Adeline De Domfront

• Preferred Name: Adeline De Domfront^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Christening: in Bellême, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France at LATI: N8.3767 LONG: E0.5597
  
• Alt.+Birth+and+Death+Information: with note: Description: Birth: 1025 France AND Death: 1067 France Survived the merge.
  
• FSID: 9Z8X-1VF
  
• Vivo: 1060 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Living: 1060 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 19 NOV 1051 in Chateaudun, Eure-et-Loire, Centre, France at LATI: N8.0693 LONG: E0.3425
  
• Birth: ABT 1025 in Domfront, Orne, Normandy, France at LATI: N8.5194 LONG: E0.7564
  
• Title of Nobility: in Châteaudun, Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France at LATI: N8.0693 LONG: E0.3425 with note: Description: Countess
  
• Title of Nobility: with note: Description: Countess of Domfront
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://geneatique.net/genealogie/dominique-vieren/copie-de-vieren2/de_DOMFRONT_Adeline_992204389
  
  Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
  
  Adela de Belleme1
  Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
  F, #5149
  Father Warine, Count of Perche d. b 1026
  Mother Melisende of Chateaudun
  Charts Some Descendants of Charlemagne
  Adela de Belleme married Rotrou, Count Mortagne, Vicomte de Chateaudun, Seigneur de Nogent-le-Rotrou, son of Geoffrey III, Vicomte de Chateaudun, Seigneur de Nogent-le-Rotrou, Comte de Mortagne and Helvise of Mortagne, before 1041.
  Family
  Rotrou, Count Mortagne, Vicomte de Chateaudun, Seigneur de Nogent-le-Rotrou d. c 1049
  Children
  Hugues III, Vicomte de Chateaudun+ d. 1110
  Rotrou, Seigneur de Montfort-le-Rotrou+2 d. a 1100
  Geoffrey, Count of Perche, Seigneur de Mortaigne+ d. Oct 1100
  Citations
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
  
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  === Name Suffix: of Domfront Ancestral ===
  Name Suffix: of Domfront Ancestral File Number: V9V2-H2 1 _UID DDDEDE6B4C62BD4DA11161DA39475DF076AC
  
  === Name Suffix: Countess Ancestral Fi ===
  Name Suffix: Countess Ancestral File Number: V9V2-H2
  
  === Sources: RC 249; AF; A. Roots 151; Kraen ===
  Sources: RC 249; AF; A. Roots 151; Kraentzler 1208, 1424. Roots: Adeline de Domfront. RC: Adela (Adelaide) de Domfront. K: Adeline de Domfort.
  
  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v11-p693fn(g), (F ===
  !#21> Complete Peerage-v11-p693fn(g), (FHL 942 D22cok); !KIN: apparently only legit dau & h; `TITLE> Countess of Mortagne;
  
  === !Ancestral Roots of Certain American Col ===
  !Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700. by Frederick Lewis Weis. Seventh Edition. Page 133
  
  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition line 153-24
  
  === !Pedigree Chart from "Royal Ancestors of ===
  !Pedigree Chart from "Royal Ancestors of Some American Families", Chart 11787
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.20; THE PLANTAGENETANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.18, 179; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Multiple AFN: 9HM0-7H and 8JF0-WC Multip ===
  Multiple AFN: 9HM0-7H and 8JF0-WC Multiple AFN: 9HM0-7H and 8JF0-WC
  
  === [Pullen010502.FTW]
  
  References: ES{233} ===
  [Pullen010502.FTW]
  
  References: ES{233} iii, 689. See Stuart RC{151} [249-31]. See Weis Arkansas{74} [151-24]. Moriarty{73} p. 49.
  
  === Name Suffix: [Countess Of Mortagne ===
  Name Suffix: [Countess Of Mortagne] Ancestral File Number: V9V2-H2 From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !BIRTH: Michael Raffin..gives birth as a ===
  !BIRTH: Michael Raffin..gives birth as abt 1016 !BIRTH: Leana Randall...gives birth at Abt 1025
  
  === FTM Disc 1 Tree # 0986 ===
  FTM Disc 1 Tree # 0986
  
  === [G675.ged] References: ES{233} iii, 689 ===
  [G675.ged] References: ES{233} iii, 689. See Stuart RC{151} [249-31]. See Weis AR{74} [151-24]. Moriarty{73} p. 49.

