Adela (Ela) of Ponthieu

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_3rd_Earl_of_Surrey

She was daughter of Count William III of Ponthieu, by his wife Helie daughter of Odo I, Duke of Burgundy. They had one child and sole-heiress, a daughter, Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey in her own right.

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Adela married William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey. William (son of William II de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey and Isabel de Vermandois) was born ca 1119, Lewes, East Sussex, England; died 1148, Battle of Mount Cadmus, Anatolia,Turkey; was buried , Unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Isabella de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey was born ca 1136, England; died 13 Jul 1199, East Sussex, England; was buried , Lewes Priory Lewes Lewes District East Sussex, England.

Adela married Patrick Evereaux FitzWalter, Earl of Salisbury. [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III,_Count_of_Ponthieu

He was seigneur de Montgomery in Normandy and Count of Ponthieu. William was son of Robert II of Bellême and Agnes of Ponthieu. He succeeded his father as count of Ponthieu some time between 1105 and 1111.

His father Robert de Bellême had turned against Henry I on several occasions, had escaped capture at the battle of Tinchebrai in 1106. While serving as envoy for King Louis of France, he was arrested by Henry I and imprisoned for life.

William was naturally driven by this to oppose King Henry. In June of 1119, however, Henry I restored all his father's lands in Normandy. Sometime prior to 1126, William resigned the county of Ponthieu to his son Guy but retained the title of count. In 1135 Henry I again confiscated all his Norman lands to which William responded by joining count Geoffrey of Anjou in his invasion of Normandy after Henry I's death.

He married, abt. 1115, Helie of Burgundy, daughter of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum says that they had five children, three sons and two daughters.


1. Guy II. He assumed the county of Ponthieu during his father Talvas' lifetime, but died in 1147 predeceasing his father.

2. William, Count of Alençon.

3. John I, Count of Alençon, married Beatrix d'Anjou, daughter of Elias II, Count of Maine and Philippa, daughter of Rotrou III, Count of Perche.

4. Clemence married (abt. 1189) Juhel, son of Walter of Mayenne.

5. Adela (aka Ela) married William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey. She married, secondly, Patrick of Salisbury.

William married Helie of Burgundy. Helie (daughter of Eudes (Odo) I of Burgundy, Duke of Burgundy and Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy) was born ca 1080, County of Burgundy, France; died 28 Feb 1141, Perseigne Abbey, Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois, France; was buried , Perseigne Abbey, Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois, France. [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helie_of_Burgundy

She was the daughter of Eudes I and Sibylla of Burgundy.

In June 1095, she married Bertrand of Toulouse, as his second wife. The two had one son, Pons of Tripoli (c.?1098-1137).

Bertrand succeeded his father as Count of Toulouse in 1105, and in 1108, he set out for Outremer to claim his father's rights as Count of Tripoli. Helie accompanied him on this expedition, which resulted in the capture of Tripoli in 1109; shortly after, their nephew, William-Jordan died of wounds, giving Bertrand an undisputed claim to Tripoli.

Bertrand died in 1112, and Pons succeeded him in Tripoli. Helie returned to France, where she married William III of Ponthieu in 1115.

The Gesta Normannorum Ducum says that they had five children, three sons and two daughters.

1. Guy II. He assumed the county of Ponthieu during his father Talvas' lifetime, but died in 1147 predeceasing his father.

2. William, Count of Alençon.

3. John I, Count of Alençon, married Beatrix d'Anjou, daughter of Elias II, Count of Maine and Philippa, daughter of Rotrou III, Count of Perche.

4. Clemence married (abt. 1189) Juhel, son of Walter of Mayenne.

5. Adela (aka Ela) married William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey. She married, secondly, Patrick of Salisbury.

Helie died on 28 February 1141, in Perseigne Abbey in Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois.

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_of_Bell%C3%AAme,_3rd_Earl_of_Shrewsbury

Having the titles of seigneur de Bellême (or Belèsme), seigneur de Montgomery, viscount of the Hiémois, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Count of Ponthieu, he was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror. He was a member of the powerful House of Bellême.

Robert became notorious for his alleged cruelty. The chronicler Orderic Vitalis calls him "Grasping and cruel, an implacable persecutor of the Church of God and the poor... unequalled for his iniquity in the whole Christian era." The stories of his brutality may have inspired the legend of Robert the Devil.

