Constance of Provence, Queen Consort of France

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 986
• Alternate death: 25 Jul 1032, Château Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France

Notes:

Also called Constance de Toulouse; Constance of Arles.

"Queen Constance was not someone to be caught with down a dark alley, or even a well-lit street -- she was a violent termagant who once poked out a priest's eye with a stick when undertaking crowd control at a heresy trial. She fomented war between her sons over the succession after Robert II's death." [Peter Stewart, SGM, 3 Jun 2022]

Constance married Robert II, King of France about May 1004. Robert (son of Hugues Capet, King of France and Adélaïde, Queen Consort of France) was born about 970-974 in Orléans, Loiret, France; died on 20 Jul 1031 in Château Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [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]

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• 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]

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• 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:

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]

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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]

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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

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]

Notes:

First Marquess of Saluzzo.

Family/Spouse: Eliana. Eliana was born about 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marquis of Ceva.

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

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

"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

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1176
• Alternate death: 1176

Notes:

"Constance, named also Maud, who married Roscelin de Beaumont, hereditary vicomteé of Maine, styled Vicomté de Beaumont, Lord of Beaumont-le-Vicomté (alias Beaumont-sur-Sarthe), Fresnay and Ste.-Suzanne, son of Ralph de Beaumont, by...sister of Guy de Laval. Henry I gave South Tawton (Devon), to Roscelin de Beaumont in marriage with his daughter Constance. They had 2 sons." [Complete Peerage XI, Appendix D, p. 116.]

Roscelin married Constance of England before 1130. Constance (daughter of Henry I, King of England and (Unknown mistress or mistresses of Henry I)) died after 1175. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guillaume VIII d'Auvergne. Guillaume (son of Guillaume VI d'Auvergne and Emma d'Evreux) died about 1182. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guillaume married Ida von Kärnten about 1140. Ida (daughter of Engelbert II von Sponheim and Uta of Passau) died on 25 May 1178. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Complete Peerage's chart on page 317 of volume 4 identifies this Renaud de Courtenay as the father of Reynold de Courtenay who married Hawise and died in 1194, but as far as we can determine, this Renaud and that Reynold's father are different individuals. References: Richardson, Royal Ancestry, volume 2, p. 314, Courtenay line; Richardson, Royal Ancestry, volume 4, page 222, Nevers line; Peter Stewart, post to SGM, 28 Jan 2003. Stewart quotes an early SGM post, from William Addams Reitwiesner on 23 May 2002, summarizing Herbert Furman Seversmith's argument against identifying these two men as a single individual: "First is the chronology, as the English Reginald was born about 1125, while the French Reginald's parents were married around 1095. Second is their personal characters, the French Reginald being a glorified bandit while the English Reginald escaped the notice of any chroniclers, and is known only through charters. Third is their social status, the French Reginald being a nephew of the Count of Odessa and having a daughter who married a son of the King of France (who took her name of Courtenay), while the English Reginald was only the lord of a not very large manor, not a baron, and not even a knight. The fourth is that there is no actual evidence to support the suggestion that they were the same person -- the connection was made by Cleaveland in his 1735 Courtenay genealogy and has been repeated uncritically ever since."

The identity of his wife is not known with certainty.

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

Notes:

Sire de Bourbon. Crusader.

Archambaud married Agnes of Savoy before 24 Jan 1140. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Muriel de Beauchamp. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Renaud de Châtillon-sur-Loing about 1153. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Toulouse from 1194. Marquis of Provence. As Raymond IV, he was Count of Melgueil from 1173 to 1190. He was probably actually the eighth Raymond in the Toulouse line.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Raymond VI). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Béatrix de Beziers after 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Henry I of Champagne in 1164. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Thibaut V about 1164. Thibaut (son of Thibaut IV of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes and Mathilde of Carinthia) was born about 1127; died on 20 Jan 1191 in near Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Henry the Young King, Titular King of England on 27 Aug 1172 in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Henry (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born on 28 Feb 1155; died on 11 Jun 1183 in Castle of Martel, Lot, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Béla III, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama in 1186. Béla (son of Geisa II, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama and Euphrosine of Kiev) was born about 1148; died on 18 Apr 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1170
• Alternate death: Aft 18 Jul 1218

Notes:

Also Aalez; Aaliz; Aelois; Aalis; Aalaidis; Alais. Countess of Vexin.

