House Mayenne

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The Mayenne family is a family of the western French nobility who existed from the 11th to the 13th centuries. She had from Count Fulko III. von Anjou, i.e. before 1040, received Mayenne Castle on the road from Le Mans to Fougères and thus performed border tasks towards Brittany. After her male line became extinct, Mayenne fell to Alain II. D'Avaugour from the First House of Avaugour , the son of the last family members.

Tribe list

  1. Haymon de Mayenne ( Haymonis de Medano ), probably attested in 997/1013, † after 1014, probably 1030
    1. Geoffroy (I.) de Mayenne ( Gaufridus ), attested 1046-47, received Mayenne from Fulko Nerra, ie before 1040, Seigneur de Mayenne
      1. Gauthier (I.) de Mayenne, * 1020/30, Seigneur de Mayenne; ∞ probably before 1046/47 Adeline
      2. ? Geoffroy (II.) De Mayenne, † 1098 after April, Baron de Mayenne, Seigneur de La Chartre-sur-le-Loir , took part in the Norman conquest of England in 1066 ; ∞ (1) before 1059 Mahaut / Mathilde d'Alluyes, † after 1079, daughter of Gauthier d'Alluyes, widow of Guillaume (I.) Goët, Seigneur de Montmirail , d ' Authon etc. ( Gouët house ; ∞ (2) Hildeberge de Cornouaille, daughter of Hoël, Comte de Cornouaille ( House of Cornouaille ), and Havise de Bretagne; Geoffroy I had an extramarital relationship in 1070/71 with Gersende du Maine, daughter of Heribert (I) ( Second House of Maine ), and is known as the Comte du Maine at this time .
        1. Hamelin de Mayenne, attested before 1059 and 1066/98
        2. Gauthier (II.) De Mayenne, attested before 1059, † after December 18, 1116 in Italy, 1114 Sire de Mayenne, took part in the First Crusade in 1096/98 ; ∞ Adeline (Alix) (de Beaugency or de Presles), 1108/14 and attested about 1125
          1. Hamelin de Mayenne, attested to around 1106 and after 1116 until before 1121, Seigneur de Mayenne, Seigneur de Gorron , d ' Ambrières et de Châteauneuf, whom he and Henry I of England against South Petherton ( Somerset ), as well as Black Torrington and Nimet ( Devon )
          2. Juhel (I.) de Mayenne, attested around 1106, † December 23, 1161, 1120 Sire de Mayenne, 1135 Seigneur de Gorron , d ' Ambrières et de Châteauneuf, attested in 1130 (with possession) in Middlesex, 1157 (with possession) in Somerset and Devonshire attested, buried in Évron , ∞ before 1120 Clémence de Ponthieu, attested 1120/50, † November 30, before 1189, daughter of Guillaume Talvas , Comte de Ponthieu et d' Alençon , Sire de Montgommery , Bellême etc. ( House Montgommery )
            1. Geoffroy (III.) De Mayenne, attested in 1128, † February 18 or July 25, 1169, 1161 Sire de Mayenne, 1158 or 1163 Crusader; ∞ (1) Constance de Bretagne, † 1148, daughter of Conan III. , Duke of Brittany ( House of Cornouaille ), and Matilda (of England); ∞ (2) around 1161, Isabelle de Meulan, † May 10, 1220, daughter of Galéran IV. De Beaumont , Comte de Meulan ( House of Beaumont ) and Agnes de Montfort, Dame de Gournay-sur-Marne ; she married in second marriage around 1170 Maurice (II.), Seigneur de Craon , † July 12, 1196 ( House Craon )
              1. (1) Mahaut / Mathilde de Mayenne, * before 1155, † June 9, 1210; ∞ (1) André, Seigneur de Vitré , son of Robert, Seigneur de Vitré, and Emma de Dinan ( House Vitré ); ∞ (2) Thibaut de Mathefelon , attested around 1150/1197, son of Hugues de Mathefelon and Elisabeth de Mathefelon
              2. (1) Clemence de Mayenne, † before 1209, Dame d'Angon; ∞ Robert (IV.), Seigneur de Sablé , de la Suze, et de Briollay, † as Knight Templar in Palestine, probably 1195, son of Robert (III.), Seigneur de Sablé, and Hersende
