the crusaders surged on in disorder, the Turks sprang out on them and surrounded them. There was no time to reform ranks. Panic spread through the Christian army. Horsemen and infantry were mixed in a dreadful stampede; and as they stumbled in their attempt to flee they were slaughtered by the enemy. The duke of Aquitaine, followed by one of his grooms, cut his way out and rode into the mountains. After many days of wandering through the passes he found his way to Tarsus. Hugh of Vermandois was badly wounded in the battle; but some of his men rescued him and he too reached Tarsus. But he was a dying man. His death took place on 18 October and they buried him there in the Cathedral of St Paul. He never fulfilled his vow to go to Jerusalem. Welf of Bavaria only escaped by throwing away all his armor. After several weeks he arrived with two or three attendants at Antioch. Archbishop Thiemo [of Salzburg] was taken prisoner and martyred for his faith. The fate of the Margravine of Austria is unknown. Later legends said that she ended her days a captive in a far-off harem, where she gave birth to the Moslem hero Zengi. More probably she was thrown from her litter in the panic and trampled to death."

Runciman cites Albert of Aachen, 8.34-40 (pp. 579-82 in the edition he cites); and Ekkehard, 24-26 (pp. 30-32), among other material on the legend of the the Margravine of Austria, etc.

It is PNH's contention that this Hugh le Grand is the exact bellybutton of the Middle Ages. His father was a king of France; his mother was one of the daughters of Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev; and his daughter Isabel married, as her first husband, one of the Conqueror's proven companions at Hastings. Another daughter, Agnes, married a marcher lord of northern Italy. Through his mother he was also descended from three canonized Kievan saints and two kings of Sweden. He married the last member of the Carolingian dynasty. He died on Crusade. He was called Hugues le Grand. Case closed.

Hugues married Adèle de Vermandois about 1080. Adèle (daughter of Herbert IV and Adela of Vexin) died in 1120; was buried on 28 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch; Prince of Tarente. Bohemund (son of Robert Guiscard and Alberade di Buonalberga) was born in 1058; died on 3 Mar 1111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The Fat."

Louis married Alix of Savoy, Queen Consort of France in Mar 1115 in Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France. Alix (daughter of Umberto II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy) was born about 1092; died on 18 Nov 1154; was buried in Abbey Church of Saint Pierre, Montmartre, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed in battle.

Fleury married (Unknown) de Nangis about 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Jul 1147

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Countess of Leicester. Also called Elizabeth de Vermandois.

Royal Ancestry says she was living c. 1138 and that she died "13 (or 17) February, sometime before June 1147, when her son, William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, left on crusade." Several sources say she died in the priory of Lewes, Sussex.

Via her two husbands and thirteen children, descent from her is so common among modern people with traceable medieval ancestry that Douglas Richardson once jokingly asserted the existence of an exclusive lineage organization called the Society of Non-Descendants of Isabel de Vermandois. Of the 19 root people in this database with demonstrable descent from any monarch, only three would be eligible for membership in such a group.

Isabel married Robert of Meulan in 1096. Robert (son of Roger "Barbatus" de Beaumont and Adeline de Meulan) was born about 1046 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France; died on 5 Jun 1118; was buried in Abbey St. Pierre, Preaux, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married William II de Warenne after 5 Jun 1118. William (son of William de Warenne and Gundred of Flanders) was born about 1071; died on 11 May 1138; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hugh de Gournay. Hugh (son of Gerard de Gournay and Ediva de Warenne) was born about 1091 in of Gournay-en-Brie, Normandy, France; died in 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Boniface del Vasto after 1111. Boniface (son of Otto of Savona and Bertha of Turin) was born about 1060; died between 1125 and 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Raoul I de Beaugency. Raoul (son of Lancelin de Beaugency and Alberge) was born about 1065; died about 1115. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bohemund married Alix of Réthel about 1120. Alix (daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem and Morphia of Melitene) died after 1136. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Constance Capet.

Family/Spouse: Eustace IV. Eustace (son of Stephen of Blois, King Of England and Maud of Boulogne, Queen Consort of England) died on 10 Aug 1153; was buried in Faversham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Raymond V of Toulouse on 10 Aug 1154. Raymond (son of Alfonso Jordan of Toulouse and Faydiva d'Uzès) was born in 1134; died in Dec 1194 in Nîmes, Gard, France; was buried in Notre Dame, Nîmes, Gard, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1121
• Alternate death: 19 Sep 1180

Louis married Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England in Jul 1137 in Cathedral of Saint-Andre, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Eleanor (daughter of William X of Aquitaine and Aénor de Châtellerault) was born in 1122; died on 1 Apr 1204; was buried in Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Constance of Castile, Queen Consort of France on 10 Nov 1153 in Cathedral of Sant-Croix, Orléans, Loiret, France. Constance (daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona) was born after 1140; died on 4 Oct 1160 in France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Adèle of Blois, Queen Consort of France on 18 Oct 1160. Adèle (daughter of Thibaut IV of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes and Mathilde of Carinthia) was born about 1140; died on 4 Jun 1206 in Paris, France; was buried in Abbey of Pontigny, Yonne, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1125
• Alternate birth: Abt 1126

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Also called Peter de Courtenay. Count of Montargis and Courtenay.

Accompanied his brothers, King Louis VII and Robert, on the Second Crusade, where he fought in the siege of Damascus.

Went on crusade a second time in 1179, and died in Palestine on a 10th of March in 1180, 1181, 1182, or 1183.

Pierre married Elisabeth de Courtenay after 1150. Elisabeth (daughter of Renaud de Courtenay) died after 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Dreux and Braine.

Robert married Hawise of Salisbury about 1144. Hawise (daughter of Walter of Salisbury and Sybil de Chaworth) was born about 1118; died before 13 Jan 1152. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Agnes de Baudement in 1152. Agnes (daughter of Guy de Baudement and Alix) was born about 1130; died on 24 Jul 1204; was buried in Abbey of St. Yved, Braine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Nangis and of the Chapelle-en-Brie.

Isabelle married Anseau de Venisy before 1153. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Isabel of Meulan. Former mistress of Henry I.

Family/Spouse: Gilbert "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert. Gilbert (son of Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare and Alice de Clermont) was born about 1100; died on 6 Jan 1148; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Maud de Beaumont.

Family/Spouse: William Lovel. William (son of Ascelin Goel and Isabel de Breteuil) was born in of Ivry, Normandy, France; died before 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 10 Apr 1166, Abbey St. Pierre, Preaux, Eure, Normandy, France

Notes:

Count of Meulan. Earl of Worcester.

Also called Galeran. Called by later genealogists "Waleran de Beaumont," but he never used a surname.

Twin brother of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester. After their father's death, the two brothers were raised together in the royal household. Much detail on his career here. He died as a monk at the Abbey of St.-Pierre in Preaux.

Waleran married Agnes de Montfort about 1141. Agnes (daughter of Amauri de Montfort and Agnes de Garlande) died on 15 Dec 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Leicester. Also called, but only by later historians and genealogists, Robert de Beaumont.

Twin brother of Waleran, Count of Muelan, 1st Earl of Worcester. After their father's death, the two brothers were raised together in the royal household. Much detail on his career here.

Justiciar of England, 1155-1168.

Robert married Amice de Gael after Nov 1120. Amice (daughter of Ralph II de Gael) died in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1165
• Alternate death: Aft 1166
• Alternate death: Aft 1167

Gundred married Roger de Beaumont before 1130. Roger (son of Henry de Beaumont and Margaret du Perche) was born about 1102; died in 1153. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gundred married William de Lancaster after 1153. William (son of Gilbert and Godith) was born in of Kendal, Westmorland, England; died before 29 Sep 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Adeline.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Her public role as first lady of the Scottish court (there was no queen of Scotland from 1131 to 1186) was originally limited by her numerous pregnancies; but her fecundity averted a catastrophe when Henry, the expected successor to the kingship, died prematurely in 1152. During her widowhood she enjoyed in full measure the respect and status to which she was entitled as mother of two successive Scots kings, Malcolm IV and William the Lion. After Malcolm's enthronement as a boy of twelve in 1153, she figured prominently in his counsels and was keenly aware of her responsibilities. According to the well-informed William of Newburgh, Malcolm's celibacy dismayed her, and she endeavoured, albeit fruitlessly, to sharpen his dynastic instincts by placing a beautiful maiden in his bed. She was less frequently at William the Lion's court from 1165, no doubt because of the periodic illnesses that obliged her to turn to St Cuthbert for a cure.

Ada's cosmopolitan tastes and connections reinforced the identification of Scottish élite society with European values and norms. Reginald of Durham regarded her piety as exemplary, and she played a notable role in the expansion of the reformed continental religious orders in Scotland. If she had a preference, it was for female monasticism, and by 1159 she had founded a priory for Cistercian nuns at Haddington, apparently at the instigation of Abbot Waldef of Melrose (d. 1159). Her household attracted Anglo-Norman adventurers, and she personally settled in Scotland knights from Northumberland and from the great Warenne honours in England and Normandy.

Ada married Henry of Scotland after 9 Apr 1139. Henry (son of David I, King of Scotland and Maud of Northumberland) was born about 1114; died on 12 Jun 1152; was buried in Kelso Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1118

Notes:

Earl of Surrey.

