Etienne I. de Penthièvre

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Etienne I de Penthièvre (in England: Stephen of Penthièvre , * around 1060, † 13. April 1135 / 1136 , 1138), was Count of Trégor and Guingamp , Lord of Goëlo , from 1093 Count of Penthièvre .

Life

Étienne was a younger son of Éon I. de Penthièvre and Agnès de Cornouaille and gradually came into possession of all manors that belonged to members of his family through inheritances.

In 1079, with the death of his father, he became Count of Trégor and Lord of Goëlo, and later Count of Guingamp. He married Havoise, presumably a daughter of Theobald III. , Count of Blois , and his wife Adèle de Vermandois. In 1093 his eldest brother Geoffroy I left him the county of Penthièvre , a few years later he inherited the Honor of Richmond in England, which his brothers Alain the Red († 1089) and Alain the Black († 1098) had previously owned.

From 1118 he had to fight off the rebellion of his son Geoffroy II. De Penthièvre , who already demanded a share of the inheritance during Etienne's lifetime, was then satisfied with Penthièvre, Lamballe and Moncontour and in 1120 accepted the title of count. After Étienne's death, all of the family's property was divided among his sons.

Etienne is the founder of Sainte-Croix de Guingamp Abbey (1134) and benefactor of Bégard Abbey , which, according to tradition, was founded in 1130 on land made available by Etienne. He earned the right to be buried in Bégard, as well as his wife Havoise, his son Alain de Bretagne, 1st Earl of Richmond and his grandson Duke Conan IV. Of Brittany After Jacques Cambry he left the Château de Rustéphan in Nizon ( today Pont-Aven ).

Marriage and offspring

The following children are known from his marriage to Havoise de Blois, known as Havoise de Guingamp:

The historian Augustin du Paz mentions another daughter:

  • Agnorie (1105-1167); ⚭ 1120 Olivier II. De Dinan.

literature

  • Frédéric Morvan: La Chevalerie de Bretagne et la formation de l'armée ducale 1260-1341. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2009, ISBN 9782753508279 , Généalogie No. 3: les Eudonides (cadette de la maison de Rennes branch) .
  • Stéphane Morin: Trégor, Goëlo, Penthièvre. Le pouvoir des Comtes de Bretagne du XIe au XIIIe siècle. Presses Universitaires de Rennes & Société d'émulation des Côtes-d'Armor, Rennes 2010, ISBN 9782753510128 .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Morin, p. 124, footnote 419
  2. ^ Judith Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: province and empire, 1158-1203 , Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p 189, ISBN 9780521660716
  3. ↑ According to regional historiography, Havoise brought Guingamp as a dowry into the marriage (Morin, p. 102): in fact, Theobald's sister Bertha was with Duke Alain III. married from Brittany (see House Blois and House Rennes )
  4. ↑ Alain the Red was at the time one of the richest and most powerful magnates in England with 440 estates in 11 counties.
  5. ↑ Les Abbayes Bretonnes, ouvrage collectif publié par la Biennale des Abbayes Bretonnes BAB & Fayard ( ISBN 9782213013138 ) pp. 342–343
  6. ↑ "Ce fut château bâti, dit-on, par un fils des rois de Bretagne, qu'on nomme Etienne, c'est une conjecture sans preuves. On sait qu'en 1250, il à appartenoit Blanche de Castille, épouse de Louis VIII, roi de France, et qu'en 1420, il étoit possédé par un seigneur de Guémenée "(Jacques Cambry, Voyage dans le Finistère, ou État de ce département en 1794 et 1795 , Volume 3, p. 120, Librairie du Cercle social, Paris, 1798)
  7. ^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Descendance d'Étienne de Penthièvre online
  8. ↑ Morin, p. 184: Augustin du Paz, Histoire généalogique de plusieurs maisons illustres de Bretagne ... , 1619
personal data
SURNAME Etienne I. de Penthièvre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stephen of Penthièvre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Earl of Penthièrve, Lord of Richmond
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 12th Century