Amaury I de Craon

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

1. Isabel de Craon was born after 1223; died after 15 Jan 1275.

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Crusader. Founded the priory of La Haye-aux-Bons-hommes near Craon.

Maurice married Isabel of Meulan about 1170. Isabel (daughter of Waleran of Meulan and Agnes de Montfort) died on 10 May 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugues married Marquise. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Count of Meulan. Earl of Worcester.

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

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

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

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1049

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Also known as Robert de Beaumont. Count of Meulan. Created Earl of Leicester.

* One of the only fifteen "Proven Companions" of William the Conqueror at Hastings.

* Inherited the title Count of Meulan when his mother died in 1081; paid homage for it to Philip I of France and sat as a French peer in the parliament at Poissy.

* A member of the royal hunting party in the New Forest, 2 Aug 1100, during which William II was accidentally killed by an arrow. Pledged allegiance to Henry I, who created him Earl of Leicester in 1107.

* Excommunicated by Paschal II during the Investiture Controversy. Excommunication later revoked by Anselm, exiled archbishop of Canterbury; revocation later ratified by Paschal.

* Lived to be the last surviving Norman nobleman who was at Hastings.

Robert married Isabel de Vermandois in 1096. 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.

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Count of Evreux.

Amauri married Agnes de Garlande. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Blackmans of Knight's Creek calls her "a niece of Stephen de Garlande."

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• Alternate death: 29 Nov 1094

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Slew Roger de Tosny during the civil wars in the early part of Duke William's reign. Not at Hastings, but he is said to have furnished ships for the crossing. Remained in Normandy as the principal adviser of the Duchess Maud. Died as a monk.

Roger married Adeline de Meulan. Adeline (daughter of Waleran III and Oda) died on 8 Apr 1081; was buried in Abbey of Bec, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Was Adeline/Adelinde (wife of Roger de Beaumont who died 1094) a daughter of Oda, wife of Waleran? Peter Stewart's answer on 9 Dec 2016:

This is not known as a certainty from direct evidence, but seems most likely.

Oda had five children by the time her husband Waleran of Meulan tried to have their marriage annulled, and she had died by the time he occurs with a second wife in 1033.

Adela (or Adelina) was evidently the eldest daughter of Waleran, as her son Robert (born ca 1046) inherited Meulan. She was described a sister of Hugo, Waleran's heir, who was named as his son in the 1033 charter before the second wife. As far as we know Waleran had only two sons by his second wife.

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• Alternate death: 18 Oct 1102, Tarsus, Cilicia

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

Also called Hugh "Magnus".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Alternate death: Between 1120 and 1124

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Countess of Vermandois. Last member of the Carolingian dynasty.

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

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• Alternate death: Aft 1086

Simon married Agnès d'Évreux. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Seneschal of France.

Anseau married Rancie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mentioned 1192.

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• Alternate death: Abt 1050

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Also called Honfroy, Onfroi; Umfrid. A follower of Robert I, Duke of Normandy. Died as a monk at St. Pierre at Préaux, near Pont Audemer, which he had founded.

Humphrey married Aubreye. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Albreda de la Haye; Auberie; Alberée.

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Also called Galeran. Count of Meulan.

"The county of Meulan, in Normandy, France, appeared as an entity within the region of the Vexin when the otherwise unknown Count Waleran established an independent power base on a fortified island in the River Seine, around the year 1020. Waleran's origins are subject to several genealogical myths, not least that he had predecessors in his office." [Wikipedia]

Waleran married Oda. Oda died before 1033 in Notre-Dame de Coulombs, Eure-et-Loir, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Nothing is known of the family background of Waleran's first wife, Oda. All we know of her for certain is that she was mother of five children by 1024 and after her husband unsuccessfully tried to get their marriage annulled she died as a nun at Notre-Dame de Coulombs by 1033. You can safely disregard any internet genealogy that includes her as a sister of Herluin of Conteville, or that traces the lineage of a Jean of Conteville through imaginary Baldwins of Blois." [Peter Stewart, citation details below.]

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]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1079

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Also known as Agnes of Kiev and Anna Yaroslavna.

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

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Count of Vermandois and Valois.

Herbert married Adela of Vexin before 1068. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adelaide of Vermandois; Adele of Valois.

Aumary married Bertrade. Bertrade died after 11 Apr 1052. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Bertrade de Gometz.

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Count of Évreux.

Richard married Godehildis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]