Ancestral Roots has her as a daughter of Louis VII by his third wife Adèle of Blois (whom they call "Alix of Champagne"); Richardson's Royal Ancestry, with evidently better documentation, has her as a daughter of Louis by his second wife, Constance of Castile. But Szabolcs de Vajay's comprehensive 1989 survey of the Iberian Burgundians, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300" (in Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989) says that Constance of Castile's daughter Adelaide by Louis VII died in infancy. We're going with Richardson on the (weak) basis of his research being more recent.

Update: Peter Stewart, on SGM in October 2016, argued here, here, and here that "Alberic of Troisfontaines specified that Alix, the wife of Guillaume of Ponthieu, was the daughter of Louis VII by his Spanish second wife ('rex iste Ludovicus de prima uxore sua Alienor, quam dimisit, duas habuit filias ... De secunda quoque uxore, que fuit Hyspana, duas similiter habuit filias, primo reginam Margaretam Anglie et comitissam Aaliz, quam duxit Guilelmus comes de Pontivo')," and that there is no good reason to doubt this, particularly since if Alix had been a daughter of Louis VII's third wife, "Alix would have been (on her supposed mother's side) a third cousin of Richard, by common descent from William the Conqueror."

Stewart also argues that Alix cannot have married William II Talvas before August 1195 (rather than 1185 as stated in AR8) "because she was detained in England by Henry II for some years after the rupture in 1191 of her long betrothal to his son Richard. (She had been sent to England as Richard's promised bride in 1174.)"

Alix married William II Talvas on 20 Aug 1195 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. William (son of Jean I of Ponthieu and Beatrice Campdavaine) was born about 1171; died on 4 Oct 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Isabella of Flanders, Queen Consort of France on 28 Apr 1180 in Abbey of Saint-Trinité, Bapaume, Pas-de-Calais, France. Isabella (daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born on 23 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Mar 1190 in Paris, France; was buried in Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Agnès de Meran in Jun 1196, and was divorced in 1200. Agnès (daughter of Berthold VI von Andechs and Agnes von Nieder-Lausitz) was born about 1180; died on 29 Jul 1201 in Cháteau Poissy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Peter II was a son of Peter I of Courtenay, the youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second Queen consort Adélaide de Maurienne. His mother was Elisabeth de Courtenay, daughter of Renaud de Courtenay (died 1194) and Hawise du Donjon.

Peter first married Agnes I, via whom he obtained the three counties of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre. He took for his second wife, Yolanda of Flanders (died 1219), a sister of Baldwin and Henry of Flanders, who were afterwards the first and second emperors of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Peter accompanied his cousin, King Philip Augustus, on the crusade of 1190 and fought (alongside his brother Robert) in the Albigensian Crusade in 1209 and 1211, when he took part in the siege of Lavaur. He was present at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.

When his brother-in-law, the emperor Henry, died without sons in 1216, Peter was chosen as his successor, and with a small army he left his residence of château de Druyes, in France to take possession of his throne. Consecrated emperor at Rome, in a church outside the walls, by Pope Honorius III on 9 April 1217, he borrowed some ships from the Venetians, promising in return to conquer Durazzo for them; but he failed in this enterprise, and sought to make his way to Constantinople by land. On the journey he was seized by the despot of Epirus, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, and, after an imprisonment of two years, died, probably by foul means. Peter thus never governed his empire, which, however, was ruled for a time by his wife, Yolanda, who had succeeded in reaching Constantinople. Two of his sons, Robert and Baldwin, in turn emperors of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

Peter married Agnes de Nevers in 1184. Agnes (daughter of Guy I and Mahaud of Burgundy) died in 1192. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Yolanda of Flanders in Jun 1193. Yolanda (daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born about 1175; died in Aug 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Aalis, Aalez, Alaidis, Adelaidis.

Alix married Adémar before 1191. Adémar (son of William VI of Angoulême and Marguerite de Turenne) was born after 1157; died about 1202. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Champignelles.

Robert married Mahaut de Méhun-sur-Yévre between 1216 and 10 Dec 1218. Mahaut (daughter of Philippe de Méhun-sur-Yévre) died in 1240. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Châteaufort.

Family/Spouse: Gasce de Poissy. Gasce died on 14 Aug 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Montjay.

Family/Spouse: Gui II de Châtillon. Gui (son of Gaucher II de Châtillon and Alde de Roucy) was born about 1146; died after 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Family/Spouse: Raoul I de Coucy. Raoul (son of Enguerrand II de Coucy and Agnes de Beaugency) was born in 1134; died in Nov 1191 in Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elisabeth married Hugues III de Broyes about 1178. Hugues (son of Simon I de Broyes and Félicité de Brienne) died in 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of Venisy.

