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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WALERAN (or GALERAN) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, Vatteville, etc., son and heir, born in 1104. In 1123 he was drawn into a conspiracy on behalf of William Clito, son of Robert Curthose. He was intercepted by a royal force at Bourgteroude in March 1124. He charged at the head of 40 men-at-arms, but his horse was riddled with arrows and he was captured. He was imprisoned successively at Rouen, Bridgnorth, and Wallingford until 1129, when the king set him free and gave him back all his lands and castles, except the castle of Pont-Audemer. He was present at the death of King Henry I in 1135. He was at Westminster with King Stephen at Easter 1136, where he was contracted to marry the king's infant daughter, Maud; Maud died in childhood in or before 1141, and was buried in the Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate. He soon returned to Normandy and joined his brother, Robert, in fighting Roger de Toeny, whom he captured the following October. Early in 1138 he drove David I, King of Scots from the Siege of Wark Castle. In May 1138 he returned to Normandy, where he again fought against Roger de Toeny. He was created Earl of Worcester probably in the latter part of 1138. In 1139 he and his brother, Robert, took a leading part in the arrest of Roger, Bishop of Salisbury and his kinsmen. He founded Bordesley Abbey in 1140 or 1141. He married about 1141 AGNES DE MONTFORT, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux, by his 2nd wife, Agnes, daughter of Anseau (or Ansel) de Garlande. They had six sons, Robert [II] [Count of Meulan], Waleran [Earl of Worcester], Amaury [seigneur of La Queue and Gournay-sur-Marne], Roger [seigneur of La Queue and Gournay-sur-Marne], Ralph, and Stephen (or Etienne), and three daughters, Isabel, Mary (wife of Hugh Talbot, seigneur of Cleuville), and Amice (wife of Henri de Ferrieres). Her maritagium included the barony of Gournay-sur-Marne in France and the Haie de Lintot, near Lillebonne, in Normandy. At the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, he was one of the commanders of the royal army who fled when the front was broken by the opening charge, leaving the king to be captured. He joined the queen when she recovered London in June 1141. Before the end of 1141, however, he abandoned King Stephen and came to terms with Geoffrey Plantagenet. In 1144 he went to the aid of Geoffrey, who had taken the city of Rouen but had failed to take the tower. He subsequently acted as one of Geoffrey's Justiciars, and attested his charters at Rouen. Probably in the same year he went on pilgrimage to St. James of Compostela. About 1144 he founded the chapel of St. James at Meulan. He took the cross at Vezelay in 1146 and went on crusade in 1147. On his return home, his ship was wrecked off the south coast of France. He and his companions gained the shore by clinging to a couple of planks and some pieces of wreckage. About 1150 he founded the abbey of le Valasse in Normandy. In 1150 Geoffrey Plantagenet resigned the Duchy of Normandy to his son, Henry [future King Henry II]; Waleran acted as one of the young duke's justiciars. In 1153 he was seized at a conference by his nephew, Robert de Montfort, who imprisoned him at Orbec; he was compelled to surrender the castle of Montfort-sur-Risle to gain his freedom. The following year he besieged Montfort, but was put to flight by Robert. In 1160 he witnessed the treaty between Kings Henry II and Louis VII concerning the marriage of their children. In 1161 King Henry II seized Waleran's castles and those of his other barons in Normandy. At an unknown date, he witnessed a charter of his brother-in-law, Gnillaume (or William) Lovel, seigneur of Ivry, to the church of Ste.-Marie of Gournay-sur-Marne. WALERAN [II], Count of Meulan, became a monk at the Abbey of St. Peter, Preaux. He died at Premix 9 (or 10) April 1166, and was buried at the Abbey of St. Peter, Preaux. In 1170-1 his widow, Agnes, granted the church of Sainte-Genevieve in Paris a serf and his wife in execution of a vow made by Waleran, Count of Meulan. In 1181 she gave 20 shillings to the Chapter of Evreux for a lamp on the tomb of her late brother, Simon, Count of Evreux. Agnes, Countess of Meulan, died 15 Dec. 1181.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76, 112. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres 2 (1840): 647 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1151). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 ([Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Waleran, Count of Meulan styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Brequigny Table Chronologique des Diplômes, Chartes, Titres & Actes imprimés concernant I’Hist. de France 5 (1846): 206 (charter of Galeran, Count of Meulan, and Countess Agnes his wife dated 1233). Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 191-192 (biog. of Matilda of England). Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 377 (undated seal of Galeran II, Count of Meulan - Sceau equestre. Bouclier à ombilic. Legende: SIGILLVM GVALERANNI COMITIS MELLENTI; Contre-sceau. Même représentation qu'a la face, si ce n'est que la lance remplace ici l'épée. Legende: SIGILLVM GVA[LE]RANNI COMITIS WIGORNIE); 377 (seal of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1170 - Ce sceau est très-fruste. On y entrevoit une figure de femme debout, vue de face, vêtue d'une robe à manches pendantes, et tenant un oiseau au poing. Legende: SIGILLVM AGNETIS COMITISSE MELLETI.). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 34-36 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan), 49-51 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1143-65, names her father, Amaury [de Montfort], Count of Evreux; her husband, Earl Waleran; and her son, Robert, and her other children). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Lasteyrie Cartulaire Générale de Paris 1 (1887): 283-284 (two undated charters of Waleran, Earl of Meulan), 405 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1170-71). Charencey Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Trappe (1889): 442-443 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan, and A[gnes] his wife). Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 71-120. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23(1894): 472 (Ex Obituanis Lirensis Monasterii: "9 Apr. [Obiit] Galeranus, comes Mellenti."). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise (1895): 474, footnote 936. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 45-46, 84 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan to Hospital of St. Giles, Pont-Audemer dated 1162), 84 (letter dated 1151-66 of Waleran, Count of Meulan, A[gnes] the countess, and Robert their son to Walter clek of Esturministre), 112-113, 114-115 (two charters of Waleran, Count of Meulan, one dated 1155; the 2nd charter is undated and concerns an agreement between Count Waleran and his "cousin" [cognate], Robert de Novoburgo), 115-118, 124 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1142 confirms gifts of his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont, and his father, Robert, Count of Meulan), 457 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1151). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327. Porée Hist. de L’Abbaye du Bec 1 (1901): 368 (undated charter of Galeran, Count of Meulan). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). Bodes Hist. du Canton de Meulan 1 (1906): 25-38. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 239 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Obiit secundus Galerannus, comes Mellenti, benefactor noster, idus aprilis [10 April]."), 241 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Agnes, comitissa Mellenti, XVIII kal. Junii [recte Januarii - 15 December]."). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinite' de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 10-17 (confirmation charter of Waleran II, Count of Meulan names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan; his mother, Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan; and his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont), 19 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1144), 21-22 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated after 1162), 25 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated before 1142), 28-29 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1162), 31-32, 42-45, 237-239, 242-243. Depoin Recueil de Chartes et Docs. de Saint-Martin-des-Champs 2 (Archives de la France Monastique 16) (1913): 282-283 (charter of William Lovel dated 1139-64). Revue Catholique d'Histoire, d'Archeologie & Litterature de Normandie 29 (1920): 163 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan, names her late brother Simon, Count of Evreux). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 17 (1934): 19-48. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1, 7-12. Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2450-2456. CP. 12(2) (1959): 829-837 (sub Worcester). Blake Cartulary of the Priory of St. Denys near Southampton 2 (Southampton Rec. Ser. 25) (1981): 234. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 319 (mandate of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1135-41). Coss Docs. Heraldry, Pageantry, & Social Display in Medieval England (2002): 33 (Robert du Neubourg styled "kinsman" [cognates] in charter(s) by Waleran, Count of Meulan). Power Norman Frontier in the Twelth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 228, 508 (Mayenne ped.), 509 (Meulan ped.). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 314 (Beaumont ped.).
Children of Waleran (or Galeran) of Meulan, by Agnes de Montfort:
i. ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan [see next].
ii. ISABEL OF MEULAN, married (1st) GEOFFREY [II] DE MAYENNE, seigneur of Mayenne [see MAYENNE 4]; (2nd) MAURICE [II] DE CRAON, seigneur of Craon [see MAYENNE 4].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan, son and heir of Waleran (or Galeran) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux. He married about 1165 MAUD OF CORNWALL, daughter of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall (illegitimate son of King Henry I), by Mabel, daughter of William Fitz Richard [see ENGLAND 2.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Waleran (or Galeran), Peter [Dean of Wimborne], and Henry, and two daughters, Mabel and Jeanne (wife of Guy IV, seigneur of La Roche Guyon). In 1173 he adhered to the young King Henry in his revolt against Henry II, but was reconciled to the king. Holding lands in both France and Normandy, the conflict between Philip Augustus and the English kings placed him in a difficult position, and eventually brought about his ruin. In 1188 when Philip took Vedôme, he captured 62 knights sent by the Count of Meulan to assist the defence. In 1191 he was excommunicated for taking action against William de Longchamp, Bishop of Ely. In 1202 he confirmed the charter of his sister, Isabel de Mayenne, to the monks of Savigny. In 1202 he revolted against King Philippe Auguste of France, and suffered the confiscation of his county of Meulan in consequence. Conversely, he had incurred King John's malevolentia before 2 April 1203, when the abbot of Saint-Taurin d'Evreux acted as an intermediary to reconcile him with the king of England. In a vain attempt to save his position, he handed over all of his estates 1 May 1204 to his daughter, Mabel, and her husband, William de Vernon, Earl of Devon. John, however, seized his English estates, and Philippe those in France and Normandy. ROBERT, deposed Count of Meulan, was living 14 November 1207; he died 16 August, about 1212. His widow, Maud, was living 25 October 1212; she reportedly died 1220-1.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farns of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301441, Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 390. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1 (1840): clv-clvi; 2 (1844): ccix ("Robert d’Harcourt is assumed to have married Joanna de Meulan, daughter of Robert Comte de Meulan, but none of the Preuves adduced justify such a conclusion."). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467 (pg. 465 author states Robert, Count of Meulan, married (1st) Agnes de Vendome, who died without issue, citing the chronicle of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan; pg. 466 author states Robert, Count of Meulan died at Poitiers 20 Sept. 1204). Delisle Etudes sur la Condition de la Chasse Agricole et l'Etat de l’Agriculture en Normandie (1851): 234-235. Servois Notice & Extraits du Recueil des Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour (1856): 8. Delisle & Passy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste le Prevost 1 (1862): 208-214; 3 (1869): 146. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 377 (seal of Robert, son of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1165 - Sceau équestre. Boucher à ombilic. Il ne reste de la légende que les trois lettres TIS à la fin; Contre-sceau. Une tête de profil, tournée à droite. Légende: * ROBERTVS PEREGRINVS). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 1 (1863): 220, 250-252. Réaux Histoire de Meulan (1868): 221-245 (pp. 243-244 "Robert [Count of Meulan] sa mort est inscrite au nécrologe de Saint-Nicaise, à la date du 19 août de la meme année [12041"). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 49-51 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1143-65, names her father, Amaury [de Montfort], Count of Evreux; her husband, Earl Waleran; and her son, Robert, and her other children). Collectanea Archæologica 2 (1871): 39. Charencey Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Trappe (1889): 443 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1166-1203), 444-445 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203; charter witnessed by his brothers, Amaury and Roger), 447 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "21 Sept. [Obiii] Robertus, comes Melle[n]ti."). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 45 16 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Fécamp dated 1170-81), 84,85-86 (several charters of Robert, Count of Meulan dated post-1165), 104 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1181-1200 naming his uncle, Simon, Count of Evreux), 115-116,117-118 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan), 119, 300 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Savigny dated 1166-81). Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327, esp. 323-324 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan). Porée Hist. de l'Abbaye du Bec 1(1901): 367-370. Revue Catholique de Normandie 15a. Annee (1905): 12-13 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1176; charter witnessed by Roger brother of the count), 13 (undated charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan issued while her husband, Robert, Count of Meulan, was at Jerusalem). Bories Histoire de Canton de Meulan (1906): 25-38 (author states Robert, Count of Meulan, died at Poitiers where he had taken refuge 16 August 1204, and that his body was transported to Préaux where he was buried 20 September). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 17-18 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 19-20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1168), 20-21 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1168), 22 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1199), 24 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan, dated 1196), 24-25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1195), 25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1166), 26 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 28-30, 37-38 (charters of Robert, son of Count of Meulan, dated 1162), 203-204 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1180), 208-209 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 209-210, 210 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190). Depoin Recueil de Chartes & Docs. de Saint-Martin-des Champs 2 (1913): 282-283. C.P. 7 (1929): Appendix I, 739-740 (sub Counts of Meulan); 14 (1998): 207 (sub Cornwall). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 136. Chibnall Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated c.1146-66), 16-17 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated 1147-66). Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2449-2450. Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 344-345. Lacy Reg. of Edmund Lacy 4 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 16) (1971): xi. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 192-193 (charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan). Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 251-252, 430, 509 (Meulan ped.). Taylor Saint Michael's Mount (2010): 39.â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) DE VERMANDOIS, married (1st) in early 1096 ROBERT OF MEULAN (or DE BEAUMONT), Knt.,* Count of Meulan, seigneur of Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Brionne, and Vatteville (all in Normandy), son and heir of Roger de Beaumont, seigneur of Pont Audemer, Brionne, la Haye-Aubrée, Sahuz, Tourville, Vieilles, etc., chatelain of Beaumont-le-Roger, by Adeline (or Aline), daughter of Waleran (or Galeran) [I], Count of Meulan. He was born about 1046. They had three sons, Waleran (or Galeran) [II] [Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester], Robert, Knt. [1st Earl of Leicester], and Hugh [said to be Earl of Bedford], and five daughters, including Adeline (wife of Hugues IV, seigneur of Montfort-sur-Risle), Aubrey (wife of Hugues II, seigneur of Châteauneuf), Maud, and Isabel (or Elizabeth). When he was very young, he accompanied William, Duke of Normandy [future King William], to England and distinguished himself at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He subsequently received large grants of land in Warwickshire, with smaller holdings in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Wiltshire. Sometime in the period, 1066-77, Robert and his father, Roger, attested a royal confirmation for St.