Elie de la Flèche comte du Maine I

• Preferred Name: Elie de la Flèche comte du Maine I^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
  
• Alternate Name: Elias Count of Maine I
  
• Alternate Name: Helias Count de Maines
  
• Gender: M
  
• Main+Occupation: in Count of Maine; Seigneur de la Fleche Count of Maine at LATI: N6.82 LONG: E67.9236 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1060 in Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France at LATI: N7.5 LONG: E0.3333 with note: Correction the person put into wrong box
  
• Burial: AFT 11 JUL 1110 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France at LATI: N7.9953 LONG: E0.203
  
• Death: 11 JUL 1110 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France at LATI: N7.4701 LONG: E0.5541
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: with note: Description: Count of Maine
  
• FSID: LB4Q-HKB
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Elias I (also Hélie or Élie) (died 11 July 1110), called de la Flèche or de Baugency, was the Count of Maine, succeeding his cousin Hugh V, Count of Maine.
  
  «b»Life«/b»
  He was the son of Jean de la Flèche and Paula, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine.
  
  In 1092, his cousin Hugh V sold Maine to him for 10,000 shillings. With the support of Fulk IV of Anjou, he continued the war with Robert II of Normandy. After Robert's departure with the First Crusade, Elias made peace with William Rufus, Robert's regent in Normandy.
  
  «b»Family«/b»
  In 1090 Elias married Matilda, daughter of Gervais II, Lord of Château-du-Loir. They had a daughter:
  
  1.) Ermengarde, married Fulk V of Anjou.
  
  In 1109, says Orderic Vitalis, Elias remarried to Agnes, the daughter of William of Poitou and relict of Alfonso VI of Castile. However, it seems likely that Orderic confused two different wives of Alfonso, and that it was the latter's widow, the Frenchwoman Beatrice, known to have returned to her homeland on Alfonso's death, whom Elias married. She died the following year, however.
  
  Elias of Maine died on July 11, 1110 and was buried in the choir of the abbey church Notre-Dame de la Couture in Le Mans.
  
  === REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain Am ===
  REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists 118-24. REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists 129-24.
  
  === Second wife Beatrice, not Agnes ===
  Orderic Vitalis reported that Helias of Maine married shortly before his death to Agnes of Poitou, formerly wife of Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile. However, this woman was Alfonso's first wife, disappearing from the historical record 30 years earlier just before Alfonso appears with a new wife. While taking Orderic literally has led to the hypothesis that Alfonso must have divorced Agnes (for which there is no indication in Iberian sources) it seems unlikely such a put-aside former wife, after living for decades in obscurity, would yet be considered a desirable marriage partner for Helias. Several Iberian historians have concluded that Orderic confused which wife of Alfonso Helias married, and that Helias' wife was actually the newly-widowed Beatrice, Alfonso's final wife, about whom Spanish sources simply report that she went back to her home country.

• m. 1109

• m. ABT 1090

1. Eremburge, b. 1096 in France     d. 14 JAN 1126 in France

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