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Matilda fitzRoy Duchess of Brittany
- Preferred Name: Matilda fitzRoy Duchess of Brittany[1] [2]
- Gender: F
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1113 with note: Description: Duchess of Brittany
- Death: AFT 1128 in Rouen, Normandie, France at LATI: N9.4447 LONG: E0.0933 with note: 17. MATILDA (-after 1128). Guillaume de Jumièges names Mathilde as illegitimate daughter of King Henry I and her husband "Conano comiti minoris Britanniæ"[285]. Her marriage is referred to by Orderic Vitalis[286], in a later passage recording that the betrothal occurred before the alliance was agreed between Henry I King of England and Louis VI King of France, which is dated to 1113[287].
- Religion: abbess of Montivilliers
- Birth: 1091 in Bretagne, Indre, Centre, France at LATI: N6.6796 LONG: E0.059
- FSID: GJWC-8NZ
- Burial: 1128 in France
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Maud or Matilda Fitzroy, was a duchess consort of Brittany by her marriage to Conan III, Duke of Brittany. She was an illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England by one of his unknown mistresses.[1]
Duchess consort of Brittany
Matilda married, before 1113, Conan III, Duke of Brittany, and had three children, Hoel, Count of Nantes, Bertha, Duchess of Brittany (born c. 1114), and Constance.
King Henry 1 of England Medlands capture 14 Feb 2023
HENRY of England, son of WILLIAM I "the Conqueror" King of England & his wife Mathilde de Flandre ([Selby, Yorkshire Sep 1068]-Château de Lyon-la-Forêt, near Rouen 1 Dec 1135, bur Reading Abbey, Be
Preferred Parents:
Father: Henry I King of England , b. ABT 1068 in Yorkshire, England d. 1135 in Normandy, France
Mother: multiple unknown mistresses of Henry I I,
Family 1: Conan Duke of Brittany III, b. 1095 in Mortaigne Au Perche, Orne, Normandy, France d. 17 SEP 1148 in Bretagne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Aquitaine, France
- Constance de Bretagne, b. ABT 1118 in Bretagne, France d. ABT 1178 in Treguier, Cotes Du Nord, , France
- Bertha de Cornouaille Duchess of Brittany, b. 1114 in La Tranchée, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d. 15 SEP 1167 in Poitou, France
Sources:
- Title: Matthew Parker and the Middle English Prose Brut
Author: Bryan, Elizabeth J. (2016). "Matthew Parker and the Middle English Prose Brut". In Rajsic, Jaclyn; Kooper, Erik; Hoche, Dominique (eds.). The Prose Brut and Other Late Medieval Chronicles. York Medieval Press.
Note: This provides details on Conan III, Duke of Brittany.
Conan III, also known as Conan of Cornouaille and Conan the Fat (Breton: Konan III a Vreizh, and Konan Kerne; c. 1093–1096 – September 17, 1148) was duke of Brittany, from 1112 to his death. He was the son of Duke Alan IV and Ermengarde of Anjou.
He married Maud, an illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England before 1113.[2] Conan and Maud had three children that are known:
Hoel (1116 - 1156) – disinherited from the Ducal crown; Count of Nantes;[3]
Bertha (1114 - after 1155) – married Alan of Penthièvre;[3][c] upon Alan's death in 1146, she returned to Brittany;
Constance (1120 - 1148) – married Sir Geoffroy II, Sire de Mayenne, son of Juhel II, Seigneur de Mayenne.
Page: Both this person and her husband are mentioned here.
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