Count of Champagne I Theobald

Notes:

Europaische Stammtafeln Band II Tafel 42.

I married Luitgarda de Vermandois before 945. Luitgarda (daughter of Herbert de Vermandois, Count of Vermandois Count of Meaux and Count of Soissons II and Adele Capet) was born about 922 in of Vermandois, Normandy, France; died on 9 Feb 978; was buried in Matemoutier Abbe, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Odo married Princess of Burgundy Bertha about 987 in Burgundy, France. Bertha (daughter of King of Burgundy I Conrad and Princess of Franks Mathilde) was born about 967 in of Burgundy, Burgundy, France; died after 16 Jan 1016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Count of Aquitaine William IV "Ironarm" about 968. William (son of Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Auvergne William III "Towhead" and Princess of Normandy Adele) was born about 945 in of Aquitaine, Gironde, France; died on 3 Feb 995 in Abbey Saint Cyprien of Poitiers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Odo married Ermengarde d'Auvergne about 1010. Ermengarde (daughter of Robert I d'Auvergne and of Arles Ermengarde) was born about 990; died on 10 Mar 1040. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some sources say he resigned the Dukedom for his son in 1021, but this is not indicated in Stammtafeln. Some sources also say died 1025, but Stammtafeln indicates 1030.

William married Comtesse de Bourgogne Agnes de Macon in 1018 in France. Agnes (daughter of Otto, King of Lombardy I and of Rheims Ermentrude de Roucy) was born in 995 in of Bourgogne, France; died on 10 Nov 1068. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Brisque de Gascogne about 1009 in Aquitaine, Gironde, France. Brisque was born about 989 in Gascogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married of Maine Garsende about 1042 in Blois, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Princess of Normandy Adela. Adela (daughter of Richard, Duke of Normandy II and Pope (Papie)) was born about 1015. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founded the Priory of St. Gemma in Xaintonge. Some sources say died 1021, but no Duke of Aquitaine died then according to Stammtafeln.

William married of Burgundy Hildegard about 1069. Hildegard (daughter of Robert I "The Old" Capet, Duke of Burgundy and Ermengarde Blanche d'Anjou) was born in 1050; died after 1104. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mathide de la Marche about 1058. Mathide (daughter of Hugh V "The Fair" de Lusignan and Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges Toulouse and Barcelona) was born in 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ermesin about 1050 in Namur, France. Ermesin was born about 1030 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich (Henry) III "The Black" on 21 Nov 1043 in France. Heinrich (son of Holy Roman Emperor Konrad (Conrad) II "The Salic" and Duchess of Swabia Gisele) was born on 28 Oct 1017 in Germany; died on 5 Oct 1056. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Count of Savoy Peter I de Savoie about 1058 in France. Peter (son of Count of Maurienne and Chablais Oddon and of Torino Adelaide) was born about 1048 in Savoie, France; died on 9 Jul 1078. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugo married Elizabeth de Macon about 1110. Elizabeth (daughter of Count of Burgundy and Macon Stephen de Macon and of Lorraine Beatrix) was born about 1094; died after 1125. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugo married Constance in 1104. Constance (daughter of King of France Philip I "The Fair" Capet and Countess of Holland Bertha) was born in 1071/1091; died in 1109/1179. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIOGRAPHY: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal1517
Count of Blois, Champagne, Chartres and Tourain, a crusader under Godfrey de Bouillon, who fell, gallantly fighting against the Infidels at Rames. (Battle of Ascalon actually). Count of Meaux.

Stephen married Adela (Adelle) about 1081 in Chartres Cathedral, France. Adela (daughter of William I "The Conqueror", King of England and of Flanders Matilda) was born in 1062 in Normandy, France; died on 8 Mar 1137 in Marcigny-sur-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Odo married of Normandy Adeliza about 1056 in of Normandy, France. Adeliza was born about 1026 in Falaise, Calvados, France; died before 1090. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Assisted Philip I of France against William the Conqueror. He erected the Palace of Poictou, and, after conferring large donations on the Church, died.

The dates and name are unclear. Some label him as William VII.

William married Philippa de Toulouse in 1094 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France. Philippa (daughter of William, Count of Toulouse Margrave of Provence and Duke of Narbonne IV and Emma de Mortain) was born on 22 Oct 1073 in Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comte, France; died on 28 Nov 1118 in Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ermengard d'Anjou in 1088. Ermengard (daughter of Fulk IV "The Rude" d'Anjou, Count of Anjou and Hildegard de Beaugency) was born on 18 Mar 1066 in Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France; died on 1 Jun 1147 in Acquitaine, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married King of Leon and Castile Alfonso VI Fernandez in 1069. Alfonso died on 29 Jun 1109 in Toledo, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clemence married Count of Luxembourg I Konrad about 1080 in France. I (son of Count of Luxembourg Giselbert) was born about 1019 in of Trier, Rheinland, Germany; died on 8 Aug 1086. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clemence married Count of Guelders Gerald (Gerhard) (Gueldres) de Wasseberg, I about 1087 in France. Gerald (son of Count of Teiste Dirk Flamens and de Montaigu) was born about 1063 in Gueldres, Wassenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died in 1134 in Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

IV married Bertha de Savoy about 1072 in Schwaben, Germany. Bertha (daughter of Count of Maurienne and Chablais Oddon and of Torino Adelaide) was born on 21 Sep 1051 in Maurienne, France; died on 27 Dec 1087. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thibaud IV
• Birth: Abt 1088, of Blois, Loir-et-cher, France
• Death: 8 Jan 1152

Theobald married Princess of Carinthia Mathilde von Sponheim in 1123 in Blois, Loir-et-cher, France. Mathilde (daughter of Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Istre II Engelbert and Utha von Passau) was born in 1097 in Karnten, Austria; died on 13 Dec 1160 in Fontrevault, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Earl of Chester Richard d'Avranches. Richard (son of Earl of Chester Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches and Countess Of Chester Ermentrude de Clermont) was born about 1094; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in wreck of the White Ship near Barfleur, Manche, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Vermandois Raoul I de Vermandois. Raoul (son of Hugh "The Great" Capet, Duke of France and Burgundy and Adelaide de Vermandois) was born in 1085; died on 14 Oct 1152. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIOGRAPHY: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal01397

Reigned 1135-1154. He seized the throne from Matilda who invaded England in 1139. The civil war that followed proved him a brave soldier but revealed his lack of political sense. In 1152, after much of the country had been ravaged in factional fighting and the royal administration had broken down, Stephen recognized Matilda's son Henry as heir to the throne. Duke of Normandy 1135-1144, deposed. Duke of Blois, Count of Mortain, Count of Boulogne.

