The family of the Counts of Anjou

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 1A, First House

 

 

 

Ingelger (d.ca 888) m.Adelais d'Amboise, niece of Adalhard, Bp of Tours and of Raino, Bp of Angers, and had issue:

 

1a) Foulques I "le Roux" 905 Vcte de Tours et d'Anjou, 908/19 Cte de Nantes, 929 Cte d'Anjou, d.941/2; m.before 5 Jul 905 Roscilla de "Loches",dau.of Warnerius sn de Loches

 

1b) Ingelger fl 919, k.a.ca 927

 

2b) Guy (Wido), Bp of Soissons 937/ca 970, d.ca 970

 

3b) Foulques II "le Bon" Cte d'Anjou, d.ca 958; m.1st 937 Gerberga (d.by 952), dau of Vervé Cte de Maine; m.2nd after 952 N, widow of Alain, Duc de Bretagne; all issue by 1st marriage

 

1c) Geoffroy I Grisegonelle, Cte d'Anjou, k.a.21 Jul 987; m.1st ca 965 Adèle de Donzy (ca 950-974), dau of Robert Cte de Méaux et de Troyes; m.2nd 979 Adelaide, dau.of Duke Giselbert of Burgundy

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1d) Foulques III Nerra Cte d'Anjou, d.1040; m.1st Elisabeth (see below), dau of Bouchard Cte de Vendôme; m.2nd Hildegard [de Metz?]

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1e) Adèle, Cts de Vendôme; m.Bodon, Cte de Nevers et de Vendôme

 

2e) Adelaide; may have m.Giraud le Bon Sire de Montreuil (d.1066)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

3e) Geoffroy II Martel, 1040 Cte d'Anjou (14 Oct 1006-9 Nov 1067); m.1st 1 Jan 1032 (div 1049/52) Agnès (ca 995-10 Nov 1068), dau of Othon Guillaume Cte de Bourgogne, and widow of Guillaume de Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine; m.2nd before 15 Aug 1052 (div) Grace, widow of Berlay de Montreuil; m.3rd before 22 May 1060 Adelheid "Le Teutonne" (d.after 1062)

 

4e) Ermengarde dit Blanche, heiress of Anjou (ca 1018-18 Mar 1076); m.1st ca 1035 Geoffroy Ferréol de Château-Landon Cte de Gâtinais (d.1043/6); m.2nd ca 1048 Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (d.1076); for her issue by 1st marriage see Part 1B, Second House, below

 

5e) Blanche, d.ca 1035

 

2d) Ermengarde; m.993 Conon I, Duc de Bretagne (k.a.27 Jun 992)

 

3d) Gerberge; m.Guillaume, Cte d'Angoulême (d.1028)

 

4d) Adèle, d.ca 1029; m.William IV, Ct of Provence (d.1037)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

5d) Maurice, d.1012

 

2c) Bouchard, Cte de Vendôme, d.26 Feb 1007; m.Elisabeth, widow of Hamon, Cte de Corbeil; note: ES III, 116 gives this parentage for Bouchard, but ES III, 723A has him as son of Bouchard, Cte de Vendôme

 

1d) Renaud, Cte de Vendôme, Bp of Paris, d.19 Jan 1020

 

2d) Bouchard, Cte de Vendôme, d.1012

 

3d) Elisabeth, heiress of Vendôme, "boiled to death" 1000; m.Foulques III, Cte d'Anjou (above)

 

3c) Guy, Bp of Le Puy, d.by 995

 

4c) Drogon, Bp of Le Puy, d.998

 

5c) Humbert fl 957

 

6c) Adelaide dit Alix dit Blanche, d.1026; m.1st Etienne, Cte de Gevaudan (d.979); m.2nd 982 (div 984) King Louis V of the West Franks (d.987); m.3rd 984/6 William II, Ct of Arles (d.by 998); m.4th before 1016 Othon Guillaume Cte de Mâcon et de Nevers, Ct of Burgundy (d.1026)

 

7c) Arsinde; m.ca 975 Guillaume III Taillefer, Ct of Toulouse (d.1037)

 

4b) Adèle; m.Gautier de Valois

 

 

 

 

 


 

Part 1B, Second House

 

 

Bouchard Cte [de Gatinais (d.by 1026)] had issue:

 

