Ebalus Manzer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 870
• Alternate death: 934

Notes:

Also called Ebles Mancer. Duke of Aquitaine; Count of Poitou.

"We don't know much about the marriages of Ebles Manzer—in the 890s he appears to have had a wife named Aremburgis and by February 911 he was married to a lady named Emillana, probably the same as the Countess Alaina who later became a nun." [Peter Stewart on soc.genealogy.medieval, 22 Jun 2010]

Ebalus married Aremburge in 892. Aremburge died before Feb 911. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebalus married Emillana before Feb 911. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called William "Towhead". William III, Duke of Aquitaine; William I of Poitou.

Guillaume married Adèle of Normandy in 935. Adèle (daughter of Rollo and Poppa) died after Feb 942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 15 Jun 1004
• Alternate death: 15 Jun 1005
• Alternate death: 15 Jun 1006

Notes:

Also called Alix.

Her origins are contested. At the Henry Project, Stewart Baldwin considers her a "probable" daughter of William/Guillaume III "Tête-d'Étoupe" ("Towhead"), Duke of Aquitaine, who was also William I of Poitou, "possibly" by Adèle/Gerloc, daughter of Rollo of Normandy. Regarding William III as her father, Baldwin writes "No definitive solution is possible on the known evidence, but this parentage is more likely than the alternatives." He presents a long summary of the competing arguments for and against this model. We follow the Henry project, but in this case we note some strong arguments against this ancestry for the wife of Hugh Capet.

From Peter Stewart, 22 Jun 2010, on soc.genealogy.medieval:

The evidence that Hugo Capet's wife was a daughter of Guilhem III, duke of Aquitaine (Guilhem I as count of Poitou) is late and unsatisfactory but nonetheless straightforward enough.

The evidence that she was related to the ducal family of Normandy is more satisfactory and also straightforward.

However, that this relationship came about through Adela/Gerloc is somewhat less satisfactory, and muddied to a degree by contradictions in the sources for this mysterious personage.

Dudo says that Guilhem III proposed his own marriage to a sister of William Longsword of Normandy in the course of a gathering to hunt mating deer near Rouen, attended amongst others by Hugo Capet's father Hugo Magnus described as duke and leading man of the kingdom—the title and position were accorded to him ca 936. William reportedly called his sister a 'girl' at the time, suggesting that she was perhaps ca. 14 and born well after the conversion of her father Rollo to Christianity. Yet William of Jumièges later gave her the pagan name Gerloc, which appears rather anomalous considering that even William (who must have been ca. 20 years older than her) never occurs with any Norse name.

I would not accept the unsupported word of Dudo for anything at all, including his own existence. He was an outstanding nincompoop, and relied for this period on the memories of people who clearly did not have the story of Rollo's life and family straight in the first place.

Dudo's contemporary Ademar of Chabannes, who certainly knew more about the ducal family in Aquitaine though not that in Normandy, says that Rollo's daughter married Ebles Manzer and was mother of Guilhem III/I ("filius Rannulfi, Eblus manzer, Arvernis et Pictavis simul comes promotus est...Acceptaque in conjugium Adala, filia Rosi [sic] Rotomagensis comitis., genuit ex ea Willelmum Caput Stupe.") The monks of Saint-Maixent, where Guilhem's younger brother Ebles was abbot from 936 (NB around the time that Dudo placed the marriage to Guilhem III/I), followed Ademar and made him also a son of Ebles Manzer and the daughter of Rollo ("Eblus filius Ramnulfi...acceptaque in conjugio Adela, filia Rolli Rothomagensis, genuit ex ea Willelmum Caput Stupæ et episcopum Ebulum".)

We don't know much about the marriages of Ebles Manzer—in the 890s he appears to have had a wife named Aremburgis and by February 911 he was married to a lady named Emillana, probably the same as the Countess Alaina who later became a nun. Guilhem III/I occurs with a wife named Adeleidis in the early 950s. There is no evidence apart from Dudo, Ademar and William of Jumièges that any of these women (or perhaps another who does not occur in charters) was a daughter of Rollo and also had the name Gerloc.

There are such wide gaps in our knowledge of these genealogies that trying to fill in a "Norman ancestry alleged for Adelaide" from the fact that her grandson was somehow related to Edward the Confessor is a stretch too far.

From Peter Stewart, 22 Dec 2020, on soc.genealogy.medieval:

The question of the family origin of Hugo Capet's wife has been raised here before, and I have given reasons for doubting her connection to the dukes of Aquitaine.

A further point has just occurred to me that as far as I know has not been brought into the discussion here or in print before:

In 1025 after Robert II (the only son of Hugo and Adelais) had declined to become king of Italy, Guilhem V of Aquitaine decided to support the candidacy of his own eldest son. To further this he asked for support from the king to prevent opposition from Germany, offering inducements to Robert (1,000 pounds and 100 mantles) and to the queen (500 pounds).

But he put forward the request indirectly, through the queen's first cousin Fulco Nerra of Anjou. A letter to the king, written by St Fulbert of Chartres for Fulco on behalf of Guilhem, sets out the terms of the proposal asking the king to reply to Fulco so that he could relay the answer to Guilhem.

This round-about procedure through a proxy related to the king's wife would seem somewhat odd if Guilhem had been a nephew of Adelais, and his alternative candidate for the Lombard crown therefore the king's first cousin once removed.

Adélaïde married Hugues Capet, King of France in 968. Hugues (son of Hugues "Le Grand" and Hedwig of Saxony) was born about 940; died on 24 Oct 996 in "Les Juifs" near Prasville, Eure-de-Loire, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "Fierebras," "Iron-Arm." Count of Poitou.