"Slain when the rear guard of the French king's army was cut to pieces in Laodicea." [Royal Ancestry]

Peter Stewart, on soc.genealogy.medieval, 5 Sep 2019:

In CP vol xii part 1, p. 497 William [III de Warenne] is stated to have died on 19 January 1147/8 "when the rearguard of the French King's army was cut to pieces in the defiles of Laodicea". This was the battle at Cadmos mountain, when Louis VII had to fight his way to safety after being separated from his guard including William, Gaucher II of Châtillon & Montjay and Evrard III of Breteuil, who were killed.

However, the battle took place ca 7 January, certainly before 19th which was the date given without citing any authority by George Watson in The Genealogist (1895), referenced in CP as "G. W. Watson in Genealogist, N.S., vol. xi, p. 132, and authorities there cited". Odo of Deuil, who was present, said that the battle took place on the day after the king's army set off from Laodicea, and they had stayed there only a few days after arriving on 3 or 4 January.

Jonathan Phillips in his chronology in The Crusades, 1095–1204, second edition (2014), p xvii, placed the battle definitely on 7 January, but other historians have estimated 6 or 8 of the same month.

Family/Spouse: Ela of Ponthieu. Ela (daughter of Guillaume III Talvas and Helie of Burgundy) was born in of Alencon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 4 Oct 1174. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Sussex 1170-76. Administered the estates of his older brother William, Earl of Surrey, both before and after William left on crusade in 1147. Died as a monk.

Reynold married Alice de Wormegay in 1167. Alice (daughter of William de Wormegay) was born in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died about 29 Sep 1179. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

First Marquess of Saluzzo.

Family/Spouse: Eliana. Eliana was born about 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marquis of Ceva.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Sibilla del Vasto. Not, Wikipedia and other sources notwithstanding, the daughter of a Catalan family, sometimes identified with the name "Mataplana."

Peter Stewart [citation details below]:

A few threads over the past year or two have discussed the parentage of Sibilla, wife of Guillem VI, seigneur of Montpellier.

Adequate proof has been set out here before that she was from Italy, daughter of Bonifacio, margrave of Vasto & Agnes de Vermandois. However, several modern genealogists & historians including Henri Vidal, Claudie Duhamel-Amado, Szabolcs de Vajay and Patrick van Kerrebrouck have wrongly stated that she was daughter of a Catalan viscount, Hugo de Mataplana.

After checking Liber instrumentorum memorialium: cartulaire des Guillems de Montpellier, edited by Alexandre Germain & Camille Chabaneau (Montpellier, 1884-1886), it seems likely to me that these authorities have copied each other's mistake in some sequence, because this false relationship is virtually precluded by the available evidence.

In his testament dated 11 December 1146 (op cit p. 182, no. 95) Guillem left the guardianship of his children and lands, under the superior custody of his mother Ermesendis de Melgueil, to his cousin ("consobrinus meus") Ponce de Mataplana.

The context makes it logical to read "consobrinus" in its literal and precise sense of maternal first cousin, as Ponce was enjoined to take care of Guillem's family and property along with his mother, but even if a looser translation (such as sister's son or father's sister's son) were allowed the word would still denote a close blood relative and not one by marriage -- it cannot mean brother-in-law (usually "cognatus", although that covers a wide range of kinship too) and Sibilla could not have been a sibling to Ponce anyway.

Another error made by Henri Vidal [in 'Les mariages dans la famille des Guillems, seigneurs de Montpellier', Revue historique de droit franc?ais et e?tranger 62 (1984)] is to make Raimond-Guillem, abbot of Aniane and bishop of Lodève, a son of Guillem VI (the third of five attributed to him).

Guillem made elaborate provisions for the descent of Montpellier in the event that any one of his children should die without issue. They were all young at the time, and allowance was made for the third son, Bernard, to become a cleric if he should wish to take holy orders or to be set up honourably if he chose not to do so. He was the only one nominated for the priesthood. There were explicitly just four sons, Guillem the elder, Guillem the younger, Bernard and Gui in that order ("IIIIor filii mei, Guillelmus major, et Guillelmus minor, et Bernardus, et Guido"), as well as three daughters whose rights followed theirs. Guillem VI was already a widower and became a monk at Grandselve after making his will, so that Raimond-Guillem of Lodève cannot have belonged to his immediate family.

Sybille married Guillem VI de Montpellier in Aug 1129. Guillem (son of Guillem V de Montpellier and Ermesenda) was born about 1095; died after 11 Dec 1146 in Grandselve Abbey, Bouillac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Enguerrand II de Coucy. Enguerrand (son of Thomas de Marle and Mélisende de Crecy) was born about 1110; died about 1147 in near Laodicea, Anatolia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Renaud de Châtillon-sur-Loing about 1153. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Toulouse from 1194. Marquis of Provence. As Raymond IV, he was Count of Melgueil from 1173 to 1190. He was probably actually the eighth Raymond in the Toulouse line.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Raymond VI). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Béatrix de Beziers after 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Henry I of Champagne in 1164. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Thibaut V about 1164. Thibaut (son of Thibaut IV of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes and Mathilde of Carinthia) was born about 1127; died on 20 Jan 1191 in near Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Henry the Young King, Titular King of England on 27 Aug 1172 in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Henry (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born on 28 Feb 1155; died on 11 Jun 1183 in Castle of Martel, Lot, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Béla III, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama in 1186. Béla (son of Geisa II, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama and Euphrosine of Kiev) was born about 1148; died on 18 Apr 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1170
• Alternate death: Aft 18 Jul 1218

Notes:

Also Aalez; Aaliz; Aelois; Aalis; Aalaidis; Alais. Countess of Vexin.

Ancestral Roots has her as a daughter of Louis VII by his third wife Adèle of Blois (whom they call "Alix of Champagne"); Richardson's Royal Ancestry, with evidently better documentation, has her as a daughter of Louis by his second wife, Constance of Castile. But Szabolcs de Vajay's comprehensive 1989 survey of the Iberian Burgundians, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300" (in Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989) says that Constance of Castile's daughter Adelaide by Louis VII died in infancy. We're going with Richardson on the (weak) basis of his research being more recent.

Update: Peter Stewart, on SGM in October 2016, argued here, here, and here that "Alberic of Troisfontaines specified that Alix, the wife of Guillaume of Ponthieu, was the daughter of Louis VII by his Spanish second wife ('rex iste Ludovicus de prima uxore sua Alienor, quam dimisit, duas habuit filias ... De secunda quoque uxore, que fuit Hyspana, duas similiter habuit filias, primo reginam Margaretam Anglie et comitissam Aaliz, quam duxit Guilelmus comes de Pontivo')," and that there is no good reason to doubt this, particularly since if Alix had been a daughter of Louis VII's third wife, "Alix would have been (on her supposed mother's side) a third cousin of Richard, by common descent from William the Conqueror."

Stewart also argues that Alix cannot have married William II Talvas before August 1195 (rather than 1185 as stated in AR8) "because she was detained in England by Henry II for some years after the rupture in 1191 of her long betrothal to his son Richard. (She had been sent to England as Richard's promised bride in 1174.)"

Alix married William II Talvas on 20 Aug 1195 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. William (son of Jean I of Ponthieu and Beatrice Campdavaine) was born about 1171; died on 4 Oct 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Isabella of Flanders, Queen Consort of France on 28 Apr 1180 in Abbey of Saint-Trinité, Bapaume, Pas-de-Calais, France. Isabella (daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born on 23 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Mar 1190 in Paris, France; was buried in Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Agnès de Meran in Jun 1196, and was divorced in 1200. Agnès (daughter of Berthold VI von Andechs and Agnes von Nieder-Lausitz) was born about 1180; died on 29 Jul 1201 in Cháteau Poissy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Peter II was a son of Peter I of Courtenay, the youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second Queen consort Adélaide de Maurienne. His mother was Elisabeth de Courtenay, daughter of Renaud de Courtenay (died 1194) and Hawise du Donjon.

Peter first married Agnes I, via whom he obtained the three counties of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre. He took for his second wife, Yolanda of Flanders (died 1219), a sister of Baldwin and Henry of Flanders, who were afterwards the first and second emperors of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Peter accompanied his cousin, King Philip Augustus, on the crusade of 1190 and fought (alongside his brother Robert) in the Albigensian Crusade in 1209 and 1211, when he took part in the siege of Lavaur. He was present at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.

When his brother-in-law, the emperor Henry, died without sons in 1216, Peter was chosen as his successor, and with a small army he left his residence of château de Druyes, in France to take possession of his throne. Consecrated emperor at Rome, in a church outside the walls, by Pope Honorius III on 9 April 1217, he borrowed some ships from the Venetians, promising in return to conquer Durazzo for them; but he failed in this enterprise, and sought to make his way to Constantinople by land. On the journey he was seized by the despot of Epirus, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, and, after an imprisonment of two years, died, probably by foul means. Peter thus never governed his empire, which, however, was ruled for a time by his wife, Yolanda, who had succeeded in reaching Constantinople. Two of his sons, Robert and Baldwin, in turn emperors of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

Peter married Agnes de Nevers in 1184. Agnes (daughter of Guy I and Mahaud of Burgundy) died in 1192. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Yolanda of Flanders in Jun 1193. Yolanda (daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born about 1175; died in Aug 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Aalis, Aalez, Alaidis, Adelaidis.