• m. ABT 1040

1. Hugh IV Viscount of Châteaudun, b. ABT 1042 in Chateaudun, Loire Valley, France     d. ABT 1110 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France
2. Geoffrey d'Alencon I sgr de Nogent- le- Retrou comte de, b. ABT 1042 in Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France     d. OCT 1100 in Domfront, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France

1. Title: Wikipedia - Chateau de Domfront
   Author: ^Base Mérimée: Château, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) ^ David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror (1967)
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Domfront;
   Note: The Château de Domfront is a ruined castle in the town of Domfront, in the Orne département of France.[1] History In 1051, the castle at Domfront, belonging to Guillaume II Talvas, lord of Bellême, and occupied by the forces of Geoffrey of Anjou, was besieged by William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy.[2] In 1092, the people of Domfront revolted against Robert II de Bellême, Earl of Shrewsbury, transferring their allegiance to the third son of William the Conqueror, Henri Beauclerc, who became Duke of Normandy (1106) and King of England (1100). In 1169, it was at the Château de Domfront that Henry II of England received the papal legates who came to reconcile him with Thomas Becket. Taken in 1204 - Domfront being the personal possession of John Lackland - it was conceded to first to Renaud de Dammartin, Count of Boulogne, and later to Philippe Hurepel. With the death of his successor, Jeanne, in 1251 Domfront returned to the royal domain. In 1259, Louis IX of France gave Domfront to Robert II, Count of Artois, as dowry for his wife. After his death (1302), in compensation for not getting Artois, in 1332 his grandson Robert III of Artois was given the Norman property and appanages that had been confiscated. In 1342, Philip VI of France ceded the Domfront country to the Count of Alençon who, in 1367, reunited Domfront and Alençon. In the meantime, in 1356, troops of Charles II of Navarre (Charles the Bad), king of Navarre, commanded by Sir Robert Knolles, took the place and held it until 1366. During the winter of 1417-1418, the castle was besieged by the English commanded by the Duke of Clarence and fell on the 10 July 1418. The French recaptured it for a time in 1430. It was finally taken by the French on 2 August 1450. Ownership was again disputed in 1466-1467. In 1574, the Château de Domfront, serving as a refuge for the Count of Montgomery, was besieged by royal troops under the Marshal of Matignon, capitulating on 27 May. The count was beheaded in Paris in 1574 on the orders of the Queen. Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully ordered the demolition of the castle in 1608.
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - House of Bellême
   Author: Geoffrey H. White, The First House of Bellême, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 73 ^ Jump up to: a b Thomas Stapleton, Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae sub Regibus Angliae, Tomis I (Sumptibus Soc. Antiq. Londinensis, Londini, 1840), p. lxxii ^ Kate Norgate, England Under the Angevin Kings, Vol. I (Macmillan and Co., New York, 1887), p. 114 & n. 1 ^ Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 78 ^ Geoffrey H. White, 'The First House of Bellême', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. 22 (1940), p. 81 ^ Jean Jacques Gautier, Histoire d'Alençon (Poulet-Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire, Place Bourbon, 1805), p. 24 ^ Jump up to: a b The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, Vol. II, Ed. & Trans. elisabeth M.C. Van Houts (The Clarendon Press, Oxford & New York, 1995), pp. 110-12 ^ Jump up
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bellême;
   Note: Map of the lands of Bellême (click link to view image) House of Bellême also referred to as the Family of Bellême was an important seigneurial family during the 10th through the 12th centuries. Members of this family held the important castles of Bellême, Alençon, Domfront and Sées as well as extensive lands in France, Normandy and Maine. Rapid rise to prominence The first known progenitor of this family is Yves de Bellême who was probably the son of Yves de Creil,[a][1] The caput of the lordship was the castle of Bellême, constructed "a quarter of a league from the old dungeon of Bellême" in Maine.[2] The second lord, William of Bellême, with the consent of Richard I, Duke of Normandy constructed two castles, one at Alençon and the other at Domfront, the caput of the lordship remained the castle of Bellême.[2] Yet in a charter to the abbey of Lonlay of the lands of Neustria Pia, he describes himself as William princeps and provinciae principatum gerens indicating he considered himself an independent ruler or prince of his own domains.[3] His sons Fulk and Warin died in his lifetime leaving Robert as his heir.[4] Robert de Bellême died a prisoner leaving the fourth son, Ives as lord of Bellême, who shortly thereafter became Bishop of Séez.[5] William Talvas, held the lands of Bellême in right of his brother Bishop Ives who retained the Lordship himself until his death at which time William came into possession of the lands of Bellême, Domfront and Alençon.[6] After the infamous incident (see below) with William fitz Giroie, his kinsmen sacked and destroyed the lands of William Talvas who would not face them in the field.[7] In turn Talvas' son Arnulf rebelled and exiled his father, now reviled by everyone.[7] He wandered until he was taken in by the de Montgomery family whose son Roger agreed to marry his daughter Mabel in return for the lands William lost.[8] Mabel inherited all the vast estates of her father (and in 1079 those of her uncle Bishop Ives) and married the heir of one of the most prominent families in Normandy, Roger de Montgomery, who became the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.