William married Emma of Blois in 968. Emma (daughter of Thibaut I of Blois and Luitgarde de Vermandois) was born in 950; died about 1003. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1013

Notes:

Also called Avoise, Edith, Hadvisa.

Hedwig married Reginar IV in 996. Reginar (son of Reginar III "Longneck" and Adela) was born about 950; died in 1013. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 27 Mar 971, Orléans, Loiret, France
• Alternate birth: 27 Mar 972, Orléans, Loiret, France

Notes:

Called "The Pious."

Robert married Rozala of Italy, Queen Consort of France between 989 and 990, and was divorced between 991 and 993. Rozala (daughter of Berengario II, King of Italy and Willa of Arles) was born between 945 and 955; died on 13 Dec 1003; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Pierre, Ghent, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Bertha of Burgundy between 25 Oct 996 and Feb 997, and was divorced before May 1004. Bertha (daughter of Conrad I, King of Burgundy and Matilda of the West Franks) was born about 965; died after 1010. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Constance of Provence, Queen Consort of France about May 1004. Constance (daughter of Guillaume I "le Liberateur" and Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou) was born between 985-990; died on 22 Jul 1034 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Poitou. Duke of Aquitaine.

Family/Spouse: Agnes of Burgundy. Agnes (daughter of Otto-William of Burgundy and Ermentrude de Roucy) was born about 995; died on 10 Nov 1068; was buried in Abbey of St. Nicolas de Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Hainaut.

Family/Spouse: Mathilde de Verdun. Mathilde (daughter of Herman von Enham and Mathilde) died about 1039. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ebles I de Roucy. Ebles (son of Giselbert) was born about 980; died on 11 May 1033. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Hainaut.

Family/Spouse: Matilde de Lorraine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Advisa; Adele of France.

Hedwig married Renaud I de Nevers on 25 Jan 1016. Renaud (son of Landry de Maers and Matilda of Burgundy) was born about 990; died on 24 May 1040 in Sainte-Vertu, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henri married Anne of Kiev, Queen Consort of France on 19 May 1051 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Anne (daughter of Yaroslav I "The Wise", Grand Prince of Kiev and Ingegerd (St. Anna) of Sweden) was born in 1036 in Kiev, Ukraine; died after 1075. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1003
• Alternate birth: Abt 1009, Ypres, Flanders
• Alternate death: Abt 1063

Notes:

Also called Adela; Aelis; Alais; Adelaide; Adelheid; Alix; Adela the Holy; Adela of Messines. Countess of Auxerre; Countess of Cotentin.

Adele married Richard III on 10 Jan 1027. Richard (son of Richard II and Judith of Brittany) was born in 1001; died on 5 Aug 1027. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adele married Baldwin V in 1028 in Paris, France. Baldwin (son of Baldwin IV "The Bearded" and Otgiva of Luxembourg) was born about 1010; died on 1 Sep 1067; was buried in Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 21 May 1076

Notes:

"The Old." Duke of Burgundy.

"In 1025, with the death of his eldest brother Hugh Magnus, he and Henry rebelled against their father and defeated him, forcing him back to Paris. In 1031, after the death of his father the king, Robert participated in a rebellion against his brother, in which he was supported by his mother, Constance of Arles. Peace was only achieved when Robert was given Burgundy (1032). Throughout his reign, he was little more than a robber baron who had no control over his own vassals, whose estates he often plundered, especially those of the Church. He seized the income of the diocese of Autun and the wine of the canons of Dijon. He burgled the abbey of St-Germain at Auxerre. In 1055, he repudiated his wife, Helie of Semur, and assassinated her brother Joceran and murdered her father, his father-in-law, Lord Dalmace I of Semur, with his own hands. In that same year, the bishop of Langres, Harduoin, refused to dedicate the church of Sennecy so as not "to be exposed to the violence of the duke." [Wikipedia]

Robert married Helie of Semur about 1033. Helie (daughter of Dalmas I of Semur and Aremburge de Vergy) was born about 1015; died after 1055 in Priory of the Holy Trinity of Marcigny-lès-Nonnains, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Ermengarde of Anjou about 1048. Ermengarde (daughter of Foulques III "Nerra" and Hildegarde de Lorraine) was born about 1018; died on 18 Mar 1076. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Peter-William (Pierre-Guillaume). Count of Poitiers; Duke of Aquitaine.

Family/Spouse: Ermensinde de Longwy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As Count of Poitou, he was called William VI; as Duke of Aquitaine, William VIII. Also Duke of Gascony.

Guy-Geoffrey married Hildegarde of Burgundy in 1069. Hildegarde (daughter of Robert I and Ermengarde of Anjou) was born about 1050; died after 1104. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Agnes of Aquitaine.

Agnes married Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor on 21 Nov 1043. Heinrich (son of Conrad II "The Salic", Holy Roman Emperor and Gisele of Swabia) was born on 28 Oct 1016; died on 5 Oct 1056 in Bodfeld, Harz, Germany; was buried in Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Béatrice married Raymond I of Melgueil before 1055. Raymond (son of Bernard III de Melgueil and Adèle de Substantion) died before 1079. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1015 and 1020
• Alternate death: 1063

Adele married Hildouin IV de Montdidier in 1031. Hildouin (son of Hildouin III) was born about 1005; died in 1063. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Hainaut.

Family/Spouse: Richilde of Hainaut. Richilde was born between 1015 and 1020; died on 15 Mar 1086; was buried in Abbey of Hasnon, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Nevers.