Stephen married Countess of Boulogne Matilda de Talvas in 1125 in Westminster, London, England. Matilda (daughter of Count of Boulogne and Lens Eustace III de Talvas and Princess of Scotland Mary mac Maíl Coluim) was born about 1105 in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 3 May 1152 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England; was buried in Faversham Abbey, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes de Sully. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Conqueror and His Companions
by J.R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874........

Son of Etienne II, Comte de Champagne and Brie, by Adele, supposed to have been a daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, but by which of his wives or mistresses has not been ascertained. Now if such were the fact, Odo was the nephew of Duke Robert, the father of the Conqueror, and consequently first cousin of the latter and of his sister Adelaide or Adeliza, as far as blood was concerned. A marriage with her, therefore, would have been within the prohibited degrees so rigidly construed by the Church of Rome. William of Jumiegrave;ges, who styles him Count of Champagne, says he was nearly allied to King William by consanguinity, being grandson of Maud, daughter to Richard I, Duke of Normandy, wife of Odo, Earl of Blois and Chartres. This assertion is still more unfortunate, for Maud died childless, and Etienne, the father of our Odo, was the son of the Count of Blois' second wife Ermengarde, daughter of Robert I, Count of Auvergne, whom he married in 1020. I therefore deny the maternal descent of Odo from any near relation of William, Duke of Normandy, of whom he has been set down as a kinsman on the above authority only.

Dugdale, who appears to have been perfectly bewildered respecting him, has printed in his Monasticon two accounts, one from the Book of Meaux, an abbey in Holderness, and the other from the Register of Fountains Abbey, which is nearly verbatim, but in one or two instances more explicit.

The story as told in them is as follows: Odo having killed a magnate of his own country, took refuge in the dominions of his kinsman, William, Duke of Normandy, who gave him, through the intercession of the Archbishop of Rouen, his sister for wife, and subsequently bestowed upon him the island (according to the Book of Meaux), the county (according to the Register of Fountains), of Holderness. To the same Archbishop, not named, he is said to have been indebted for the grant of the county "comitatum" (the Register of Fountains reads "civitatem") of Albemarle on condition that he should attend the primate in any expedition with ten knights, and bear his standard before him.

The author of L'Art de Vérifier les Dates, and Père Anselm follow this s s s s s s s s s account, b bubut spepecicify the Archbishop as Jean de Bayeux, who entertained a great friendship for Odo, and, with the consent of the Chapter, bestowed upon him the lands of Aumale on the above-named condition.

Now let us see what light the crucial test of dates flings upon these statements. Etienne, the father of Odo, could not have been born earlier than 1021, and would have been about sixteen or seventeen when he succeeded his father in 1037 as Comte de Champagne and Brie. Allowing that he married before he was of full age, say 1040, Odo must have been a mere child at his death in 1047/8, when he was immediately dispossessed of his inheritance by his uncle, Thibaut III, legally, it would appear, according to the law at that period, which, if the heir to the lordship was not of sufficient age to receive investiture by the ceremony of girding with the sword, authorized the nearest in blood of full age to claim the succession. Sharp practice, it may be said, but still the law, and one, it may be worth remarking, which would justify the rebellions against William in the first years of his rule had he even been legitimate.

At what time Odo took refuge in the Court of William, Duke of Normandy, is not stated, but he must have been a most precocious young swashbuckler if he killed "a magnate of his own country" before he entered his teens, and the loss of his estates would have been quite sufficient to have caused him at a later period to seek his fortune elsewhere, without having killed anyone fairly or foully.

At the time of the invasion of England Odo would have been about five-and-twenty, and what more likely than, having nothing to lose and everything to gain, he should eagerly have volunteered his services to William? But if we are to believe that Odo was indebted to Jean de Bayeux for the hand of his wife and the lands of Aumale, how could he be the "Sire d'Aubemare" who fought at Senlac in 1066, when the said Jean de Bayeux was not elevated to the primacy till after the death of Archbishop Maurilius in 1067?

The labours of Mr. Stapleton before alluded to, and those of the authors of Recherches sur le Domesday, enable us to solve the riddle in the most satisfactory manner. The old Norman Chroniclers state clearly enough that Odo de Champagne was the husband of the Conqueror's sister, though differing as to the fact of her being of the whole or the half blood, but not one of them had the kindness to inform us, if they knew, that the lady had been twice previously married, and had left issue by each husband.

The facts of the case, which have been elicited from the records of the Church of St. Martin d'Auchi (de Alceio), commonly called of Aumale, from its vicinity to the town of that name, are as follows: In or about the year 1000 a castle was built on the river Eu, now known as the Bresle, at the point where it divides the provinces of Normandy and Picardy, by a certain Guerinfroi (Guerinfrides), who also, in 1027, founded in its neighbourhood the Abbey of St. Martin d'Auchi. This Guerinfroi, who was Sire d'Aumale (not Count, as he has been incorrectly called), had an only daughter named Berta, who became the wife of Hugh II, Comte de Ponthieu, and mother by him of Enguerrand, or Ingleram, Sire d'Aumale in right of his mother, who married Adelaide, sister of the Conqueror, and was killed in an ambush at St. Aubin, near Arques, in 1053, leaving an only daughter, named Adelaide after her mother, and having settled on his wife the lands of Aumale in dower. The widow of Enguerrand, being still young, married secondly, and in the first year of her widowhood, Lambert, Count of Lens, in Artois, and brother of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and had by him a daughter, named Judith, whose hand was given by her uncle, William the Conqueror, to Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland. Count Lambert could scarcely have seen the birth of his child, for he was killed at Lille the following year, in a battle between Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and the Emperor Henry III. A widow for the second time, and still in the prime of life, she married, thirdly, Odo of Champagne, by whom she was the mother of Stephen, who, on the death of his elder sister Adelaide, became the first Comte d'Aumale, or Earl of Albemarle, the Seigneurie having been made a Comte by King William, but upon what occasion and at what time we have no evidence.

The name of Adeliza with the title of "Comitissa de Albemarle" occurs in Domesday, but not that of Odo, which first appears in connection with English transactions in 1088 (1st of William Rufus), when Count Odo and his son Stephen gave the manor and church of Hornsea, in the wapentake of Holderness, to the Abbey of St. Mary of York.

This latter fact also leads to the correction of Orderic Vital's assertion, that King William granted the earldom of Holderness to Odo of Champagne at the same time that he distributed cities and counties with great honours and domains among other lords who had assisted him in the Conquest, viz, in 1070. In the first place, Holderness was not an earldom; and in the second, as late as the completion of Domesday, A.D. 1086, the whole district so named was still part of the honour of Drogo de Brevere, a Fleming who had fought for William at Senlac, and received the greater part of the territory of Holderness amongst other portions of the spoil.