Alix married Adémar before 1191. Adémar (son of William VI of Angoulême and Marguerite de Turenne) was born after 1157; died about 1202. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Champignelles.

Robert married Mahaut de Méhun-sur-Yévre between 1216 and 10 Dec 1218. Mahaut (daughter of Philippe de Méhun-sur-Yévre) died in 1240. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Châteaufort.

Family/Spouse: Gasce de Poissy. Gasce died on 14 Aug 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Montjay.

Family/Spouse: Gui II de Châtillon. Gui (son of Gaucher II de Châtillon and Alde de Roucy) was born about 1146; died after 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Dreux and Braine.

Robert married Yolande de Coucy in 1184. Yolande (daughter of Raoul I de Coucy and Agnès de Hainault) was born in 1164; died on 18 Mar 1222; was buried in Abbey of St. Yved, Braine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Raoul I de Coucy. Raoul (son of Enguerrand II de Coucy and Agnes de Beaugency) was born in 1134; died in Nov 1191 in Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elisabeth married Hugues III de Broyes about 1178. Hugues (son of Simon I de Broyes and Félicité de Brienne) died in 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Venisy.

Adélais married André de Brienne before 1167. André (son of Gautier II of Brienne and Adelais of Baudemont) was born about 1135; died on 4 Oct 1189 in Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Pembroke. Earl of Striguil. Justiciar of Ireland.

Also called Richard de Clare.

"Like his father, he was also commonly known by his nickname Strongbow (Norman French: Arc-Fort). He was an English lord notable for his leading role in the Norman invasion of Ireland. [...] Strongbow was the statesman, whereas Raymond was the soldier, of the conquest. He is vividly described by Giraldus Cambrensis as a tall and fair man, of pleasing appearance, modest in his bearing, delicate in features, of a low voice, but sage in council and the idol of his soldiers." [Wikipedia]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Richard de Clare). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Eve of Leinster about 26 Aug 1170 in Waterford, Munster, Ireland. Eve (daughter of Diarmait mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Mor ni Tuathail) was born about 1145; died after 1185; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1212

Notes:

Also called William D'Ivry. Joined the Third Crusade in 1190.

William married Isabel before 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Maurice II de Craon about 1170. Maurice (son of Hugues de Craon and Marquise) died on 12 Jul 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1212

Notes:

Count of Meulan.

As a large landholder in both France and Normandy, he was put in a dangerous position by the developing confrontation between Philip Augustus and the kings of England. Eventually this led to his chastisement by both sides and subsequent ruin. He died landless and deposed.

Robert married Maud of Cornwall about 1165. Maud (daughter of Reynold fitz Roy and Mabel fitz William) died between 1220 and 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1135
• Alternate death: 31 Aug 1190, At sea
• Alternate death: 31 Aug 1190, Romania

Notes:

Earl of Leicester. Also known as Robert de Beaumont. According to Complete Peerage, nicknamed ès Blanchemains, which translates as "white-hands".

Steward of England and Normandy; seigneur of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy. In 1173, he supported Prince Henry, the "young king," in his rebellion against his father Henry II, and in consequence he and his wife were imprisoned by the elder Henry from fall 1173 to fall 1174.

Died on the way to Jerusalem. Durazzo is now the city of Durres in Albania.

Robert married Pernel de Grandmesnil in 1155. Pernel (daughter of William de Grandmesnil) died on 1 Apr 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Isabel de Beaumont; Elizabeth.

Isabel married Simon II de Senlis before 1138. Simon (son of Simon I de Senlis and Maud of Northumberland) was born about 1103; died in Aug 1153; was buried in St. Andrew's, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Hawise de Beaumont.

Hawise married William fitz Robert about 1150. William (son of Robert of Gloucester and Mabel fitz Robert) died on 23 Nov 1183; was buried in Kernsham Abbey, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret de Beaumont.

Margaret married Ralph de Tony after 1155. Ralph (son of Roger de Tony and Ida de Hainaut) was born about 1140 in of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England; died in 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Dec 1203
• Alternate death: Bef 13 Oct 1204
• Alternate death: 12 Dec 1204

Notes:

Earl of Warwick. Also called Waleran de Warwick; Waleran de Newburgh.

Waleran married Alice de Harcourt about 1196. Alice (daughter of Robert de Harcourt and Isabel de Camville) died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard de Morville. Richard (son of Hugh de Morville and Beatrice de Beauchamp) was born in 1125 in of Lauder in Lauderdale, Berwickshire, Scotland; died in 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aleida married Floris III of Holland in 1162. Floris (son of Dirk VI of Holland and Sophia von Rheinick) was born about 1140; died on 1 Aug 1190 in Antioch, Anatolia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1142

Notes:

Earl of Northumberland 1152-7; Earl of Huntingdon 1165-74.

"Two of his charters, which he issued in his minority, show that he was then using his mother's name of Warenne." [Royal Ancestry]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of William the Lion, King of Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) de Avenal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ermengarde de Beaumont on 5 Sep 1186. Ermengarde (daughter of Richard I de Beaumont and Lucy de l'Aigle) died on 11 Feb 1233; was buried in Balmerino Abbey, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also Margery, Marjory, Margaret of Scotland.

"Following the Battle of Alnwick in July 1174 (in which her brother William the Lion, King of Scots was captured by the English), Margaret was imprisoned at Rochester Castle and afterwards removed to Rouen. On her release, Margaret married (2nd) in 1175 HUMPHREY DE BOHUN." [Royal Ancestry]

Margaret married Conan IV in 1160 in England. Conan (son of Alan III and Bertha of Brittany) was born about 1138; died on 20 Feb 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Humphrey de Bohun between 29 Sep 1172 and 1 Jan 1175. Humphrey (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Margaret of Hereford) was born before 1144 in of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; died in 1181; was buried in Llanthony Priory, outside Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1144

Notes:

Earl of Huntingdon and Cambridge. Also called David of Huntingdon.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of David of Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Maud of Chester on 26 Aug 1190. Maud (daughter of Hugh of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort) was born in 1171; died about 6 Jan 1233. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 13 Jul 1199
• Alternate death: 12 Jul 1203

Notes:

Countess of Surrey.

Isabel married Hamelin of Anjou in Apr 1164. Hamelin (son of Geoffrey V of Anjou and (Unknown mistress of Geoffrey of Anjou)) was born in of Lewes, Sussex, England; died on 7 May 1202; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John, King of England. John (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born about 27 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William III de Courcy. William (son of William II de Courcy and Avice de Rumilly) was born in of Stogursey, Williton, Somerset, England; died in 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King's justice, serving as justice itinerant and at Westminster from 1192 onwards. Justice of the Jews, 1200-08.

Family/Spouse: Beatrix de Pierrepont. Beatrix (daughter of Hugh de Pierrepont and Clémence de Réthel) died before 1203. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marchese del Bosco. Mentioned 1167.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marquess of Saluzzo.

Family/Spouse: Azalaïs of Montferrat. Azalaïs (daughter of William V "il Vecchio" of Montferrat and Judith of Babenberg) was born in 1150; died in 1232; was buried in Staffarda Abbey, Saluzzo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Guglielmo I di Ceva. Marquess of Ceva.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marquis de Clavesana.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Gui Guerrejat ("the warrior") was the fifth son of William VI of Montpellier. When still a boy, in 1146, he inherited the castles of Paulhan and le Pouget from his father.

After the death of his brother William VII, around 1172, Gui served jointly with John of Montlaur, bishop of Maguelonne, as guardian of his nephews, particularly of William VIII who had inherited the lordship. In this capacity Gui and John attended the conference at Mezouls in 1174 at which Raymond V of Toulouse and Alfonso II of Aragon negotiated an agreement with the young William VIII. In October 1174 Gui was at Alfonso II's court at Lerida. In 1176 he was among those present when the will was read of Ermessende of Pelet, countess of Melgueil. In 1177 he joined Bernard Ato V of Nîmes and Agde, Countess Ermengarde of Narbonne, and his nephews William VIII and Gui Burgundion, in an alliance in opposition to Raymond V of Toulouse, who now ruled Melgueil as widower of Ermessende of Pelet.

According to her Occitan vida (in the Biographies des Troubadours), the trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues was the lover of Gui Guerrejat; her one surviving poem seems to be addressed to him.

Family/Spouse: Mathia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adelais married Ebles III de Ventadour in 1151. Ebles (son of Ebles II de Ventadour and Agnes de Montlucon) died in 1170 in Montecassino Abbey, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sire de Montpellier & Montferrier.

Guillem married Matilda of Burgundy on 25 Sep 1157 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. Matilda (daughter of Hugh II Borel and Mathilde of Mayenne) was born about 1130; died before 29 Sep 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnès de Hainault. Agnès (daughter of Baldwin IV of Hainaut and Alix de Namur) died before 1174. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alix de Dreux. Alix (daughter of Robert I "le Grande" and Agnes de Baudement) was born about 1156; died after 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Agnes; Agnes of Antioch. Great-great granddaughter of Philip I, King of France.