[9] Apogee and decline Mabel was succeeded by her son Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, who continued the aggressive policy of his mother. He built several castles to ensure control of the vast lordship of Bellême and held in total forty castles, including those of Alençon and Bellême, defends the territory and form a barrier to any attempt to bid. In 1098 Robert's younger brother Hugh died, and Robert inherited, on payment of £3,000 in relief, the English properties that had been their father's, including the Rape of Arundel and the Earldom of Shrewsbury.[10] Robert had also acquired the countship of Ponthieu jure uxoris and the honor of Tickhill; all of which combined made him the wealthiest magnate in both England and Normandy.[10] Robert rebelled repeatedly against the King of England and Duke of Normandy. In 1112 Robert was sent as an envoy of the French king to Henry I at his court at Bonneville whereas Henry seized Robert and imprisoned him.[11] Robert spent the rest of his life as a prisoner; the exact date of his death is not known.[12] Bellême family bishops Even as early as the latter half of the tenth century members of this family held the bishoprics of Le Mans and Séez. Seinfroy (Seginfredus) sought the bishopric of Le Mans and offered Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou the hamlet of Coulaines and the villa of Dissay-sue-Courcillon including all fiscal rights if he could use his influence. Geoffrey interceded with King Lothair to obtain the see for Seinfroy who became Bishop c. 970-71.[13] Geoffrey's choice of bishop proved to be a useful ally against the counts of Maine.[14] Although their parentage is unknown, his sister, Godeheut, was the wife of Yves de Bellême.[15] He was followed as Bishop of Le Mans in 997 by his nephew, Avesgaud de Bellême, son of Godeheut and Yves de Bellême.[16] Throughout most of his reign as bishop he and Herbert Wakedog were locked in a bitter and seemingly endless power struggle.[17] At Avesgaud's death in 1036 his nephew Gervais de Bellême, son of his sister Hildeburge de Bellême succeeded him as Bishop of Le Mans.[18] Notoriety The chroniclers of ducal Normandy, William of Jumieges and Orderic Vitalis depict several members of the family as cruel and deceptive. While William Talvas was as treacherous and self-serving as any of his family before him he surpassed them in wickedness and cruelty.[19] He had married a Hildeburg, daughter of a nobleman named Arnulf, but he had his wife strangled on her way to church, according to Orderic, because she loved God and would not support his wickedness.[19] Then on the occasion of his second wedding, William Talvas invited one of his vassals William fitz Giroie to attend. Suspecting nothing, fitz Giroie, while a guest at the festivities, was suddenly seized by Talvas' men and imprisoned, then according to Orderic horribly mutilated and blinded before being released. Somehow William Giroie survived his torture and mutilation and retired to Bec Abbey to live out the remainder of his life as a monk.[20] Of all of Orderic's female subjects William's daughter Mabel was the most cunning and treacherous; if not entirely for her own misdeeds then as the mother of Robert de Bellême, who had a reputation for savagery as well as cruelty.[21] In one passage Orderic describes her as "small, very talkative, ready enough to do evil, shrewd and jocular, extremely cruel and daring.[22] Mabel was hostile to most members of the clergy; but her husband loved the monks at Saint-Evroul so she found it necessary to be more subtle.[23] She deliberately burdened their limited resources by visiting the abbey for extended stays with a large retinue of her soldiers. When rebuked by Theodoric the abbot for her callousness she snapped back that the next time she would visit with an even larger group. The abbot predicted that if she did not repent of her evilness she would suffer great pains and that very evening she did.[23] She left the abbey in great haste as well as in great pain and did not abuse their hospitality again.[23] In continuing her family's feud with the Giroie family she set her sights on Arnold de Echauffour, the son of William fitz Giroie who her father had mutilated at his wedding celebration.[24] She attempted to poison Arnold of Echauffour by placing it in a glass of wine but he declined to drink.[24] Her husband's brother, Gilbert, refreshing himself after a long ride, drank the wine and died shortly thereafter.[24] In the end though she bribed Arnold's chamberlain providing him with the necessary poison, this time being successful.[24] In 1077 she took the hereditary lands of Hugh Bunel by force.[25] Two years later while resting after a bath, she was murdered in her bed by the same Hugh Bunel[26] But, Orderic Vitalis may have been most strongly biased against Robert de Bellême and his treatment of that magnate belies a moral interpretation of his actions.[27] The basis for Orderic's animosity towards Robert and his de Bellême predecessors was the longstanding and bitter feud between the Giroie family, patrons of Orderic's Abbey of Saint-Evroul, and the de Bellême family.[28] William Talvas (de Bellême), Robert's grandfather, had blinded and mutilated William fitz Giroie.[b][8] Robert did at times appropriate church properties and was not a major donor to any ecclesiastical house. But Robert's attitudes toward the church are typical of many of his contemporaries; certainly no worse than the secular rulers and other magnates of his day.[29] The assessment of William II Rufus by R.W. Southern could well apply to Robert de Bellême as well: "His life was given over to military designs, and to the raising of money to make them possible; for everything that did not minister to those ends he showed a supreme contempt".[29] Prominent members The five generations of this well-known if not notorious family are represented by: Yves de Bellême Avesgaud de Bellême, Bishop of Le Mans William 'Princeps' de Bellême Ives de Bellême, Seigneur de Bellême and Bishop of Sées William I Talvas Mabel de Bellême, Dame de Alençon, de Séez, and Bellême, Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady of Arundel Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
   
3. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: Citations [S968] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln, by Isenburg, Vol. 3, chart 636. [S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafels 689 & 691.
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p172.htm#i5149;
   Note: Adela de Belleme1 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 F, #5149 Father Warine, Count of Perche d. b 1026 Mother Melisende of Chateaudun Charts Some Descendants of Charlemagne Adela de Belleme married Rotrou, Count Mortagne, Vicomte de Chateaudun, Seigneur de Nogent-le-Rotrou, son of Geoffrey III, Vicomte de Chateaudun, Seigneur de Nogent-le-Rotrou, Comte de Mortagne and Helvise of Mortagne, before 1041. Family Rotrou, Count Mortagne, Vicomte de Chateaudun, Seigneur de Nogent-le-Rotrou d. c 1049 Children Hugues III, Vicomte de Chateaudun+ d. 1110 Rotrou, Seigneur de Montfort-le-Rotrou+2 d. a 1100 Geoffrey, Count of Perche, Seigneur de Mortaigne+ d. Oct 1100 Citations
   
4. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Author: [38] Motey (1920), p. 15 (Adelise) [2172] Nogent-le-Rotrou V, p. 13. (Rotrou) [2173] Nogent-le-Rotrou L, p. 118. [2174] Nogent-le-Rotrou VI, p. 19, and Cluny, Tome IV, 3517, p. 633. [2175] Le Mans Saint-Vincent, Liber primus, 609, p. 350. [2176] Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Abbaye de Saint-Père-enVallée, p. 184. [2177] Motey (1920), p. 153.
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#AdeliseAlenconMRotrouIChateaudun;
   Note: ADELISE de Bellême . Her parentage is suggested by Orderic Vitalis who records that the great-grandfather of Rotrou [III] Comte du Perche was Guerin "quem dæmones suffocaverunt"[38]. It is also suggested by the reference in the same source to her son Geoffroy having a justified claim to Domfront, a castle which had been constructed by Adelise’s paternal grandfather. The source which confirms her name has not been identified. m ROTROU [I] Vicomte de Châteaudun, son of GEOFFROY Vicomte de Châteaudun & his wife Helvis [Elisabeth] de Corbon (-1 Mar [1080]). Comte de Mortagne 1058. see also: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#RotrouIMortagnedied1080B ROTROU de Châteaudun, son of GEOFFROY Vicomte de Châteaudun & his wife Helvis [Elisabeth] de Corbon (-1 Mar [1080]). "Hugonis filii domini Gaufridi vicecomitis, Rotroci fratris eius, Eleusie matris eorum" subscribed the charter dated [20 Jul 1031/19 Jul 1032] under which "Gauffridus Castridunensium vicecomes" founded the abbey of Saint-Denis de Nogent[2172]. "Gauffredus vicecomes Dunensis Castri" made a donation to Saint-Denis de Nogent by charter dated 1040, witnessed by "Hugo filius Gauffridi, Rotrocus frater eius"[2173]. "Rotrocus castri Mauritanie comes atque Dunensis castri vicecomes" names "Gaufridus pater meus comes" in his confirmation of donations to Saint-Denis de Nogent with the consent of "filiorum meorum…Gaufridi, Hugonis, Rotroci, Fulcoisi ac filie mee Helvise" by charter dated 11 Jan 1078[2174]. Vicomte de Châteaudun. Comte de Mortagne 1058. "Rotrochus comes de Mauritania et mea uxor Adeliz et filii nostri Rotrochus et ceteri nostri infantes" donated property to Saint-Vincent du Mans, for the anniversary of "avi mei Fulcuich comitis et avunculi mei Hugonis et patris mei vicecomitis Gaufridi" by charter dated to [1065][2175]. The necrology of Saint-Père-en-Vallée records the death "Kal Mar" of "Rotrocus comes"[2176]. m ADELISE de Bellême, daughter of GUERIN [Warinus] de Bellême & his wife ---. Her parentage is suggested by Orderic Vitalis who records that the great-grandfather of Rotrou [III] Comte du Perche was Guerin "quem dæmones suffocaverunt"[2177]. It is also suggested by the reference in the same source to her son Geoffroy having a justified claim to Domfront, a castle which had been constructed by Adelise’s paternal grandfather. The source which confirms her name has not been identified. Comte Rotrou & his wife had five children: 1. GEOFFROY de Châteaudun (-mid-Oct 1100, bur Nogent-le-Rotrou[2178]). 