The gift of the lands (Dugdale says, of the city) of Aumale to Odo by the Archbishop of Rouen has also to be explained, for as Jean de Bayeux, if it were he, as stated by the author of L'Art de Vérifier les Dates,,,, wassss not advanced to the primacy before 1067, such donatiooon coouuld not have been made previous to the invasion of England, at which period, and as late as 1086, the city and Castle of Aumale, with such lands as had not been given to the church of Auchi, were in possession of Adeliza, as Lady or Countess of Aumale, the wife, or if she were deceased, the stepdaughter of that very Odo.

It depends therefore entirely upon the date of Odo's marriage, whether it was he who, in 1066, was the "Sire d'Aubemare" (in right of his wife) alluded to by the rhyming chronicler as a combatant in the great battle. The evidence brought to light by the industry of Mr. Stapleton, and published by him in the 23rd vol. of the Archaeologia, supplemented by his letter to the late Sir Charles G. Young, Garter-King-of-Arms, and communicated by the latter to the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. vi. p. 265, and also set forth by Mr. Stapleton in his notes on the Norman rolls of the Exchequer, has been epitomized by the authors of Recherches sur le Domesday, published in 1842, and it is singular, therefore, that the information of the triple marriage of the Countess of Ponthieu should have escaped the vigilance of Mr. Freeman, who has been led by Mr. Stapleton into the serious error which his later discoveries allowed him to correct, of making Odo the husband of the younger Adelaide, who at the time the record was written had succeeded, as daughter and sole heir of Count Enguerrand, to the "Suzeraineté""" offfff Aumale.....

Whether the expatriated Count of Champagne fleshed his maiden sword at Senlac or not, he appears to have made no mark either for good or for evil in the annals of this country till, misled by ambition, he was induced to join in the conspiracy the collapse of which has given him an unenviable reputation in them.

History is quite silent about him until after the death of the Conqueror, when we are told that Odo found himself embarrassed by his position as a feudatory of William Rufus in England and of Robert Court-heuse in Normandy. He owed allegiance to each; but how could he serve two masters who were at war with one another? He decided in favour of Rufus, and received an English garrison in his Castle of Aumale, which, in conjunction with his son Stephen, he enlarged and strengthened, at the expense of the royal treasury, on the invasion of Normandy by the Red King in 1090.

Five years afterwards, however, he joined in a conspiracy with Robert de Mowbray, William d'Eu, and other disaffected nobles, to depose Rufus and place his own son Stephen d'Aumale upon the throne.

The conspiracy failing in consequence of timely warning having been given to the King, Odo and his son were both arrested, the former thrown into a prison, from which he never emerged alive, and the latter condemned to have his eyes put out; but the piteous prayers of his wife and family, to say nothing of the payment of a considerable sum of money, obtained a remission of his sentence and restoration to liberty. How long Odo lingered in his dungeon is unknown. The exact date of his death is as uncertain as nearly every other part of his history, but it is presumed to have taken place in 1108.

Dugdale says, "the lordships whereof he was possessed, as appears by the Conqueror's Survey, were only these," and he then enumerates certain manors, which, in "the Conqueror's Survey," are distinctly set down as held by Adeliza, Countess of Albemarle, Odo's name, as I have previously stated, not occurring in a single instance throughout the work; but Holderness, he adds, "was not given him till after that Survey." There he is right, as we shall find in the following notice of Drogo de Brevere.

Family/Spouse: of Winchester Herbert. Herbert died about 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hawise de Mortimer. Hawise (daughter of Ralph de Mortimer and Millicent de Ferrers) was born about 1073. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burke says he died in 1156. Some call him William VIII.

William married Eleanor Chatellerault de Rochefoucald in 1112/1134. Eleanor was born in 1103; died after 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 8 Mar 1159; Abbey of Fontevraud, Aquitaine, France

Notes:

Died:
Abbey of Fontevraud, Aquitaine, France

Agnes married King of Aragon Ramiro "The Monk", II in 1134 in Spain. Ramiro (son of King of Aragon and Navarre Sancho Ramirez Aragon and Felicia de Roucy) was born on 24 Apr 1075 in Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; died on 16 Aug 1157 in San Pedro Monastery, Jaca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; was buried in Huesca, Provincia de Huesca, Aragon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Teresa married Count of Portugal Henry de Bourgogne before 24 Aug 1092. Henry (son of Duke of Burgundy Henry Capet and Countess of Barcelona Sibylle) was born about 1066 in Dijon, France; died on 1 Nov 1112 in Astorga, Galicia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermisende married Count of Namur I Godfrey about 1110 in Belgium. I (son of Count of Namur III Albert and Ida Billung) was born in 1073 in Namur, Namur, Belgium; died on 19 Aug 1139 in Florette, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermisende married Albrecht I (Sultzbach) Dagsburg about 1097 in of Luxembourg. Albrecht was born about 1054 in of Eguisheim, Haut-Rhin, France; died on 24 Aug 1098. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Yolande married Baldwin, Count of Hainaut III in 1107. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut II and Alix (Ida) de Louvain) was born in 1088 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; died on 17 Jun 1120 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; was buried in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Yolande married Godefroi de Ribemont after 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Margrave of Austria III Leopold about 1106 in Germany, Klosterneuburg, Niederoesterreic, Austria. III was born in 1073 in of Klosterneuburg, Niederosterreich, Austria; died on 15 Nov 1136; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Duke of Swabia Frederick I von Büren about 1089 in Hohenstauffen, Germany. Frederick (son of Frederick von Büren and Hildegarde von Swabia) was born about 1050 in Hohenstauffen, Germany; died on 21 Apr 1105. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

