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  • 992-994: Regent of Brittany

Ermengarde of Anjou was born before 967 to Geoffrey I of Anjou (-987) and Adele of Meaux (c950-c980) . She married Conan I of Rennes (927-992) . She married Guillaume IV Taillefer d'Angoulême (c952-1028) 993 JL .

Biography

Ermengarde of Anjou, (c. 956 - c. 1024),[lower-alpha 1] was the Countess of Rennes, Regent of Brittany (992–994) and also Countess of Angoulême.

Ermengarde-Gerberga was born c. 956,[1] the daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Meaux.[2] She married Conan I of Rennes, Count of Rennes, in 973.[3] Her husband Conan of Rennes opposed her father and brother Fulk even though the marriage was apparently designed to form a political alliance between Anjou and Brittany.[4]

Even after Conan had been killed by Fulk at the Battle of Conquereuil in 992, and during the period 992-994 when Ermengarde was Regent for their son Geoffrey, she remained loyal to her brother Fulk III, Count of Anjou.[4] In 992, following the interests of her brother, and functioning as Regent, she accepted Capetian over-lordship for Rennes while rejecting that of Odo I, Count of Blois.[5]

About 1000[6] her brother Fulk III arranged his widowed sister to marry, secondly, William II of Angoulême, one of his close allies.[7]

Marriage Alliance & Family

1st Marriage

Conan married Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou,[lower-alpha 2][10] in 973, daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Vermandois.[11]

Conan's alliance with Odo of Blois [12] had helped him defeat Judicael Berengar.

Conan and his wife Ermengarde-Gerberga had:

  1. Geoffroi I de Bretagne (980-1008) the eventual heir.[13]
  2. Judith of Brittany (982-1017) married Richard II, Duke of Normandy in a double marriage / political alliance c. year 1000.[13]
  3. Judicael of Rennes (aft980-1037), count of Porhoët .
  4. Catualon of Rennes (aft980-1040), Abbot of Redon
  5. Hernod of Rennes (?-?)
  6. Urvod of Rennes (?-?)

2nd Marriage: Count of Angouleme

Between 994 and 1000 she married William II 'Taillefer' Count of Angoulême and had the following children:




Children


Offspring of Conan I of Rennes (927-992) and Ermengarde of Anjou
Name Birth Death Joined with
Geoffroi I de Bretagne (980-1008) 980 1008 Hawise of Normandy (c978-1034)
Judith of Brittany (982-1017) 982 1017 Richard II, Duke of Normandy (963-1027)
Judicael of Rennes (aft980-1037) 980 13 June 1037
Catualon of Rennes (aft980-1040) 980 1040
Hernod of Rennes (?-?)
Urvod of Rennes (?-?)


Offspring of Guillaume IV Taillefer d'Angoulême (c952-1028) and Ermengarde of Anjou
Name Birth Death Joined with
Ève of Angoulême (983-c1030) 983 1030 Aymeric I de Rochechouart (965-1018)
Audouin II of Angoulême (988-1032) 988 1032 Alauzie de Fronsac (1000-?)
Geoffroy I Taillefer of Angoulême (991-1048) 991 1048 Pétronille of Archiac (1000-1043)



Siblings


Offspring of Geoffrey I of Anjou (-987) and Adele of Meaux (c950-c980)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Ermengarde of Anjou (bef967-) 967 Conan I of Rennes (927-992)
Guillaume IV Taillefer d'Angoulême (c952-1028)
Gottfried of Anjou (?-987) 987
Fulk III, Count of Anjou (972-1040) 972 21 June 1040 Metz, France Élisabeth de Vendôme (c979-999)
Hildegarde de Beaugency (c990-)
Geoffrey of Anjou (971-977)


Offspring of Geoffrey I of Anjou (-987) and Adelaise de Chalon (?-?)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Maurice of Anjou (980-1012) 980 1012 Unknown de Saintes (?-?)


See Also

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Ancestry Trees

Royal Succession Charts

Ermengarde of Anjou (bef967-)
House of Ingelger
Royal titles
Preceded by
Aremburge of Ancenis
Duchess consort of Brittany Succeeded by
Hawise of Normandy

References

  1. ^ She is called Ermengarde in northern [French] sources however at least one early southern source calls her Gerberga. Angevins were known to give daughters two names as evidenced by her aunt, called Adelaide-Blanche. See: Bachrach, 'Henry II and the Angevin Tradition', Albion, Vol. 16, No. 2, (1984), p. 117 n. 35; Crisp, 'Consanguinity and the Saint-Aubin Genealogies, Haskins Society Journal 14 (2005), p. 114; also: Bachrach, ""Fulk Nerra, (1993), p. 42.
  2. ^ Raoul Glaber in his Histories [Bk. II, Ch. 3, para. 4] was openly hostile to Conan and stated that after he married Ermengarde-Gerberga, Fulk Nerra's sister, he was "the most insolent of principes (Latin: leader, first among his people)."[8][9]



Footnotes (including sources)

2 Wedding 2
  • between 994 and 1000




Rtol, Bergsmit, Phlox, MainTour, Robin Patterson

  1. ^ Bernard S. Bachrach, Fulk Nerra the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993), p. 9
  2. ^ Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 49
  3. ^ Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 75
  4. ^ a b Bernard S. Bachrach, Henry II and the Angevin Tradition of Family Hostility, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, (Summer, 1984), p. 117
  5. ^ Bernard S. Bachrach, Henry II and the Angevin Tradition of Family Hostility, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, (Summer, 1984), p. 117 n. 38
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany. 1989), Tafel 817
  7. ^ Archibald R. Lewis, The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050 (University of Texas Press, 1965, p. 337) Online copy viewable here.
  8. ^ Bachrach 1993, p. 42 & n. 99.
  9. ^ Glaber 1989, p. 58-61.
  10. ^ Bachrach 1993.
  11. ^ Bachrach 1993, p. 262.
  12. ^ Delumeau 1969.
  13. ^ a b Bachrach 1993, p. 266.
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