Clémence de Mayenne

Clémence married Robert IV de Sablé after 1168. Robert (son of Robert III de Sablé and Hersende) died about 1195 in Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marguerite de Sablé died after 20 Jul 1238.

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• Alternate death: 18 Feb 1169
• Alternate death: 25 Jul 1169

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Seigneur of Mayenne.

Geoffroi married Constance of Brittany about 1135. Constance (daughter of Conan III of Brittany and Maud fitz Roy) died in 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1162
• Alternate death: Bef Nov 1162

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Seigneur of Mayenne.

Juhel married Clemence de Ponthieu before 1120. Clemence (daughter of Guillaume III Talvas and Helie of Burgundy) died before 20 Nov 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Sep 1148

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Duke of Brittany. Called "le Gros," the Fat.

Conan married Maud fitz Roy before 1113. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Mayenne.

Gauthier married Adelina de Presles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adeline de Beaugency. Living 1108.

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Count of Ponthieu and Alençon.

Guillaume married Helie of Burgundy about 1115. Helie (daughter of Odo I of Burgundy and Sibylla of Burgundy) was born about 1080 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France; died on 28 Feb 1142. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Duke of Brittany 1084 until his abdication in 1112. Count of Nantes; Count of Rennes.

Alain married Ermengarde of Anjou in 1093. Ermengarde (daughter of Fulk IV "Le Rechin" and Hildegarde de Beaugency) was born about 1066; died about 1146. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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

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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.

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

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Also called Geoffrey of Mayenne.

From Leo van de Pas:

Geoffroy was the son of Haymon. According to the cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Vincent, dating between 1067 and 1070, he or more probably his father had his ownership of the château of Mayenne confirmed by Foulques III 'Nerra', comte d'Anjou, between 1014 and Foulques' death in 1040. Haymon subscribed a charter dated 1014 'Signum Haymonis de Medano', so he appears to have been castellan or seigneur already at that time. Geoffroy is first recorded as lord of Mayenne in a charter of Hugues IV, comte de Maine, dated the 20th year of the reign of Henri I, king of France, i.e. approximately 1051.

Before 1059 Geoffroy married Mahaut d'Alluye, widow of Guillaume I Gouët, seigneur de Montmirail, and daughter of Gautier d'Alluye. Their son Gautier would have progeny, marrying Adeline (Alix) (de Presles). The marriage of Geoffroy and Mahaut was partly driven by the need to defend against the encroachments of the Normans and of Rotrou I, comte du Perche.

Herbert II, comte de Maine, driven from Maine by Geoffrey II Martel, comte d'Anjou, had no sons, and named William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, as his heir. On Herbert's death in 1062 William pressed his right to succeed in Maine. Most of the lords of Maine revolted against him. Led by Geoffroy they summoned as their new count Gautier III, comte d'Amiens et du Vexin. William of Normandy then embarked on the conquest of Maine, using scorched earth tactics and conquering the castles of his opponents one by one, capturing Gautier who died shortly after in mysterious circumstances. William also laid siege to the castle of Mayenne, to which Geoffroy had fled. When the castle was set on fire it surrendered in 1063.

In 1094 Geoffroy allied with Guillaume II de Sillé and the principal lords of Maine to support the house of Giroie in its feud against Robert de Bellême, 3rd earl of Shropshire and of Shrewsbury.

Gautier married Mahaut d'Alluye before 1059. Mahaut (daughter of Gautier d'Alluye) died after 1079. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptised: St. Martin, Sées, Orne, Normandy, France
• Alternate death: Aft 1130
• Alternate death: Bef 8 May 1131

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Earl of Shrewsbury. Count of Ponthieu. Exiled and attainted 1102. Described by the ODNB as "a brilliant military architect but sadistically cruel."