2. HUGUES [III] de Châteaudun (-1110). 3. ROTROU de Châteaudun [de Montfort] (-after [1110/11]). 4. FULCO de Châteaudun (-after 11 Jan 1078). 5. HELVISE de Châteaudun (-after 11 Jan 1078). Comte Rotrou had one [possibly illegitimate] child: 6. ROBERT "Manda Guerra" (-after [1095/1100]). "Roberto fratre eius Mandaguerram…" consented to the donation by "Hugonis vicecomitis" by charter dated to [1080/1100][2238]. "Hugo vicecomes de Castroduno" donated the church of Saint-Léonard de Bellême to Marmoutier, with the consent of "Gausfredo comite fratre eius, Roberto Mandaguerran fratre eius, Comitissa uxore eius, Gausfredo filio eius, Matilde filia eius", by charter dated to [1092/1100][2239]. "Hugo vicecomes de Castroduno" donated property "pro fratribus suis Gausfredo et Rotroco" with the consent of "…Roberto Mandi Guerram fratre eius…" by charter dated to [1095/1100][2240]. It is likely that Robert was illegitimate as he is not named with his father's known sons in the charter dated 11 Jan 1078.
   
5. Title: Countess Adelise de Domfront
   Publication: Name: https://geneatique.net/genealogie/dominique-vieren/copie-de-vieren2/de_DOMFRONT_Adeline_992204389;
   
6. Title: The First House of Bellême - Royal Historical Society
   Author: Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009 Geoffrey H. White Full article available on-line thru: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678582?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Abe823bf50c69385ac8fa5fd428018676&seq=33#page_scan_tab_contents
   Publication: Name: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transactions-of-the-royal-historical-society/article/abs/first-house-of-belleme-1/5B899263819B457B09483CF9D1FFDD8E;
   Note: Extract Roger de montgomery, 1st earl of Shrewsbury, married Mabel de Bellême, the heiress of a great house which held the castles of Bellême and Alencon, Domfront and Sées, with widespread lands along the southern marches of Normandy, not only in that duchy but in the kingdom of France and the county of Maine. The importance of the family is attested by its inclusion in L'Art de Vérifier les Dates; but the standard account in that great work was superseded in 1920 by the detailed history of the lords of Bellême published by the Vicomte du Motey. Unfortunately the author's enthusiasm for his heroes overran his discretion; and as Orderic, our leading authority, paints most of them in the blackest colours, du Motey made a bitter attack on his accuracy and even on his veracity. Moreover, he made no attempt to grapple with the chronological difficulties inherent in the received descent, nor did he show any critical idea of the comparative value of his authorities; whilst his own lively imagination added picturesque details to what might otherwise have been a “bald and unconvincing narrative”. 2 The second house of Belleme, which descended from Robert deBellême, eldest son of Roger and Mabel, soon split into two main branches:the counts of Ponthieu, through whose heiress Ponthieu passed to Eleanor of Castile and her husband Edward I; and the counts of AlenÇon, who inherited the vast estates of the first house of Bellême.