Eremburga of Maine
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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. 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] Their son inherited both Maine and Anjou, 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. Shortly 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, the heir of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and became King of Jerusalem.[8]
References
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- ↑ LoPrete, Kimberly A. (2007). Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137). Four Courts Press. Template:ISBN. Chart 1.
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- ↑ Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester, Vol IV (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856), p. 59, n. 3
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External links
- Eremburge de la Flèche Template:Webarchive (in French)