"Robert de Bellême, seigneur de Bellême (or Belèsme), seigneur de Montgomery, viscount of the Hiémois, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Count of Ponthieu, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror. He was a member of the powerful House of Bellême. Robert became notorious for his alleged cruelty. The chronicler Orderic Vitalis calls him 'Grasping and cruel, an implacable persecutor of the Church of God and the poor... unequalled for his iniquity in the whole Christian era.' The stories of his brutality may have inspired the legend of Robert the Devil." [Wikipedia]

"The chroniclers have given Robert de Bellême an appalling reputation, though his actions as a man of violence and an oppressor of the church were probably little worse than those of his contemporaries. He was faced with an enormous task in trying to hold together his family's extensive lands, which lay in very unstable regions, and it proved to be impossible without the support of an effective ruler. Although Bellême was a capable soldier and an efficient administrator, it was his misfortune that he lacked political judgement, as his support of Robert Curthose and failure to establish satisfactory relations with Henry I indicate." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Robert married Agnes de Ponthieu before 9 Sep 1087. Agnes (daughter of Guy I and Ada) died after 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 1105 and 1106

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Countess of Ponthieu.

"Agnes, who was sole heir to her father's comté, was treated cruelly by her husband, who kept her shut up for a long time in his castle at Bellême. She escaped by the help of a faithful chamberlain, took refuge with Adela Countess of Blois and retired to Ponthieu; whence she never returned to her husband." [Complete Peerage]

"[D]espite the lurid story of marital collapse given in Orderic Vitalis's ecclesiastical history (Ordericus Vitalis, Eccl. hist., 4.300), there are no signs of discord between Robert and his father-in-law, Count Gui, with whom he judged a plea in the ducal court at Rouen in 1093. Robert witnessed a charter given by Gui, apparently on his deathbed, and it may be that Agnes returned to Ponthieu in the later 1090s to act on her father's behalf because of his advanced age. She probably took her son with her since he does not attest Robert's acts until 1106. Only one act of Agnes as countess of Ponthieu is known and she must have died in 1105 or 1106, when Robert ceased to use the title count of Ponthieu." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

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Date of arrangement. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the actual marriage may not have taken place until about 1092.

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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]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1103

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Also called Matilda.

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Count of Kernev (French: Cornouaille; Breton: Kernev) from 1058 as Hoël V. On the basis of his marriage to Hawise, Duchess of Brittany, in 1066, he became Duke of Brittany jure uxoris.

Hoël married Hawise of Rennes in 1066. Hawise (daughter of Alan III of Rennes and Bertha of Blois) was born about 1037; died on 19 Aug 1072. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hereditary Duchess of Brittany.

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Count of Anjou 1067/1068-1109.

From Wikipedia: The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "rude", "sullen", "surly" and "heroic".

Fulk married Hildegarde de Beaugency. Hildegarde (daughter of Lancelin de Beaugency and Alberge) died before 1070. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1027

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Duke of Normandy 1028-1087; King of England 1066-1087.

William married Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England about 1050. Matilda (daughter of Baldwin V and St. Adele of France) was born in 1032; died on 2 Nov 1083; was buried in Abbey of Sainte-Trinitie, Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 Nov 1083

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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.

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Earl of Shrewsbury. Also styled, variously, as Earl of Arundel, of Chichester, of Sussex, and of Shropshire. Regent in Normandy during the Conquest. A loyal servant to the dukes of Normandy, he became an important administrator in post-Conquest England and Wales, and (following the disgrace of bishop Odo) the richest of William's tenants-in-chief. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography points out that "Alone of all the Conqueror's vassals, Roger de Montgomery gave his name to a British county, appropriately in Wales." He died as a monk.

Roger married Mabel de Bellême about 1050. Mabel (daughter of William I Talvas and Hildeburg) died in Dec 1077 in Bures-sur-Dives, Normandy, France; was buried in Troarn, Calvados, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 2 Dec 1079

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Also called Mabel Talvas; Dame de Alencon, de Seez, and Belleme; Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady of Arundel.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Earl Roger's first wife, Mabel de Bellême, has been depicted unforgettably for posterity by Orderic Vitalis, though that historian never saw her. He describes her as 'a forceful and worldly woman, cunning, garrulous, and extremely cruel', 'a perfidious woman', and 'a cruel woman, who had shed the blood of many and had forcibly disinherited many lords'; and he recounts several stories to her discredit related to him by colleagues at St Evroult. Whatever allowances can be made for Mabel there must have been something particularly aggressive and brutal about her for four of her vassals to ride at night into her castle at Bures [-sur-Dives] and cut off her head as she lay in bed after a bath. Her murderer Hugh Bunel was among those whom she had disinherited and was never caught. The date of the murder must be December 1077, not 1082 as long accepted from a marginal note in the editio princeps of Orderic. There is evidence that Mabel, like a very few other baronial wives, was a tenant-in-chief in England, but no evidence that she ever visited that land or the Montgomery estates there.