-Etienne, Caen. As "Robert de Beaumont," he witnessed a charter of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [half-brother of King William the Conqueror] dated probably in 1079. In 1080 he and his father were present at the king's court in Normandy. Robert became Count of Meulan about autumn 1080, following the death of his maternal uncle, Hugues II, Count of Meulan. As "Robert, Count of Meulan," he attested a charter of King Philippe I of France dated 6 Jan. 1082 following the Christmas court of King Philippe I in 1081. He was back at the Norman ducal court on 5 Sept. 1082, where he joined his father and brother as witnesses to a suit adjudicated in the presence of King William the Conqueror. About 1088 he quarreled with Duke Robert of Normandy about the castellanship of Brionne, in consequence of the exchange of Brionne for Ivry made by his father. He was present at the ducal court in 1087, 1088, 1089, 1091, and on three further occasions during the early 1090s. In 1097, when King William Rufus invaded France, he admitted him to his castle of Meulan. He was present at the king's death in 1100. On the accession of King Henry I, he supported Henry in the general rising which followed and became his trusted counsellor. On the death of Ives de Grandmesnil on Crusade, he retained his estates, which Ives had mortgaged to him about 1102. Thereby he acquired one-quarter of the town of Leicester, the whole of which was later granted to him by the king. After obtaining the whole town of Leicester, he is said to have become Earl of Leicester, but being already Count of Meulan, he was never so styled. In 1103 he was dispatched by King Henry on a mission to Normandy. The same year he betrothed his infant daughter to Amaury, youngest son of Simon de Montfort, as part of a treaty to end conflicts amongst the "warlike marchers." In 1104 he was one of the Norman barons who adhered to King Henry on his arrival in Normandy. He was present in the king's army at the Battle of Tenchebrai in 1106. In 1110 he was besieged at Meulan by King Louis VI, who took the castle by storm. In the following year he retaliated by a raid on Paris, which he plundered. In 1112 he gave the manor of Chisenbury, Wiltshire for the kitchen of the monks of Bec Abbey. ROBERT OF MEULAN, Count of Meulan, died 5 June 1118, and was buried in the chapter-house of the Abbey of St.-Pierre, Preaux. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 2nd Earl of Surrey (usually styled Earl of Warenne), son and heir of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, by his 1st wife, Gundred, sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester. They had three sons, William [3rd Earl of Surrey], Ralph, and Reynold, and two daughters, Ada and Gundred. In 1090 he was among those fighting in Normandy against Robert de Belleme who was supported by Duke Robert. He witnessed three charters of the king at Windsor in Sept. 1101. In autumn 1101 he accompanied Duke Robert to Normandy, supporting him against the king, and was deprived of his inheritance in England. In 1103, however, as a result of the duke's intercession, he was restored to the earldom of Surrey by the king. In 1106 he accompanied the king to Normandy, and commanded a division of his army at the Battle of Tinchebrai. In 1109 he was present at a council held at Nottingham. In 1110 he was with the king at Dover, becoming a surety for the performance of the treaty with Robert, Count of Flanders. In 1111 he was one of the optimates who acted in a judicial capacity in a plea in Normandy; about that time he was given the castle of Saint-Saens by the king, which had been forfeited by Elias de Saint-Saens. In 1119 he commanded a division at the Battle of Brémule. In 1131 he was present a the council at Northampton. He was one of the earls present at the death of King Henry I 1 Dec. 1135. The same month he was given the administration of the region of Rouen and the pays de Caux. He was present at the court of King Stephen at Easter 1136. William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, died 11 May 1138, and was buried at his father's feet in the chapter-house at Lewes, Sussex. His widow, Isabel, was living c.1138. She died 13 (or 17) February, sometime before June 1147, when her son, William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, left on crusade.
(* The latest datable document that Robert attests as "Robert de Beaumont" is a charter of King William the Conqueror for Lessay dated 14 July 1080. Robert acquired the county of Meulan shortly thereafter and thenceforth always attested with his comital title [see Vaughn Anselm of Bec & Robert of Meulan (1987): 88]. There is no evidence that either Robert or his male descendants used the name "de Beaumont" after the year 1082, when Robert first occurs as Robert, Count of Meulan.)
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 49-51 (two undated charters of William, 2nd Earl of Warenne to Castleacre Priory), 51 (undated charter of W[illiam] Earl of Warenne and Countess Isabel his wife, and their sons, William and Ralph, to Castleacre Priory), 51 (undated charter of Isabel, Countess of Warenne, to Osmund le Despenser); 6(2) (1846): 1113 (charter of William de Warenne and his wife, Isabel, and their sons, William and Ralph, to Bellencombe Priory dated 1135; charter names Isabel's son, Waleran, Count of Meulan). Taylor Annals of St. Mary Overy (1833): 91 (undated charter of William de Warenne and Countess Isabel his wife to the Monastery of St. Mary de Overy). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 ([Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois] sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d’Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Arch. Jour. 3 (1847): 1-26 (re. parentage of Gundred, wife of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey). Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 102-103 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan). Sussex Arch. Colls. 11 (1859): 84 (Warenne ped.). Delisle & Passy Mémoires et Notes de M. Auguste le Prevost 2 (1864): 491 (charter of Morin du Pin granted with consent of the Count of Meulan and Countess Elisabeth). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 288-289. Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 38 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868):34-35. Coll Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Academy 15 (1879): 457-458 (Letter of Bishop Ivo dated at beginning of A.D. 1096: "Ivo, Dei gratia Camotensis episcopus, clericis Mellentis Perlatum est ad aures nostras quod Mellentinus comes ducere velit in uxorem filiam Hugonis Crispeiensis comitis; quod fieri non sinit concors descretorum et canonum sanctio, dicens: (Conjunctiones consanguineorum fleri prohibernus). Horum autem consanguinitas nec ignota est, nec remota, sicut testantur et probare parati sunt praedari viri de eadem sari prosapia. Dicunt enim quia Gualterius Albus genuit matrem Gualeranni comitis, qui genuit matrem Roberti comitis. Item supradictus Gualterius genuit Radulphum patrem alterius Radulfi, qui genuit Vemiandensem comitissam, ex qua nata eat uxor comitis Hugonis, cujus filiam nunc ducere vult Mellentinus comes."). Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS XIII (1881): 251-256: (Genealogiæ scriptoris Fusniacensis: "Nunc ad Hugonem Magnum revertamur. Hugo cognomento Magnus, frater Philippi regis Francorum, de Adelaide comitissa Veromandensium genuit Radulfum comitem Veromandie et Henricum de Chauni et Simonem episcopum Noviomensem et filias. De quarum una Bonefacius marchio genuit Bonefacium archidiaconum Noviomensem et filios et filias; quarem una nupsit Guilelmo de Monte-pessulano. Secunda filia Hugonis Magni ex Radulfo de Baugenci peperit Simonem eiusdem loci principem. Tercia filia ex Ioifrido de Firmitate-Galceri genuit uxorem Simonis de Oisiaco. Quarta filia nupsit comiti de Meslent, cui peperit filios, quorum unus successit path in comitatu, alter vero comitatem tenuit de Cirecestre [recte Leicester]."). Arch. Jour. 41(1884): 300-312. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 64-66 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan: "[He] is distinctly stated by Orderic to have been created earl of Leicester (‘inde consul in Anglia factus’). But of this the Lords' committee found no evidence (3rd Report on the Dignity of a Peer, p. 133). Nor does he appear to have been so styled ..."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 463 (Ex Obituario Ecclesiæ Ebroicensis: "6 Jun. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Mellenti."), 472 (Ex Obituadis Lirensis Monasterii: "5 Jun. Obiit Robertus, comes Mellenti."), 487 (Ex Titicensis Monasterii Necrologio: "5 Jun. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Mellensium."). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): xiii-xiv ("That he [Robert] was never styled Earl [of Leicester] in his lifetime seems certain"), 1 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1103-18). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 112-113, 123-124. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327. Porée Hist. de l'Abbaye du Bec 1 (1901): 368 (two charters of Robert I, Count of Meulan, one dated c.1117). Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 483-484, 522 (charter of William, Earl of Warenne, and his wife, Isabel). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 521 (Prieuré de Longpont: "idus Februarius [13 February] [obit.] Isabel, comitissa de Garenna"), 524 (Prieuré de Longpont "v. idus. Maius. [11 May] [obit.] Guillermus, comes de Garenna."); 2 (1906): 190 (Abbaye de Saint-Pere-en-Vallee: 6 Jun. - VIII idus. [Ob.] Robertus, comes Mellentensis, qui dedit S. Petro terram unius aratri in Garenna."); 238 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "[Obiit] Isabel, comitissa Mellenti, XIII. kal. Mardi [17 Feb.]."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 11(1904): 198-200 (two undated charters of King William the Conqueror, one witnessed by Roger de Beaumont, and his sons, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Henry de Beaumont; the other witnessed by Robert, Count of Meulan), 200 (charter of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux dated c.1079, witnessed by Robert de Beaumont), 207-209. Bodes Hist. du Canton de Meulan 1(1906): 25-38. Prou Recueil des Actes de Philippe Roi de France (1908): 270-272 (charter of King Philippe I of France dated 1082). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Triniti de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 3-10, 10-17 (confirmation charter of Waleran II, Count of Meulan names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan; his mother, Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan; and his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont), 43-45,237-238. Genealogist n.s. 36 (1919): 173-178. Salzman Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes 1 (Sussex Record Society 38) (1932): 29 (charter of William de Warenne, 3d Earl of Surrey, and his mother, Isabel; dated c.1138). Reg Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 10-11 (writ of Robert, Count of Meulan dated before 1118). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 17 (1934): 19-48. Walker Wakefield: Its Hist. & People (1934): 44-60 (pg. 52: author states "countess Isabel died February 13th, 1131, and the Earl followed her seven years later, on May 11th, 1138. Both were buried in the chapter house of Lewes priory."). Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1, 7-12. Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 9 (charter of Robert Count of Meulan dated 1112). C.P. 12(1) (1953): 495-496. Paget (1957) 569:1-3 (identification of children, but Reginald shown as second son). Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2456-2458, 2475. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61,128-129. Val Leicestershire 5 (1964): 2. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Farnille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30, 56-264. Albion 10 (1978): 352-373. Indiana Social Studies Quarterly 31(1978): 10-13. Scottish Hist. Rev. 60 (1981): 119-139. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1989): 55 (sub Vermandois). Vaughn Anselm of Bec & Robert of Meulan (1987). Winter Descs.of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X11.22, X.111.44-XIII.48. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain at la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 228. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 308 (Vermandois ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.), 315 (Warenne ped.). Online resource: hap://genealogy.euweb.cz/capet/capet8.html#R1.
