Eremburga of Maine
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Eremburga of Maine | |
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| Born | c. 1096 |
| Died | 15 January or 12 October 1126 |
| Noble family | de La Flèche-de Baugency |
| Spouse(s) | Fulk V of Anjou |
| Issue | Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, Sibylla of Anjou, Matilda of Anjou, Elias II, Count of Maine |
| Father | Elias I, Count of Maine |
| Mother | Mathilda of Château-du-Loire |
Ermengarde or Erembourg of Maine, also known as Erembourg de la Flèche (died 1126), was the ruling Countess of Maine and the Lady of Château-du-Loir from 1110 to 1126. She was grandmother of King Henry II of England.[1]
Family
[edit]Erembourg was the daughter of Elias I, Count of Maine, and Mathilda of Château-du-Loire, daughter of Gervais II, Lord of Château-du-Loir.
Marriage and issue
[edit]In 1109 she married the Angevin heir, Fulk V, called "Fulk the Younger". The marriage brought Maine under Angevin control, since she inherited the County from her father the following year and Fulk claimed it jure uxoris.[2] Her son inherited both Maine from her and Anjou from his father, uniting the two counties.
She gave birth to:[3]
- Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151), married in 1128 to Empress Matilda of England, daughter of Henry I of England.[1] Their son became King Henry II of England.
- Elias II, Count of Maine (d. 1151), married Philippa, daughter of Count Rotrou III of Perche.[4]
- Matilda of Anjou (d. 1154),[5] married in 1119 to William Adelin, the son and heir to Henry I of England.[6] After his death in the White Ship disaster of 1120 when she was 10 years old, she remained in England. She later became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault in France.[7]
- Sibylla of Anjou (d. 1165), married in 1121 to William Clito, and then (after an annulment in 1124) to Thierry, Count of Flanders in 1134. She had issue by her second marriage.
She died in 1126, on either 15 January or 12 October.
After her death, Fulk the Younger left his lands to their son Geoffrey. He set out for the Holy Land as a crusader, where he married Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, the heiress of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and his wife Morphia of Melitene, and became King of Jerusalem.[8] During Fulk's reign, the Kingdom of Jerusalem reached its largest territorial extent.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Chibnall, Marjorie (1993). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English. Wiley. pp. 51–52. ISBN 978-0-631-19028-8.
- ^ Hollister, C. Warren (2008). Henry I. Yale University Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-300-14372-0.
- ^ LoPrete, Kimberly A. (2007). Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137). Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1-85182-563-9. Chart 1.
- ^ Dutton, Kathryn Ann (2011). Geoffrey, Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, 1129-51 (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. p. 27.
- ^ Hanley, Catherine (2022). Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100-1300. Yale University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-300-25358-0.
- ^ Hollister, C. Warren (1984), Brown, R. Allen (ed.), "War and Diplomacy in the Anglo-Norman World the Reign of Henry I", Anglo-Norman Studies VI (1 ed.), Boydell and Brewer Limited, pp. 72–88, doi:10.1017/9781846151880.006, ISBN 978-1-84615-188-0, retrieved 2024-10-13
- ^ Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester, Vol IV (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856), p. 59, n. 3
- ^ Murray, Alan V. (2023). The Franks in Outremer: Studies in the Latin Principalities of Palestine and Syria, 1099-1187. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-94761-8.
External links
[edit]- Eremburge de la Flèche Archived 2007-02-14 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
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