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Emma de Dinan
- Preferred Name: Emma de Dinan[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Gender: F
- Death: 18 DEC 1208 in Vitré, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France at LATI: N5.9308 LONG: E0.9637
- Birth: 1136 in Dinan, Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.4538 LONG: E2.046 with note: Multiple historical recores
- FSID: L5F6-47Q
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. .
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon.
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRITTANY.htm#dauDinanMRobertVitre as of 5/28/2016
EMMA de Dinan (-after 7 Nov 1202). Robert of Torigny records the death in 1173 of "Robertus de Vitreio" a
=== Notes and sources to Royal Ancestry - life sketch ===
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Robert de Vitry-
Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Maude de Vitry
Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79
child of Maud de Vitry by Henry de Pomeroy:
Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”
=== !SOURCE: ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF SIXTY COLON ===
!SOURCE: ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF SIXTY COLONISTS WHO CAME TO NEW ENGLAND BETWEEN 1623 AND 1650, 6TH ED 1988, PG 102 LINE 108 #27
=== Sources: Ancestral Roots 108; Falaise Ro ===
Sources: Ancestral Roots 108; Falaise Roll, page 3. Roots and Roll: Emma de Dinan, daughter of Alain de Dinan.
=== REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain Am ===
REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists 108-27.
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.22, 29, 38; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== Emma de Dinan (d. after 7 Nov 1202).[ht ===
Emma de Dinan (d. after 7 Nov 1202).[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/brittnpr.htm#_ftnref658]
===Marriage===
m.1 Hugues d'Alluie
m.2 Robert de Vitre (d. 11 Nov 1173). Issue: 6
== Sources ==
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=== Medieval Lands Biography ===
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRITTANY.htm#dauDinanMRobertVitre
EMMA de Dinan . Robert of Torigny records the death in 1173 of "Robertus de Vitreio" and the succession of "filius suus Andreas natus ex sorore Rolandi de Dinan"[522]. Her name is confirmed by the charter dated 1 Apr 1161 under which "Robertus dominus Vitreii" granted property to Savigny with the consent of "Andrea filio meo et emma matre mea et Emma uxore mea"[523]. Her first marriage is confirmed by the charter dated to [1155/73] under which "Emma de Vitreio" confirmed a donation of property to the priory of Sainte-Croix de Vitré by "Hugonis de Aleia…tunc maritus meus", with the consent of "filio meo Johanni", by charter dated to [1155/73][524]. m firstly HUGUES d´Alluie, son of ---. m secondly ROBERT [III] Seigneur de Vitré, son of ROBERT [II] Seigneur de Vitré & his wife Constance de Mayenne (-11 Nov 1173).]
Preferred Parents:
Father: Alain de Dinan, b. ABT 1100 in Dinan, Finistère, Bretagne, France d. ABT 1150 in Dinan, Finistère, Bretagne, France
Mother: Eléonore de Penthièvre, b. 1092 in Penthièvre, Lorient, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d. 1167 in Vitré, Ille et Vilaine, Bretagne, France
Family 1: Robert de Vitré, III, Seigneur of Vitré, b. 1120 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France d. 11 NOV 1173 in Vitre, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
- m. BEF 1 APR 1161 in Sancerre, Cher, Centre, France
- Eleanor de Vitré, b. 1158 in Vitré, Ille-Et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d. AUG 1233 in Dorking, Mole Valley District, Surrey, England
- Maud de Vitre, b. 1146 in Brittany, France d. BEF 1193
- André de Vitré II, b. 1150 in Vitré, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 9 JUN 1211 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France
Sources:
- Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists
Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain Americian Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr, Page number: 108-27
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741115
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Emma DINHAM -
Author: Source 5 (please edit title)
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2644080679
- Title: The Royal Ancestry Bible
Author: The Royal Ancestry Bible, Michel L. Call, Copyright 2006
Note: death:
birth:
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2026280052
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Emma DINHAM -
Author: Source 5 (please edit title)
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2644080679
- Title: Emma de Dinan (1120-1205), Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
Author: Citations: 1. [S1400] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 136. 2. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 596-597. 3. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 161. 4. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 481. 5. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 480. 6. [S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. XIV, Tafel 136. 7. [S11600] 40000 Ancestors of the Counts of Paris, 33-149.
Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p193.htm#i5785;
Note: Emma de Dinan [1,2,3,4]
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
F, #5785, b. circa 1120, d. between 18 December 1205 and 18 December 1208
Father Sir Alan de (Olivier II) Dinan, Viscount de Dinan [2,3,5] d. c 1157
Mother Alianore de Bretagne [3,5]
Emma de Dinan married Hugues V d' Alluye. [3] Emma de Dinan was born circa 1120. She married Robert III de Vitrie, Seigneur de Vitré, son of Robert II de Vitré, Seigneur de Vitré and Emma de la Guerche, before 1 April 1161; They had 5 sons (André II, Seigneur de Vitré; Alain, Seigneur de Dinan; Robert, Precentor of Paris; Joscelin; & Martin) & 2 daughters (Maud, wife of Henry de Pomeroy, Seigneur de la Pomerai; & Eleanor, wife of William Paynel, of Gilbert Criopin, Seigneur de Tillières-sur-Avre, of William FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, & of Gilbert Malesmains). [2,3,4] Emma de Dinan died between 18 December 1205 and 18 December 1208. [3]
Family: Robert III de Vitrie, Seigneur de Vitré b. c 1120, d. 11 Nov 1173
Children:
Andre II, Sire de Dinan+ d. Sep 1211
Alain de Vitré, Sire de Dinan+6 d. 1198
Petronille de Vitré+ [7]
Maud de Vitré+ [3] d. b 1181
Alianore de Vitrie+ [2,3] b. c 1145, d. bt 31 May 1232 - 18 Aug 1233
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