Guillaume married Ermengarde de Tonnerre about 1039. Ermengarde (daughter of Renaud de Tonnerre) died before 1090. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert "The Burgundian." Died on the First Crusade.

Family/Spouse: Hawise de Sable. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Oct 1102, Tarsus, Cilicia

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Jul 1070

Notes:

Count/Marquess of Flanders and (as Baldwin I) Count of Hainaut.

Baldwin married Richilde of Hainaut about 1055. Richilde was born between 1015 and 1020; died on 15 Mar 1086; was buried in Abbey of Hasnon, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 3 Nov 1083

Notes:

She was about four feet tall, probably accounting for the short stature reported of some of her children, notably including Robert "Curthose" and probably including William Rufus as well.

Matilda married William I, King of England about 1050. William (son of Robert I and Herleve) was born in 1027-1028 in Falais, Calvados, Normandy, France; died on 9 Sep 1087 in St. Gervais, near Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Flanders.

Robert married Gertrude of Saxony in 1063. Gertrude (daughter of Bernard II and Eilika of Schweinfurt) was born about 1030; died on 4 Aug 1113. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "The Gallant" (le Damoiseau).

Family/Spouse: (Unknown wife of Henry I of Burgundy). (Unknown died after 5 Jul 1074; was buried in Besançon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1093

Constance married Alfonso VI, King of Leon, Castile, and Galicia in 1079. Alfonso (son of Ferdinand I, King of Leon and Sancha of Leon) was born about 1039; died on 1 Jul 1109 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; was buried in Royal Monastery of San Benito, Sahagun, León, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hildegarde married Guy-Geoffrey of Poitou in 1069. Guy-Geoffrey (son of William III of Poitou and Agnes of Burgundy) was born about 1024; died on 25 Sep 1086 in Chizé, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Clemence of Poitou.

Clementia married Conrad I of Luxembourg about 1073. Conrad (son of Giselbert of Luxembourg) was born about 1040; died on 8 Aug 1086. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Feb 1127

Notes:

Also called Guilhèm de Peitieus; Guillaume de Poitiers. Duke of Aquitaine; also, as William VII, Count of Poitou. A leader of the Crusade of 1101, he is much more famous as the first troubador poet whose work has survived.

"Ab la dolcher del temps novel"
By William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Out of the sweetness of the spring,
The branches leaf, the small birds sing,
Each one chanting in its own speech,
Forming the verse of its new song,
Then is it good a man should reach
For that for which he most does long.

From finest sweetest place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.

This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a hawthorn tree
That on the tree trembles there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the branches and the leaves.

So the memory of that dawn to me
When we ended our hostility,
And a most precious gift she gave,
Her loving friendship and her ring:
Let me live long enough, I pray,
Beneath her cloak my hand to bring.

I've no fear that tongues too free
Might part me from Sweet Company,
I know with words how they can stray
In gossip, yet that's a fact of life:
No matter if others boast of love,
We have the loaf, we have the knife!

Translated by A. S. Kline. © 2009; All Rights Reserved. This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.

"For any of the later Provençals, i.e., the high-brows, we have to...'put ourselves into the Twelfth Century' etc. Guillaume, writing a century earlier, is just as much of our age as of his own."
[Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance]

And Poictiers, you know, Guillaume Poictiers,
had brought the song up out of Spain
with the singers and viels...
[Ezra Pound, Canto VIII]

He is also remembered for his specularly public affair with a woman named Dangereuse, the wife of his vassal Aimery I of Châtellerault. Aside from its interest as pure medieval melodrama, he was the paternal grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Dangereuse was Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Family/Spouse: Dangereuse. Dangereuse was born about 1079; died after 1119. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Philippa of Toulouse in 1094. Philippa (daughter of William IV of Toulouse and Emma of Mortain) died on 28 Nov 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rudolf von Rheinfelden. Rudolf (son of Kuno of Rheinfelden) was born about 1025; died on 15 Oct 1080 in Merseburg, Saxony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heinrich married Bertha of Turin on 13 Jul 1066. Bertha (daughter of Otto I of Savoy and Adelaide of Susa) was born in 1051; died on 27 Dec 1087 in Mainz, Hessen, Germany; was buried in Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guillem IV de Montpellier. Guillem (son of Guillem III de Montpellier and Beliardis) was born about 1028. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Raymond I d'Anduze. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Comte de Melgueil.

Pierre married Almodis de Toulouse about 1065. Almodis (daughter of Pons II William and Almodis de La Marche) died about 1152. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died on a 30 April, year unknown.

Judith married Robert II d'Auvergne before 14 May 1068. Robert (son of Guillaume V d'Auvergne and Philippa) was born about 1030; died about 1096. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Adelaide.

Family/Spouse: Arnold II. Arnold (son of Louis II) was born about 1040; died on 16 Apr 1106. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Beatrice de Ramerupt; de Roucy.

Family/Spouse: Geoffrey II du Perche. Geoffrey (son of Routrou I de Châteaudun and Adeline de Bellême) was born about 1040. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Aélis de Montdidier-Roucy.

Family/Spouse: Conon de Grandison. Conon (son of Adalbert) died after 1114. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sire de Ramerupt et d'Arcis-sur-Aube.

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

Notes:

Also called Ade de Roucy.

Family/Spouse: Godfrey de Guise. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter van Ath. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Roucy.

Ebles married Sibylle de Hauteville before 1082. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Marguerite de Roucy.