Adélais married André de Brienne before 1167. André (son of Gautier II of Brienne and Adelais of Baudemont) was born about 1135; died on 4 Oct 1189 in Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Pembroke. Earl of Striguil. Justiciar of Ireland.

Also called Richard de Clare.

"Like his father, he was also commonly known by his nickname Strongbow (Norman French: Arc-Fort). He was an English lord notable for his leading role in the Norman invasion of Ireland. [...] Strongbow was the statesman, whereas Raymond was the soldier, of the conquest. He is vividly described by Giraldus Cambrensis as a tall and fair man, of pleasing appearance, modest in his bearing, delicate in features, of a low voice, but sage in council and the idol of his soldiers." [Wikipedia]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Richard de Clare). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Eve of Leinster about 26 Aug 1170 in Waterford, Munster, Ireland. Eve (daughter of Diarmait mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Mor ni Tuathail) was born about 1145; died after 1185; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1212

Notes:

Also called William D'Ivry. Joined the Third Crusade in 1190.

William married Isabel before 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Maurice II de Craon about 1170. Maurice (son of Hugues de Craon and Marquise) died on 12 Jul 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1212

Notes:

Count of Meulan.

As a large landholder in both France and Normandy, he was put in a dangerous position by the developing confrontation between Philip Augustus and the kings of England. Eventually this led to his chastisement by both sides and subsequent ruin. He died landless and deposed.

Robert married Maud of Cornwall about 1165. Maud (daughter of Reynold fitz Roy and Mabel fitz William) died between 1220 and 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1135
• Alternate death: 31 Aug 1190, At sea
• Alternate death: 31 Aug 1190, Romania

Notes:

Earl of Leicester. Also known as Robert de Beaumont. According to Complete Peerage, nicknamed ès Blanchemains, which translates as "white-hands".

Steward of England and Normandy; seigneur of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy. In 1173, he supported Prince Henry, the "young king," in his rebellion against his father Henry II, and in consequence he and his wife were imprisoned by the elder Henry from fall 1173 to fall 1174.

Died on the way to Jerusalem. Durazzo is now the city of Durres in Albania.

Robert married Pernel de Grandmesnil in 1155. Pernel (daughter of William de Grandmesnil) died on 1 Apr 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Isabel de Beaumont; Elizabeth.

Isabel married Simon II de Senlis before 1138. Simon (son of Simon I de Senlis and Maud of Northumberland) was born about 1103; died in Aug 1153; was buried in St. Andrew's, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Hawise de Beaumont.

Hawise married William fitz Robert about 1150. William (son of Robert of Gloucester and Mabel fitz Robert) died on 23 Nov 1183; was buried in Kernsham Abbey, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret de Beaumont.

Margaret married Ralph de Tony after 1155. Ralph (son of Roger de Tony and Ida de Hainaut) was born about 1140 in of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England; died in 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Dec 1203
• Alternate death: Bef 13 Oct 1204
• Alternate death: 12 Dec 1204

Notes:

Earl of Warwick. Also called Waleran de Warwick; Waleran de Newburgh.

Waleran married Alice de Harcourt about 1196. Alice (daughter of Robert de Harcourt and Isabel de Camville) died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard de Morville. Richard (son of Hugh de Morville and Beatrice de Beauchamp) was born in 1125 in of Lauder in Lauderdale, Berwickshire, Scotland; died in 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aleida married Floris III of Holland in 1162. Floris (son of Dirk VI of Holland and Sophia von Rheinick) was born about 1140; died on 1 Aug 1190 in Antioch, Anatolia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1142

Notes:

Earl of Northumberland 1152-7; Earl of Huntingdon 1165-74.

"Two of his charters, which he issued in his minority, show that he was then using his mother's name of Warenne." [Royal Ancestry]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of William the Lion, King of Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) de Avenal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ermengarde de Beaumont on 5 Sep 1186. Ermengarde (daughter of Richard I de Beaumont and Lucy de l'Aigle) died on 11 Feb 1233; was buried in Balmerino Abbey, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Margaret married Conan IV in 1160 in England. Conan (son of Alan III and Bertha of Brittany) was born about 1138; died on 20 Feb 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Humphrey de Bohun between 29 Sep 1172 and 1 Jan 1175. Humphrey (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Margaret of Hereford) was born before 1144 in of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; died in 1181; was buried in Llanthony Priory, outside Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1144

Notes:

Earl of Huntingdon and Cambridge. Also called David of Huntingdon.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of David of Scotland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Maud of Chester on 26 Aug 1190. Maud (daughter of Hugh of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort) was born in 1171; died about 6 Jan 1233. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 13 Jul 1199
• Alternate death: 12 Jul 1203

Notes:

Countess of Surrey.