Anna married Béla III, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama about 1171. Béla (son of Geisa II, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama and Euphrosine of Kiev) was born about 1148; died on 18 Apr 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bastard son of Raymond IV of Toulouse. Viscount of Toulouse and Montclar. Fought at Toulouse in 1211.

Bertrand married Comtoresse de Rabastens in 1224. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Pierre Bermond VI d'Anduze. Pierre (son of Bernard VII d'Anduze and Marquise) was born in 1190; died in 1215 in Rome. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also Count of Champagne.

Henri married Isabella d'Anjou on 5 May 1192. Isabella (daughter of Amalric I d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem and Maria Komnena) was born in 1172; died before May 1206. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Baldwin I of Flanders, Latin Emperor of Constantinople on 6 Jan 1186. Baldwin (son of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born in Jul 1171; died on 11 Jul 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Champagne.

Family/Spouse: Blanca de Navarre. Blanca (daughter of Sancho VI, King of Navarre and Sancha of Castile, Queen Consort of Navarre) was born after 1177; died in 1229. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marguerite married Otto II von Hohenstaufen about 1191. Otto (son of Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrice of Burgundy) was born in 1167; died on 2 Jan 1200. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marguerite married Gautier II d'Avesnes after 1200. Gautier (son of Jacques d'Avesnes and Adela of Guise) died after 1243. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1195 and 17 Apr 1199
• Alternate birth: 17 Sep 1199

Notes:

Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil. Also called Jeanne.

Marie married Simon II de Dammartin in Sep 1208. Simon (son of Aubrey II de Dammartin and Mahaut of Clermont) died on 21 Sep 1239; was buried in Abbey de Valloires, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 5 Sep 1187, Paris, France
• Alternate death: 9 Nov 1226, Castle of Montpensier, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Notes:

Nicknamed "le Lion". Pretender to the throne of England, 1216-17.

Louis married Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France on 23 May 1200 in Church of Port-Mort, Eure, Normandy, France. Blanche (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England) was born before 4 Mar 1188 in Palencia, Castile, Spain; died on 26 Nov 1252 in Paris, France; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Henri I of Brabant on 22 Apr 1213 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France. Henri (son of Godfrey III and Margaret von Limburg) was born about 1158; died on 5 Sep 1235 in Koln, Germany; was buried in St. Peter's, Leuven, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 12 Dec 1254

Notes:

Countess of Nevers.

Mahaut married Hervé IV de Donzy in Oct 1199. Hervé (son of Hervé III de Donzy and Mathilde Gouët) was born about 1173; died on 22 Jan 1223. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: András II, King of Hungary. András (son of Béla III, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama and Anna de Châtillon) was born in 1176; died on 21 Sep 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 3 Jun 1246
• Alternate death: 4 Jun 1246, Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France

Notes:

Countess of Angoulême. Crowned Queen of England on 8 Oct 1200.

Isabel married John, King of England on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. John (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born about 27 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Hugh X de Lusignan between 10 Mar 1220 and 22 Apr 1220 in Angoulême, Aquitaine, France. Hugh (son of Hugh "le Brun" de Lusignan) was born about 1183; died after 15 Jan 1249. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Conches. Died on crusade.

Pierre married Pérenelle de Joigny in Jun 1249. Pérenelle (daughter of Gaucher de Joigny and Amicie de Montfort) died in 1282. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mahaut married Bouchard I de Marly before Jun 1209. Bouchard (son of Matthieu de Montmorency and Mathilde de Garlande) died on 13 Sep 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adèle married Guillaume IV de Garlande in 1193. Guillaume (son of Guillaumne III de Garlande and Idoine de Trie) died in 1216. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of St. Pol.

Family/Spouse: Elisabeth. Elisabeth (daughter of Hugues IV Candavène and Jolande of Hainaut) died before 1240. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Dreux and Braine.

Robert married Alianor de St. Valéry in 1210. Alianor (daughter of Thomas de St. Valéry and Adele de Ponthieu) was born in 1192; died after 15 Sep 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 22 Jun 1250, At sea

Notes:

Nicknamed "Mauclerc." Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, Count of Penthièvre. In 1237 he resigned the duchy of Brittany in favor of his eldest son John, and thereafter styled himself merely Pierre de Braine, Chevalier.

He was forced to submit to Louis IX and renounce homage to Henry III, after which his English lands were confiscated in January 1235.

He fought in the crusade against the Albigensians in 1219 and 1226. In 1239 he led a crusade to Palestine. In 1249 he went on crusade with Louis IX. He was wounded in the face at the Battle of Mansourah, and surrendered with the king at Faraskur in April 1250. Shortly thereafter he died at sea.

Pierre married Alix de Thouars in Mar 1213. Alix (daughter of Guy de Thouars and Constance of Brittany) was born in 1201; died on 21 Oct 1221; was buried in Convent of the Cordeliers, Nantes, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippa married Henri II of Bar on 12 Nov 1218. Henri (son of Thibaud I of Bar and Luxembourg and Ermesinde de Bar) was born in 1190; died on 13 Nov 1239 in Gaza, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Seigneur de Vervins.

Thomas married Mahaut de Rethel in 1225. Mahaut (daughter of Hugues II and Felicité de Broyes) died between 1 Jul 1259 and 19 Jun 1268. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned 1214.

Agnès married Gilles de Beaumetz before 1214. Gilles (son of Hugues de Beaumetz and Beatrix de Guines) was born about 1170; died in 1214. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned 1194.

Emeline married Eudes II de Champlitte in 1200. Eudes (son of Eudes I de Champlitte and Sibille de la Ferté-sur-l'Aube) died in May 1204 in Constantinople. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Rameru and Venisy. Count of Brienne.

Family/Spouse: Philippe de Champagne. Philippe (daughter of Henri II, King of Jerusalem and Isabella d'Anjou) died in 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called in some sources Basile de Clare.

(Unknown) married Robert de Quincy in 1171. Robert died in 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married William Marshal in Aug 1189 in London, England. William (son of John fitz Gilbert and Sybil de Salisbury) was born about 1146; died on 14 May 1219 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Temple Church, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Katherine Basset before Aug 1216. Katherine (daughter of Alan Basset and Aline de Gay) died after 6 Jul 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amaury married Jeanne des Roches before 1214. Jeanne (daughter of Guillaume des Roches and Marguerite de Sablé) died on 28 Sep 1238. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Craon and the Chatelais.

Avoise married Guy VI de Laval before 1189. Guy (son of Guy V de Laval and Agathe) died about 1210. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Mabirie; Maud; Mabel de Beaumont; Mabel de Dunstanville.

Family/Spouse: William de Revières. William (son of Baldwin de Revières and Adelise) was born in 1155 in of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, England; died on 10 Sep 1217; was buried in Christ Church, Twynham, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1236

Notes:

Or Margery. [Royal Ancestry]

Also known as Margaret de Beaumont.

Margaret married Saher de Quincy before 1173. Saher (son of Robert de Quincy and Orabel fitz Ness) was born in 1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; died on 3 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt; was buried in Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amicie married Simon IV de Montfort before Jan 1175. Simon (son of Simon de Montfort and Maud) was born about 1153; died before 18 Jul 1188. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Isabel de St. Liz.

Family/Spouse: William Mauduit. William (son of William Mauduit and Alice) was born between 1130 and 1135 in of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 2 Oct 1194; was buried in Waverley Abbey, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Isabelle, Isabella, Joan, and Eleanor. Suo jure Countess of Gloucester.

Isabel married John, King of England on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. John (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born about 27 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Hubert de Burgh in Sep 1217. Hubert (son of Walter de Burgh and Alice) was born about 1170; died in 1243; was buried in Black Friars, Holborn, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Amice fitz William.

According to RA, she was not "recognized" before her death as "Countess of Gloucester," despite CP's assertion to this effect. All contemporary charters and other documents involving her refer to her as countess of Clare, i.e., Hertford.

Amice married Richard de Clare about 1180. Richard (son of Roger de Clare and Maud de St. Hilary) was born about 1153 in of Clare, Suffolk, England; died between 30 Oct 1217 and 28 Nov 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1160

Notes:

Also called Roger de Tonches. Founded the nunnery of St. Giles in the Wood, Flamstead, Hertfordshire.

"Went with Richard I on Crusade, 1191, and distinguished himself at Arsulf and fought against the Saracens at ElKhuweilfe, 1192. In 1204 he lost all of his Norman lands to the King of France." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Roger married Constance de Beaumont in 1175. Constance (daughter of Richard I de Beaumont and Lucy de l'Aigle) died after 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Stewart Baldwin, at The Henry Project, states that "The parentage of Ida remains unknown":

While it had been known for some time that the mother of William was a "countess" Ida, her identity was only recently proven. As one of two known contemporary English countesses named Ida, the wife of Roger Bigod had already been a prime candidate [see Paul C. Reed, "Countess Ida, mother of William Longespée, illegitimate son of Henry II", TAG 77 (2002), which was going to press just as the crucial discovery was made]. Convincing proof of her identity as the wife of Roger Bigod was only recently discovered by Raymond W. Phair, who announced his discovery in the soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup on 3 July 2002, and then published it in The American Genealogist [Raymond W. Phair, "William Longespée, Ralph Bigod, and Countess Ida", TAG 77 (2002), 279-81], citing a list of prisoners after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, in which Ralph Bigod was called a brother of the earl of Salisbury. The parentage of Ida remains unknown, but see Reed (2002) for the possibility that she might have been a daughter of Roger de Toeni and Ida of Hainault.