Marguerite married Hugues about 1080. Hugues (son of Renaud) was born about 1030; died in 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1060, Barbastro, Huesca, Aragón, Spain

Notes:

Also called Felicie de Montdidier.

Felicia married Sancho V Ramirez, King Of Aragón; King Of Navarre in 1076. Sancho (son of Ramiro I, King Of Aragón and Gilberga de Couserans) was born about 1043; died on 4 Jun 1094. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 14 Oct 1098

Ermengarde married Hubert de Beaumont on 6 Dec 1067. Hubert (son of Raoul de Beaumont and Emma de Montevrault) died before 1095. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Comte de Nevers et d'Auxerre.

Family/Spouse: Agnès de Beaugency. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ita-Raimonde de Lyon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Comte de Tonnerre. Living 1063.

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

Notes:

Also called Renaud de Craon. Seigneur de Craon.

Renaud married Agnes de Craon before 3 Mar 1070. [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]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1099

Notes:

Count of Hainaut from 1071 on. "Baldwin joined the First Crusade in the company of Godfrey of Bouillon (rather than with his nearer relative Robert II of Flanders, whose family was still at odds with his own), after selling some of his property to the Bishopric of Liege. In 1098 he was sent back to Constantinople with Hugh of Vermandois after the siege of Antioch, to seek assistance from Byzantine emperor Alexius I. However, Baldwin disappeared during a raid by the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia, and was presumably killed." [Wikipedia]

Baldwin married Ida of Louvain in 1084. Ida (daughter of Henry II of Louvain and Adelheid) was born in of Louvain, Brabant, Belgium; died in 1139. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also calle Adelida; Adeliza. Died as a nun.

Notes:

"Cecilia was given as an oblate to Ste Trinité in 1066, professed in 1075, became abbess in 1113, and died in 1126." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Notes:

"A daughter Matilda is known from a reference in Domesday Book". [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1054
• Alternate death: 10 Feb 1134, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
• Alternate death: 11 Feb 1134, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

Notes:

Duke of Normandy. Eldest child of William the Conqueror.

"Orderic Vitalis describes Robert as 'talkative...with a clear, cheerful voice and a fluent tongue. Round-faced, short and stout, he was commonly nicknamed Gambaron ("Fat Legs") and Curta Ocrea ("Short Boots")' [Ordericus Vitalis, Eccl. hist., 2.356], and it is Curthose, the Norman-French version of the latter name, as used by Wace, that has become attached to Robert's name." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"Probably in 1078, when Robert would have been about twenty-five, Rufus eighteen, and Henry ten, they were with their father at L'Aigle, on the south-east frontier of Normandy, when he was about to attack one of his neighbours. The two younger sons were lodging with the king in the house of the merchant Gunher, while Robert, who had his own household, was quartered on another burgess. Rufus and Henry paid Robert a visit, went upstairs, began to play dice, 'as soldiers do', made a great commotion and then urinated on the heads of Robert and his friends. Robert dashed upstairs to punish his juniors, and the brawl was so fierce that it brought the king onto the scene. He restored order and forced them to make friends. But Robert had lost face, and the following night he and his companions decamped and made for Rouen, probably about one day's forced march away, where they tried to seize the keep. When they failed and the king ordered their arrest, they fled from Normandy. In the following year both Rufus and his father were wounded when they attempted to expel Robert from the fortified town of Gerberoi, where he was living as a robber baron, and, since the father's wound was inflicted by Robert himself, this incident probably determined Rufus's future." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on William Rufus]

"Robert was still estranged in September 1087 when his father lay on his deathbed. William had made no explicit arrangements for the succession beyond the designation of Robert as his heir in Normandy. The De obitu Willelmi, a not altogether reliable source which is largely copied from Carolingian exemplars, suggests that the Conqueror intended to disinherit Robert completely and was only persuaded against this course by the archbishop of Rouen. Robert himself may have expected to succeed his father in all the latter's lands, but ducal practice, dating back to the time of Robert's great-grandfather, Duke Richard (II), indicated that all sons should have some share in the inheritance. In the event William Rufus was dispatched to rule England with a letter addressed to Archbishop Lanfranc, and Robert was summoned from Abbeville to succeed only in Normandy." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Robert married Sibyl of Conversano in Sep 1100 in Italy. Sibyl (daughter of Goffredo of Conversano) died in 1103. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed in a hunting accident.

Notes:

Killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest. Never married.

Constance married Alain Fergant in 1086. Alain (son of Hoël II of Cornouaille and Hawise of Rennes) was born about 1066; died on 13 Oct 1119. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1067
• Alternate death: 8 Mar 1138, Convent of Marcigny-sur-Loire, France

Notes:

Also called Adele of England.

Adela married Etienne Henri in 1080 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Beauce, Centre, France. Etienne (son of Thibaut III and Garsinda of Maine) was born in 1046; died on 19 May 1102 in Ramallah, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between May and Sep 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate birth: Between Feb and May 1069, Selby, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate birth: 1068-1069
• Alternate birth: 1068-1069

Notes:

Called "Beauclerc" by later historians, but not during his lifetime.

