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Raoul De Fougeres
- Preferred Name: Raoul De Fougeres[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Alternate Name: Ralph De Fouguers
- Gender: M
- Birth: 1044 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France at LATI: N8.4167 LONG: E1.3333 with note: Fougeres, Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
- Burial: 1124 in Savigny-le-Vieux, Manche, Lower Normandy, France at LATI: N9.0506 LONG: E1.3375 with note: Savigny-le-Vieux, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Seigneur de Fougères
- FSID: G6LY-P3H
- Death: 1124 in Savigny-le-Vieux, Manche, Lower Normandy, France at LATI: N9.0506 LONG: E1.3375 with note: Savigny-le-Vieux, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Raoul is known as the founder of the Abbey of Savigny in 1112. He was married to Avoise de Clare, who is named in the charters of the foundation of this abbey. Avoise was the daughter of Richard FitzGilbert and Rohese Giffard.
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRITTANY.htm#RaoulIFougeresdied1124 as of 1/18/2016
RAOUL [I] de Fougères (-1124). "Radulfus seculari militiæ mancipatus" donated property to Sainte-Trinit
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.20, 32;
=== !Ancestral Roots, Line 214A-26. ===
!Ancestral Roots, Line 214A-26.
=== Royal Ancestry Biography ===
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“AVICE FITZ RICHARD, married before 1086 RAOUL [I] DE FOUGÈRES, seigneur of Fougères (in Brittany), son and heir of Main de Fougères, seigneur of Fougères, by his wife, Adelaide. They had four sons, Guillaume, Main surnamed Fransgalon [seigneur of Fougères], Henri [seigneur of Fougères], and Robert Giffard, and one daughter, Beatrice. He succeeded his father c.1064 as a minor. Sometime before 1076 he and his mother, Adelaide, founded the Priory of Holy Trinity of Fougères. In 1089 he witnessed a charter of Alan, Count of Brittany. At an unknown date, he and his wife, Avice, gave the tithes of Fougères to the Priory of Holy Trinity of Fougères. In 1112 he and his wife, Avice, founded Savigny Abbey. RAOUL [I] DE FOUGÈRES died in 1124.
Morice Mémoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 525-526 (charter dated 1112 of Raoul de Fougères and his wife, Avice; and their three sons, Main Fransgalon, Henri, and Robert to Savigny Abbey). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped). Bull. Archéologique de l'Association Bretonne 3 (1851): 195-196 (undated charter of Raoul de Fougères and his wife, Avice; charter names his father, Main de Fougères). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 7 (1852): 123-132. Cleveland Battle Abbey Roll 2 (1889): 218-219. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1(1899): 287-288 (confirmation charter of King Henry I of England dated 1113, confirming the gift of Raoul de Fougères and his wife, Avice, and his sons, Main Fransualo, Henry, and Robert to Savigny Abbey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Delisle Rouleau Mortuaire du B. Vital abbé de Savigni (1909), titre no. 182 (Gilbert Fitz Richard styled "uncle" [avanculi] of Fransualo [de Fougères]). Auberge Cartulaire de la Seigneurie de Fougères (1913). Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 325-326 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Ricardus autem frater Balduini, genuit ex Rohais quatuor filios, Gislebertum, Rogerium, Walterium, Robertum, et duas filias; altera quarum matrimonio copulata est Rodulfo de Felgeriis, natique sunt ex ea Fransvalo, Henricus, Robertus Giffardus."). Keats-Rohan Domesday People 1 (1999): 52, 332-333. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Cents. (2004): 499 (Fougères ped.). Tanner Fam., Friends, & Allies (2004): 316 (Clare ped).”
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.14, 20;
=== Baron de Fougères, Grand Sénéchal de Bre ===
Baron de Fougères, Grand Sénéchal de Bretagne, Croisé
=== #Générale# Sources de son ascendance : ===
#Générale# Sources de son ascendance : "The prosopography ofpost-conquest Englan d : four case stu dies" K.S.B.Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopographie 14, 1-52 & 159-164, et"Journal o f Medieval History " vol 20 (1994) pp. 3- 37 (2studies in N orth French Prosopography). Cette filiation apparaît dans le Cartulaire de Saint-Pierr e de la Couture, Cartulaire de Marmo utiers ou Cartulaire deSaint-Aubin.
=== REF: Weis, Ancestral Roots 214A-26. Sei ===
REF: Weis, Ancestral Roots 214A-26. Seigneur of Fougeres.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Méen II "The Proud" de Fougères, Baron of Fougères, b. ABT 1015 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France d. 1092 in Longueville, Normandy, France
Mother: Adelaide de Sablé, b. ABT 1040 in Longueville, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France d. 1072 in Saint-Sauveur-des-Landes, Ille et Vilaine, Bretagne, France
Family 1: Raoul De Fougeres,
- Henri de Fougères I, b. ABT 1087 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France d. 1154 in France
Sources:
- Title: Geni.com
Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Raoul-I-de-Foug%C3%A8res/6000000003827681910?through=6000000000251183376;
- Title: Find a Grave
Publication: Name: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2482988&GRid=104651993&;
- Title: Abbaye de Savigny
Publication: Name: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=104650290&CRid=2482988&;
- Title: Raoul I de Fougères, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-NN1H : 2 July 2020), Raoul I de Fougères, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-NN1H;
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