Judith of Brittany

Family/Spouse: Duke Richard II of Normandy. Richard (son of Duke Richard I of Normandy and Duchess Gonnor of Normandy) was born about 980; died on 28 Aug 1026. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Herleve of Falaise. Herleve (daughter of Fulbert of Falaise) was born est 1000. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard de Hugelville. Richard was born est 1010. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Viscount Ranulph I of the Bessin. Ranulph was born est 1020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror

Family/Spouse: Queen Matilda of Flanders. Matilda (daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders and Adele of France) was born in 1032; died on 3 Nov 1083. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count Lambert of Boulogne. Lambert (son of Count Eustace I of Boulogne and Maud of Louvain) was born est 1030; died in 1054. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Geoffrey de Neufmarche. Geoffrey (son of Thurcytel de Neufmarche) was born est 1045. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret le Goz. Margaret (daughter of Viscount Richard d'Avranches and Emma) was born est 1040. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_of_Normandy

Family/Spouse: Count Stephen Henry of Blois. Stephen (son of Count Theobald III of Blois) was born in ca 1045; died on 19 May 1102 in Jerusalem, Isreal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Princess Matilda of Scotland. Matilda (daughter of King Malcolm III of the Scots and Saint Margaret of Scotland) was born about 1080. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Earl Waltheof II of Northumberland. Waltheof (son of Sigurd of Northumberland and Aelflaed of Bernicia) was born est 1050; died on 31 May 1076. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nesta of Richard's Castle. Nesta (daughter of Osborn Fitz Richard of Richard's Castle and Nesta of North Wales) was born est 1070. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Accession: 1125; Count of Troyes Count of Champagne Thibaut IV Count of Bloi

Notes:

French nobility, as Thibaut II Count of Champagne and as Thibaut IV Count of Blois. He was the second-eldest son of Étienne Henri de Blois and Adela of England. He inherited the titles Count of Troyes and Count of Champagne from his uncle Hugh in 1125. His relationship with his liege Louis VI was a quite ambivalent relationship. While he supported him in 1111 against a revolt, he turned against him two years later when the king denied him the county of Corbeil. He allied with his uncle Henry I of England, but signed a peace contract with Louis when Henry was excommunicated. From 1127 on, he again opposed the King of France. This constant changing of sides didn't change with the new king, Louis VII. After Thibaut had helped arrange his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1137 he came into conflict with the king about the introduction of a new Archbishop of Bourges. After the death of Henry I, he was proposed by the Norman barons to succeed him, as he was the eldest grandson of William the Conqueror. But his youngest brother Stephen was able to obtain the crown. In exchange, he received the regency over Normandy, which he lost again in 1144 when Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, invaded the county. He was unable to prevent it because he was occupied with Louis who had invaded the Champagne. But soon Louis feared the new strength of the Anjou family and now allied with Thibaut. He is known as a supporter of the Cistercians and for the foundation of the abbeys of Clairvaux, Trois-Fontaines and Pontigny. He also granted Pierre Abelard refuge after he had had to flee from Saint Denis University. Thibaut was married to Mathilde of Carinthia who bore him eleven children. His eldest sons married the daughters of King Louis and Eleanor while his youngest daughter married the king himself.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48107737/thibaut_ii-de_champagne