Robert was the oldest surviving son of Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel de Bellême. In 1073 when William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, invaded Maine, Robert was knighted by him at the siege of Fresnai castle. By now probably of age and independent of his father he took part in the 1077 revolt of the young Robert Curthose against his father, Duke William.

When Robert's mother, Mabel, was killed c.?1079, Robert inherited her vast estates. But at this point Duke William took the added precaution of garrisoning the Bellême castles with his own soldiers, which was his ducal right. On hearing the news of William the Conqueror's death in 1087, Robert's first act was to expel the ducal garrisons from all his castles.

Robert Curthose has succeeded his father as Duke of Normandy. He was told of a plot to place him on the throne of England in his brother William II's (William Rufus) place, a plot that Duke Robert enthusiastically approved and supported. Robert de Bellême, his brother Hugh de Montgomery and a third brother, either Roger or Arnulf, participated in this rebellion in England. In the Rebellion of 1088, beginning at Easter the rebels burned and wasted the king's properties and those of his followers. Robert de Bellême was among the rebels who found themselves defending Rochester Castle. When William Rufus blockaded the town and built two counter-castles, the garrison began negotiating for surrender under honorable terms, being allowed to keep their lands and serve the king. This Rufus refused; he was furious and had initially wanted the traitors hanged "or by some other form of execution utterly removed from the face of the earth." Other great Anglo-Norman barons interceded with the King, until finally in July a semi-honorable surrender was negotiated between the king and the rebels. Rufus, albeit reluctantly, guaranteed the rebels life and limb and gave them safe conduct back to France.

Robert sailed back to Normandy in the company of Count Henry (later king Henry I), who had not been part a of the conspiracy against his brother William Rufus. They were destined to become bitter enemies. Robert de Bellême was a powerful and dangerous disruptive force in Normandy now free to do as he would. However, Duke Robert Curthose of Normandy had been convinced by Bishop Odo of Bayeux that both Henry and his travel companion Robert de Bellême were now conspiring with William Rufus against him. Both Henry and Robert were seized as they disembarked and, both placed in the Bishop's custody, were imprisoned; Henry at Bayeux and Robert at Neuilly-ll'Evêque, now Neuilly-la-Forêt.

On hearing his son was imprisoned Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury immediately went to Normandy and put all his castles in a state of readiness against the duke. At this point the Montgomery family was in a state of rebellion against Robert Curthose. Bishop Odo now instigated Duke Robert to take all the castles of Robert de Bellême by force and the duke gathered an army and proceeded against them. Earl Roger sent peace envoys to the duke and convinced him to release his son Robert which the fickle duke finally did.

By 1090 Robert was back in Robert Curthose's good graces, Orderic Vitalis calling him a "principal councilor" to duke Robert. He supported Curthose in putting down a revolt by the citizens of Rouen, in 1090, and took considerable numbers of the citizens captive throwing them into dungeons. The inhabitants of Domfront, long a Bellême-Montgomery stronghold, invited Henry, the duke's younger brother to take possession of Domfront. Apparently they had grown weary of Robert's oppressive and abusive style of lordship.

In 1094 Robert's father, earl Roger, died. Robert's younger brother Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury inherited the English lands and titles, while Robert inherited his father's Norman properties, which included good part of central and southern Normandy, in part adjacent to the Bellême territories he had already inherited from his mother. 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 Arundel in Sussux and the Earldom of Shrewsbury. Robert had also acquired the countship of Ponthieu and the parish of Tickhill; all of which combined made him the wealthiest magnate in both England and Normandy.

In 1096, Duke Robert of Normandy took up the cross on the First Crusade and left the custody of the duchy to his brother William Rufus, King of England. He returned from the First Crusade in triumph. He was encouraged to invade England and depose his brother Henry I. Robert de Bellême was one of the great magnates who joined Robert's 1101 invasion of England, along with Bellême's brothers Roger the Poitevin and Arnulf of Montgomery and his nephew William, Count of Mortain. This invasion, however, which aimed to depose Henry I, ended bloodlessly in the Treaty of Alton which called for amnesty for the participants but allowed traitors to be punished.

Henry I took a year compiling charges against Robert and his brothers and Robert's unlicensed castle building. Henry had a series of charges drawn up against Robert in 1102, and when Robert refused to answer for them, gathered his forces and besieged and captured Robert's English castles. Robert lost his English lands and titles (as did his brothers), was banished from England, and returned to Normandy.

