Thouars (noble family)

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Thouars was a family of the west French nobility, who is attested as hereditary vice counts of Thouars as early as the 9th century . This ancestral property was inherited within the family until it died out in the early 15th century.

The coat of arms of the Vice Counts of Thouars

history

In 1203 the Duchy of Brittany was acquired through marriage , which was lost again with the next generation due to the lack of male descendants. The similar acquisition of the County of Dreux in 1355 could not be secured for the same reason

Master list extract

Until the middle of the 12th century

  1. NN, probably Geoffroy I., Vicomte de Thouars (vicecomes Toarcensis) 876
    1. Savary I., 903/926 Viscount de Thouars
    2. Adémar, 903/925 Abbot of Saint-Maixent and Redon
    3. Aimery I., 924 / around 935 Viscount de Thouars
      1. Savary II, 932-936 / 955 Viscount de Thouars
      2. Aimary II., † probably 956, 935-936 / 955 Viscount de Thouars
        1. Herbert (Arbert) I., † before January 987, Vicotme de Thouars, 951/75 attested
          1. Aimery III. , † before around 1000, Viscount de Thouars 974/99
          2. Savary III., Attested around 980/1004, around 1000 Viscount de Thouars
            1. Geoffroy II, attested in 1010 / around 1055, around 1014 Viscount de Thouars
              1. Aimery IV. , † murdered 1093, 1050 Viscount de Thouars, participant in the Battle of Hastings ,
                1. Raoul II, attested to around 1090/94, around 1094 Viscount de Thouars
                2. Arbert (Herbert) II., X May 28, 1102 near Jaffa
                  1. Aimery V., † 1139, 1144 Viscount de Thouars
                3. Geoffroy III., * 1044, 1088/1123 attested, 1088/1123 attested, 1104 Viscount de Thouars
                  1. Aimery VI., X 1127, 1123 Viscount de Thouars; ⚭ Mathilde (Agnès) de Poitou, attested 1106/57, daughter of William VII (IX) , Duke of Aquitaine , and Maugeron / Dangerose ( Ramnulfiden )
                    1. Guillaume, † before 1151, 1139 Viscount de Thouars
                    2. Geoffroy V., 1130/73 attested, 1151 Viscount de Thouars - descendants see below
                  2. Geoffroy, attested around 1106/1163, 1120 de Tiffauges
                4. Geoffroy IV. De Tiffauges (Tefalgia), attested 1099/1131, 1131 Viscount de Thouars
                5. Hildegarde (Aldéarde), † after December 7, 1099; ⚭ Hugo VI. of Lusignan , † 1106/10 ( House Lusignan )
                6. Aliénor, attested in 1088; ⚭ Boson II. Vice Count of Châtellerault around 1070 / around 1095
              2. Savary IV., Attested around 1029/93, before 1054 Viscount de Thouars
          3. Raoul I., † 1014/15, Vicomte de Thouars 993
            1. Auliarde, attested around 1030; ⚭ Hugo IV of Lusignan , probably 1028/29 ( House Lusignan )