Died after eating lampreys, which had been forbidden to him by his physician. Body buried at Reading Abbey, England. Entrails buried at Port-du-Salut Abbey, France. The Middle Ages: weird.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress or mistresses of Henry I). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nest ferch Rhys. Nest (daughter of Rhys ap Tewdyr, King of Deheubarth and Gwladus ferch Rhiwallon) was born about 1085; died before 1136. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sybil Corbet. Sybil (daughter of Robert Corbet) died after 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edith Forne. Edith (daughter of Forne) died in 1152. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Matilda of Scotland, Queen Consort of England on 11 Nov 1100. Matilda (daughter of Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scotland (Alba) and St. Margaret of Scotland) was born in 1079; died on 1 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England; was buried in St. Peter's, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Alice of Louvain, Queen Consort of England on 29 Jan 1121 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Alice (daughter of Godfrey I of Brabant and Ida of Chiny and Namur) was born about 1103; died on 25 Mar 1151 in Afflighem Abbey, Brabant, Belgium; was buried in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adele married St. Canute IV, King of Denmark about 1081. Canute (son of Swein II Estridsson, King of Denmark) was born about 1043; died on 10 Jul 1086. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gertrude married Henry III of Louvain about 1090. Henry (son of Henry II of Louvain and Adelheid) died in 1095 in Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gertrude married Thierri II of Lorraine between 1095 and 1096. Thierri (son of Gerard of Lorraine and Hedwig of Namur) died in 1115. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guy III de Vignory. Guy (son of Guy II de Vignory and Hildegarde) died before 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Eudes Borel "the Red". Duke of Burgundy.

Odo married Sibylla of Burgundy in 1080. Sibylla (daughter of William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie) was born in 1065; died in 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Portugal.

Henry married Teresa of León And Castile in 1093. Teresa (daughter of Alfonso VI, King of Leon, Castile, and Galicia and Ximena Moniz) was born about 1080; died on 11 Nov 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1082

Notes:

Countess of Galicia 1093; heiress presumptive in 1108. Queen in her own right of Galicia, Castile, Leon, and Toledo, 1 Jul 1109.

Urraca married Raymond of Burgundy between Dec 1092 and Jan 1093 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Raymond (son of William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie) was born about 1060; died on 26 Mar 1107; was buried in Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Feb 1127

Notes:

Also called Guilhèm de Peitieus; Guillaume de Poitiers. Duke of Aquitaine; also, as William VII, Count of Poitou. A leader of the Crusade of 1101, he is much more famous as the first troubador poet whose work has survived.

"Ab la dolcher del temps novel"
By William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Out of the sweetness of the spring,
The branches leaf, the small birds sing,
Each one chanting in its own speech,
Forming the verse of its new song,
Then is it good a man should reach
For that for which he most does long.

From finest sweetest place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.

This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a hawthorn tree
That on the tree trembles there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the branches and the leaves.

So the memory of that dawn to me
When we ended our hostility,
And a most precious gift she gave,
Her loving friendship and her ring:
Let me live long enough, I pray,
Beneath her cloak my hand to bring.

I've no fear that tongues too free
Might part me from Sweet Company,
I know with words how they can stray
In gossip, yet that's a fact of life:
No matter if others boast of love,
We have the loaf, we have the knife!

Translated by A. S. Kline. © 2009; All Rights Reserved. This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.

"For any of the later Provençals, i.e., the high-brows, we have to...'put ourselves into the Twelfth Century' etc. Guillaume, writing a century earlier, is just as much of our age as of his own."
[Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance]

And Poictiers, you know, Guillaume Poictiers,
had brought the song up out of Spain
with the singers and viels...
[Ezra Pound, Canto VIII]

He is also remembered for his specularly public affair with a woman named Dangereuse, the wife of his vassal Aimery I of Châtellerault. Aside from its interest as pure medieval melodrama, he was the paternal grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Dangereuse was Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Family/Spouse: Dangereuse. Dangereuse was born about 1079; died after 1119. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Philippa of Toulouse in 1094. Philippa (daughter of William IV of Toulouse and Emma of Mortain) died on 28 Nov 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gottfried of Bliesgau. Gottfried (son of Folmar of Metz and Judith) died after 1075. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Luxemburg.

Family/Spouse: Liutgard von Beichlingen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Albert of Dagsburg. Albert (son of Heinrich I of Egisheim and (Unknown) von Moha) was born about 1065; died on 24 Aug 1098. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Godfrey of Namur. Godfrey (son of Albert III of Namur and Ida) was born between 1067 and 1068; died on 19 Aug 1139 in Abbey of Floreffe, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Mar 1136, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
• Alternate death: 9 Apr 1137

Notes:

Called "The Saint." Duke of Aquitaine. Also, as William VIII, Count of Poitou. Also Duke of Gascony.

William married Aénor de Châtellerault in 1121. Aénor (daughter of Aimery I of Chátellerault and Dangereuse) died after 3 Mar 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Spanish, called Ines de Poitou.

Agnes married Amaury VI of Thouars before 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Ramiro II, King of Aragón & Navarre in 1135. Ramiro (son of Sancho V Ramirez, King Of Aragón; King Of Navarre and Felicia of Roucy) was born on 24 Apr 1086; died on 16 Aug 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Berchtold II of Swabia and Zähringen. Berchtold (son of Bertold IV and I of Carinthia and Richwara of Swabia) was born about 1036; died on 12 Apr 1111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Agnes of Waiblingen; Agnes von Franken.

Agnes married Frederick I of Swabia about 1086. Frederick (son of Frederick of Büren and Hildegard of Egisheim-Dagsburg) was born about 1050; died before 21 Jul 1105; was buried in Lorch Abbey, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married St. Leopold von Babenberg in 1106. Leopold (son of Leopold II von Babenberg and Ida of Austria) was born in 1073; died on 15 Nov 1136 in Vienna, Austria; was buried in Klosterneuburg Monastery, Klosterneuburg, Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1074
• Alternate birth: Abt 1075
• Alternate death: Bef 21 Feb 1122

Notes:

Seigneur de Montpellier.

