Yolande of Brittany

Yolande married Hugh XI "le Brun" de Lusignan in 1236. Hugh (son of Hugh X de Lusignan and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) was born about 1221; died in 1250 in Egypt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary de Lusignan died before 1269.
2. Hugh XII de Lusignan died after 25 Aug 1270.
3. Alice de Lusignan was born after Oct 1236 in of Angoulême, Aquitaine, France; died in May 1290.

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• Alternate death: 22 Jun 1250, At sea

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

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

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

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

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Duchess of Brittany. Countess of Richmond.

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Count of Dreux and Braine.

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

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• Alternate death: 22 Mar 1222

Guy married Constance of Brittany before Oct 1199. Constance (daughter of Conan IV and Margaret of Huntingdon) was born about 1162; died on 4 Sep 1201 in Nantes, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Count of Dreux and Braine.

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]

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

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Viscount of Thouars.

Geoffroi married Aumur. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Aumou.

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Duke of Brittany. Earl of Richmond.

Conan married Margaret of Huntingdon in 1160 in England. Margaret (daughter of Henry of Scotland and Ada de Warenne) was born about 1145; died in 1201; was buried in Sawtrey Abbey, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also Margery, Marjory, Margaret of Scotland.

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

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"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]

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Also called Adelaide of Maurienne.

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Seigneur de Braine. Seneschal of Champagne.

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

Enguerrand married Agnes de Beaugency. Agnes (daughter of Raoul I de Beaugency and Mathilde de Vermandois) was born about 1108. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Hainaut.

With Baldwin IV of Hainaut and his wife Alix de Namur, the line back from TNH's probable Quebec "gateway ancestor" Jean Sicard de Carufel joins up with the ancestry of proven TNH gateway ancestor Olive Welby.

Count of Hainault.

Baldwin married Alix de Namur about 1130. Alix (daughter of Godfrey of Namur and Ermisende of Luxembourg) died in Jul 1169. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adele, Ermensinde.

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Or Aimery. Viscount of Thouars.

Amaury married Agnes of Aquitaine before 1117. Agnes (daughter of William IX of Aquitaine and Philippa of Toulouse) was born about 1105; died about 1159. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In Spanish, called Ines de Poitou.

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"The Black." Count of Brittany. Earl of Richmond.

Alan married Bertha of Brittany about 1137. Bertha (daughter of Conan III of Brittany and Maud fitz Roy) was born about 1119; died between 1162 and 1167. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1115

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Earl of Northumberland and of Huntingdon. Also called Eanric mac Dabid; Henry of Huntingdon.

"Henry, earl of Northumberland (c. 1115–1152), prince, was the only surviving adult son of David I (c. 1085–1153), king of Scots, and his queen, Maud (or Matilda) (d. 1131), widow of Simon (I) de Senlis. From c. 1128 his name was linked with his father's in governance, and in 1144 he appears as rex designatus ('king-designate'). Although the exact significance of this style is unclear, it seems certain that he had formally been proclaimed as future king; and in practice from the 1130s 'David's was a dual reign...with joint or at least coadjutorial royal government' (G. W. S. Barrow, ed., The charters of King David I: the written acts of David I king of Scots, 1124–53, and of his son Henry earl of Northumberland, 1139–52, 1999, p. 34). This partnership--though Henry was self-evidently the junior partner--had momentous consequences for the Scots monarchy's power and prestige. Henry shared fully in David's policies of modernization by which Scotland began to be transformed into a European-style kingdom, and above all he was inseparably associated with his father in furthering historic Scottish claims to 'northern England'. Leading vast armies against King Stephen, they made extensive gains at his expense." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Henry married Ada de Warenne after 9 Apr 1139. Ada (daughter of William II de Warenne and Isabel de Vermandois) died in 1178. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

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]

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• Alternate death: 1094

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Called "the Fat." Count of Maurienne, Savoy, and Turin

Umberto married Gisela of Burgundy about 1090. Gisela (daughter of William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie) was born about 1070; died after 1133. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Marchioness of Montferrat.

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Seigneur de Baudement et Braine. Seneschal of Champagne.

André married Agnès of Braine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lady of Braine.

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Also called Thomas de Coucy. Count of Amiens; lord of Coucy and Marle. "A notorious knight brigand."

From Leo van de Pas's site:

Thomas was lord of Coucy, Boves, Marle, La Fère, Crépy and Vervins. There was some doubt as to whether Enguerrand I was really his father (he had repudiated Thomas' mother over her adultery), and it appears that Enguerrand detested his son and sought to disinherit him.

Before 1095 Thomas developed a reputation for rapacious cruelty. In April 1096 he joined the first crusade with his father and alongside the notorious Emicho of Leiningen, persecutor of the Rhineland Jews. He fought with great courage in a number of battles: Nicea (June 1097), Dorylaeum (July 1097), Al-Bara (December 1097), Antioch (June 1098), and Jerusalem in July 1099 he was one of the first Crusaders to enter the city.