1a) Geoffroy Ferréol, 1026 Cte de Château-Landon, Cte de Gatinais, d.1043/6; m.ca 1035 Ermengarde d'Anjou (see Part 1A, First House)

 

1b) Geoffroy III “le Harbu”, 1067 Cte d'Anjou, resigned 1068; b.ca 1040, d.1096/7; m.before 1060 Julienne (d.after 7 Aug 1067), dau of Hamelin de Langeais

 

2b) Foulques IV “le Rechin”, 1068 Cte d'Anjou (1043-14 Apr 1109); m.1st Hildegarde (d.by 1070), dau of Lancelin de Baugency; m.2nd 1070 (div) Ermengarde, dau of Archambault de Bourbon; m.3rd 21 Jan 1076 (div 1080) Ermengarde de Châtel-Aillon; m.4th (div) a dau. of Gauthier de Brienne; m.5th 1089 (div ca 1092) Bertrade (d.14 Feb 1117), dau of Simon Cte de Montfort (and later wife of King Philippe I of France)

 

1c) [by 1st m.] Ermengarde (ca 1068-Jerusalem 1 Jun 1146); m.1st 1089 (div 1090) Duke Guillaume IX of Aquitaine (d.1126/7); m.2nd ca 1093 Alain IV Fergent, Duc de Bretagne (d.13 Oct 1119)

 

2c) [by 2nd m.] Geoffroy IV Martel (ca 1073-19 May 1106)

 

3c) [by 5th m.] Foulques V, 1109 Cte d'Anjou, 1131 King of Jerusalem (1092-Acre 13 Nov 1144); m.1st 1110 Eremburge, Cts de Maine (d.1126), dau of Hélie de la Fleche, Cte de Maine; m.2nd 2 Jun 1129 Melisende de Rethel, Queen of Jerusalem (d.11 Sep 1161), dau of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1d) Geoffroy V “Plantagenet”, 1129 Cte d'Anjou, 1144 Duke of Normandy (24 Nov 1113-Château du Loir 7 Sep 1151); m.Le Mans 22 May 1127 the Dowager Empress Matilda, some-time Queen of England (Winchester 7 Feb 1102-Rouen 10 Sep 1169), dau.of King Henry I of England, and widow of Emperor Heinrich V

 

1e) King Henry II of England (Le Mans 5 Mar 1133-Chinon 8 Jul 1189); m.Bordeaux 18 May 1152 Eleanor, Dss of Aquitaine (1122-Fontevrault 31 Mar 1204); for his issue see Part 2

 

2e) Geoffroy VI, 1156 Cte d'Anjou et de Nantes (Argentan 1 Jun 1134-Nantes 26 Jul 1158)

 

3e) Guillaume, Cte de Poitou (Angers 22 Jul 1135-Rouen 30 Nov 1164)

 

4e) Emma

 

5e) [illegitimate] Hamelin, Earl of Surrey, d.7 May 1202; m.1164 Isabel de Varennes [Warenne], Css of Surrey (d.ca 1203), dau of William de Varennes, Earl of Surrey, and widow of Guillaume de Blois

 

1f) William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, d.27 May 1240; m.1st Mathilde (d.6 Feb 1216), dau of Guillaume d’Aubigny, Earl of Arundel; m.2nd before 13 Oct 1225 Maud (d.1248), dau of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and widow of Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk; all issue by 2nd m.

 

1g) John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (ca Aug 1231-1304); m.Aug 1247 Alix (d.9 Feb 1256), dau of Hugues de Lusignan, Cte de la Marche

 

1h) William de Warenne, murdered at Croydon 15 Dec 1286; m.ca Jun 1285 Joan (d.ca 1293), dau of Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford

 

1i) John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (30 Jun 1286-29 Jun 1347); m.25 May 1306 Joanne (d.31 Aug 1361), dau of Ct Henry of Bar

 

2i) Alice, d.by 23 May 1338; m.1305 Edmund Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel

 

2h) Eleanor, d.after 1282; m.1286 Henry de Percy (d.1272)

 

3h) Isabel; m.before 7 Feb 1281 John Baliol, King of Scotland (d.Apr 1315)

 

2g) Isabel, d.by 23 Nov 1282; m.1234 Hugh d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel (d.7 May 1243)

 

2f) Ela, d.after 1220; m.1st Robert de Newburn; m.2nd William Fitzwilliam, of Sprotborough (d.1219/24)

 