Children of Isabel (or Elizabeth) de Vermandois, by Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont):
i. WALERAN (or GALERAN) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester (see next).
ii. ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, married AMICE DE GAEL [see LEICESTER 6].
iii. MAUD OF MEULAN, married GUILLAUME (or WILLIAM) LOVEL, seigneur of Ivri [see LOVEL 6].
iv. ISABEL OF MEULAN, mistress to HENRY I, King of England [see ENGLAND 2]; afterwards married (1st) GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, Earl of Pembroke [see PEMBROKE 3]; (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire [see PEMBROKE 3].
Children of Isabel (or Elizabeth) de Vermandois, by William de Warenne:
i. WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 3rd Earl of Surrey, married ELA OF PONTHIEU [see WARENNE 6].
ii. REYNOLD DE WARENNE, of Wormegay, Norfolk, married ALICE DE WORMEGAY [see BARDOLF 6].
iii. ADA DE WARENNE, married HENRY OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Northumberland [see SCOTLAND 3].
iv. GUNDRED DE WARENNE, married (1st) ROGER, 2nd Earl of Warwick [see WARWICK 6]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE LANCASTER, of Kendal, Westmorland [see WARWICK 6].â€
4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,†1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem†(unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain.
Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.).
Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael:
i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next].
ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4].
iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4].
iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].â€
5. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“CONSTANCE OF BRITTANY, married in or about 1135 (as his 1st wife) GEOFFROI [II] DE MAYENNE, Chev., seigneur of Mayenne, Pontmain, Ernée, Saint-Ouen-des-Toits, Lassai, Prez-en-Pail, Gorron, Ambrières, and la Chartre-sur-Loir, son and heir of Juhel [I] de Mayenne, seigneur of Mayenne, Pontmain, Ernée, Saint-Ouen-des-Toits, Lassai, Prez-en-Pail, Gorron, Ambrières, and la Chartre-sur-Loir, by Clémence, daughter of Guillaume III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu and Alencon. They had one son, Hamon, Chev. (living 1158), and two daughters, Maud (wife of Andre [II] de Vitre and Thibaut de Mathefelon) and Clémence. He married (2nd) after Nov. 1162 ISABEL OF MEULAN, daughter of Waleran (or Galeran), Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, by Agnes, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux [see VERMANDOIS 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Juhel [II] [seigneur of Mayenne] [see BOHUN 4.iii]. He went on crusade in 1163. GEOFFROI [II], seigneur of Mayenne, died 18 Feb. 1169. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) about 1170 MAURICE [II] DE CRAON, Chev., seigneur of Craon, younger son of Hugues de Craon, seigneur of Craon, by his 2nd wife, Marquise. They had four sons, Renaud, Maurice [III] [seigneur of Craon], Pierre, and Amaury, Chev. [seigneur of Craon], and: three daughters, Hawise (wife of Guy, seigneur of Laval, and Yves le Franc, seigneur of Saulges), Constance (wife of Pierre de la Garnache), and Agnès (wife of Thibaut de Mathefelon). He was heir about 1150 to his older half-brother, Guerin (II) de Craon. He participated in the Siege of Thouars in 1158. He went on crusade to the Holy Land in 1169, and returned to France after March 1170. In 1183 his wife, Isabel, made a gift to Savigny Abbey with consent of her sons, Juhel de Mayenne, and Maurice and Pierre de Craon. He went on crusade again in 1192. On his return, he founded the Priory of La Haye-aux-Bons-hommes near Craon. MAURICE [II] DE CRAON died 12 July 1196. He left a will dated about 1191. His widow, Isabel, died 10 May 1220.
Argentré Histoire de Bretagne (1668): 155 ("Conan vescut depuis en paix, lors quelque different avec Robert Baron de Vitré, qui interuint en l'an mille cent trente cinq, pour l'injustice, que ce Baron faisoit à ses sujets, & la plainte, laquelle venoit au Duc de l'oppression qu'il leur faisoit. Ce que refusant le sieur de Vitré de reparer, le Due Conan delibera de l'y contraindre par armes: & de fait se mist aux champs, & entra en la vile de Vitre, oil il trouva Emme, femme de Robert, a laquelle il donna congé de se renter avec son fils. Ce Seigneur ainsi chatlé de sa terre, fut contraint de se retirer au Baron de Fougeres, duquel II fut recueilly quelque temps : mais Conan gagne le sieur de Fougeres luy donnant la terre de Gahart, & quelque part des forests de Rennes: qui fut cause, qu'il donna congé audit de Vitré, lequel se retira vers Iuhael, sieur de Mayenne: ce que voyant Conan, donna sa fille Constance, la plus jeune des siennes, en manage a Geoffroi, fds dudit Iuhael: & par mesme moyen, luy donna