Douglas Richardson's Royal Ancestry (2013) gives Ida de Tony as a daughter of Ralph de Tony and Margaret of Leicester. Richardson set forth his arguments for this in a 2008 post to soc.genealogy.medieval, reproduced below:

From: Douglas Richardson
Subject: Ida de Tony, wife of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and mother of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:32:55 -0800 (PST)

[...] For conclusive evidence that Ida, wife of Earl Roger le Bigod, was a member of the Tony family, see Morris, The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Century (2005): 2, who cites a royal inquest dated 1275, in which the jurors affirmed that Earl Roger le Bigod had received the manors of Acle, Halvergate, and South Walsham, Norfolk from King Henry II, in marriage with his wife, Ida de Tony (citing Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537). Morris shows that Earl Roger le Bigod received these manors by writ of the king, he having held them for three quarters of a year at Michaelmas 1182 (citing PR 28 Henry II, 1181-1182 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (1910):64). This appears to pinpoint to marriage of Ida de Tony and Earl Roger le Bigod as having occurred about Christmas 1181.

For evidence that Ida de Tony was the mother of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury (illegitimate son of King Henry II of England), see London, Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 143, 188, which includes two charters in which Earl William Longespee specifically names his mother as Countess Ida. Furthermore, among the prisoners captured at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 was a certain Ralph [le] Bigod, who a contemporary French record names as "brother" [i.e., half-brother] to William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury [see Brial, Monumens de Règnes des Philippe Auguste et de Louis VIII 1 (Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17) (1878): 101 (Guillelmus Armoricus: "Isti sunt Prisiones (capti in bello Bovinensi)...Radulphus Bigot, frater Comitis Saresburiensis"); see also Malo, Un grand feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la coalition de Bouvines (1898):199, 209].

As for Countess Ida's parentage, it seems virtually certain that she was a daughter of Ralph V de Tony (died 1162), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, by his wife, Margaret (b. c.1125, living 1185), daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester [see C.P.7 (1929): 530, footnote e (incorrectly dates Ralph and Margaret's marriage as "after 1155" based on the misdating of a charter --correction provided by Ray Phair); C.P. 12(1) (1953): 764 - 765 (sub Tony); Power, The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 525 (Tosny pedigree)].

For evidence which supports Ida's placement as a child of Ralph V de Tony, several facts may be noted. First, Countess Ida and her husband, Roger le Bigod, are known to have named children, Ralph and Margaret, presumably in honor of Ida's parents, Ralph and Margaret de Tony [see Thompson, Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo.63b, for a contemporary list of the Bigod children]. Countess Ida was herself evidently named in honor of Ralph V de Tony's mother, Ida of Hainault. Next, William Longespee and his descendants had a long standing association with the family of Roger de Akeny, of Garsington, Oxfordshire, which Roger was a younger brother of Ralph V de Tony (died 1162) [see C.P. 8 (1932): chart foll. 464; 14 (1998): 614; Loyd, Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 2; VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138; Harper-Bill, Dodnash Priory Charters (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 16) (1998): 34 - 37, 39 - 40, 72 - 73; Fam. Hist. 18 (1995 - 97): 47 - 64; 19 (1998): 125 - 129]. Lastly, Roger le Bigod and his step-son William Longespée both had associations with William the Lion, King of Scots, which connection can be readily explained by virtue of King William's wife, Ermengarde, being sister to Constance de Beaumont, wife of Countess Ida's presumed brother, Roger VI de Tony [see C.P. 12(1) (1953): 760 - 769 (sub Tony)].

William the Lion was likewise near related to both of Countess Ida's presumed parents, her father by a shared descent from Countess Judith, niece of William the Conqueror, and her mother by a shared descent from Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Surrey. Roger le Bigod and William Longespee were both present with other English relations of William the Lion at an important gathering at Lincoln in 1200, when William the Lion paid homage to King John of England [see Stubbs, Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 141 - 142].

Thus, naming patterns, familial and political associations give strong evidence that Ida, wife of Earl Roger le Bigod, was a daughter of Ralph V de Tony.

A later post from Richardson in the same thread:

From: Douglas Richardson
Subject: Re: Ida de Tony, wife of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and mother of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:28:47 -0800 (PST)

Morris says that Ida de Tony was a ward of the king when the king married her to Roger le Bigod. That presumably means she was not yet 21 at her marriage, which occurred at Christmas 1181. If so, she would have to have been born no earlier than 1160.

Also, to be a ward of the king, your father would have been a tenant in chief of the king who left a minor heir in custody. The only requisite Tony male in this time period that would appear to fit that description would be Sir Ralph de Tony (husband of Margaret de Beaumont), who died in 1162, leaving a minor son, Roger. An estimate for a birth of Sir Ralph de Tony is hard to determine, but he was conceivable born as early as 1130, and probably no later than 1135. We know his parents were married in the reign of King Henry I who died in 1135.

As for the chronology of other parts of the Tony family. Sir Ralph de Tony's sister, Godeheut de Tony, wife of William de Mohun, had a grandson and heir, Reynold de Mohun, born about 1185. So Godeheut de Tony was born say 1135, give or take. Sir Ralph de Tony's younger brother, Sir Roger de Tony, had his son and heir, Baldwin, born about 1170. So Sir Roger was born say 1140, give or take.

In any case, the fact that Ida de Tony was a ward at the time of her marriage would seem to clearly indicate her parentage.

An email from Todd A. Farmerie to Marianne Dillow, reproduced in the same thread as Richardson's two posts above (the archives of the thread are somewhat jumbled, making it hard to tell the exact order of posts). It summarizes Farmerie's reservations about Richardson's identification of Ida de Tony's parents. In the scheme that Farmerie considers equally probable, Ida's parents would be Ralph de Tony's father Roger de Tony and Roger's wife Ida de Hainault:

I think you already had others point you to the group archives. Let me just say that this is not about confidence in an individual's work. It is a legitimate difference of opinion, two people, each equally qualified, using the same data, and reaching different conclusions.

I didn't want to get into another round of argument in the group, as it has been argued several times before. Briefly, though, everything that has been said about her being child of Ralph would also apply to her being sister of Ralph. All of the names, all of the associations, etc.

Whether she was daughter or sister comes down to how old you think she is, and we have no evidence. Thus, virtual certainty is a bit of an exaggeration. That she was of this immediate family is pretty safe, but which generation, there is room for doubt.

Let me also say this, and I just offer it at face value. This is not the first 'near certainty' that has been proclaimed with regard to her parentage. For years it was argued that it was almost certain she was a completely different person. Then a new piece of evidence comes out and we have seamlessly switched to a different near certainty. Basically, when someone says that something is a virtual certainty, they are doing it either because they think it is absolutely certain, and are simply recognizing that all history has a minute chance of revision, or alternatively, because they know it isn't certain, but they have convinced themselves that it is the right answer and are trying to make it sound better than it really is. This is not a 99.99% certainty, it is a 75% likelihood, coupled with a strong gut feeling and some gilding of the lily. That, at least, is my view.

I guess my real point is, don't take anything at face value. Mr. Richardson has made some insightful hypotheses. As far as I know, he was the first to guess that Ida, wife of Roger de Toeny was identical to Ida, mother of William Longespee. He had no evidence for it - it was just a strong gut instinct that led him to the right answer when proof was found a decade later. He has also reached some conclusions that are nothing but wishful thinking (such as his first 'certain' ancestry of Ida, which we now know is completely false). Both were expressed with equal certainty. Mr. Richardson is not unique in this. The same is true of others here, myself included. Don't just accept what anyone says. Look at all of the different opinions and ignore who is saying what, just take what seems the best solution from it, no matter who offers it.

Even if only one person has suggested a connection, look at the evidence and try out some other possibilities and see if they will fit as well. No one is right all the time - everyone has their biases, and to be good at this, it is important to move beyond the individual opinions and reach your own conclusions from the original data. (Sorry to preach.)

Finally, a post from the same thread setting forth a chronological argument for Richardson's position, and giving a reasonable guess as to her year of birth:

From: mississippienne@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Ida de Tony, wife of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and mother of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:54:13 -0800 (PST)

[...] Girls as young as 12 were considered marriageable during this time period, and since we have no firm dates for either Ida's birth or that of her son William, she might've been as young as 15 or as old as her twenties by the time she gave birth to him. Unless someone happens upon a charter in which William de Longspee helpfully provides his exact date of birth and that of his mother, we will probably never know for sure. All we know is that she went onto have at least eight children with Roger Bigod; assuming no twins, Ida was bearing children at least until about 1190. As M. Sjostrom points out, it's stretching the chronology to the breaking point to get Ida de Tony to be the daughter of Ida of Hainault.