From Wikipedia:

At the call of Pope Urban II, William took up the cross of the First Crusade under the banner of Raymond IV of Toulouse. He served notable at the capture of the small Syrian village of Ma'arrat al-Numan in 1098. After the fall of Jerusalem in 1099, William remained in the Holy Land for a while. He remained at the side of Godfrey de Bouillon and accompanied him to the siege of Antioch in December 1097. He did not return to Montpellier until 1103, bringing with him a relic of Saint Cleopas.

When William returned, he found that the Aimoin brothers to whom he had confided the administration of the lordship in his absence had usurped many seigniorial rights and that he was obligated to recognise much of their newfound authority, which diminished his own, in order to retain his position.

William participated in the army of Raymond Berengar III of Barcelona which captured Majorca from the Moors in 1114. The rest of his reign was marked by the important acquisition of nearby territories, which greatly recouped his power: Montarnaud, Cournonsec, Montferrier, Frontignan, Aumelas, Montbazin, Popian.

Guillem married Ermesenda between 1086 and 1087. Ermesenda died after 21 Feb 1122. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sire d'Anduze, de Portes et de Leques. Menioned 1109.

Family/Spouse: Alais de Lalest. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1120

Notes:

Count of Melgueil.

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

Notes:

Seventh abbot of Cluny, 1109 to 1122.

From James Westfall Thompson, "Notes and Studies on the Identity of Bernard of Cluny", citation details below:

Pons was a godson of Paschal II and was one of the arbitrators of the conflict between that pope and the emperor, Henry V. He was consecrated to the abbot's office by the archbishop of Vienne, the future pope Callixtus II. It was Pons who so ably argued for the privileges of the abbey at the council of Rheims in 1119. This was the year also in which the king of France, Louis VI, took the great abbey of Cluny, together with its priories, under the royal protection, pronouncing it to be "a notable member of the kingdom."

Pons was at the height of his power as abbot of Cluny when the crash of war came between the counts of Toulouse and Provence, which so diminished the power of the seigneurs of Montpellier.

Notes:

Comte d'Auvergne et de Velay.

Family/Spouse: Emma d'Evreux. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Comte de Chiny.

Family/Spouse: Adelaide de Namur. Adelaide (daughter of Albert III of Namur and Ida) was born in 1068; died in 1124. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Henry de Beaumont before 1100. Henry (son of Roger "Barbatus" de Beaumont and Adeline de Meulan) was born about 1046; died on 20 Jun 1119; was buried in Préaux, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Maud du Perche; Mahaut.

As noted in the entry on her father, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., gives her a birth year of 1105, but in two separate places they claim her father was born in 1100. Obviously this doesn't add up.

Family/Spouse: Raymond I. Raymond (son of Boson and Gerberga) died about 1122. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Juliana married Gilbert de l'Aigle in 1091. Gilbert (son of Richer de l'Aigle and Judith le Goz d'Avranches) died in 1118. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Dame de Ramerupt. Mentioned 1108.

Alix married Erard I of Brienne in 1110. Erard (son of Gauthier I of Brienne and Eustache de Bar-sur-Seine) died in 1114. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Aveline de Montmorency dit Machanie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guy de Chièvres. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gossuin II de Mons. Gossuin (son of Gossuin I de Mons and Ermengarde) died before 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Arnould de Hainault. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Roucy.

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

Notes:

Also called Adelaide de Clermont; Adeliza de Clermont-in-Beauvaisis.

Family/Spouse: Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare. Gilbert (son of Richard fitz Gilbert and Rohese Giffard) was born about 1060; died in 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Clermont, afterwards Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Châtelain of Creil, and, in right of his wife, Count of Vermandois.

Went on Crusade in 1099.

Family/Spouse: Clemence de Bar-le-Duc. Clemence (daughter of Renaud I of Mousson and Bar-le-Duc and Gisele de Vaudemont) was born in of Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne, Lorraine, France; died after 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Renaud married Adèle de Vermandois before 1104. 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: Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches. Hugh (son of Richard le Goz) was born about 1047; died on 27 Jul 1101 in Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "The Monk," he pursued a religious life, eventually becoming bishop of Barbastro-Roda in 1134, just before being elected king of Aragon upon his brother's unexpected death.

Although the nobles who selected him expected him to be mild and pliant, in fact he defended his throne with considerable ruthlessness. While legendary rather than historical, the story of the Bell of Huesca is probably rooted in an occasion upon which he had several troublesome nobles summarily beheaded, nominally for having attacked a convoy of Muslims in time of truce but in fact because they were conspiring to end his reign.

After three years he passed royal authority to his son-in-law Ramon Berenguer and withdrew to monastic life, although he kept his royal title until his death twenty years later.

Ramiro married Agnes of Aquitaine in 1135. Agnes (daughter of William IX of Aquitaine and Philippa of Toulouse) was born about 1105; died about 1159. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1120 and 1125

Notes:

Viscount of Fresnay; Viscount of Beaumont-en-Maine and Sainte-Suzanne.

Raoul married (Unknown) de Laval in 1095. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Comte de Nevers.

From Leo van de Pas:

He took part in the crusade of 1101. He set out in February that year with 15,000 men, but his army failed to take the heavily garrisoned Konya and was decimated at the disastrous Battle of Heraclea Cybistra. He arrived in Antioch with only a handful of knights.

Guillaume persuaded Louis VI, king of France, to break the peace with England's King Henry I and throw his support behind William Clito of Normandy, count of Flanders, in 1115. Guillaume was imprisoned shortly afterwards by Thibaut IV, comte de Blois et Chartres. Guillaume participated in the Council of Troyes which opened on 14 January 1129 and is known for his support of the Second Crusade. He died on 21 August 1148, and is believed to have been buried in Chartreuse.

