Adela of Vexin

Notes:

Also called Adelaide of Vermandois; Adele of Valois.

Adela married Herbert IV before 1068. Herbert (son of Otto and Parvi) was born about 1032; died after 30 Sep 1080. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1120 and 1124

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Countess of Vermandois. Last member of the Carolingian dynasty.

According to Royal Ancestry, she died "28 September, between 1120 and 1124."

Adèle married Hugues le Grand about 1080. Hugues (son of Henri I, King Of France and Anne of Kiev, Queen Consort of France) was born about 1057; died on 18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Cilicia; was buried in Cathedral of St. Paul, Tarsus, Cilicia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adèle married Renaud II de Clermont before 1104. Renaud (son of Hugues and Marguerite de Montdidier) was born in of Clermont, Oise, Picardie, France; died before 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef Jul 1147

Notes:

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]

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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

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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]

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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]

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Marquis of Ceva.

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

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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]