I think a reasonable time for Ida de Tony would be a birth c. 1160, her son William born 1175-1180, marriage to Roger Bigod in 1181, at which point she was bearing his children until the early 1190s or thereabouts, when she would've been in her thirties.

Family/Spouse: Henry II, King of England. Henry (son of Geoffrey V of Anjou and Maud "The Empress") was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France; was buried in Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ida married Roger II le Bigod about 25 Dec 1181. Roger (son of Hugh I le Bigod and Juliana de Vere) was born before 1140 in Thetford, Norfolk, England; died before 2 Aug 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1263

Notes:

Also called Alice of Warwick; Alice de Newburgh.

Alice married William Mauduit before 3 Mar 1216. William (son of Robert Mauduit and Isabel Basset) was born before 1194 in of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, England; died before 14 Feb 1257. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ellen married Roland fitz Uchtred before 1185. Roland (son of Uchtred of Galloway and Gunnild of Dunbar) was born in of Galloway, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 19 Dec 1200 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Priory of St. Andrew, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dietrich V. Dietrich (son of Dietrich IV and Adelheid von Sulzbach) was born between 1160 and 1170; died before 1202. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Holland.

Family/Spouse: Aleida van Gelre. Aleida (daughter of Otto I van Gelre and Richardis von Scheyern-Wittelsbach) was born about 1187; died on 4 Feb 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founder of a nunnery at St. Bothans, now Abbey St. Bathans, according to The Scots Peerage [citation details below].

Ada married Patrick of Dunbar in 1184. Patrick (son of Waldeve of Dunbar and Aline) was born in 1152; died on 31 Dec 1232; was buried in St. Mary's Cistercian convent, Eccles, Berwickshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Isabel FitzWilliam.

Isabel married Robert de Ros in 1191 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. Robert (son of Everard de Ros and Roese Trussebut) was born between 1170 and 1172 in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England; died before 23 Dec 1226; was buried in Temple Church, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Hubert de Burgh in Jun 1221 in York, Yorkshire, England. Hubert (son of Walter de Burgh and Alice) was born about 1170; died in 1243; was buried in Black Friars, Holborn, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Alexander II). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Joan of England on 19 Jun 1221 in York, Yorkshire, England. Joan (daughter of John, King of England and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) was born on 22 Jul 1210 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 4 Mar 1238 in York, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Tarrant Keynston Abbey, Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Sep 1201, Nantes, Brittany, France

Constance married Guy de Thouars before Oct 1199. Guy (son of Geoffroi V of Thouars and Aumur) was born about 1155; died on 13 Apr 1213 in Chemillé, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1176
• Alternate birth: Abt 1176, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

Earl of Hereford. Hereditary Constable of England. Sheriff of Kent, 1200.

Magna Carta surety; as such, excommunicated by Innocent III 16 Dec 1215. Fought for Louis of France at the battle of Lincoln, where he was taken prisoner 20 May 1217, subsequently released and his forfeited lands restored. Left on the Fifth Crusade 1219; died in Palestine the following year.

Family/Spouse: Maud de Mandeville. Maud (daughter of Geoffrey fitz Peter and Beatrice de Say) died on 27 Aug 1236. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married David de Lindsay before 1201. David (son of William de Lindsay and Alice de Limesi) was born between 1175 and 1180; died in 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert de Brus. Robert (son of William de Brus and Christian) was born in of Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died in 1221; was buried in Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1247

Ada married Henry Hastings after 1224. Henry (son of William de Hastings and Margaret le Bigod) was born about 1205 in of Blunham, Bedfordshire, England; died before 9 Aug 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Alan fitz Roland in 1209. Alan (son of Roland fitz Uchtred and Ellen de Morville) died about 2 Feb 1234; was buried in Dundrennan Abbey, Kircudbright, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Surrey. He was with John at Runnymede and advised him to assent to the Magna Carta.

Warden of the Cinque Ports; a justiciar of England, 1230; custodian of Bamburgh and Knapp castles; King's Councillor; Sheriff of Surrey 1217-26.

William married Maud Marshal, Marshal Of England before 13 Oct 1225. Maud (daughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare) was born in 1192; died on 27 Mar 1248; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William fitz William. William (son of William Fitz Godric and Aubrey de Lisours) was born in of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, England; died between 1219 and 23 Feb 1224. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1253

Notes:

Also called Richard de Chilham. Constable of Wallingford Castle, 1216.

Richard married Rohese de Douvres about 1214. Rohese (daughter of Foubert de Douvres) died before 11 Feb 1261. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry de Cornhill. Henry (son of Gervaise fitz Roger and Agnes de Cornhill) was born in of London, England; died in 1193. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Warin Fitz Gerold. Warin (son of Henry Fitz Gerold and Maude de Chesney) died after 14 Nov 1216. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrix married Doun Bardolf before 1194. Doun (son of Thomas de Bardolf) was born in of Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England; died before 24 Feb 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrix married Ralph after Feb 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrix married Hubert de Burgh after 1208. Hubert (son of Walter de Burgh and Alice) was born about 1170; died in 1243; was buried in Black Friars, Holborn, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elena married Boniface I before 1179. Boniface (son of William V "il Vecchio" of Montferrat and Judith of Babenberg) was born about 1150; died in Sep 1207. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The identification of her parents comes to us from Leo van de Pas, whose cited source is Genealogie medievali di Sardegna Publicazione della Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Sardegna (1983).

Family/Spouse: Guglielmo II del Vasto. Guglielmo (son of Guglielmo I del Vasto) died in 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marquis of Saluzzo. "In 1197 he was given extensive lands by his uncle Bonifacio di Monferrato. In 1212 he led an army in defense of Cuneo and perhaps died in battle." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Bonifacio married Maria di Torres on 24 Aug 1202. Maria (daughter of Comita III, Giudice of Logudoro and Ispella de Lacon-Serra) died after 1215. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Guglielmo di Ceva. Marquess of Ceva.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) del Vasto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berta married Guillermo VIII-VI before 9 Aug 1202. Guillermo (son of Boniface I and Elena di Busca) died on 17 Sep 1225 in Halmyros, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Guise Guerrajat; °~1177, a quelques biens près de Montpellier provenant de son père Domini Guidonos Garrechati [Archives Nationales, fonds Doat, Vol.38, fol.20-22]. Ses parents sont donc Gui de Pouget dit Guerrajat, Guido Guerregiatur, & Mathia et frère de Guilhem de Montpellier &1156 Mathilde de Bourgogne, voir les Guilhems, Seigneurs de Montpellier. Les parents de Gui de Pouget dit Guerrajat sont donc Guilhem de Montpellier &1129 Sybille di Saluzzo." [Ludovic Noirie, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Hector de Panat. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vicomte de Ventadour. Living 1174.

Family/Spouse: Sibylle de Fay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guillem married Eudokia about 1179. Eudokia was born between 1160 and 1164; died on 4 Nov 1202. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guillemette married Raymond I d'Anduze in Nov 1169 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. Raymond (son of Bertrand d'Anduze and Adelais de Roquefeuil) was born about 1150; died between 1200 and 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Raimond Gaucelm III. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry III de Grandpré. Henry (son of Henry II de Grandpré and Liutgard von Luxemburg) died in 1211. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 22 Mar 1222

Yolande married Robert II of Dreux and Braine in 1184. Robert (son of Robert I "le Grande" and Agnes de Baudement) was born about 1154; died on 28 Dec 1218; was buried in Abbey of St. Yved, Braine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Przemysl Ottokar I, King of Bohemia about 1198. Przemysl (son of Wladislaw II, King of Bohemia and Jutta of Thuringia) was born about 1155; died on 15 Dec 1230. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Known in Byzantium as Mary. Also called Margit.

Family/Spouse: Isaac II Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium. Isaac (son of Andronikos Doukas Angelos and Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa) was born in Sep 1156 in Constantinople; died in Jan 1204 in Constantinople. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 26 Oct 1235

Notes:

"On advice of Pope set out with an army of 15,000 men on crusade to the Holy Land, 1217, but the expedition failed. Upon his return he found Hungary in near anarchy. Hungarian nobles extorted from him the Golden Bull (Hungarian Magna Charta), 1222." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Family/Spouse: Yolanda of Courtenay, Queen Consort of Hungary. Yolanda (daughter of Peter II of Courtenay, Emperor of Constantinople and Yolanda of Flanders) was born about 1200; died in 1233. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

András married Gertrud von Meran before 1203. Gertrud (daughter of Berthold VI von Andechs and Agnes von Nieder-Lausitz) was born about 1185; died on 28 Sep 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vicomte de Bruniquel.

Bertrand married Hélène in 1253. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Béatrix married Arnaud I de Roquefeuil after 19 Feb 1229. Arnaud (son of Raymond I d'Anduze and Guillemette de Montpellier) was born in 1185; died after 5 Oct 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Erard I de Brienne. Erard (son of André de Brienne and Adélais) was born about 1170; died in 1246. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Hugues I de Lusignan, King of Cyprus between 1208 and 1209. Hugues (son of Amaury de Lusignan, King of Cyprus; King of Jerusalem and Echive Ibelin) was born about 1194; died on 10 Jan 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 2 Jun 1202

Notes:

Countess of Flanders; Countess of Hainaut. Often called Margaret of Constantinople.