Isabel married Hamelin of Anjou in Apr 1164. Hamelin (son of Geoffrey V of Anjou and (Unknown mistress of Geoffrey of Anjou)) was born in of Lewes, Sussex, England; died on 7 May 1202; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John, King of England. John (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born about 27 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William III de Courcy. William (son of William II de Courcy and Avice de Rumilly) was born in of Stogursey, Williton, Somerset, England; died in 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King's justice, serving as justice itinerant and at Westminster from 1192 onwards. Justice of the Jews, 1200-08.

Family/Spouse: Beatrix de Pierrepont. Beatrix (daughter of Hugh de Pierrepont and Clémence de Réthel) died before 1203. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marchese del Bosco. Mentioned 1167.

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

Notes:

Marquess of Saluzzo.

Family/Spouse: Azalaïs of Montferrat. Azalaïs (daughter of William V "il Vecchio" of Montferrat and Judith of Babenberg) was born in 1150; died in 1232; was buried in Staffarda Abbey, Saluzzo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Guglielmo I di Ceva. Marquess of Ceva.

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

Notes:

Marquis de Clavesana.

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

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Gui Guerrejat ("the warrior") was the fifth son of William VI of Montpellier. When still a boy, in 1146, he inherited the castles of Paulhan and le Pouget from his father.

After the death of his brother William VII, around 1172, Gui served jointly with John of Montlaur, bishop of Maguelonne, as guardian of his nephews, particularly of William VIII who had inherited the lordship. In this capacity Gui and John attended the conference at Mezouls in 1174 at which Raymond V of Toulouse and Alfonso II of Aragon negotiated an agreement with the young William VIII. In October 1174 Gui was at Alfonso II's court at Lerida. In 1176 he was among those present when the will was read of Ermessende of Pelet, countess of Melgueil. In 1177 he joined Bernard Ato V of Nîmes and Agde, Countess Ermengarde of Narbonne, and his nephews William VIII and Gui Burgundion, in an alliance in opposition to Raymond V of Toulouse, who now ruled Melgueil as widower of Ermessende of Pelet.

According to her Occitan vida (in the Biographies des Troubadours), the trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues was the lover of Gui Guerrejat; her one surviving poem seems to be addressed to him.

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

Adelais married Ebles III de Ventadour in 1151. Ebles (son of Ebles II de Ventadour and Agnes de Montlucon) died in 1170 in Montecassino Abbey, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sire de Montpellier & Montferrier.

Guillem married Matilda of Burgundy on 25 Sep 1157 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. Matilda (daughter of Hugh II Borel and Mathilde of Mayenne) was born about 1130; died before 29 Sep 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Alix de Dreux. Alix (daughter of Robert I "le Grande" and Agnes de Baudement) was born about 1156; died after 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Marie de Morlanwelz. Marie (daughter of Jean de Morlanwelz) died before 1174. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Béatrix.

Family/Spouse: Evrard III de Breteuil. Evrard (son of Valeran II de Breteuil and Ivette) died about 7 Jan 1148 in Laodicea, Anatolia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ida married Roger de Tony about 9 Aug 1138. Roger (son of Ralph de Tony and Alice of Northumberland) was born about 1104 in of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England; died after 29 Sep 1158. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richilde married Everard II Radulf de Mortagne before 1144. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

Mentioned 1132.

Nicolas married Eve de Chièvres 'dite Domizon after 1150. Eve (daughter of Guy de Chièvres and Ida van Ath) was born about 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned 1177.

Family/Spouse: Gossuin III de Mons. Gossuin (son of Gossuin II de Mons and Ida van Ath) died before 1177. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Champagne. Called "the Liberal."

Henry married Marie of France in 1164. Marie (daughter of Louis VII, King of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born in 1145 in France; died on 11 Mar 1198 in Champagne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Renaud II of Bar and Mousson. Renaud (son of Renaud I of Mousson and Bar-le-Duc and Gisele de Vaudemont) was born about 1122; died on 25 Jul 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Blois. Died in the Third Crusade.

Thibaut married Alice of France about 1164. Alice (daughter of Louis VII, King of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born in 1151; died after 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Marie of Blois.