Thibaut married Mathilde of Carinthia-Sponheim in 1126. Mathilde (daughter of Duke Engelbert II Von Sponheim and Ute von Passau) was born in 1108 in Austria; died on 13 Dec 1161 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France; was buried in Abbaye de la Pommeraie, Sélestat, Département du Bas-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count Geoffrey Plantagenet, V. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: King David I of the Scots. David (son of King Malcolm III of the Scots and Saint Margaret of Scotland) was born about 1080; died on 24 May 1154. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord Ralph de Toeni, IV. Ralph (son of Lord Ralph de Toeni, III and Isabel de Montfort) was born est 1080; died about 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Earl Miles Fitz Walter. Miles was born est 1100; died on 24 Dec 1143. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord Richard Fitz Gilbert of Clare. Richard (son of Lord Gilbert Fitz Richard Fitz Gilbert and Adeliza de Clermont) was born est 1100; died on 15 Apr 1136. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Queen Consort. She was the youngest daughter of Thibaut IV de Blois and Mathilde of Carinthia. She married Louis VII on November 13th, 1160 in Paris, five weeks after his second wife Constance de Castille had died. They both liked each other and she had some influence on him. Louis married his daughters, Marie and Alix, from his first marriage to her brothers, Henri and Thibaut. In 1165 she gave birth to the longed for successor, Philippe. Two girls, Alix and Agnes, were born in 1170 and 1171. Following tradition Philippe was crowned king when he was fourteen. At this time Louis was very ill and Adèle hoped to act as a regent for him if Louis died suddenly. Philippe surprised everyone and claimed the power for himself and choose a wife without his parents consent. Her husband died in 1180 and Philippe became king. During his absence on the crusade she reigned the kingdom following strict rules set by him. After his return to France she quietly retired. Following her last wish she was buried in Pontigny instead of St. Denis

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32162741/ad%C3%A8le-de_blois-champagne

Adèle married King Louis VII Capet on 18 Oct 1160. Louis (son of King Louis VI of France and Adelaide of Savoy) was born in 1120 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Saint-Pont, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Saint Denis Basilique, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gervase de Courtenay. Gervase was born est 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Aliz de Porho. Aliz was born about 1145. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ada de Warenne. Ada (daughter of William de Warenne and Isabel de Vermandois) was born est 1115; died in 1178. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

of Flamstead

Family/Spouse: Ida of Hainaut. Ida (daughter of Count Baldwin III of Hainaut and Yolande de Wassenberg) was born est 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Herbert Fitz Herbert. Herbert (son of Archbishop Herbert Fitz Herbert of Winchester and Sybil Corbet) was born est 1130; died before Jun 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud de St.Hilary. Maud (daughter of Lord James de St.Hilary) was born est 1150. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Accession: 1180; King of France

Notes:

Philip II Augustus was the King of France from 1180 until his death. A member of the House of Capet, Philip Augustus was born at Gonesse in the Val-d'Oise, the son of Louis VII and his third wife, Adela of Champagne. He was originally nicknamed Dieudonné—the God-given—as he was the first son of Louis VII late in his father's life.
Philip was one of the most successful medieval French monarchs in expanding the royal demesne and the influence of the monarchy. He broke up the great Angevin Empire and defeated a coalition of his rivals (German, Flemish and English) at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214. He reorganized the government, bringing financial stability to the country and making possible a sharp increase in prosperity. His reign was popular with ordinary people because he checked the power of the nobles and passed some of it on to the growing middle class.
In declining health, Louis VII had him crowned and anointed at Rheims by the Archbishop William Whitehands on November 1, 1179. He was married on April 28, 1180 to Isabelle of Hainaut, who brought the County of Artois as her dowry. His father died on 20 September 1180.
Philip's eldest son, Louis, was born on 5 September 1187 and inherited Artois in 1190, when Isabelle, his mother, died.
Philip went on the Third Crusade (1189–1192) with Richard I of England (1189–99) and the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa (1155–90).
By the time Acre surrendered on July 12 1191, Philip was severely ill with dysentery which reduced his crusading zeal. Ties with Richard were further strained after the latter acted in a haughty manner after Acre had fallen.
Philip II Augustus died 14 July 1223 at Mantes and was interred in Saint Denis Basilica. Philip's son by Isabelle de Hainaut, Louis VIII, was his successor.


Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65601035/philippe_ii-augustus-of_france

Philippe married Queen Isabelle de Hainaut on 28 Apr 1180. Isabelle (daughter of Count Baldwin V de Hainaut and Countess Marguerite I of Flanders) was born on 23 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France; died on 15 Mar 1190; was buried in Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Agnes de Maranie in Jun 1196. Agnes was born about 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

of Salisbury

Family/Spouse: Ela FitzPatrick. Ela was born about 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron William de Mohun. William (son of Earl William de Mohun and Agnes de Gaunt) was born est 1140; died in 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Warkworth. Alice (daughter of Baron Robert Fitz Roger and Margaret de Chesney) was born est 1180; died about 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The de Clares were one of the great baronial families of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, holding wide estates in eastern and western England and beyond. For a while the senior branch, based at Tonbridge (Kent), was eclipsed in fame and fortune by a brilliant junior branch which established itself in South Wales and the Marches. Richard FitzGilbert de Clare of this branch, known to history as ‘Strongbow’, was the leader of the semi-official Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in Henry II’s reign and obtained a grant of the lordship of Leinster from the king in 1171. This cadet branch became extinct in the male line on the death of Strongbow’s son Gilbert in 1185 and the family’s estates were later taken over by the Marshal earls of Pembroke.
Richard de Clare, appointed to the Twenty Five, of the senior branch of the family, was the son of Roger de Clare (d. 1173), lord of Tonbridge, who was in turn the younger brother and successor of Gilbert II (d. 1152), to whom King Stephen had granted the title earl of Hertford in or around 1138. In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries the earls used the title ‘of Hertford’ interchangeably with that of earl of Clare.
For over four decades until his death in 1217 Earl Richard was the effective head of the house of Clare. He does not appear to have been especially active, however, playing little part in national affairs either in the last years of Henry II’s reign or in that of Richard the Lionheart. He only emerged as a figure of political importance towards the end of his life in the crisis of John’s reign, when he was appointed to the Twenty Five, most probably in recognition less of his personal qualities than of his family’s exalted standing in the realm.
Earl Richard’s greatest and most lasting achievement was to add to the already considerable wealth and landed endowment of his line. In 1189 at the beginning of Richard’s reign, in a major acquisition, he received a grant of half of the honor (or feudal lordship) of the Giffard earls of Buckingham, which had escheated to the crown over twenty years before, following the death of the last earl, Walter. The Lionheart effected an equal division between Earl Richard and his cousin Isabel, daughter of Strongbow and wife of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, both of whom claimed descent from Roesia, Walter’s aunt and wife of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, first founder of the family.
In 1195 Earl Richard made another substantial, though less perhaps important, addition to his family’s inheritance when he obtained the feudal honor of St Hilary on the death of his mother Maud, Earl Roger’s widow. The honor, for which Richard offered £360 to the Crown, included lands in Norfolk and Northamptonshire.
The most substantial of all the additions Earl Richard made to the family estate, however, came as a result of his marriage to Amicia, second daughter and eventual sole heiress of William, earl of Gloucester. The Gloucester inheritance was a vast one, comprising over 260 knights’ fees in England and extensive lands in Wales and the Marches. The story of its partition among the three daughters and co-heiresses is a long and complex one. Mabel, the eldest of the three, was married to Amaury de Montfort, count of Evreux in Normandy, while Isabel, the third and youngest, was married to the future King John. Mabel’s marriage was childless and on her husband’s death her lands passed to Isabel. John, however, on becoming king, divorced Isabel so that he could marry the Poitevin heiress Isabella of Angouleme, giving his now ex-wife in marriage to Geoffrey de Mandeville, another of the Twenty Five, and charging him 20,000 marks for the privilege. After Geoffrey died in 1216 her hand was taken by a third husband, Hubert de Burgh, but she herself died in 1217, and her estates passed to Amicia and her husband, Earl Richard. Earl Richard survived Isabel by only six weeks and did not live to secure formal possession of her estates and title. It was left to his son and heir Gilbert, another of the Twenty Five, to succeed to the vast Gloucester inheritance. Shortly after his father’s death Gilbert assumed the combined titles of earl of Gloucester and Hertford. Countess Amicia lived out her last years in retirement, probably at Clare, having been separated from her husband, for reasons unknown, since 1200.
Earl Gilbert was an active participant on the baronial side in the civil war that followed in the wake of King John’s rejection of Magna Carta. He fought with Louis and the French at the battle of Lincoln in May 1217 and was taken captive by none other than William Marshal, the Regent, whose daughter, Isabel, he was later to marry. In 1225 he was a witness to Henry III’s definitive reissue of Magna Carta. In 1230 he accompanied Henry on his expedition to Brittany, but died on the way back at Penros, in the duchy. The earl’s body was brought by way of Plymouth to Tewkesbury, where he was buried before the high altar of the great abbey. A monument, now lost, was erected to his memory by his widow.
By a strange irony, the de Clare family, in the manner of their predecessors in the Gloucester title, was to come to an end in 1314, after the death of the last earl, in the succession of three daughters and coheiresses and the partition of the family estates between them.