V married Princess of England Matilda Normandy on 7 Jan 1113 in Mainz, Germany. Matilda (daughter of King of England Henry I "Beauclerc" and Princess of Scotland Matilda (Edith) mac Maíl Coluim) was born on 5 Aug 1102 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 10 Sep 1167; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adele married King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet on 18 Oct 1160. Louis (son of King of France Louis VI "The Fat" Capet and Countess of Savoy Adélaïde de Maurienne) was born in 1120 in Fontainebleau, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Notre Dame de Barbeau, Fontainebleau, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Theobald married Alix Capet in 1164. Alix (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born in 1151; died in 1197/98. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of France Marie Capet. Marie (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born in 1145; died on 11 Mar 1198. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Duke of Burgundy II Eudes about 1145 in Burgundy, France. II (son of Duke of Burgundy Hugh II "the Peaceful" and Maud de Turenne) was born in 1118 in Burgundy, France; died on 27 Sep 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Count of Boulogne Matthew d'Alsace in 1160. Matthew (son of Duke of Alsace, Count of Flanders III Thierry and Sibylla d'Anjou) was born about 1137 in Flanders, Belgium; died on 25 Jul 1173 in Battle of Driencourt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilda married Count of Meulan Earl of Worcester Waleran de Beaumont in 1136. Waleran (son of 1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, Count Meulan I and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born in 1104 in Beaumont, Normandy, France; died on 4 Oct 1166. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne about 1149. Isabel (daughter of 3rd Earl of Surrey William III de Warenne and Adela d'Alencon) was born in 1137 in Surrey, England; died on 13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry d'Eu. Henry (son of Count of Eu, Lord of Hastings William II d'Eu and Beatrice de Builly) was born about 1090 in Leicestershire, England; died on 12 Jul 1140 in Foucaemont, France; was buried in Foucaemont Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sibyl Corbet. Sibyl (daughter of Burgess of Caen Robert Corbet) was born about 1077 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died after 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adam II de Brus. Adam (son of Jueta Ivetta d'Arches) was born in 1125 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died in 1196 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Priory, Guisborough, Yorkshire North Riding, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet on 22 Jul 1137 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France, and was divorced in 1152. Louis (son of King of France Louis VI "The Fat" Capet and Countess of Savoy Adélaïde de Maurienne) was born in 1120 in Fontainebleau, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Notre Dame de Barbeau, Fontainebleau, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet on 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France. Henry (son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou V and Princess of England Matilda Normandy) was born on 25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Normandy, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Castle Chinon, Saumer, Indre Et Loire, France; was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1134, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
• Birth: 29 Jun 1135, Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
• Death: 17 Oct 1174, Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain
• Death: 17 Oct 1174, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Petronilla married Ramon Berenguer, Count of Barcelona IV on 11 Aug 1137 in Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. Ramon (son of Ramon Berenguer, Count of Barcelona III and Countess of Provence Douce, heiress of Provence) was born on 4 Apr 1113 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; died on 6 Aug 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy; was buried in Ripoll, Provincia de Girona, Cataluna, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Alix married Baldwin IV "Le Bâtisseur" Count of Hainaut about 1140 in Namur, Belgium. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut III and Yolande von Guelders) was born in 1108 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; died on 8 Nov 1171 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in St. Waldthud Abbey, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married Alix de Namur about 1140 in Namur, Belgium. Alix (daughter of Count of Namur I Godfrey and Countess of Luxembourg Ermisende Luxembourg) was born in 1117 in Namur, Namur, Belgium; died on 31 Jul 1195 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; was buried in Mons, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jutta married Marquess of Montferrat Guillaume V de Montferrat about 1133. Guillaume was born about 1115; died in 1191. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married of Bavaria Judith about 1120 in Germany. Judith (daughter of Duke of Bavaria I Heinrich and Wulfhilda von Saxony) was born about 1100 in Bavaria; died on 22 Feb 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Isabella d'Hainaut on 28 Apr 1180 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Isabella (daughter of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born on 5 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Mar 1190 in Paris, Paris, Ile-De-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thibault married Queen of Navarre Blanche on 1 Jul 1199. Blanche (daughter of King of Navarre Sancho VI "The Wise") was born in 1180 in Navarre, Spain; died in 1229. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Marie married Baldwin, Count of Hainaut VI on 6 Jun 1186. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born on 11 Jul 1171 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 11 Jun 1205 in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Family/Spouse: Isabella d'Anjou. Isabella (daughter of Amalric (Amaury) d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem I and Maria Comnena) was born in 1172; died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Duchess of Bourgogne Beatrix de Viennois about 1183 in Savoy, France. Beatrix was born in 1161 in France; died on 15 Dec 1228 in Chateau de Vizil, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married of Lorraine Alix about 1165 in Lorraine, France. Alix (daughter of Duke of Lorraine I Matthias and Bertha von Hohenstaufen) was born about 1144 in Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilda married Duke of Brabant I Henry in 1179. I (son of Count of Leuven and Brussels, Landgraves of Brabant III Godfrey and of Limburg Margaret) was born in 1165 in Leuven, Brabant, Flanders, Belgium; died on 5 Sep 1235 in Colonge, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Auxonne and Traves Stephen (Etienne) de Macon, II. Stephen (son of Count of Macon and Auxonne William (Guillaume) de Macon, III and Poncette de Treves) was born about 1122 in France; died after 21 Jul 1173. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice d'Aubigny in 1141/1168. Alice was born about 1145 in Castle Arundell, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Grammaire. Joan (daughter of Richard le Grammaire) was born about 1155 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Count of Blois Theobald V "The Good" de Blois in 1164. Theobald (son of Count of Blois and Champagne Theobald IV de Blois and Princess of Carinthia Mathilde von Sponheim) was born in 1127 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France; died in 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Champagne and Brie Henry I "The Liberal" de Blois. Henry (son of Count of Blois and Champagne Theobald IV de Blois and Princess of Carinthia Mathilde von Sponheim) was born in 1126 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France; died on 17 Mar 1181 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Crowned in 1170.

Stammtafeln says married 21 Aug 1172.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Capet. Margaret (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Constance Burgundy) was born in Nov 1157; died about Sep 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed at a tournament by his horse.

Geoffrey married Duchess of Brittany Constance in Jul 1181. Constance (daughter of Conan of Penthièvre, Duke of Brittany IV and Margaret de Huntingdon) was born about 1161; died on 5 Sep 1201 in Nantes, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married King of Castile VIII Alfonso on 21 Sep 1177 in Burgos Cathedral, Castile, Spain. VIII (son of King of Castile III Sancho and of Navarre Blanche) was born on 11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain; died on 5 Oct 1214 in Avevalo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilda married Duke of Saxony And Bavaria V Henry on 1 Feb 1167 in Minden Cathedral, Saxony, Germany. V was born in 1129 in Ravensburg, Donau, Wuerttemberg, Germany; died on 6 Aug 1195 in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reigned 1199-1216. Signed Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede.

His reign saw renewal of war with Phillip II Augustus of France to whom he has lost several continental possessions including Normandy by 1205. He came into conflict with his Barons and was forced to Sign the Magna Carta. His later repudiation of the charter led to the first barons war 1215-17 during which John died. Burke says he was born in 1160.

King of Ireland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester.