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Count of Ponthieu. He is the "Wido" on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Guy married Ada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adila, Adda. She died before her husband, on a 5 March.

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Called "The Gallant" (le Damoiseau).

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

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"The name of Henry's wife is not known, though both Sibylla and Clémence have been suggested. Based purely on onomastics, historian Szabolcs de Vajay proposed that she was the daughter of Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona and his third wife, Guisle of Lluca. If this is true, Henry would have been married in Barcelona while on crusade." [Wikipedia]

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Count of Burgundy and, from 1078, Count of Mâcon.

Called "tête hardie", "the rash" or "the stubborn".

William married Stephanie between 1049 and 1057. Stephanie died after 1092. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Wikipedia article about William I, Count of Burgundy, asserts (as of 29 Jun 2015) two wives for him, an "Etiennette de Longuy" that he married circa 1040 and a "Stephanie" that he married before his death in 1087. The article then lists one set of children for Stephanie and another set of "children of either Stephanie or Etiennette". This appears to be confused. [Note that as of 1 May 2016, Wikipedia's article appears to have been cleaned up and corrected.]

According to Ancestral Roots, William had one wife, whom they identify as "Stephanie, parentage NN". They then note: "Prof. David H. Kelly believes her parentage unproven (2003). De Vajay, in Annales de Bourgogne vol. 32 (1960) 258-261, identifies Stephanie (Etiennette) as dau. of Clemence de Foix & Albert de Longwy, Duke of Lorraine, d. 1048. Clemence is identified as dau. of Bernard I Roger, Comte de Foix, d. 1035, & Garsinde de Bigorre; & Bernard as son of Roger I de Carcassonne & wife Adelaide. Moriarty, The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, supplies pedigree charts for these families, but does not agree with de Vajay as to her identity. Garnier, Tableaux Généalogiques des Souverains de la France et de ses Grand Feudataires, table XXVIII, shows her as dau. of Raymond II, Count of Barcelona."

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Count of Cornouaille from 1020.

Alain married Judith of Nantes about 1026. Judith (daughter of Judicael of Nantes and Melisende) was born about 1000; died on 27 Feb 1063. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alain de Bretagne. Count of Rennes; Duke of Brittany. Died suddenly while besieging a rebel castle near Vimoutiers in Normandy. According to Orderic, he was poisoned by unnamed Normans.

Alan married Bertha of Blois. Bertha (daughter of Odo II and Ermengarde of Auvergne) died about 1080. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1046

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Count of Gatinais, from aft 1028 to 1042-1045.

May have died on 30 April of 1042, 1043, 1044, or 1045. [The Henry Project]

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

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• Alternate death: 21 Mar 1076

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Also called Ermengarde-Blanche.

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• Alternate death: Aft 24 Sep 1098

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Also called Landry. Seigneur de Beaugency. In 1079 he founded the religious house of Saint-Sepulchre de Beaugency.

Lancelin married Alberge. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1035
• Alternate death: 22 Jul 1035

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"The Devil." Duke of Normandy.

Robert married Herleve. Herleve was born about 1003; died about 1050; was buried in Grestain Abbey, Fatouville-Grestain, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1051

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Also called Arlette. Also called Herleve "de Falaise", this predicated on the belief that she was the daughter of a tanner or forester named Fulbert from the town of Falaise.

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1012
• Alternate birth: 1012

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Count/Marquess of Flanders 1035-1067; Regent of France 1060-1067.

Also known as Baudouin de Flandre, Baldwin "De l'Isle"; Baldwin of Lille; Balduinus Insulanus; Balduinus Pius.

Baldwin married St. Adele of France in 1028 in Paris, France. Adele (daughter of Robert II, King of France and Constance of Provence, Queen Consort of France) was born between 1010 and 1015; died on 8 Jan 1079; was buried in Abbey of Messines, Ypres, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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