en dot la Baronnie de Vitre, qui fut cause que ledit de Vitre fut constraint encore se retirer de la, s'en allant a refuge devers le sieur de Laval, qui estoit son cousin germain, car ils estoient naiz de deux soeurs: duquel lieu il fist la guerre a ceux qui renoient la vile de Vitre, & se retiroit en deux chasteaux, l'un appelle de Launay, & l'autre de la Gravelle.."). Menage Histoire de Sable 1 (1683): 185 (Geoffroi [de Mayenne] IV. du nom epousa en 1. noces Constance de Bretagne, file de Conan le Gros Duc de Bretagne, et de Matilde file naturelle de Henri II. Roi d'Angleterre : & en 2. Isabeau, file de Valeran Conte de Meulant."). Guyard de la Fosse Histoire des Seigneur de Mayenne (1850): 38-39 ("Geofroy de Mayenne fut mane deux fois; la premiere avec Constance de Bretagne, file de Conan le Gros, duc de Bretagne, et de Mathilde, file naturelle de Henri I, roi d'Angleterre ... La seconde femme de Geofroy fut Isabeau, file de Valleran, comte de Meulant ..."). Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes 32 (1871): 417 (Andre de Vitre epousa en premieres noces Mathilde, file de Geoffroi IV de Mayenne et de Constance de Bretagne, sa premiere femme, fine de Conan-le-Gros, duc de Bretagne; il s'en separa en 1189, pour cause de parente, sans en avoir Cu d'enfants."). Pointeau Les Croisis de Mayenne en 1158 (1879). Guiller Recherches seer Change-les-Laval2 (1883): 16 ("D'apres Guyard de la Fosse et le plus grand nombre des auteurs, Mathilde ou Mahaut de Mayenne etait fille de Geoffroi IV et de sa premiere femme, Constance de Bretagne, file de Conan le Gros, duc de Bretagne, et de Mathilde, file naturelle de Henri Ten, roi d'Angleterre."). Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 71-120. Farcy Cartulaire & Obituaire du Prieure des Bonshommes de Craon (1907): 9 (charter of Maurice de Craon, son of Hugh, dated 1196), 18-19 (charter of Amaury de Craon, Seneschal of Anjou dated 1224; charter mentions his parents, Maurice and Isabel, and his brother, Maurice), 117 ("X August - Obiit dominus Mauricius de Credone, filius Hugonis, fundator domus nostre Bonorum Hominum de foresta Credonis"). Analecta Cisterciensia 36-37 (1980): 106. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3 (1989): 638 (ancestry of Clemence d'Alencon). Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 508 (Mayenne ped.), 509 (Meulan ped.).
Child of Constance of Brittany, by Geoffroi de Mayenne, Chev.:
i. CLEMENCE DE MAYENNE [see next].
Child of Isabel of Meulan, by Maurice de Craon, Chev.:
i. AMAURY [I] DE CRAON, Chev., seigneur of Craon, Chantocé, and Ingrande, Senechal of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine, and, in right of his wife, of Sable, Briollay, Brion, Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe, and Précigné. He was heir in 1207 to his older brother, Maurice III de Craon. He married before 1214 JEANNE DES ROCHES, daughter and co-heiress of Guillaume des Roches, Chev., seigneur of Château-du-Loir, Seneschal of Anjou, by his 2nd wife, Marguerite, daughter of Robert [IV] de Sable [see MAYENNE 6 below for her ancestry]. They had one son, Maurice [IV], and two daughters, Jeanne (betrothed to marry Arthur of Brittany) and Isabel. AMAURY [I] DE CRAON died 15 May 1226, and was buried at the Abbey of la Roé. His widow, Jeanne, died 28 Sept. 1238. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 7 (1732): 574-575 (sub Sable). Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1 (1) (1863): 308 (seal of Amauri de Craon dated 1223 - Sceau équestre, aux armes. Légende: * : SIGILLVM : AMAVRICI : [DE: C]REDONE; Revers. Ecu losange. Legende: * SIGILLVM : AMAVRICI : DE: CREDONE :.), 308-309 (seal of Jeanne de Craon dated 1226 - Femme debout, vue de face, en robe et en manteau; coiffure carree. Legende: * SIGILLVM : JOHENNE : DOMINE : DE CREONIO; Contre-sceau. Ecu à la bande vivrée, brisé d'un lambel. Légende: * SECRETVM SIGILLI). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18 (1879): 352 (Ex Chronico Savigniacensis Monasterii sub A.D. 1226: "Obiit Amalricus de Creon, senescallus Angliæ [recte Andegavié]."). Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 132-169. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 585 (E Chronico Savigniacensi: "Anno M:CC.XXX.VIII [A.D. 1238] obiit Johanna uxor Amalrici de Creon, IV kalendas Octobris [28 Sept]."). Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (Société des Archives Hist. du Maine 6) (1905): x-xiii, 88-91, 94-95, 104-105. Fancy Cartulaire & Obituaire du Prieuré des Bonshommes de Craon (1907): 16 (charter of Amaury, seigneur of Craon dated 1217), 18-19 (charter of Amaury de Craon, Seneschal of Anjou dated 1224; charter mentions his parents, Maurice and Isabel, and his brother, Maurice), 109-110 ("XV May - Obiit dominus Amauricus de Credone, senescalus Andegavensis"). Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3 (1989): 718B (ancestry of Jeanne des Roches), 3:719.