Matthew Paris wrote, 'Foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the presence of King John', and this pretty well sums up John's reputation--until 1944, that is. For in that year Professor Galbraith demonstrated in a lecture to an astonished world that the chief chronicle source for the reign of John was utterly unreliable. Since then bad King John has been getting better and better, until now he is nearly well again, and a leading scholar in the field has seriously warned us that the twentieth century could well create it own John myth.

A man who can create so many myths, or rather have them created about him, is clearly outstanding in some way, but the myths hide the truth. Plainly the chroniclers who invented stories about him after his death can tell us little, and we should not take too much notice of people who condemned John for carrying out his father's (and his brother's officials') policies and administrative routines, nor indeed those who condemned him because of the bitter troubles that happened in the succeeding reign, troubles which were in no means entirely of John's making. Recent historians have turned to the administrative records of his reign, and found there a very different picture; but still the lingering doubts remain--were these records the result of John's skill and application or of those of his able staff?

John was a paunchy little man, five feet five inches tall, with erect head, staring eyes, flaring nostrils and thick lips set in a cruel pout, as his splendid monument at Worcester shows. He had the tempestuous nature of all his family, and a driving demoniac energy: Professor Barlow says that 'he prowled around his kingdom, ' which is an evocative phrase, but it would be truer to say that he raced around it. He was fastidious about his person--taking more baths than several other medieval kings put together, and owning the ultimate in luxury, for that time, a dressing-gown. He loved good food and drink, and gambled a great deal, though he usually lost--the results of his typical impatience and carelessness are recorded on his expense rolls; above all things he loved women. Some say his 'elopement' was the cause of his loss of Normandy. He was generous to the poor (for instance, he remitted to them the penalties of the forest law), and to his servants; at the least he went through the motions of being a Christian king. He was extortionate, though if one considers the terrific increase in his outgoings (a mercenary soldier cost him 200 per cent more in wages than he would have in Henry II's day) one can understand some of his actions in the field. He was deeply concerned about justice, took care to attend to court business, and listened to supplicants with sympathy; he had also an urgent desire for peace in the land, saying that his peace was to be observed 'even if we have granted it to a dog.' But for all that, he had two totally unredeeming vices; he was suspicious, and enjoyed a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere--simply he did not inspire trust in his subjects. Dr. Warren says of him with some justice that if he had lived in the twentieth century he would have adored to run a secret police.

He was born at Oxford on Christmas Eve 1167. He was oblated for a monk at the abbey of Fontevrault at the age of one year, but was back at court by the time he was six--plainly he had no vocation, but he probably picked up at this early stage his fastidiousness and his passion for books: his library followed him wherever he went. He was his father's favorite, but he turned against the old man when his chance came, as he did against Richard (who had been very generous to his brother) when the latter was in captivity in 1193. The episode was a miserable failure, but it possibly sowed the seeds of distrust for John in England, where they began to sprout luxuriantly in 1199 when Richard died and John came to the throne.

Immediately the challenge came: Philip Augustus, the wily King of France, was backing John's nephew, Prince Arthur of Brittany (son of John's elder brother Geoffrey) as a contender for the throne, and England's French possessions fell prey to civil war. John found grave difficultly in dealing with the situation for a number of reasons, but in 1202 he made the remarkable coup of capturing Arthur by force-marching his troops eighty miles in forty-eight hours; but then his prosecution of the war became listless, and he lost much sympathy by his brutal murder of Arthur whilst in a drunken rage. By 1204 Normandy was lost.

The loss of Normandy seemed to wake John up, and he now deployed his every energy in building up the coastal defenses of Britain, now faced with an enemy the other side of the Channel, instead of just more of her own territory. The navy was built up, and the army, and John poured a quarter of his annual revenue into defense. But he could not persuade the baronage to support him in a counterstroke to regain Normandy: the barons of the north country had never owned land in Normandy and did not see why they should pay to regain southerner's castles for them. These 'Northerners' as they called themselves, were a hive of discontent, and more was to be heard from them. Meanwhile, John sailed angrily about in the Channel, cursing ineffectually.

Other troubles were to come first, however. In 1205 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Hubert Walker, died, and John assumed that he would have the choice of the new archbishop. However, Pope Innocent III was no man to support secular control over church appointments, and supported the right of the monks of Canterbury to select their own archbishop. For two years the storms blew between England and Rome, then Stephen Langton was appointed. Meanwhile John had driven the monks into exile and appropriated the revenues of the archdiocese. He had fallen out also with his half-brother, Geoffrey Archbishop or York, over tax-collection, and he too fled abroad while John collected his revenues. Four bishops joined in his fight--tension was growing to the snapping point. In 1208 the Pope put an Interdict on England, which in effect meant the clergy went on strike, or, in certain cases and areas, worked to rule. John began negotiations with Innocent, but, finding that he demanded unconditional surrender, stopped them and took over all ecclesiastical properties and incomes. He did leave the clergy sufficient to live, though barely; but he still gained a large increment to his usual finances. In November 1209 the Pope took the final step of excommunicating the King, which, in that it made him an outlaw in Christendom, did far more damage than the Interdict.

John used his enlarged treasury to restore order in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and to rebuild the old alliance with Otto IV of Germany and the Count of Flanders against Philip Augustus. He planned a two-pronged attack on France, to take place in 1212. But that year turned out an unlucky one for John, for the barons again refused to serve abroad, and the army he had was needed to put down a revolt in Wales; the Pope was threatening to demote him, and Philip Augustus was planning a massive invasion of England. John had to give in in one direction, for the pressure was much too great: he chose the Pope, and wisely so. He agreed to return to the status quo in the matter of church property and establishment, and to pay compensation; he further resigned his kingdom into the hands of the Pope, to receive it back in return for his homage and an annual tribute of 1,000 marks (a mark being two-thirds of a pound].

He had won a notable ally in Innocent III, who supported him faithfully throughout his troubles. Then his fleet, his own creation, had the good luck to find the French fleet at anchor and unprotected, destroyed it, and so made a French invasion impossible. On the crest of a wave, John determined to put his two-pronged invasion plan into action, but once more the northern barons refused to play, and he set off to punish them. Stephen Langton had arrived on the scene by now and managed to persuade John not to provoke the barons further.

In 1214 he finally managed to put his long cherished plan into action, but the two attacks were not properly coordinated; Otto was defeated at Bovines, and John was deserted by his Protein knights.

In 1215 John faced a baronage in turmoil: they could point to the failure of his expensive schemes, he ascribed his failure to their total lack of support. The situation could not be more tense. John's nervousness can be seen in his taking of the cross, a blatant attempt to reinforce his alliance with the papacy. In April the Northerners met at Stamford; they were by now a mixture of northerners and southerners--the name was now merely a nickname--but by and large they were the younger element in the kingdom, roughnecks out for a spree. They moved south and were let into London by a faction, and received the expected encouragement from Philip Augustus in the form of siege engines brought over by one Eustace, a renegade monk turned pirate.