Marie married Odo II of Burgundy in 1145. Odo (son of Hugh II Borel and Mathilde of Mayenne) was born in 1118; died on 26 Sep 1162; was buried in Abbey of Cîteaux, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Isabelle (of Elisabeth) of Champagne.

Isabelle married Guillaume IV Gouët de Montmirail between 1150 and 1155. Guillaume (son of Guillaume III Gouët and Mabel of England) died in 1169 in Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elisabeth married Roger between 1139 and 1140. Roger (son of Roger II, King of Sicily and Elvira of Castile) was born about 1121; died on 12 May 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Jun 1206, Paris, France

Notes:

Also called Alix of Champagne.

Adèle married Louis VII, King of France on 18 Oct 1160. 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 16 Aug 1153

Notes:

Count of Boulogne, 1150.

Ancestral Roots (8th ed.) has him born circa 1120, but that obviously can't be right. His parents' marriage is well known to have taken place in 1125; if he had been born before that, he most certainly would not have been regarded as the heir apparent after Stephen seized the crown in 1135. Wikipedia gives him the much more plausible birthdate of "c. 1129".

Family/Spouse: Constance of France. Constance (daughter of Louis VI, King of France and Alix of Savoy, Queen Consort of France) died on 16 Aug 1176 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Mary of Blois. Abbess of Romsey; Countess of Boulogne.

Marie married Mathieu of Flanders in 1160. Mathieu (son of Thierri III of Lorraine and Sibyl of Anjou) was born about 1138; died on 25 Jul 1173 in Driencourt, Somme, Picardy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft Aug 1199

Notes:

Vicomte de Maine.

Richard married Lucy de l'Aigle before 1177. Lucy (daughter of Richer de l'Aigle and Beatrice) died after 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Todd A. Farmerie, 9 Jun 2002, post to SGM:

Eustachie was suggested by Charles Evans to be illegitimate daughter of Eustace, son of King Stephen. This conclusion was based on onomastics and kinship. Eustachie is specifically stated to have been a kinswoman of King Henry II, and is found in several modern sources as Eustachie of Champagne. Eustachie being the female form of Eustace, Evans argued that the only time that Eustace/Eustachie was associated with Champagne was following the marriage of King Stephen to Matilda of Boulogne, daughter of Eustace III of Boulogne. He then chose Eustace, Stephen's son (and Henry II's second cousin) to be father of Eustachie. (It is unclear why Eustace was preferable to Evans over his brother William.) That, anyway, is Evans' suggestion.

The problem with this is that I have traced back her being called Eustachie "of Champagne", and cannot find anything contemporary that calls her this. Where does it come from, then? (One possibility is that this somehow derived from a misunderstanding regarding the nickname of her husband, Anselme "Campdaveine.") If "de Champagne" is non-contemporary, then the primary reason for attaching her to the Champagne/Boulogne family disappears.

It is in this context that we can view the suggestion of Kathleen Thompson, (apparently again based on onomastics and kinship), that Eustachie was daughter of William Gouet (III) by his wife Mabel. This would make her, on her father's side, granddaughter of Eustachie, wife of William Gouet (II), explaining her given name, and on her mother's side, granddaughter, through an illegitimate daughter Mabel, of King Henry I, making her (half-) first cousin of King Henry II. Thus this solution accounts for both the kinship and onomastics.

The take-home message here is that Evans based his conclusion on scant evidence, at least some of which appears to have been flawed. There is an alternative that explains the existing material at least as well, and doesn't require the invention of an illegitimate child of Eustace IV of Boulogne, otherwise thought to have d.s.p.

Family/Spouse: Alselm Campdavaine. Alselm (son of Hugh III Campdavaine) died in 1164. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1170

Notes:

Baron of Perche-Gouët. Seigneur of Montmirail. Died on crusade.

Guillaume married Isabelle of Blois between 1150 and 1155. Isabelle (daughter of Thibaut IV of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes and Mathilde of Carinthia) was born in 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Constance married Geoffroi II de Mayenne about 1135. Geoffroi (son of Juhel I de Mayenne and Clemence de Ponthieu) was born about 1135; died on 18 Feb 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Alan III about 1137. Alan (son of Stephen of Brittany and Hawise) was born before 1100; died on 15 Sep 1146 in Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bouchard married Laurence de Hainault in Jan 1173. Laurence (daughter of Baldwin IV of Hainaut and Alix de Namur) died on 9 Jun 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Seigneur of Attichy and Marly.