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

Elisabeth married Miles de Courtenay about 1095. Miles (son of Josselin I de Courtenay and Elizabeth de Montlhéry) died after 24 May 1138. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living 1095.

Family/Spouse: Aimon II de Bourbon. Aimon (son of Archambaud IV de Bourbon and Beliard) died on 27 Mar 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Wido de Craon. Tenant of Ralph de Gael prior to 1075; acquired some of the forfeited lands, and thus tenant in chief for Freiston and others at Domesday.

Family/Spouse: Isabella de Fitz Baldric. Isabella (daughter of Hugh fitz Baldric) was born in of Cottingham, Yorkshire, England. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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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]

Family/Spouse: Beatrix van Ath. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ida married Thomas de Marle about 1100. Thomas (son of Enguerrand I de Coucy and Ade de Roucy) was born about 1060; died between 1129 and 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Hainaut.

Baldwin married Yolande von Wassenberg about 1107. Yolande (daughter of Gerhard I von Wassenberg) was born about 1090 in of Guelders, Netherlands; died in 1155. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Aleidis.

Alix married Nicolas II de Rumigny between 1115 and 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The death by drowning of William Atheling, King Henry's only legitimate son, on 25 November 1120 transformed William Clito's fortunes. He was now the obvious male heir to England and Normandy, and a significant party of Norman aristocrats adopted his cause. Henry's problems became worse, as his son William Atheling had been betrothed to Matilda of Anjou, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou and Fulk wanted her dowry, several castles and towns in Maine, returned, which Henry refused. Fulk in turn betrothed his daughter Sibylla to William Clito giving him the county of Maine, between Normandy and Anjou, as her dowry. King Henry astutely appealed to canon law, however, and the marriage was eventually annulled in August 1124 on the grounds that the couple were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity." [Wikipedia]

William married Sibyl of Anjou in 1123. Sibyl (daughter of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem and Eremburge de la Flèche) was born in 1112; died in 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Joanna of Montferrat in 1127. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1093, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France

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Count of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes. Nicknamed "le Grand".

Thibaut married Mathilde of Carinthia in 1123. Mathilde (daughter of Engelbert II von Sponheim and Uta of Passau) died on 13 Dec 1160 in Fontevault, Maine-et-Loir, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1095 and 1096

Stephen married Maud of Boulogne, Queen Consort of England in 1125. Maud (daughter of Eustache III of Boulogne and Mary of Scotland) was born about 1072; died on 30 May 1151; was buried in Faversham Abbey, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Maud. She was definitely a natural child of Henry I. According to some sources, her mother was Isabel de Beaumont, wife of Gilbert "Strongbow" Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke (also called Gilbert de Clare). This relationship is not confirmed in Royal Ancestry's extensive coverage of Henry I's many illegitimate offspring, although her marriage to Roscelin de Beaumont is noted.

Constance married Roscelin de Beaumont before 1130. Roscelin (son of Raoul de Beaumont and (Unknown) de Laval) died after 1145. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mabel married Guillaume III Gouët before 1125. Guillaume (son of Guillaume II Gouët and Eustachie Crespon) was born before 1080; died after 1140. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Conan III of Brittany before 1113. Conan (son of Alain Fergant and Ermengarde of Anjou) was born about 1093; died in 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Aline.

Alice married Matthieu I de Montmorency in 1126. Matthieu (son of Bouchard IV de Montmorency and Agnes de Beaumont) was born about 1100; died in 1160. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Gloucester. Also called Robert de Caen; Robert fitz Roy; Rufus; Robert "The Counsel".

Fought at Brémulé, 20 Apr 1119, where Henry I defeated Louis VI. Present at the death of Henry I in Dec 1135. Commander-in-chief for the Empress Maud from 1139 on. From Complete Peerage: "In 1140 he burnt Nottingham, and in Feb. 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, relieved Lincoln and took Stephen prisoner, sending him to Bristol. He accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out fled with her to Oxford. He took part in the fighting at Winchester and helped Maud escape from the city, but was captured 14 Sep. (1141) at Stockbridge and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards he was exchanged, without concessions on either side, for Stephen, who was set at liberty on 1 Nov., and Robert then joined Maud at Bristol, and with her proceeded to Oxford. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England. It would appear that on this occasion Robert entered into a treaty of alliance with Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford. Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in his campaign. On hearing that Maud was besieged in Oxford, Robert hurried back to help her, taking with him her son, afterwards Henry II. He captured Wareham and other places, and on Maud's escape from Oxford he and Henry met her at Wallingford, and they went to Bristol, which was Robert's chief residence till 1146. In 1143 Robert defeated Stephen at Wilton, and in 1144 blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing battle; but Maud's party was now so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. In the spring of 1147 Robert took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou; and in the same year, he founded Margam Abbey." Shortly thereafter he died of a sudden fever, in the priory of St. James in Bristol, which he had earlier founded; his death effectively ended Maud's military campaign. The Dictionary of National Biography (1909) said that "his sister's cause almost invariably prospered when she allowed him to direct her counsels, and declined as soon as she neglected his advice."