John offered arbitration, but the barons turned it down, and while he put his faith in an appeal to Rome, Stephen Langton, in cooperation with William Marshal and other more stable and sensible barons, were working on the Northerners' demands to incorporate them into a general charter, which would not only govern feudal relationships, but would also lay down a more general pattern of legality in government. On 15 June John fixed his seal to the draft of Magna Carat, and on 19 June attested copies were sent to all parts of the kingdom.

The King did his part thoroughly, though for how long he would have continued is another matter, but the barons continued to distrust him. They remained in arms, organizing tournaments as their excuse, saying that the prize would be 'a bear a certain lady would send.' This was civil war, and John took to it with a fiendish glee. He reduced the north and the east, and was about to mop up the remainder of the opposition in London when Philip Augustus' son Louis landed in force to help the barons (May 1216). John had been riding hard for months, and was sick with dysentery after a bout of over-eating; whilst crossing the Wash, the whole of his baggage-train was lost. At Newark Castle on 18 October, he died, desiring to be buried near his patron saint Wolfsan in Worcester Cathedral.

He was by no means a good man, and his energies could well have been put to a better use, but in a different situation he might well have made a great king. His constant failure was discipline, over himself first, and others second. John reminds me of nothing so much as the type of person who is brilliant in many ways, and has many gifts, but leaves after two terms 'not suited to teaching in this type of school.' [Who's Who in the Middle Ages, John Fines, Barnes and Noble Books, New York, 1995]

John married Countess of Angoulême Isabella Taillefer on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Isabella (daughter of Count of Angoulême Aymer Taillefer and Alix Courtenay) was born in 1188 in Angoumé, Landes, Aquitaine, France; died on 31 May 1246 in Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, France; was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Countess of Gloucester Isabel FitzRobert on 19 Aug 1189 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England. Isabel (daughter of 2nd Earl of Gloucester William FitzRobert and Hawise de Beaumont) was born about 1165 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Gather de Ferrers in 1188. Gather (daughter of 3rd Earl of Derby William de Ferrers and Sybil de Braose) was born in 1168 in Chartley, Staffordshire, England; died on 4 Sep 1201 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adela de Warenne. Adela (daughter of 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne and Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne) was born about 1164 in Surrey, England; died about 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Suzanne de Warenne about 1186. Suzanne (daughter of 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne and Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne) was born about 1166 in Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burke says born 1155 died 1156.

Notes:

Reigned 1189-1199. Prisoner in Germany 1192-1194.

A hero of Medieval legends spent all but 6 months of his reign abroad. He became Duke of Aquitaine in 1168 and of Poitiers in 1172. He joined the 3rd crusade in 1189 and conquered Messina and Cyprus before arriving in the Holy Land. His victory at Arsuf gained Joppa (1191). On his way home he was captured in Austria and was only released by Emperor Henry VI after payment of an enormous ransom (1194). He returned briefly to England but died in France.

Richard married of Navarre Berengaria on 12 May 1191 in Chapel of St George, Limasol, Cyprus. Berengaria (daughter of King of Navarre Sancho VI "The Wise") was born in 1163 in Pamplona, Spain; died after 1230 in l'Epau Abbey, Le Mans, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Countess of the Vexin Alys Capet. Alys (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Constance Burgundy) was born on 4 Oct 1160; died about 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died in childbirth, having been veiled a nun on her deathbed.

Birth:
Angers Castle, Anjou, France

Joan married King of Toulouse VI Raymond in 1179/1196. VI was born in 1149/1168; died in 1222. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married King of Sicily William in 1179/1188. William was born in 1148/1168; died in 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 4 Apr 1152, Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
• Death: 26 Apr 1196, Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Alfonso married Queen of Aragon Sancha on 18 Jan 1174 in Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. Sancha (daughter of Emperor of All the Spains Alfonso VII Burgundy and of Poland Richeza Piast) was born on 21 Sep 1154 in Castile, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain; died on 9 Nov 1208 in Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Mafalda Affonsez Portugal on 30 Jan 1160 in Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Mafalda was born in 1149 in Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; died in 1173. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1159, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Urraca married King of Leon Ferdinand Burgundy, II in 1165. Ferdinand (son of Emperor of All the Spains Alfonso VII Burgundy and Berenguela Raimundo) was born in 1137 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died on 22 Jan 1188 in Benavente, Zamora, Castilla-Leon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre in 1169. Marguerite (daughter of Duke of Alsace, Count of Flanders III Thierry and Sibylla d'Anjou) was born in 1135 in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 15 Nov 1194 in France, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France; was buried in Bruges, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Seigneur de Mar Raoul I de Courcy about 1163 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. Raoul (son of Enguerrand II de Courcy and Agnes de Beaugency) was born about 1139 in Boves, Somme, France; died on 1 Nov 1191 in Siege of Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guilhem married Queen of Jerusalem Sibylla d'Anjou in 1176. Sibylla (daughter of Amalric (Amaury) d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem I and Agnes Courtenay) was born about 1160; died in 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Azalaïs married 2nd Margrave of Saluzzo Manfredo II di Saluzzo before Jun 1182. Manfredo was born in 1140; died on 22 Jun 1215. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married Countess of Burgundy I Beatrice on 9 Jun 1156 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. I (daughter of Count of Burgundy and Macon III Rainald and of Lorraine Agathe) was born in 1143; died on 15 Nov 1184. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Duke of Lorraine I Matthias about 1110 in France. I (son of Duke of Lorraine I Simon and Adelaide de Leuven) was born in 1119 in Lorraine, France; died on 13 May 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married of Castile Blanche on 23 May 1200 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Blanche (daughter of King of Castile VIII Alfonso and Princess of England Eleanor Plantagenet) was born on 4 Mar 1187/88 in Palencia, Castile, Spain; died on 30 Nov 1253 in Palais du Louver, Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Between 1191 and 1280, Flanders and the neighboring region of Hainaut were ruled as a united countship. In 1280, following the death of Margaret of Flanders, the union was dissolved. Margaret's son, Guy de Dampierre, succeeded to the countship of Flanders, and her grandson, John II of Avesnes, became count of Hainaut. In the early 14th century, Flanders was invaded and subjugated by King Philip IV of France. Although the countship was acknowledged nominally, France became the real ruler of Flanders. In 1369 Bourgogne acquired Flanders through the marriage of Philip the Bold, duke of Bourgogne, to Margaret of Flanders, daughter of Louis II, count of Flanders. The history of Flanders as an independent state ceased that year. In 1477 Flanders passed to the house of Habsburg.