Margaret married Bouchard IV d'Avesnes before 23 Jul 1212. Bouchard (son of Jacques d'Avesnes and Adela of Guise) was born about 1181; died on 7 Sep 1244. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Guillaume de Dampierre between 18 Aug 1223 and 15 Nov 1223. Guillaume (son of Guy II de Dampierre and Mahaut I de Bourbon) was born in 1196; died on 3 Sep 1231. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 10 Jul 1253, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain

Notes:

Also called Theobald, Teobaldo, etc. Called "the Troubadour", "the Chansonnier", and "the Posthumous", the latter because his father died before he was born. He was count of Champagne (as Thibaut IV) from birth, and king of Navarre from 1234.

He was an initiator of the Baron's Crusade, from which he is said to have brought back to France the rose called rosa gallica "officinalis", and the Chardonnay grape.

Thibaut IV-I, King of Navarre (~1201-1253) =
unknown mistress

Marguerite of Navarre =
Álvaro Pérez de Azagra

Elfa de Azagra (b. ~1250) =
Jaime Fernández de Aragón (b. 1238)

Jaime II =
Beatríz de Lauria

Beatriz de Xérica =
Pedro Ponce de León II (d. 1352)

Pedro Ponce de León IV (d. ~1374) =
Sancha de Haro

Pedro Ponce de León V (d. 1448) =
María de Ayala

Juan Ponce de León (d. 1469) =
Catalina González de Oviedo

Eutropio Ponce de León =
[prob.] Catalina de Vera Zurita

Violante Ponce de León =
Roy Diaz de Guzmán y Riquelme

Alonso Riquelme de Guzmán of Asunción, Paraguay =
Ursula de Irala

Catalina de Guzmán of Buenos Aires, Argentina =
Jerónimo López de Alanis

Rodrigo [Ponce de León] López de Alanis =
Isabel Naharro de Humanes

Mariá Ponce de León y Navarro =
Augustin de Labayen

Juana de Labayen =
Gaspar de Avellaneda

Maria Rosa de Avallaneda =
Juan de San Martín

Francisca Javiera se San Martin =
Marcos José de Riglos

María Jacinta de Riglos y San Martin =
Mariano José de Zavaleta Aramburu (1762-1837)

María Isabel Zavaleta Riglos (1779-1883) =
Patricio Julián José Lynch Roo (1779-1881)

Francisco de Paula Eustaquio Lynch Zavaleta, sometime of San Francisco, California (1817-1886) =
Mrs. Eloïsa Ortíz Alfaro Eldridge (1834-1913)

Ana Isabel Lynch Ortíz (San Francisco, 1861-<1949) =
Robert Guevera Castro (b. California, 1855)

Ernesto Rafael Guevara Lynch (b. 1900) =
Celia de la Serna Llosa

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna (Argentina, 1928-Bolivia, 1967)

Thibaut married Agnès de Beaujeu in 1222. Agnès (daughter of Guichard IV de Beaujeu and Sybille de Hainaut) died on 11 Jul 1231. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thibaut married Marguerite de Bourbon on 12 Sep 1232. Marguerite (daughter of Archambaud VIII de Dampierre and Guigone de Forez) was born about 1211; died on 12 Apr 1256. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrix married Otto I von Meran on 21 Jun 1208. Otto (son of Berthold VI von Andechs and Agnes von Nieder-Lausitz) was born about 1180; died on 7 May 1234. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Countess of Blois. Dame d'Avesnes de Guise de Leuze de Landrechies et de Trelon.

Family/Spouse: Hugues de Châtillon. Hugues (son of Gautier III de Châtillon and Elisabeth) was born about 1198; died on 9 Apr 1248. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippa married Otto II van Gelre in 1253. Otto (son of Gerhard van Gelre and Margareta of Brabant) was born about 1215; died on 10 Jan 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Marie de Ponthieu. Flourished 1236-79.

Marie married Jean II de Roucy before 15 Dec 1241. Jean died in 1251 in Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 16 Mar 1279, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France

Notes:

Countess Of Ponthieu, Montreuil, and Aumale.

Jeanne married St. Fernando III, King Of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, and Seville before 31 Oct 1237 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Fernando (son of Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia and Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo) was born between Jun 1201 and Jul 1201 in En route between Salamanca and Zamora; was christened before 5 Aug 1201; died on 30 May 1252 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain; was buried in Cathedral Santa María, Seville, Andalusia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1215, Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France

Notes:

Canonized 11 Aug 1297 by Boniface VIII; his feast day is 25 Aug. He led the Seventh Crusade, and died of dysentery while leading the Eighth Crusade.

From Matthew Gabriele and David Perry, "In St. Louis, History and Nostalgia Battle It Out", Smithsonian Magazine website, 9 Jul 2020:

Louis IX reigned over France in the middle of the 13th century. Like most medieval sovereigns, he implemented legal reforms and provided charity to the Christian poor. More significantly, Louis personally led two Crusades to North Africa against Muslims—the first to Egypt in 1248, and the second to Tunisia in 1270. These campaigns were simply a brief chapter in a much larger drama that saw Christians wage holy war throughout the Mediterranean world against Muslims, Jews, and sometimes their fellow Christians. The impact of the Crusades cannot be overstated, as this movement shaped the cultural, social, and economic direction of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East for centuries. Indeed, it continues to haunt the modern imagination.

Both of Louis IX’s Crusades failed spectacularly, with the king captured by the Egyptians and ransomed for an enormous sum in 1250 and dying of dysentery almost immediately upon arriving in Tunisia in 1270. Louis was canonized—largely for these efforts—in 1297, and he’s served as a symbol of France’s glorious past ever since. So, when French trappers established a fur-trading post on Cahokia lands in 1764, they named the site in honor of two kings: Louis IX and then-sovereign Louis XV. The settlement retained the name through French, Spanish and finally American occupation. […]

Louis IX’s acts as king certainly included care for the Christian poor—but they also encompassed moments of vicious anti-Judaism, including the burning of Talmuds in Paris in the 1240s; the arrest of all Jews in France and confiscation of their property in 1268; and the segregation of Christians and Jews, who were forced to wear a yellow star on their clothes as of 1269.

Louis married Margaret of Provence, Queen Consort of France on 27 May 1234 in Sens, Yonne, France. Margaret (daughter of Raymond Berenger and Beatrice of Savoy) was born in 1221 in Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haut-Provence, France; died on 20 Dec 1295 in Faubourg St.-Marceau, Paris, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 7 Feb 1250, Mansourah, Egypt

Notes:

Called "the Good." First Count of Artois.

"Robert died while leading a reckless attack on Al Mansurah, without the knowledge of his brother King Louis IX. He and the Templars accompanying the expedition charged into the town and became trapped in the narrow streets. According to Jean de Joinville, he defended himself for some time in a house there, but was at last overpowered and killed. In Egypt it is believed that Sultan Qutuz killed him, although it is more likely that an anonymous soldier did so." [Wikipedia]

Robert married Mahaut of Brabant on 14 Jun 1237. Mahaut (daughter of Henri II of Brabant and Maria von Hohenstaufen) was born about 1224; died on 29 Sep 1288; was buried in Cercamp Abbey, Artois, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Beatrice de Provence on 31 Jan 1246. Beatrice (daughter of Raymond Berenger and Beatrice of Savoy) was born in 1234; died on 23 Sep 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Élisabeth married Dietrich von Kleve on 19 Mar 1233 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium. Dietrich (son of Dietrich VI Nust and Mathilde of Dinslaken) was born between 1214 and 1215; died on 24 May 1245 in Wesel, Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Donzy.

Agnès married Guy de Châtillon before 15 Nov 1223. Guy (son of Gautier III de Châtillon and Elisabeth) died in Aug 1226 in Avignon, Vaucluse, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jolanta, Yolande.

Violant married James I, King of Aragón on 8 Sep 1236 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. James (son of Pedro II, King of Aragón and Marie of Montpellier) was born on 2 Feb 1208 in Montpellier, Hérault, France; died on 27 Jul 1276 in Alzira, Valencia, Spain; was buried in Abbey of Poblet, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Eleanor of Provence, Queen Consort of England on 14 Jan 1236 in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. Eleanor (daughter of Raymond Berenger and Beatrice of Savoy) died on 24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Richard of England.

Count of Poitou; Earl of Cornwall; elected king of Germany ("King of the Romans") in 1256, but never wielded actual power in that role.