He was highly literate, a patron of scholars and chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth and William of Malmesbury, the latter of whom wrote the Historia Novella at his request. An enemy, Baldwin Fitz Gilbert, called him someone who "threatens much but does little, lionlike in his speech, but like a hare in his heart, great in eloquence but insignificant through laziness", which is pretty much the same insult lobbed by all of history's meatheads at people who are, like Robert, both well-spoken and ruthless at war. When Ralph Peters calls the slayer of Osama bin Laden, warlord of Libya and Afghanistan, commander of a secret empire of unimaginable violence, a "pussy", it's the voice of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert we hear. No matter how many cities you burn, if you also talk like an intellectual, some people will feel that you've let the meathead side down.

Robert married Mabel fitz Robert before 1122. Mabel (daughter of Robert fitz Hamon and Sibyl de Montgomery) died on 29 Sep 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Henry fitz Henry. Killed during Henry II's invasion at Anglesea.

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

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Earl of Cornwall. Sheriff of Devon 1173-5.

Also called Rainald; Reginald de Dunstanville; Reginald Fitz Roy; Reginald Fitz Roy de Mortain.

Reynold married Mabel fitz William about Apr 1140. Mabel (daughter of William fitz Richard) was born in of Cardinham, Bodmin, Cornwall, England; died before 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1104

Maud married Heinrich V, Holy Roman Emperor on 7 Jan 1114 in Mainz, Hessen, Germany. Heinrich died on 23 May 1125 in Utrecht, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Geoffrey V of Anjou on 22 May 1128 in Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. Geoffrey (son of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem and Eremburge de la Flèche) was born on 24 Aug 1113; died on 7 Sep 1151 in Château-du-Loire, Pays-de-la-Loire, France; was buried in Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Folke. Folke was born about 1075. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Simon I of Lorraine. Simon (son of Thierri II of Lorraine and Hedwig of Formbach) was born about 1076; died on 14 Jan 1138. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Alsace and Flanders. Also called Dietrich.

Thierri married Sibyl of Anjou in 1131. Sibyl (daughter of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem and Eremburge de la Flèche) was born in 1112; died in 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned 1000.

Audiarde married Roger de Joinville in 1110. Roger (son of Geoffrey I de Joinville and Blanche de Reynel) was born about 1060. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Alice, Alix of Burgundy; Ela of Burgundy.

Helie married Guillaume III Talvas about 1115. Guillaume (son of Robert II de Bellême and Agnes de Ponthieu) was born about 1093 in of Alençon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 30 Jun 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Burgundy. Regent, 1101-02.

Hugh married Mathilde of Mayenne about 1115. Mathilde (daughter of Gauthier IV and Adelina de Presles) died after 1162 in Beaune, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Jul 1110

Notes:

"Conquistador."

Affonso married Mafalda of Savoy in 1146. Mafalda (daughter of Amadeo III and Mahaut of Albon) was born about 1125 in Savoy, Italy; died on 4 Nov 1157 in Coimbra, Portugal; was buried in Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "Emperor" (Emperador).

Family/Spouse: Gontrada Perez. Gontrada (daughter of Pedro Diaz de Valle and Maria Ordonez) died in 1186. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Berenguela of Barcelona in Nov 1128 in Saldaña, Palencia, Castilla-Leon, Spain. Berenguela (daughter of Ramon III Berenguer and Dulce de Gévauden) was born about 1114; died on 15 Jan 1149 in Palencia, Castile, Spain; was buried in Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Richeza of Poland between 23 Oct 1152 and 21 Dec 1152. Richeza (daughter of Wladislaw II, King of Poland and Agnes of Babenberg) was born about 1135; died on 16 Oct 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Mar 1136, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
• Alternate death: 9 Apr 1137

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Called "The Saint." Duke of Aquitaine. Also, as William VIII, Count of Poitou. Also Duke of Gascony.

William married Aénor de Châtellerault in 1121. Aénor (daughter of Aimery I of Chátellerault and Dangereuse) died after 3 Mar 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Spanish, called Ines de Poitou.

Agnes married Amaury VI of Thouars before 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Ramiro II, King of Aragón & Navarre in 1135. Ramiro (son of Sancho V Ramirez, King Of Aragón; King Of Navarre and Felicia of Roucy) was born on 24 Apr 1086; died on 16 Aug 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gerhard von Mainz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Blieskastel.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) of Lorraine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry II de Grandpré. Henry (son of Henry I de Grandpré and Ermentrude de Joux) died between 1188 and 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Folmar of Metz. Folmar (son of Folmar of Metz and Hamburg and Swanahilde) died in 1142. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Namur 1139-96, and of Luxembourg 1136-1196.

Henri married Agnes van Gelre in 1168. Agnes (daughter of Hendrik van Gelre and Agnes von Arnstein) died about 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Vuiton. Vuiton (son of Eudes and Mathilde de Réthel) was born about 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Adele, Ermensinde.

Alix married Baldwin IV of Hainaut about 1130. Baldwin (son of Baldwin III of Hainaut and Yolande von Wassenberg) was born in 1110; died on 8 Nov 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Konrad I of Zähringen and Burgundy. Konrad (son of Berchtold II of Swabia and Zähringen and Agnes von Rheinfelden) was born about 1090; died on 8 Jan 1152. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1124
• Alternate death: 31 Mar 1204, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France

Notes:

Also called Alienor, Helienordis. Duchess of Aquitaine.

Eleanor married Louis VII, King of France in Jul 1137 in Cathedral of Saint-Andre, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Louis (son of Louis VI, King of France and Alix of Savoy, Queen Consort of France) was born in 1120; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France; was buried in Abbey of Notre-Dame de Barbeau, Fontaine-le-Port, Seine-et-Marne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Henry II, King of England on 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. 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]

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Viscount of Thouars.

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