3f) Isabel, d.by 30 Nov 1234; m.1st Robert de Lacy (d.1193); m.2nd ca 1196 Guilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey (d.1231)

 

4f) Mathilde, d.by 13 Dec 1228; m.1st Henri, Cte d'Eu (d.1190/1); m.2nd Henri d'Estouteville, Lord of Eckington, sn de Valmont et de Rames (d.before 1236)

 

2d) Hélie Cte de Maine, d.15 Jan 1151; m.Philippe, dau of Rotrou Cte du Perche

 

1e) Béatrix; m.Jean de Ponthieu, Cte d'Alençon (d.24 Feb 1191)

 

3d) Mahaut, as widow Abbess of Fontevrault, d.1154; m.Jun 1119 Duke William III of Normandy, son of Henry I of England (drowned 25 Nov 1120)

 

4d) Sibylle (1112-1165); m.1st 1123 (div 1124) William Clito of Normandy, Ct of Flanders (k.a.Aalst 27 Jul 1128); m.2nd 1134 Dietrich I of Lorraine, Ct of Flanders (d.17 Jan 1168)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

5d) Baldwin III, 1143 King of Jerusalem (1131-d.of poisoning at Beirut 10 Feb 1163); m.1158 Theodora Komnene

 

6d) Amalric I, King of Jerusalem (1136-11 Jul 1174); m.1st ca 1158 (annulled 1162) Agnès (d.after 1181), dau of Joscelin de Courtenay, Ct of Edessa; m.2nd 29 Jul 1167 Maria Komnene (b.1154, d.by 1217), dau of Ioannes Komnenos (and later wife of Balian d’Ibelin, lord of Nablus)

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1e) Baldwin IV, 1174 King of Jerusalem (1161-15 Apr 1185)

 

2e) Sibylle, 1186 Queen of Jerusalem, d.Jul 1190; m.1st Nov 1176 William VI of Montferrat, Ct of Jaffa & Askalon (d.1177); m.2nd Mar/Apr 1180 Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem & Cyprus (d.Apr 1194)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

3e) Isabella, 1192 Queen of Jerusalem (b.1172, d.by May 1206); m.1st 22 Nov 1183 (annulled 1190) Humfried de Thoron; m.2nd 24 Nov 1190 Conrad of Montferrat (murdered 28 Apr 1192); m.3rd 5 May 1192 Henri II, Cte de Champagne (d.10 Sep 1197); m.4th Oct 1198 Amaury de Lusignan, King of Cyprus & Jerusalem (d.1 Apr 1205)

 

3b) Hildegarde de Château-Landon; m.ca 1060 Josceline I de Courtenay

 

2a) Létaud fl 1026/ca 1050, was apparently father of:

 

1b) Létaud fl 1076/80

 

1c) Foulques Vcte de Château-Landon fl ca 1076/ca 1126; m.before 1098 Biote de Monthléry

 

1d) Guillaume Vcte de Fessard fl 1118/40; he was apparently father of:

 

1e) Geoffroy de Fessard fl 1152/5

 

1f) Hugues Vcte de Fessard fl 1182/9; m.Adeline [de Souppes] (d.shortly after 1204); he was apparently father of:

 

1g) Philippe Vcrte de Gatinais, d.by 1238; m.Elisabeth N

 

1h) Guillaume Vcte de Fessard, d.after 1277; m.Jeanne N

 

1i) Guillaume Vcte de Fessard fl 1271/7; m.before 15 Mar 1272 Perrenelle, sister of Philippe de Chaly; he was apparently father of:

 

1j) Jean Garriaus Vcte de Fessard fl 1313/24

 

2j) Guillaume Routier fl 1313

 

2i) Philippe fl 1272

 

2h) Guy fl 1252, d.by 1269

 

3h) Jean, took the Crosss 1249, d.by 1269

 

2f) Guy dit de Corquilleroy fl 1182/9; m.Ermengarde à issue

 

2e) Guillaume fl 1152/5

 

2d) Guy Vcte de Château-Landon fl 1118/26

 

3d) Orson fl 1118; m.Aveline de Tracy-Montfaucon-en-Brie

 

1e) Aveline, Dame de Nemours, d.1196; m.Gautier de Villebéon sn de Nemours, great chamberlain of France (d.1205)

 

4d) ?Philippe Vcte de Gatinais 1129; m.Elisabeth N

 

2c) Geoffroy fl 1076/80