Notes:

The de Clares were one of the great baronial families of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, holding wide estates in eastern and western England and beyond. For a while the senior branch, based at Tonbridge (Kent), was eclipsed in fame and fortune by a brilliant junior branch which established itself in South Wales and the Marches. Richard FitzGilbert de Clare of this branch, known to history as ‘Strongbow’, was the leader of the semi-official Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in Henry II’s reign and obtained a grant of the lordship of Leinster from the king in 1171. This cadet branch became extinct in the male line on the death of Strongbow’s son Gilbert in 1185 and the family’s estates were later taken over by the Marshal earls of Pembroke.
Richard de Clare, appointed to the Twenty Five, of the senior branch of the family, was the son of Roger de Clare (d. 1173), lord of Tonbridge, who was in turn the younger brother and successor of Gilbert II (d. 1152), to whom King Stephen had granted the title earl of Hertford in or around 1138. In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries the earls used the title ‘of Hertford’ interchangeably with that of earl of Clare.
For over four decades until his death in 1217 Earl Richard was the effective head of the house of Clare. He does not appear to have been especially active, however, playing little part in national affairs either in the last years of Henry II’s reign or in that of Richard the Lionheart. He only emerged as a figure of political importance towards the end of his life in the crisis of John’s reign, when he was appointed to the Twenty Five, most probably in recognition less of his personal qualities than of his family’s exalted standing in the realm.
Earl Richard’s greatest and most lasting achievement was to add to the already considerable wealth and landed endowment of his line. In 1189 at the beginning of Richard’s reign, in a major acquisition, he received a grant of half of the honor (or feudal lordship) of the Giffard earls of Buckingham, which had escheated to the crown over twenty years before, following the death of the last earl, Walter. The Lionheart effected an equal division between Earl Richard and his cousin Isabel, daughter of Strongbow and wife of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, both of whom claimed descent from Roesia, Walter’s aunt and wife of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, first founder of the family.
In 1195 Earl Richard made another substantial, though less perhaps important, addition to his family’s inheritance when he obtained the feudal honor of St Hilary on the death of his mother Maud, Earl Roger’s widow. The honor, for which Richard offered £360 to the Crown, included lands in Norfolk and Northamptonshire.
The most substantial of all the additions Earl Richard made to the family estate, however, came as a result of his marriage to Amicia, second daughter and eventual sole heiress of William, earl of Gloucester. The Gloucester inheritance was a vast one, comprising over 260 knights’ fees in England and extensive lands in Wales and the Marches. The story of its partition among the three daughters and co-heiresses is a long and complex one. Mabel, the eldest of the three, was married to Amaury de Montfort, count of Evreux in Normandy, while Isabel, the third and youngest, was married to the future King John. Mabel’s marriage was childless and on her husband’s death her lands passed to Isabel. John, however, on becoming king, divorced Isabel so that he could marry the Poitevin heiress Isabella of Angouleme, giving his now ex-wife in marriage to Geoffrey de Mandeville, another of the Twenty Five, and charging him 20,000 marks for the privilege. After Geoffrey died in 1216 her hand was taken by a third husband, Hubert de Burgh, but she herself died in 1217, and her estates passed to Amicia and her husband, Earl Richard. Earl Richard survived Isabel by only six weeks and did not live to secure formal possession of her estates and title. It was left to his son and heir Gilbert, another of the Twenty Five, to succeed to the vast Gloucester inheritance. Shortly after his father’s death Gilbert assumed the combined titles of earl of Gloucester and Hertford. Countess Amicia lived out her last years in retirement, probably at Clare, having been separated from her husband, for reasons unknown, since 1200.
Earl Gilbert was an active participant on the baronial side in the civil war that followed in the wake of King John’s rejection of Magna Carta. He fought with Louis and the French at the battle of Lincoln in May 1217 and was taken captive by none other than William Marshal, the Regent, whose daughter, Isabel, he was later to marry. In 1225 he was a witness to Henry III’s definitive reissue of Magna Carta. In 1230 he accompanied Henry on his expedition to Brittany, but died on the way back at Penros, in the duchy. The earl’s body was brought by way of Plymouth to Tewkesbury, where he was buried before the high altar of the great abbey. A monument, now lost, was erected to his memory by his widow.
By a strange irony, the de Clare family, in the manner of their predecessors in the Gloucester title, was to come to an end in 1314, after the death of the last earl, in the succession of three daughters and coheiresses and the partition of the family estates between them.