Thomas may have been marked by the cross, but he could not switch off the elemental ferocity that had driven him, and many of his comrades, to the gates of the Holy City. Returning to his country with little to show for such a long crusade, Thomas resumed his pillaging and devastation of the regions around Laon, from Amiens to Reims. He was even excommunicated by the pope during a council held in Beauvais in 1114.

In October 1130 he was severely wounded by Raoul I 'the Valiant', comte de Vermandois, during the siege of Coucy ordered by King Louis VI, who wanted to put an end to the ravages of his vassal.

Thomas died of his wounds on 9 November 1130. He was buried under the tower of the abbatial church of Nogent-sous-Coucy, and his body remained there until 3 April 1219, when it was moved to the church built by his grandson Enguerrand III. The chronicler of the time, Guibert de Nogent, abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Nogent-sous-Coucy, wrote of him that he was the greatest scoundrel of his time.

Thomas married Mélisende de Crecy about 1102. Mélisende (daughter of Guy de Crecy) died after 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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AR8 says "whose parentage is in doubt". She is sometimes shown as a daughter of Guy II de Montlhery and his wife Adelaide de Crecy. Van de Pas gives her father as "Guy de Crécy, Comte de Rochefort sur Yvelin."

Raoul married Mathilde de Vermandois. Mathilde (daughter of Hugues le Grand and Adèle de Vermandois) was born about 1080. [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]

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Also known as Yolande de Gueldrs, Gueldre, Geldern.

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• Alternate birth: 1069

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Comte de Namur. Died as a lay brother. Note that it's the Abbey of Floreffe, in what is now Belgium, not "Florette, France" as several online sources have it.

Godfrey married Ermisende of Luxembourg. Ermisende (daughter of Conrad I of Luxembourg and Clementia of Aquitaine) was born about 1080; died on 24 Jun 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 10 Feb 1127

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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.

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]

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• Alternate death: 28 Nov 1118, Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France

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Also called Mathilda; Maud. Regent of Toulouse.

Ancestral Roots and other sources to the contrary, she was probably never married to Sancho V Ramirez (1043-94), king of Aragon. Wikipedia's article on Philippa of Toulouse cites two sources to this effect:

"Szabolcs de Vajay, 'Ramire II le Moine, roi d'Aragon et Agnes de Poitou dans l'histoire et la légende', in Me?langes offerts a? Rene? Crozet, 2 vol, Poitiers, 1966, vol 2, p 727-750; and Ruth E Harvey, 'The wives of the first troubadour Duke William IX of Aquitaine', in Journal of Medieval History, vol 19, 1993, p 315. Harvey states that, contrary to prior assumptions, William IX was certainly Philippa of Toulouse's only husband. Vajay states that the marriage to an unnamed king of Aragon reported by a non-contemporary chronicler is imaginary even though it has appeared broadly in modern histories, and likewise he cites J de Salarrullana de Dios, Documentos correspondientes al reinado de Sancho Ramirez, Saragossa, 1907, vol I, nr 51, p 204-207 to document that Sancho's wife Felicie was clearly still married to him just months before his death, making the marriage to Philippa several years earlier, as reported in several modern popular biographies of her granddaughter, completely unsupportable."

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• Alternate death: 21 Apr 1136

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Count of Brittany; Count of Treguier and Lamballe. Also called Étienne of Brittany; Étienne de Penthievre.

Founder of the Augustinian abbey of Ste. Croix at Guincamp abt 1110. Founder of the Cistercian abbey of Begard.

Stephen married Hawise. Hawise died after 1135. [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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• Alternate birth: Abt 1085

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"David I was driven by a clear and consistent vision, pious and authoritarian, of what his kingdom should be: Catholic, in the sense of conforming to the doctrines and observances of the western church; feudal, in the sense that a lord–vassal relationship, involving knight-service, should form the basis of government; and open, in the sense that external (especially continental) influences of all kinds, religious, military, and economic, were encouraged and exploited to strengthen the Scottish kingdom. Alongside his eclecticism, David's strong sense of the autonomy of his realm and of his own position within it must be acknowledged. The surviving numbers of his charters, compared with those of his predecessors, surely point to an increase in the sophistication, and probably also in the activity, of government. During David's reign the administration of royal justice became more firmly established and was organized more effectively. Those who enjoyed their own courts were told that the king would intervene if they failed to provide justice. The addresses of royal charters and writs (Scottish ‘brieves’) show that from c.1140 justiciars were appointed. Although none is known by name, these officers were clearly the predecessors of the named justiciars of succeeding reigns." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

David married Maud of Northumberland before Jul 1113. Maud (daughter of Waltheof and Judith of Lens) was born about 1072; died between 1130 and 1131; was buried in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1130
• Alternate death: 1131
• Alternate death: Bef 1132

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Also called Maud of Huntingdon.

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Earl of Surrey; usually styled Earl of Warenne. Advisor to King John at Runnymede.

William married Isabel de Vermandois after 5 Jun 1118. Isabel (daughter of Hugues le Grand and Adèle de Vermandois) died before Jun 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Jul 1147

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Countess of Leicester. Also called Elizabeth de Vermandois.

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

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