Agnes de Ponthieu

- Aft 1100

• Name	Agnes de Ponthieu  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1100  [2]
  Alternate death	Between 1105 and 1106  [3]
  Person ID	I8833	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	Guy I   d. 13 Oct 1100
  Mother	Ada
  Family ID	F6210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert II de Bellême,   b. 1057, Sées, Orne, Normandy, France d. Aft 1129 (Age > 73 years)
  Marriage	Bef 9 Sep 1087  [4]
  Notes	Date of arrangement. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the actual marriage may not have taken place until about 1092.
  Children	+ 1. Guillaume III Talvas,   b. Abt 1093, of Alençon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France d. 30 Jun 1171 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Family ID	F5915	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  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]

  
  

• Sources

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