Child of Amaury [I] de Craon, Chev., by Jeanne des Roches:
a. ISABEL DE CRAON, married (1st) RAOUL [III] DE FOUGERES, seigneur of Fougeres [see FOUGERES 7]; (2nd) KAROU DE BODEGAT, seigneur of Bodégat [see FOUGERES 7].â€
6. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
"WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 3rd Earl of Surrey, son and heir, probably born in 1119. In June 1137 he was one of the nobles who deserted the army of King Stephen in Normandy. The king pursued them to Pont-Audemer, where he held William and other youths and did his best to pacify them, but did not dare make them fight. William was with his half-brother, Waleran, Count of Meulan, at Rouen 18 Dec. 1138, and at Oxford in 1139 or early in 1140. He was in the army of King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln 2 Feb. 1140/1, but fled with his brother, Count Waleran, before the enemy's opening charge. However, the brothers soon rallied to the queen during the king's captivity and were with her in London about June 1141. After King Stephen's release in Nov. 1141, he witnessed royal charters at Canterbury at Christmas 1141 and at Ipswich in early 1142. He married ELA (or ALA) OF PONTHIEU, daughter of Guillaume III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu and Alençon, by Ela, daughter of Eudes I Borel, Duke of Burgundy. They had one daughter, Isabel. He took the cross on Palm Sunday 24 March 1145/6, and subsequently accompanied King Louis VIII of France on crusade in June 1147. WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 3rd Earl of Surrey, died 19 Jan. 1147/8, being slain when the rearguard of the French king's army was cut to pieces in Laodicea. About 1150 Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, remonstrated with his widow, Ela, for detaining from the monks of Lewes Priory the tithes of her dower lands. She married (2nd) probably in or before 1152 (as his 2nd wife) PATRICK OF SALISBURY (otherwise known as PATRICK FITZ WALTER), 1st Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPEE 3], hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Steward of the Household to Empress Maud, son and heir of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitteme, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPEE 2 for his ancestry]. They had four sons, William [2nd Earl of Salisbury], Patrick [Canon of Bradenstoke], Philip [Canon of Bradenstoke], and Roger. He was created Earl of Salisbury (or Wiltshire) about 1143; he occurs once as Earl of Wiltshire in the period, 1111 50. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. Sometime before 1148 he witnessed a charter of Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars. In 1153 he witnessed the treaty between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [future King Henry II]. After the accession of King Henry II, he continued to act as Sheriff and was frequently at Court. He witnessed a charter of his brother-in-law, John Marshal, to the Templars in 1155-6. At an unknown date, he gave Bradenstoke Priory the church of Wilcot, with its dependent chapel at Draycot Fitz Payne, as well as a portion of the manor of Wilcot, Wiltshire. He also exchanged the property in Wilsford, Wiltshire given by his father, for the rest of the manor of Wilcot, Wiltshire, and also gave a salt pit in Canford, Dorset. His wife, Countess Ela, gave the same priory land and rents in Hatherop, Gloucestershire worth 100s. yearly. In 1167 he accompanied King Henry II to Poitou, where the king assigned him to protect his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. PATRICK, Earl of Salisbury was slain about 7 April 1168 by Poitevin nobles while riding near the castle of Lusigan in Poitou with Queen Eleanor. He was buried in the Abbey of St. Hilaire in Poitiers. Queen Eleanor and her son, Richard, subsequently founded an anniversary at St.-Hilaire for their salvation and for the soul of Earl Patrick "who died in our service." His widow, Ela, Countess of Salisbury, died 10 Dec. 1174.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 299 ("Guillaume Talvas Ce dernier eut deux fils et deux filles de son épouse Alix, qui avait eté mariée auparavant au duc de Bourgogne. Son fils aîné, Gui … L'une de ses lilies fut mariée a Joel, fils de Gauthier de Mayenne, qui eut de ce mariage plusieurs fils. L'autre filla épousa Guillaume de Warenne, comte de Surrey."). Sussex Arch. Colls. 11 (1859): 84 (Warenne ped.). Coll. Top. et Gen. 8 (1843): 81-82. Ellis Original Letters Ill. of English Hist. 3rd Ser. 1 (1846): 23-25 (letter of Thomas Becket to Ala, Countess of Warenne dated 1162-74) (author cites Reg. Priorat. Lewes. fol. 107 b. for death date of Ela, Countess of Surrey: "Domina Ala Comitissa Surregix, filia Comitis de Belesme et uxor Willielmi tertii. Obiit quarto Idus Decembris Anno gratiæ Millesimo et anno xxvito post virum suum. Ubi sepulta est nescitur."). Robertson Materials for the Hist. of Thomas Becket: Archbishop of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1875): 99-100 (Reynold de Warenne styled brother of Earl William [de Warenne] [frater germanus Willelmi comitis] by William of Canterbury). Genealogist n.s. 11 (1894): 132. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #25 (charter of William, Earl of Warenne dated c.1145-6; charter mentions his brother, Ralph de Warenne). Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 12-13 [footnote 6 on pg. 12: William de Warenne styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by King Louis VII of France]. C.P. 12(1) (1953): 496-497 (sub Surrey) ("He was probably the first to assume the checkered shield of gold and azure, differenced by the change of colour from the checkered shield borne by his half-brother Waleran, Count of Meulan."). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 128129. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.434, XIV.74. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 520 (Talvas ped). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 315 (Warenne ped.).â€
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