Margaret married Bouchard d'Avesnes, Lord of Avesnes and Étrœungt IV before 23 Jul 1212, and was divorced in 1221. Bouchard (son of Jacques d'Avesnes, Seigneur de Avensnes and Adela de Guise) was born in 1182 in Avesnes, Pas-De-Calais, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France; died on 7 Sep 1244 in Rupelmonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; was buried in Arlon, Arlon, Luxembourg, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Alice de Vergy about 1199 in France. Alice was born about 1178 in France; died on 3 Mar 1251. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Princess of Portugal Tereza Affonsez in Feb 1194 in Coimbra, Portugal. Tereza was born in 1157 in of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; died on 12 May 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

II married Marie von Hohenstaufen on 9 Feb 1206/07. Marie (daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Philip II von Hohenstaufen and Princess of Byzantine Empire Irene Angelina) was born on 3 Apr 1201 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy; died in 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, Flanders, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Beatrx de Chalons. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Maud de Warenne in 1146/1182. Maud (daughter of 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne and Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne) was born in 1163 in Surrey, England; died about 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Helewise de Lancaster in 1213 in England. Helewise (daughter of Gilbert FitzRoger and Helewise de Lancaster) was born about 1198 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thibault married Queen of Navarre Blanche on 1 Jul 1199. Blanche (daughter of King of Navarre Sancho VI "The Wise") was born in 1180 in Navarre, Spain; died in 1229. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Marie married Baldwin, Count of Hainaut VI on 6 Jun 1186. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born on 11 Jul 1171 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 11 Jun 1205 in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Family/Spouse: Isabella d'Anjou. Isabella (daughter of Amalric (Amaury) d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem I and Maria Comnena) was born in 1172; died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married King of France Louis VIII "The Lion" Capet on 23 May 1200 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Louis (son of King of France Philip II Augustus Capet and Isabella d'Hainaut) was born on 5 Sep 1187 in Paris, Seine, France; died on 7 Nov 1226 in Montpensier, Auvergne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berengaria married King of Leon IX Alphonso in 1197 in Valladolid, Castilla-Leon, Spain. IX (son of King of Leon Ferdinand Burgundy, II and of Portugal Urraca) was born on 15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, Leon, Spain; died on 24 Sep 1230 in Villanueva de Sarria, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Leonor married King of Aragon Jaime I "The Conqueror" on 6 Feb 1220/21 in Ágreda, Soria, Castilla-Leon, Spain. Jaime (son of King of Aragon Pedro II "The Catholic" Berenguer and of Montpellier Maria) was born in 1208; died in 1276. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Others suggest her mother was Clemantina, the wife of Henry Pinel.

Joan married on 16 Apr 1205 in Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales on 16 Apr 1205 in Chester, Cheshire, England. Llywelyn (son of Iorwerth Drwyndwn ap Owain and Margaret verch Madog) was born in 1173 in Dolyddelan, Wales; died on 11 Apr 1240 in Caernarvonshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reigned 1216-1272. A minor when he took the throne he did not take the reigns of Government himself until 1234. Baronial discontent simmered, boiling over in 1258 when Henry facing financial disaster attempted to raise large sums from his magnates. Reforms were agreed upon but then renounced by Henry. Simon de Montford lead a rebellion against the King (the Barons Wars) which was defeated after initial success, thereafter Henry ceded much of his power to his son. Burke say he was born 10 Oct 1206 and married 14 Jan, crowned 1216.

Buried:
Fontevraud-l'Abbaye

Died:
Age: 65

Henry married Eleanor Berenguer on 14 Jan 1236 in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. Eleanor (daughter of Count of Provence Ramon IV Berenguer and Beatrice de Savoy) was born in 1223 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; died on 24 Jun 1291. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Richard was very wealthy and used it to be elected Holy Roman Emperor. His reign was not of any substance-pretty much symbolic. Late in life he gave up hope of ever actually ruling.

Richard married Isabel Marshal on 30 Mar 1231 in St Mary's Church, Fawley, Buckinghamshire, England. Isabel (daughter of 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare) was born on 9 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 17 Jan 1240 in Birkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Beaulieu, New Forest District, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Sanchia Berenguer on 23 Nov 1243 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. Sanchia (daughter of Count of Provence Ramon IV Berenguer and Beatrice de Savoy) was born about 1228; died on 9 Nov 1261. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married Emperor of Germany II Frederick on 20 Jul 1235 in Worms Cathedral, Germany. II was born on 26 Dec 1194; died on 13 Dec 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Despite taking a vow of perpetual chastity on widowhood she married Simon de Montford!

Eleanor married 2nd Earl of Pembroke William Marshal on 23 Apr 1224 in New Temple Church, London, England. William (son of 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare) was born about 1190 in Normandy, France; died on 6 Apr 1231 in London, Middlesex, England; was buried on 15 Apr 1231 in Temple Church, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 6th Earl of Leicester Simon V de Montfort on 7 Jan 1238 in Kings Chapel, Palace of Westminster, England. Simon (son of Count of Toulouse, Earl of Leicester, Viscount of Carcassonne, Duke of Narbonne Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester IV and Alice de Montmorency) was born on 23 May 1208 in Montfort-l'Amaury, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; died on 4 Aug 1265 in Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pedro married of Montpellier Maria in 1204. Maria (daughter of of Montpellier VIII Guillem) was born in 1175/1192; died in 1211/1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Garsenda II de Sabran in Jul 1193 in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Garsenda was born in 1180 in Sabran, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died in 1242 in Sabran, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

IX married Queen of Castile Berengaria in 1197 in Valladolid, Castilla-Leon, Spain. Berengaria (daughter of King of Castile VIII Alfonso and Princess of England Eleanor Plantagenet) was born in Aug 1181 in Segovia, Castile, Spain; died on 8 Nov 1244 in Los Huelgas, Near Burgos, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married King of France Philip II Augustus Capet on 28 Apr 1180 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Philip (son of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Adele de Blois) was born on 21 Aug 1165 in Gonesse, France; died on 14 Jul 1223 in Mantes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Yolande married Emperor of Constantinople Peter (Pierre) Courtenay, II on 1 Jul 1193 in Soissons, Aisne, Ille-de-France, France. Peter (son of Emperor of Constantinople Pierre II Capet and Elizabeth) was born in 1155 in Courtenay, Galinois, France; died in Jun 1219 in Epirus, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Adrianople

