Preuilly (noble family)

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Preuilly was one of the most important noble families in the Loire Valley between the 10th and 13th centuries, named after their ancestral seat, the place Preuilly in today's canton of Lury-sur-Arnon . You belonged to the Premiers Barons de Touraine . They held the vice-county of Angers ( Anjou ) and the vice-county of Tours .

Gottfried III. von Preuilly inherited his county of Vendôme through his marriage to the daughter of Fulko the Gosling (Foulques l'Oison) , which the family was able to hold for six generations. With the death of Count Johann III. in 1211 the county passed to the descendants of his sister Agnes, the House of Montoire .

Preuilly-sur-Claise itself was owned by a younger line of the Preuilly family that died out in 1425. Another line were the lords of La Guerche , who died out in 1211.

Tribe list

Among the first gentlemen from Preuilly are:

  • Atto I. (attested 885; † 905), Vice Count of Tours,
  • Atto II (attested in 933)
  • Fuculf (attested in 962)
  • Effroy († 1009), 1001 founder of the Benedictine Abbey of Preuilly

With Effroy the coherent genealogy of the family begins:

  1. Effroy († 1009) Lord of Preuilly and La Roche-Posay ; ∞ Beatrix of Issoudun
    1. Gauzbert I., Lord of Preuilly
    2. Gottfried I, Lord of Preuilly; ∞ Almode
      1. Gottfried II Martel († 1067), Lord of Preuilly; ∞ Almodis, daughter of Odo II , Count of Blois
        1. Gottfried III. Jordan († 1102), Lord of Preuilly, Count of Vendôme ; ∞ Euphrosine of Vendôme, daughter of Fulko the gosling , Count of Vendôme
          1. Gottfried III. Grisegonel († 1037), Count of Vendôme; ∞ Mathilde of Châteaudun ( House of Châteaudun )
            1. John I (* 1110; † 1180), Count of Vendôme; ∞ I Berthe from Le Puy du Fou; ∞ II Richilde of Lavardin
              1. Burchard IV (* 1139; † 1202), count of Vendôme; ∞ Agathe
                1. Gottfried , Lord of Lavardin
                  1. John II († 1211), Count of Vendôme
                2. Johann III. († 1217), Count of Vendôme
                3. Rudolf (Raoul) († 1191)
                4. Agnes ∞ Peter II, Lord of Montoire , ( House of Montoire )
        2. Eschivard I (* 1061; † 1115), Lord of Preuilly
          1. Peter I. Montrabel
            1. Peter II Montrabel, descendants extinct 1425
            2. Gosbert († before 1205), Lord of La Guerche and Le Bouchet
              1. Johanna († before 1211) ∞ Hugo V , Vice Count of Châteaudun
      2. Gauzbert II, Lord of Preuilly

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