"Constable of Wallingford Castle, 1216; knighted 2 Feb. 1224/5 by his br., Henry III, who a few days afterwards, 13 Feb. 1224/5, granted him, as Richard the King's brother, the county of Cornwall during pleasure. This grant, which resembles that to Henry FitzCount above, can hardly be held to have conferred the Earldom; nevertheless, not long after, viz. 30 May 1227, he is officially styled Earl of Cornwall, and must be assumed to have been invested with the Earldom in or shortly before that year. He was Count of Poitou before 18 Aug. 1225. Lieut. of Guienne, 1226-27; Chief Commissioner for making a truce with France, 1230; Keeper of the Honour of Wallingford, 1230-31; of the Honour of Knaresborough, 1235; took the Cross, 1236; was on an Embassy to the Emperor Friedrich, 1237; Lord of the forest of Dartmoor 1239; Com. in Chief of the Crusaders, 1240-41, when he entered a truce with the Soldan of Babylon. Joint Plenipoteniary to France, and Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV, 1250; Privy Councillor 1253; Joint Guardian of England, 1253-54. He acquired vast estates and great wealth by farming the Mint, the Jews, &c., and doubtless in consequence thereof, was elected, at Frankfort, 13 Jan. 1256/7, by the Princes of the Empire, King of the Romans, being crowned 17 May 1257, at Aachen. In Oct. 1259 he was Ambassador to Pope Alexander IV. He was a faithful adherent of the King, his br., against the rebellious Barons, and both were taken prisoners at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. He m., 1stly, 30 Mar. 1231, at Fawley, near Marlow, Bucks, Isabel, widow of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, da. of William (Marshal), Earl of Pembroke, by Isabel suo jure Countess of Pembroke, da. and h. of Richard (de Clare), also Earl of Pembroke. She d. 17 Jan 1239/40, in childbed, at Berkhampstead, of jaundice, and was bur. at Beaulieu, Hants, her heart being sent to Tewkesbury Abbey. He m., 2ndly, 23 Nov. 1243, at Westm. Abbey, Sancha, 3rd da. and coh. of Raymond Berengar, Count of Provence, by Beatrice, da. of Tomaso, Count of Savoy. She, who was crowned Queen (with her husband) 1257, d. 9 Nov. 1261, and was bur. at Hailes Abbey, co. Gloucester, which her husband had in 1251, founded. He m., 3rdly, 16 June 1269, Beatrice, da. of Walram de Fauquemont, Seigneur de Montjoye, by Jutta, da. of Otto, Count of Ravensburg in Wesphalia. He d. at Berkhamstead Castle, Herts, having been bled for ague, 2 Apr. 1272, and was bur. in Hailes Abbey afsd., aged 63, his heart being sent to Rewley Abbey, Oxon, of which, also he was the founder. His widow d. s.p. on the Vigil of St. Luke, 17 Oct. 1277, and was bur. at the Friars Minors, Oxford." [Complete Peerage]

Family/Spouse: Joan. Joan died before 1 Jul 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Richard of Cornwall). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Isabel Marshal on 30 Mar 1231 in Fawley, Buckinghamshire, England. Isabel (daughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare) was born on 9 Oct 1200 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 17 Jan 1240 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Sancie of Provence on 23 Nov 1243 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Sancie (daughter of Raymond Berenger and Beatrice of Savoy) died on 9 Nov 1261 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried on 15 Nov 1262 in Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Beatrice de Falkenburg on 16 Jun 1269 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Beatrice (daughter of Dietrich II de Falkenburg and Berta of Limburg) died on 17 Oct 1277; was buried in Church Of The Grey Friars, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Alexander II, King of Scotland on 19 Jun 1221 in York, Yorkshire, England. Alexander (son of William I "The Lion", King of Scotland and Ermengarde de Beaumont) was born on 24 Aug 1198 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland; died on 8 Jul 1249 in Kerrera, Argyll, Scotland; was buried in Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married Friedrich II, Holy Roman Emperor on 20 Jul 1235 in Worms, Germany. Friedrich (son of Heinrich VI, Holy Roman Emperor and Constance of Sicily) was born on 26 Dec 1194; died on 13 Dec 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After her second husband Simon de Montfort was killed at Evesham, she became a nun.

Eleanor married William Marshal on 23 Apr 1224. William (son of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare) was born about 1190; died on 24 Apr 1231; was buried in New Temple Church, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Simon VI de Montfort on 7 Jan 1238 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Simon (son of Simon V de Montfort and Alix de Montmorency) was born between 1208 and 1209; died on 4 Aug 1265 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 2 Feb 1266, Warren, Sussex, England

Notes:

Also called Alfais, Alix de Lusignan.

Alice married John de Warenne in Aug 1247. John (son of William de Warenne and Maud Marshal, Marshal Of England) was born after Jul 1231; died about 29 Sep 1304 in Kennington, near London, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Count of La Marche, (as Hugues III) Lord of Lusignan and Fougeres, and (as Hugues II) Count of Angoulême, 1246-1250. He agreed to serve Alphonso, Count of Poitiers, in the Seventh Crusade for one year and died in Egypt, most probably at the battle of El Mansûra, 7 Feb 1250, or else during the retreat to Damietta, 6 Apr 1250." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Hugh married Yolande of Brittany in 1236. Yolande (daughter of Pierre de Braine and Alix de Thouars) was born in 1218 in Dreux, France; died on 16 Oct 1272 in Château Bouteville, Angoumois, France; was buried in Villeneuve near Nantes, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1226
• Alternate birth: Aft 1225, Valence, Couhé-Vérac, Vienne, Poitou, France
• Alternate death: Bef 18 May 1296

Notes:

Also called Guillaume de Lusignan; Guillaume de Valence.

Seigneur of Valence; Constable of Goodrich and Pembroke Castles 1247; Warden of the Town and the Castle of Hertford 1247, 1251; Steward of the Manors of Stamford and Grantham, Lincolnshire 1258; Privy Councillor; Constable of Kilgarren Castle 1275; Seneschal of the Agenois 1279; Constable and Keeper of Bergevenny Castle 1281; Constable of Kilgaren Castle 1282; Guardian and Lieutenant of England 1285; and, in right of his wife, Lord (sometimes styled Earl) of Pembroke, and Lord of the Towns of Ross, Carnbothe, and Clumene, co. Wexford, Ireland.

From Wikipedia:

"William de Valence (died 18 May 1296), born Guillaume de Lusignan, was a French nobleman and knight who became important in English politics due to his relationship to Henry III. He was heavily involved in the Second Barons' War, supporting the King and Prince Edward against the rebels led by Simon de Montfort. [...]

"He was the fourth son of Isabella of Angoulême, widow of king John of England, and her second husband, Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, and was thus a half-brother to Henry III of England, and uncle to Edward I. William was born in the Cistercian abbey in Valence, Couhé-Vérac, Vienne, Poitou, near Lusignan, sometime in the late 1220s (his elder sister Alice was born in 1224).

"The French conquest of Poitou in 1246 created great difficulties for William's family, and so he and his brothers, Guy de Lusignan and Aymer, accepted Henry III's invitation to come to England in 1247. The king found important positions for all of them; William was soon married to a great heiress, Joan de Munchensi or Munchensy [...]

"This favouritism to royal relatives was unpopular with many of the English nobility, a discontent which would culminate in the Second Barons' War. It did not take long for William to make enemies in England. From his new lands in South Wales, he tried to regain the palatine rights which had been attached to the Earldom of Pembroke, but his energies were not confined to this. The King heaped lands and honours upon him, and he was soon thoroughly hated as one of the most prominent of the rapacious foreigners. Moreover, some trouble in Wales led to a quarrel between him and Simon de Montfort, who was to become the figurehead for the rebels. He refused to comply with the provisions imposed on the King at Oxford in 1258, and took refuge in Wolvesey Castle at Winchester, where he was besieged and compelled to surrender and leave the country.

"However, in 1259 William and de Montfort were formally reconciled in Paris, and in 1261 Valence was again in England and once more enjoying the royal favour. He fought for Henry at the disastrous Battle of Lewes, and after the defeat again fled to France, while de Montfort ruled England. However, by 1265 he was back, landing in Pembrokeshire, and taking part in the Siege of Gloucester and the final royalist victory at Evesham. After the battle he was restored to his estates and accompanied Prince Edward, afterwards Edward I, to Palestine.

"From his base in Pembrokeshire he was a mainstay of the English campaigns against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and later Dafydd ap Gruffudd; in the war of 1282-3 that led to the conquest of Wales he negotiated the surrender of one of Dafydd's last remaining castles, Castell-y-Bere, with its custodian, Cynfrig ap Madog. He also went several times to France on public business and he was one of Edward's representatives in the famous suit over the succession to the crown of Scotland in 1291 and 1292."

William married Joan de Munchensy on 13 Aug 1247. Joan (daughter of Warin de Munchensy and Joan Marshal) died before 30 Sep 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heiress of Conches, Méhun-sur-Yèvre.

Amicie married Robert II in 1262. Robert (son of Robert of France and Mahaut of Brabant) was born after Aug 1250; died on 11 Jul 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guglielmo Etendard. Guglielmo died between 17 Jan 1271 and 24 Feb 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Seigneur of Marly.

Bouchard married Agnes Beaumont before Sep 1233. Agnes (daughter of Guillaume "Pied-de-Rat" de Beaumont) died after 5 May 1260. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Henry IV de Grandpré before Apr 1217. Henry (son of Henry III de Grandpré and Isabeau de Coucy) died in 1229. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed at the siege of Avignon.

Guy married Agnès de Donzy before 15 Nov 1223. Agnès (daughter of Hervé IV de Donzy and Mahaut de Courtenay) died in 1225. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of St. Pol; Count of Blois.