Baldwin married Marie de Champagne on 6 Jun 1186. Marie (daughter of Count of Champagne and Brie Henry I "The Liberal" de Blois and of France Marie Capet) was born about 1174 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died on 9 Aug 1204 in Acre, Northern District, Israel; was buried in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Yolande married Count of Dreux II Robert in 1184 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, France. II (son of Count of Dreux Robert Capet and Agnes de Baudement) was born about 1154 in France; was christened in 1218; died on 28 Dec 1218; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guglielmo di Ceva. Guglielmo was born about 1180; died in 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maria di Torres. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Princess of Byzantine Empire Irene Angelina on 25 May 1197. Irene (daughter of Emperor of Byzantine Empire Isaac II Angelos and Irena Comnenus) was born in 1184 in Constantinople, Turkey; died on 27 Aug 1208. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Duke of Burgundy III Hugh about 1165 in Lorraine, France. III (son of Duke of Burgundy II Eudes and Marie de Champagne) was born about 1148 in of Burgundy, France; died on 25 Aug 1192 in Tyrus, Jerusalem. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Matilde de Brabant on 14 Jun 1237. Matilde (daughter of Duke of Brabant II Henry and Marie von Hohenstaufen) was born in 1224 in Brabant, France; died on 29 Sep 1288 in Artois, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Marguerite Berenguer in 1234 in Sens, Yvonne, France. Marguerite (daughter of Count of Provence Ramon IV Berenguer and Beatrice de Savoy) was born about 1221 in St Maime, Alpes, France; died on 21 Dec 1295 in Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Beatrice Berenguer. Beatrice (daughter of Count of Provence Ramon IV Berenguer and Beatrice de Savoy) was born in 1234 in Provence, France; died on 12 Jul 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married of Artois Blanche Capet in 1269. Blanche (daughter of Count of Artois Robert I Capet and Matilde de Brabant) was born in 1248 in Arras, Hautes-Pyrenees, Midi-Pyrenees, France; died on 2 May 1302 in Hotel Crequy, Paris, Ile-De-France, France; was buried in Minoresses Convent, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Aleida Van Holland on 9 Oct 1246. Aleida (daughter of Floris Van Holland Count of Holland, IV and Mathilde de Brabant) was born in 1230 in 's-Hertogenbosch, S-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands; died on 9 Apr 1283 in Valenciennes, Pas-De-Calais, France; was buried in Flines-lez-Rachedu, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

IV married Yolande de Dreux in 1229 in Burgundy, France. Yolande (daughter of Robert III de Dreux and Leonore de St. Valery) was born about 1212 in France; died on 30 Oct 1248 in Citeaux, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married of Bourgogne Alix about 1250 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. Alix (daughter of Duke of Burgundy IV Hugh and Yolande de Dreux) was born about 1235 in Bourgogne, France; died on 23 Oct 1273. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilde married Count of Artois Robert I Capet on 14 Jun 1237. Robert (son of King of France Louis VIII "The Lion" Capet and of Castile Blanche) was born in Sep 1216; died on 9 Feb 1249/50. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Seneshal of Champagne Simon de Joinville. Simon was born about 1200 in Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Count of Eu Raoul de Lusignan about 1191. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Walter de Faiucomberge in 1243 in England. Walter (son of Peter de Faiucomberge and Margaret de Montfichet) was born about 1212 in Rise, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Nov 1304 in Rise, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Between 1191 and 1280, Flanders and the neighboring region of Hainaut were ruled as a united countship. In 1280, following the death of Margaret of Flanders, the union was dissolved. Margaret's son, Guy de Dampierre, succeeded to the countship of Flanders, and her grandson, John II of Avesnes, became count of Hainaut. In the early 14th century, Flanders was invaded and subjugated by King Philip IV of France. Although the countship was acknowledged nominally, France became the real ruler of Flanders. In 1369 Bourgogne acquired Flanders through the marriage of Philip the Bold, duke of Bourgogne, to Margaret of Flanders, daughter of Louis II, count of Flanders. The history of Flanders as an independent state ceased that year. In 1477 Flanders passed to the house of Habsburg.

Margaret married Bouchard d'Avesnes, Lord of Avesnes and Étrœungt IV before 23 Jul 1212, and was divorced in 1221. Bouchard (son of Jacques d'Avesnes, Seigneur de Avensnes and Adela de Guise) was born in 1182 in Avesnes, Pas-De-Calais, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France; died on 7 Sep 1244 in Rupelmonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; was buried in Arlon, Arlon, Luxembourg, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Countess of Ponthieu Johanna in 1237 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Johanna (daughter of Count of Dammartin II Simon and Countess of Ponthieu Marie) was born in 1197/1223; died on 15 Mar 1278/79. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Beatrice (Elizabeth) von Hohenstaufen on 30 Nov 1219. Beatrice (daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Philip II von Hohenstaufen and Princess of Byzantine Empire Irene Angelina) was born in 1198; died in 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married III Walter de Clifford in 1232 in Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England. Walter (son of Sheriff of Hereford Walter II de Clifford and Lady of Cavenby Agnes de Condet) was born about 1187 in Clifford's Castle, Hertfordshire, England; died in 1263 in Clifford's Castle, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Lord of Bramber and Gower John de Braose in 1219 in Wales. John (son of Lord Bramber William IV The Younger de Braose and Maud de Clere) was born about 1197 in of Bramber, Sussex, Eng and Gower, Wales; died on 18 Jul 1232 in Bramber, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu on 18 Oct 1254. Eleanor (daughter of King of Castile and Leon III Ferdinand and Countess of Ponthieu Johanna) was born in 1241 in Burgos, Castile, Spain; died on 24 Nov 1290 in Harby, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Alice de Lusignan about 1261. Alice (daughter of Count of La Marche Hugh de Lusignan, X and Countess of Angoulême Isabella Taillefer) was born in 1224 in Lusignan, Vienne, France; died on 9 Feb 1256 in Warren, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Princess of France Marguerite Capet on 10 Sep 1299. Marguerite (daughter of King of France Philip III "The Bold" Capet and of Brabant Maria (Mary)) was born in 1279 in Paris, Seine, France; died on 14 Feb 1316/17 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married King of Scots III Alexander on 26 Dec 1251 in York, Yorkshire, England. III was born in 1218/1255; died in 1244/1333. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married of Artois Blanche Capet before 3 Feb 1275/76 in Paris, Seine, France. Blanche (daughter of Count of Artois Robert I Capet and Matilde de Brabant) was born in 1248 in Arras, Hautes-Pyrenees, Midi-Pyrenees, France; died on 2 May 1302 in Hotel Crequy, Paris, Ile-De-France, France; was buried in Minoresses Convent, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1239

Family/Spouse: Margherita Aldobranderschi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]