In 1106 Robert was one of Curthose's commanders at the Battle of Tinchebrai commanding the rear division and, when the battle turned in Henry's favour, he and most of those with him avoided capture by fleeing the field. With Normandy now under Henry's rule, Robert de Bellême submitted and was allowed to retain his Norman fiefs and his office as viscount of the Hiémois. But Henry was still wary of Robert and placed his followers in key positions in Normandy.

Robert married Agnes of Ponthieu, before 9 Sep 1087, and they had one child, William III of Ponthieu, who via his mother inherited the county of Ponthieu.

Orderic Vitalis portrays Robert de Bellême as a villain, especially when compared to Henry I, whose misdemeanors the chronicler felt were excusable. Orderic calls Robert "Grasping and cruel, an implacable persecutor of the Church of God and the poor... unequaled for his iniquity in the whole Christian era." 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. William Talvas (de Bellême), Robert's grandfather, had blinded and mutilated William fitz Giroie

He 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. According to William Hunt in the Dictionary of National Biography, various stories of his brutality were circulated after his death.

Robert de Bellême was typical of his generation, the sons of William's companions who had earned their great honors and titles at the battle of Hastings in 1066. This newer generation did not share the values and attitudes of their fathers but rather had different experiences altogether. They had inherited their wealth and status, not earned it. Yet this next generation expected royal favor and patronage without attending court or serving the king in any capacity. They often rebelled when they felt they were not being treated with the dignity and respect they deserved. [Charlotte A. Newman, The Anglo-Norman Nobility in the Reign of Henry I, The Second Generation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), pp. 17-18; also: William M. Aird, Robert Curthose', Duke of Normandy (C. 1050?1134) (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011), pp. 69-70, 83.]

Robert married Agnes of Ponthieu, Countess of Ponthieu. Agnes (daughter of Guy I of Ponthieu, Count of Ponthieu) was born ca 1080, Abbeville, Picardie, France; died Aft 1105, Abbeville, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes,_Countess_of_Ponthieu

She was the daughter of Count Guy I of Ponthieu. Enguerrand, the son of Count Guy, died at a youthful age. Guy then made his brother Hugh heir presumptive, but he also died before Guy (died 1100). Agnes became count Guy's heiress, and was married to Robert of Bellême. Their son William III of Ponthieu succeeded to the county of Ponthieu after the death of Agnes (between 1105 and 1111), and the imprisonment of his father in 1112. [The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, edited and translated by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_I,_Duke_of_Burgundy

Also known as Eudes, surnamed Borel and called the Red, he was Duke of Burgundy between 1079 and 1103. Odo was the second son of Henry of Burgundy and grandson of Robert I. He became the duke following the abdication of his older brother, Hugh I, who retired to become a Benedictine monk. Odo was a participant in the ill-fated siege of Tudela in 1087 and in the Crusade of 1101.

Odo married Sibylla of Burgundy (1065-1101), daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy, and became the father of:

1. Helie of Burgundy 1080-1141, wife of Bertrand of Toulouse and William III of Ponthieu

2. Florine of Burgundy 1083-1097, wife of Sweyn the Crusader, prince of Denmark

3. Hugh II of Burgundy 1084-1143

4. Henry 1087-1125, a priest


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Eudes married Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy. Sibylla (daughter of William I Count of Burgundy, the Great and Stephanie) was born 1065; died 1103. [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylla_of_Burgundy,_Duchess_of_Burgundy

She was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy and Stephanie. She was married to Odo I, Duke of Burgundy in 1080. A notable descendant of hers is Marie Antoinette.

They had the following children:

1. Helie of Burgundy 1080-1141, wife of Bertrand of Toulouse and William III of Ponthieu

2. Florine of Burgundy 1083-1097, wife of Sweyn the Crusader, prince of Denmark

3. Hugh II of Burgundy 1084-1143

4. Henry 1087-1125, a priest

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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_I,_Count_of_Ponthieu

Ponthieu was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town is Abbeville. It played a small but important role in the politics that led up to the Norman invasion of England in 1066.

Guy was a younger son of Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu and about 1053 succeeded his brother Enguerrand II, as Count of Ponthieu. The alliance with Duke William of Normandy had earlier been secured by the marriage of Enguerrand to Adelaide of Normandy, Duke William's sister. But the marriage was apparently annulled due to consanguinity.

