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Jean de Beaugency Lord of La Flêche
Paula
Gervais Lord of Château-du-Loire
Hélie de la Flêche Count of Maine
(-1110)
Matilda of Château-du-Loire
Erembourg Countess of Maine
(-1126)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Fulk V "the Young" Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem

Erembourg Countess of Maine 1 2

  • Marriage (1): Fulk V "the Young" Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem in 1110
  • Died: 1126

   Other names for Erembourg were Eremburg of Maine, Eremburga of La Flêche, Ermengarde of Maine and Erembourg de la Flêche.

  Research Notes:

First wife of Fulk V. Only daughter of Helie de la Flêche.

From Wikipedia - Ermengarde of Maine :

Ermengarde or Erembourg of Maine, also known as Erembourg de la Flèche (died 1126 ), was Countess of Maine and the Lady of Château-du-Loir from 1110 to 1126 . She was the daughter of Elias I of Maine , Count of Maine, and Mathilda of Château-du-Loire.

In 1109 she married Fulk V of Anjou , thereby finally bringing Maine under Angevin control. She gave birth to:
Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (d. 1151 )
Elias II of Maine (d. 1151 )
Matilda of Anjou (d. 1119 ), who married William Adelin , the son and heir to Henry I of England
Sibylla of Anjou (d. 1119 ), married in 1121 to William Clito , and then (after an annulment in 1124) to Thierry, Count of Flanders

She died in 1126 , on either the 15th January or the 12 October. After her death, Fulk left his lands to their son Geoffrey, and set out for the Holy Land , where he married Melisende of Jerusalem and became King of Jerusalem .

  Noted events in her life were:

• Countess of Maine, 1110-1126.

• Lady of Château-du-Loire, 1110-1126.


Erembourg married Fulk V "the Young" Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, son of Fulk IV "le Réchin" Count of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort, in 1110. (Fulk V "the Young" Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem was born in 1092 in Angers, (Maine-et-Loire), Anjou, France and died on 10 Nov 1144 in Acre, Palestine (Israel).)


  Marriage Notes:

May have been married in 1109.

Sources


1 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 129-24 (Fulk V).

2 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Ermengarde of Maine. Cit. Date: 15 Sep 2009.


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