Family/Spouse: Earl Geoffrey Fitz Piers. Geoffrey (son of Lord Piers de Lutegareshale) was born est 1160; died on 14 Oct 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Accession: 14 Jul 1223; King of France

Notes:

Louis VIII the Lion, was the son of Philip II Augustus, King of the Franks and Isabelle of Hainaut. Louis was the King of France from 1223 to 1226 and a member of the house of Capet, as he was a direct descendant of Hughes Capet circa 940–996.

His mother died in 1190, giving birth to twins sons, and Louis inherited her dowry and the title of Count of Artois, which he held until his father died, and the title reverted to the crown when Louis became King of France in 1223.

After lengthy negotiations between his father, Phillip, King of France and John Lackland, King of England, and as a condition of the Treaty of Le Goulet between these two, Louis was married on 23 May 1200, at the age of 12, to Richard's sister's daughter, Blanche of Castile, also 12 at the time and born in Spain. Her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitane, would cross the Pyrenees, bringing the girl from Spain to France. The marriage was finally consummated in 1205 and Blanche would bear the first of thirteen children.

When the English Barons rebelled against King John Lackland of England, they offered the throne to Louis, who was able to land at the Isle of Thanet with an army in May of 1216 and march to London with very little resistance. There, Louis was proclaimed king by his supporters, including King Alexander II of Scotland. Louis captured Winchester in June, but when King John died in October, the barons turned their favors to John's son, Henry III, even thought he was only nine years old. English forces led by William Marshall finally forced Louis to the Treaty of Lambeth in September of 1217, Louis promising not to attack England, agreeing that he really never was king, and Louis was given a compensation of 10,000 marks.

King Philip died on July 14, 1223, Louis was coronated August 6th at the cathedral at Reims. Louis would continue to battle his father's enemies, resulting in the capture of Avignon and Languedoc, yet he reversed his father's ruling of usury for Jews, creating havoc for both the church and the barons who were in disagreement as some were profiting from the lending. The conflicts would continue until Louis's death on November 8th, 1226 during his travels from the chateau at Montpensier, Puy-de-Dome Auvergne back to Paris. His son, Louis IX succeeded him on the throne.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66211839/louis_viii-capet

Family/Spouse: Blanche. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Henri I de Brabant on 22 Apr 1213 in Soissons, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France. Henri was born in 1165 in Brabant, Belgium; died on 5 Sep 1235 in K. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Countess Emaline of Ulster. Emaline was born about 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron Robert de Ros. Robert was born in ca 1182; died in 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

of Dunster

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir William de Ros. William (son of Baron Robert de Ros and Isabel of the Scots) was born est 1200; died about 1264. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]