              3. (2) Juhel (II.) De Mayenne, 1172/83 underage, before 1188 of legal age, X against the Albigensians April 12 or 26 or May 2 or 4, 1220, Sire de Mayenne et de Dinan , 1190 crusaders, buried in the Fontaine-Daniel monastery ; ∞ (1) before 1189 Gervaise de Vitré, † after June 1248, Vicomtesse de Dinan, daughter of Alain de Dinan , Seigneur de Vitré ( House Vitré ) and Clémence de Fougères ( House Fougères ); Juhel de Mayenne and Gervaise de Vitré founded the Fontaine-Daniel monastery in 1205; she married Geoffroy (I.), Viscount de Rohan ( House of Rohan ) in second marriage , and in third marriage before January 1224 Richard Marshal , 1231 Earl of Pembroke ( House Marshal )
                1. Isabelle de Mayenne, † November 11, 1257, 1220 Dame de Mayenne; ∞ (1) before 1218 Dreux de Mello , * after 1172, † January 8, 1249 (new style) in Cyprus , Seigneur de Saint-Maurice-Thizouaille , 1205 Seigneur de Loches et de Châtillon-sur-Indre , son of Dreux ( I.) de Mello ( House Mello ) and Ermengarde; ∞ (2) before 1251 Louis I. Comte de Sancerre , † 1268 son of Guillaume (I.), Comte de Sancerre, ( House Blois ) and Marie the Charenton
                2. Jeanne de Mayenne, attested in 1233/37 † April 11 before 1264, 1233 Dame de La Chartre , 1246 Dame de Lassay et de Château-du-Loir ; ∞ Pierre Comte de Vendôme † March 25, 1249 in Egypt, son of Jean de Montoire, Comte de Vendôme ( House of Montoire ) and Aiglantine
                3. Marguerite de Mayenne, 1233/37 attested, † January 15 before 1264; ∞ before 1220 Henri (II.) D'Avaugour , * probably 1205, † October 6, 1281 in Dinan, 1213 Comte de Penthièvre , deposed, Seigneur de Pontorson , de Goëllo et de Laigle , 1268 Franciscans (OFM) , son of Alain de Bretagne, Comte de Penthièvre ( House of Rennes ) and Adélaide, buried in Dinan
            2. Gauthier de Mayenne, attested 1150/85, † before 1191; ∞ before 1166 Cecily FitzJohn, † 1207, of ½ Swanscombe (Kent), daughter of Payn FitzJohn of Ewyas , Sheriff of Hereford , widow of Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford († 1155), and Guillaume de Poitou
            3. Hamelin de Mayenne, 1150/89 attested
            4. Guillaume de Mayenne, 1158/90 attested, † probably before 1195
            5. Guy de Mayenne, 1158/62 attested
            6. Juhel de Mayenne, 1158/63 attested; ∞? after 1663, Matilda de Bohun, * probably 1140/43, † after February 9, 1196, daughter of Humphey de Bohun and Margaret of Hereford, widow of Henry d'Oilly, she marries (third marriage) Walter FitzRobert of Little Dunmow, Essex
            7. Aline, † September 15, probably 1180
          3. Mathilde de Mayenne, † February 8 after 1162 in Beaune , or Château de Méduan near Magny-lès-Villers , buried in Notre-Dame de Beaune ; ∞ probably 1116 Hugues II. Borel / Le Pacifique , Duke of Burgundy , son of Eudes I Borel , Duke of Burgundy, and Sibylle of (Free County) Burgundy
          4. Daughters , attested in 1114
          5. Félicie de Mayenne, attested in 1120
          6. ? Daughter ∞ (Dispens) NN Comte de Mortagne ( House of Châteaudun )
        3. Hersende, attested before 1059 / around 1070
      3. ? Hugues de Mayenne, brother of Geoffroy (II.), Attested in 1051 and 1060, † after 1098; ∞ Beatrix, † September 1 ...
        1. Geoffroy de Mayenne, † 19 February after 1105, Vicomte de Mayenne in 1075 ( iuvenis vicecomes de Meduana ), 1088 laicus , 1093 Elect of Angers, 1094 Thesaurarius the Cathedral of Angers , 1095-1101 Bishop of Angers , abandoned and became a monk in Cluny
      4. ? Grihardus

literature

Web link

  • Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Maine - Nobility, Seigneurs de Mayenne ( online )

Remarks

  1. in Schwennicke identical to Geoffroy (I.) de Mayenne, but this is unlikely for chronological reasons