From the middle of the 12th century

  1. Geoffroy V., 1130/73 attested, 1151 Viscount de Thouars - ancestors see above
    1. Aimery VII., † 1226, Vicomte de Thouars
      1. Guy I, † 1242, 1230 Seigneur de Tiffauges, 1234 Viscount de Thouars
        1. Aimery IX., † December 11, 1256, 1246 Vicomte de Thouars; ⚭ Marguerite de Lusignan, † 1288, daughter of Hugo X. von Lusignan , Count of La Marche and Angoulême ( House of Lusignan ), divorced from Raimund VII. , Count of Toulouse ( House of Toulouse )
          1. Guy II, † September 21, 1308, Viscount de Thouars; ⚭ Marguerite de Brienne, † 1310, daughter of Jean I (II.) Count of Eu ( House of Brienne )
            1. Jean, † May 25, 1332, 1317 Viscount de Thouars, ⚭ Blanche von Brabant, † 1327/31, daughter of Gottfried von Aerschot , Lord von Aerschot and Vierzon ( list of reginaries )
              1. Louis, † April 7, 1370, Viscount de Thouars; ⚭ I Jeanne II. Countess von Dreux , † 1355, daughter of Jean II. Count von Dreux ( House of France-Dreux ); ⚭ II Isabeau d'Avaugour, daughter of Henri IV. Baron de Goëllo et de Mayenne and Jeanne de Harcourt
                1. (I) Jean, † before 1355, Seigneur de La Chaize-le-Vicomte
                2. Simon, † July 12, 1365, 1355 Count of Dreux ; ⚭ July 12, 1355 Jeanne d'Artois, † 1420, daughter of Jean d'Artois , Count of Eu ( House of France-Artois )
                3. Pernelle, † October 31 (or 31) October 1397, 1365 Countess von 2/3 Dreux, 1370 Vicomtesse de Thouars; ⚭ I Aumaury IV., 1333 Sire de Craon, † 1373 ( House Craon ); ⚭ II Clément Rouault dit Tristan, Vicomte de Thouars, † 1396
                4. Isabeau, Countess of Dreux et de Benon , ⚭ I Guy II. De Nesle , Seigneur de Mello , Marshal of France , X 1352 ( House of Clermont ); ⚭ II Ingelger I le Grand, Sire d ' Amboise , † before 1373 ( House Amboise ); ⚭ II Guillaume d'Harcourt, Seigneur de La Ferté-Imbault , † 1400 ( Harcourt House )
                5. Marguerite, † after 1404, Countess von 1/3 Dreux; ⚭ I Thomas de Chemillé, Seigneur de Chemillé et de Mortagne (House of Thouars); ⚭ II Guy V Turpin, Seigneur de Crissé et de Vihiers
              2. Jean, Seigneur de La Chaize-le-Vicomte
            2. Hugues II., † 1333, Seigneur de Pouzanges et de Mauléon , 1333 Viscount de Thouars - descendants † 1462
        2. Renaud, † 1264/69, 1250 Seigneur de Vihiers , 1261 Vicomte de Thouars; ⚭ Aliénor de Soissons, daughter of Jean II , Count of Soissons and Chartres , Sire d ' Amboise ( House Nesle )
          1. Hugues, † January 9, 1318, Seigneur de Pouzauges et de Tiffauges
        3. Savary V., † 1269/74, 1269 Viscount de Thouars
      2. Aimery VIII., † 1246, Sire de La Roche-sur-Yon et de Machecoul, 1242 Viscount de Thouars; ⚭ Béatrix de Machecoul, Dame de Luçon et de La Roche-sur-Yon, daughter of Bernard, Sire de Machecoul
        1. Jeanne, † 1258, Dame de Luçon et de la Roche-sur-Yon; ⚭ I Hardouin, Sire de Maillé et de Rillé , Senschall von Poitou; ⚭ II Maurice de Belleville, † before 1279
      3. Guillaume, Seigneur de Lyon-d'Angers, de Chalain et de Chanzeaux, 1250 Seigneur de Condé
      4. Geoffroy, † before 1250, 1220 Thesaurarius of Saint-Hilaire-de-Poitiers
    2. Hugues I, † 1229/30, 1181 Viscount de Thouars, 1213 Sire de La Garnache (Ganape), 1220 Sire de Montaigu  ; ⚭ Marguerite, Dame de Montaigu, 1239 Dame de La Garnache, de Montaigu et de Machecoul , † November 27, 1241, daughter of Brient I. Sire de Montaigu, and Agathe, married Peter Mauclerc , Duke of Brittany ( House of France -Dreux )
    3. Guy de Thouars , † April 13, 1213, 1203 Duke of Brittany ; ⚭ I Constance , Duchess of Bretagne, † September 4, 1201, daughter of Conan IV , Duke of Bretagne ( House of Rennes ); ⚭ II around 1203 Eustachie d'Argenton dite de Chemillé, Dame de Chemillé et de Mortagne , † after 1244, daughter of Pierre and Sibylle de Mortagne
      1. (I) Alix , † October 21, 1221, 1213 Duchess of Brittany; ⚭ 1213 Peter Mauclerc , 1213 Duke of Brittany, † June 22, 1250 ( House of France-Dreux )
      2. (I) Catherine, * around October 1, 1201, † 1237/40; ⚭ 1212 André II., Sire de Vitré, † 1250 ( House Vitré )
      3. (II) Pierre I de Chemillé, † 1254/55, Sire de Chemillé, de Mortagne et de Brissac  ; ⚭ I NN; ⚭ I Éléonore de Porhoet, Dame de La Chèze , daughter of Eudon III, Count of Porhoet , widow of Alain V. de Rohan (both Rohan House ) - descendants † beginning of the 15th century
    4. Raymond, attested around 1150, † July 2nd before 1234, 1230 Viscount de Thouars,

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