Matthieu married Mathilde de Garlande about 1189. Mathilde (daughter of Guillaumne III de Garlande and Idoine de Trie) was born about 1150; died on 16 Mar 1224. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Gloucester. Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144.

"After Henry II's accession in 1154 William's status with his royal cousin began to change. The honour of Eudo Dapifer, which Henry had earlier promised to the earl's son, was given to another. Gloucester understandably yielded place of honour at court to members of the royal family like the king's brother William, and even to Robert, earl of Leicester, who was chief justiciar; but William was also regularly outranked by his uncle, Reginald, earl of Cornwall, who held no central administrative office. In the 1150s there is evidence of a certain ambivalence in Henry's government about Gloucester's right to be exempted from geld and other remittances. The earl's infrequent court appearances indicate that he was becoming a political outsider. Even though he was ultimately favoured by the bountiful royal fiscal patronage accorded to members of his class, served as a royal justice, and was promised that he would enjoy all the estates his father had held, William was to die with his career, earldom, and house in ruins." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

William married Hawise of Leicester about 1150. Hawise (daughter of Robert of Meulan and Amice de Gael) died on 24 Apr 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Maud fitz Robert; Maud de Caen.

"Matilda may have played a central role in the capture of Lincoln Castle in December 1140, a key turning point in the conflict that set in train the series of events that led eventually to the capture of Stephen. While their husbands were besieging Lincoln Castle, Matilda and her sister-in-law Hawise, countess of Lincoln, made a friendly social visit to the wife of the castellan. Under the pretext of providing an escort for his wife's safe return to his armed camp, Earl Ranulf penetrated and captured the castle. On the subsequent approach of the king's army towards Lincoln, it is unclear whether Matilda held the castle while Ranulf attempted to rally support or whether she was captured. None the less Ranulf escaped from the castle leaving his wife and sons to face the besieging royalists. Robert, earl of Gloucester, went to the aid of Ranulf since he was worried about the safety of his daughter and grandchildren. In the subsequent battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 King Stephen was captured." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

It's worth noting that, at least as of 12 Mar 2017, the ODNB's entry on this Matilda begins with an extremely confused opening sentence that appears to be claiming that she was a daughter of Robert, illegitimate son of Henry I, by his wife Sibyl de Montgomery. In fact Sibyl was Robert's mother-in-law.

Matilda married Ranulph de Gernons before 1135. Ranulph (son of Ranulf le Meschin and Lucy of Bolingbroke) was born before 1100 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France; died on 16 Dec 1153; was buried in Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jordan de Cambernon. Jordan was born in of Cambernon, Manche, Normandy, France; died after 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Castellan of Gloucester.

Family/Spouse: Hawise de Revières. Hawise (daughter of Baldwin de Revières and Adelise) died after 1211. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter de Ridelisford. Walter was born in of Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland; died after 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Maud FitzRoy.

Maud married Robert de Beaumont about 1165. Robert (son of Waleran of Meulan and Agnes de Montfort) was born about 1142; died about 1207. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France

Notes:

Also called Henry Fitz Empress; Henry Fitz Geoffrey.

Family/Spouse: Ida de Tony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England on 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral, 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]

Notes:

Called "Snivel," meaning "little" or "rascal." Also called Benedict.

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

Family/Spouse: Renaud III of Burgundy. Renaud (son of Stephen I of Burgundy and Beatrix) was born about 1093; died in 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Hermann III before 1134. Hermann (son of Hermann II and Judith) was born about 1090; died on 16 Jan 1160. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Lorraine.

Matthias married Bertha of Swabia about 1138. Bertha (daughter of Frederick II von Hohenstaufen and Judith of Bavaria) was born in 1123; died after Mar 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Boulogne. Also called Matthew d'Alsace.

Killed at the Siege of Driencourt.

Mathieu married Marie of England in 1160. Marie (daughter of Stephen of Blois, King Of England and Maud of Boulogne, Queen Consort of England) was born in 1136; died in 1182 in Monastery of Sainte-Austreberthe, Montreuil, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Dec 1195

Notes:

Also called Marguerite of Flanders.

Marguerite married Baldwin V of Flanders in Apr 1169. Baldwin (son of Baldwin IV of Hainaut and Alix de Namur) was born in 1150; died on 17 Dec 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Peter. Regent of Nevers.

Guy married Mahaud of Burgundy about 1175. Mahaud (daughter of Raymond of Burgundy and Agnes de Thiern) died in 1192. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]