Ermengarde or Erembourg of Maine, also known as Erembourg de la Flèche (died 1126), was
Countess of Maine and the Lady of
Château-du-Loir
Château-du-Loir (; literally 'Château of the Loir') is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 October 2016, it was merged into the new commune Montval-sur-Loir. from 1110 to 1126. She was the daughter of
Elias I, Count of Maine
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.
He was the son of Jean de la Flèche and Paula, daughter of Herbert I, Count ...
, and Mathilda of Château-du-Loire, daughter of
Gervais II, Lord of Château-du-Loir. She was grandmother of
King Henry II of England
Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (french: link=no, Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress, or Henry Plantagenet, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189, and as such, was the first Angevin king ...
In 1109 she married the
Angevin
Angevin or House of Anjou may refer to:
*County of Anjou or Duchy of Anjou, a historical county, and later Duchy, in France
**Angevin (language), the traditional langue d'oïl spoken in Anjou
**Counts and Dukes of Anjou
* House of Ingelger, a Frank ...
heir,
Fulk V, called "Fulk the Younger", thereby finally bringing
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and ...
under Angevin control. She gave birth to:
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Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
*
Elias II, Count of Maine (d. 1151)
*
Matilda of Anjou (d. 1154), who married
William Adelin
William Ætheling (, ; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin (sometimes ''Adelinus'', ''Adelingus'', ''A(u)delin'' or other Latinised Norman-French variants of ''Ætheling'') was the son of Henry I of England by his wife M ...
, the son and heir to
Henry I of England. After his death in the ''
White Ship
The ''White Ship'' (french: la Blanche-Nef; Medieval Latin: ''Candida navis'') was a vessel transporting many nobles, including the heir to the English throne, that sank in the Channel during a trip from France to England near the Normandy ...
'' disaster of 1120, she became a nun and later
Abbess of Fontevrault
An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female Superior (hierarchy), superior of a community of Catholic Church, Catholic nuns in an abbey.
Description
In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Easter ...
.
*
Sibylla of Anjou
Sibylla of Anjou (–1165) was a countess consort of Flanders as the wife of Thierry, Count of Flanders. She served as the regent of Flanders during the absence of her spouse in 1147-1149.
First marriage
Sybilla was the daughter of Fulk V of Anj ...
(d. 1165), married in 1121 to
William Clito
William Clito (25 October 110228 July 1128) was a member of the House of Normandy who ruled the County of Flanders from 1127 until his death and unsuccessfully claimed the Duchy of Normandy. As the son of Robert Curthose, the eldest son of William ...
, and then (after an annulment in 1124) to
Thierry, Count of Flanders
Theoderic ( nl, Diederik, french: Thierry, german: Dietrich; – 17 January 1168), commonly known as Thierry of Alsace, was the fifteenth count of Flanders from 1128 to 1168. With a record of four campaigns in the Levant and Africa (including p ...
She died in 1126, on either 15 January or 12 October. After her death, Fulk the Younger left his lands to their son Geoffrey, and set out for the
Holy Land, where he married
Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem and became
King of Jerusalem
The King of Jerusalem was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, a Crusader state founded in Jerusalem by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade, when the city was conquered in 1099.
Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of t ...
.
External links
Eremburge de la Flèche (in French)
Counts of Maine
Countesses of Anjou
1090s births
1126 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
12th-century women rulers
11th-century French people
11th-century French women
12th-century French people
12th-century French women
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