Enguerrand and Guy's sister was married to William of Talou, son of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. William of Talou had built a strong castle at Arques, and in 1053 he defied his nephew the youthful Duke of Normandy. As "family," the house of Ponthieu supported the rebellion.

Duke William put Arques under siege, and then remained mobile with another force in the countryside nearby. Young Count Enguerrand led his army to relieve Arques, and arrived first, but Duke William successfully ambushed them and Enguerrand was killed. William of Talou was compelled to surrender Arques and was banished for life. With the death of his older brother (who was without heirs), Guy assumed the duties as count. This is the first mention of Guy in the historical record.

Count Guy became a vassal of Duke William of Normandy after his army plundered and pillages the countryside around Mortemer. The Normans attacked his army, his younger brother Waleran was mortally wounded, and Guy himself was captured. He spent two years as a prisoner in Normandy, while his uncle, Bishop Guy of Amiens, ruled Ponthieu as regent.

In 1064, Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, was shipwrecked on the shores of Ponthieu and captured by Count Guy who took him to his castle of Beaurain on the River Canche, as the Bayeux Tapestry relates: hic apprehendit wido Haroldum et duxit em ad Belrem et ibi eum tenuit ("Here Guy seized Harold and led him to Beaurain and held him there"). Duke William demanded the release of the earl, and Count Guy delivered Harold Godwinson up after being paid a ransom for him.

In 1066, Harold accepted the crown of England upon the death of Edward the Confessor, thus precipitating the war that resulted in the Norman Conquest. Guy did not participate in the Battle of Hastings, the Song of the Battle of Hastings,an early written source, has Hugh, another of Guy's brothers, having a hand in the slaying of Harold.

Guy's daughter, Agnes, married Robert of Bellême. Their son, William III of Ponthieu, assumed the comital title upon the death of his mother, sometime before 1111.

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Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry,_son_of_Robert_I_of_Burgundy

Called the Gallant (le Damoiseau), he was the eldest surviving son and heir of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy and his wife, Helie of Semur, and a grandson of King Robert II of France, thus making him a member of the House of Capet through its Burgundy cadet branch. Little is known about his life and he died shortly before his father, thus failing to succeed in Burgundy. Two of his sons succeeded in succession after the death of his father, while a third son became Count of Portugal through his marriage to Theresa, daughter of King Alfonso VI of León and Castile.

The name of Henry's wife is not known, and they had the following children:

1. Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (1057-1093)

2. Odo I, Duke of Burgundy (1058-1103)

3. Robert, bishop of Langres (1059-1111)

4. Helie, a nun (b. 1061)

5. Beatrice (b. 1063), married Guy III, Count of Vignory
Reginald/Raynald, abbot of Saint-Pierre de Flavigny (1065-1090)

6. Henry, Count of Portugal (1066-1112), count of Portugal from 1093 and father of Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_Count_of_Burgundy

The County [Comté] of Burgundy was a medieval county (from 982 to 1678) within the traditional province and modern French region Franche-Comté, in the eastern part of France, bordering Switzerland. It should not be confused with the more westerly Duchy of Burgundy. The capital is Besançon.

Called the Great (le Grand or Tête Hardie, "the Stubborn"), William was Count of Burgundy from 1057 to 1087 and Mâcon from 1078 to 1087. He was a son of Renaud I and Alice of Normandy, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy.

William married a woman named Stephanie and was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callixtus II.

Renaud II, William's successor, died on First Crusade

Stephen I, successor to Renaud II, Stephen died on the Crusade of 1101

Raymond of Burgundy who married Urraca of León and Castile and thus was given the government of Galicia (Spain) (died 1107)

Sybilla (or Maud), married (1080) Eudes I of Burgundy

Gisela of Burgundy, married (1090) Humbert II of Savoy and then Renier I of Montferrat

Clementia married Robert II, Count of Flanders and was Regent, during his absence. She married secondly Godfrey I, Count of Leuven and was possibly the mother of Joscelin of Louvain.

Guy of Vienne, elected pope, in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny, as Calixtus II

William

Eudes

Hugh III (fr), Archbishop of Besançon[2]

Stephanie married Lambert, Prince de Royans (died 1119)

Ermentrude, married (1065) Theodoric I

William married Stephanie. [Group Sheet]