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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan, son and heir of Waleran (or Galeran) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux. He married about 1165 MAUD OF CORNWALL, daughter of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall (illegitimate son of King Henry I), by Mabel, daughter of William Fitz Richard [see ENGLAND 2.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Waleran (or Galeran), Peter [Dean of Wimborne], and Henry, and two daughters, Mabel and Jeanne (wife of Guy IV, seigneur of La Roche Guyon). In 1173 he adhered to the young King Henry in his revolt against Henry II, but was reconciled to the king. Holding lands in both France and Normandy, the conflict between Philip Augustus and the English kings placed him in a difficult position, and eventually brought about his ruin. In 1188 when Philip took Vedôme, he captured 62 knights sent by the Count of Meulan to assist the defence. In 1191 he was excommunicated for taking action against William de Longchamp, Bishop of Ely. In 1202 he confirmed the charter of his sister, Isabel de Mayenne, to the monks of Savigny. In 1202 he revolted against King Philippe Auguste of France, and suffered the confiscation of his county of Meulan in consequence. Conversely, he had incurred King John's malevolentia before 2 April 1203, when the abbot of Saint-Taurin d'Evreux acted as an intermediary to reconcile him with the king of England. In a vain attempt to save his position, he handed over all of his estates 1 May 1204 to his daughter, Mabel, and her husband, William de Vernon, Earl of Devon. John, however, seized his English estates, and Philippe those in France and Normandy. ROBERT, deposed Count of Meulan, was living 14 November 1207; he died 16 August, about 1212. His widow, Maud, was living 25 October 1212; she reportedly died 1220-1.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farns of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301441, Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 390. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1 (1840): clv-clvi; 2 (1844): ccix ("Robert d’Harcourt is assumed to have married Joanna de Meulan, daughter of Robert Comte de Meulan, but none of the Preuves adduced justify such a conclusion."). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467 (pg. 465 author states Robert, Count of Meulan, married (1st) Agnes de Vendome, who died without issue, citing the chronicle of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan; pg. 466 author states Robert, Count of Meulan died at Poitiers 20 Sept. 1204). Delisle Etudes sur la Condition de la Chasse Agricole et l'Etat de l’Agriculture en Normandie (1851): 234-235. Servois Notice & Extraits du Recueil des Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour (1856): 8. Delisle & Passy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste le Prevost 1 (1862): 208-214; 3 (1869): 146. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 377 (seal of Robert, son of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1165 - Sceau équestre. Boucher à ombilic. Il ne reste de la légende que les trois lettres TIS à la fin; Contre-sceau. Une tête de profil, tournée à droite. Légende: * ROBERTVS PEREGRINVS). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 1 (1863): 220, 250-252. Réaux Histoire de Meulan (1868): 221-245 (pp. 243-244 "Robert [Count of Meulan] sa mort est inscrite au nécrologe de Saint-Nicaise, à la date du 19 août de la meme année [12041"). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 49-51 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1143-65, names her father, Amaury [de Montfort], Count of Evreux; her husband, Earl Waleran; and her son, Robert, and her other children). Collectanea Archæologica 2 (1871): 39. Charencey Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Trappe (1889): 443 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1166-1203), 444-445 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203; charter witnessed by his brothers, Amaury and Roger), 447 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "21 Sept. [Obiii] Robertus, comes Melle[n]ti."). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 45 16 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Fécamp dated 1170-81), 84,85-86 (several charters of Robert, Count of Meulan dated post-1165), 104 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1181-1200 naming his uncle, Simon, Count of Evreux), 115-116,117-118 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan), 119, 300 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Savigny dated 1166-81). Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327, esp. 323-324 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan). Porée Hist. de l'Abbaye du Bec 1(1901): 367-370. Revue Catholique de Normandie 15a. Annee (1905): 12-13 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1176; charter witnessed by Roger brother of the count), 13 (undated charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan issued while her husband, Robert, Count of Meulan, was at Jerusalem). Bories Histoire de Canton de Meulan (1906): 25-38 (author states Robert, Count of Meulan, died at Poitiers where he had taken refuge 16 August 1204, and that his body was transported to Préaux where he was buried 20 September). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 17-18 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 19-20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1168), 20-21 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1168), 22 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1199), 24 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan, dated 1196), 24-25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1195), 25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1166), 26 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 28-30, 37-38 (charters of Robert, son of Count of Meulan, dated 1162), 203-204 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1180), 208-209 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 209-210, 210 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190). Depoin Recueil de Chartes & Docs. de Saint-Martin-des Champs 2 (1913): 282-283. C.P. 7 (1929): Appendix I, 739-740 (sub Counts of Meulan); 14 (1998): 207 (sub Cornwall). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 136. Chibnall Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated c.1146-66), 16-17 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated 1147-66). Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2449-2450. Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 344-345. Lacy Reg. of Edmund Lacy 4 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 16) (1971): xi. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 192-193 (charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan). Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 251-252, 430, 509 (Meulan ped.). Taylor Saint Michael's Mount (2010): 39.”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Knt., of Okehampton, Kenn, Musbury, and Sampford Courtenay, Devon, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, lwerne, Dorset, etc., Sheriff of Devonshire, 1215, 1218, Justice for Berkshire and Wiltshire, 1235, son and heir. He was heir in 1209 to his uncle, Robert de Courtenay. He married in 1210-11 (grant of her marriage) MARY DE VERNON, widow of Peter de Preaux, Knt.,* of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc., lord of the Channel Islands, Constable of Rouen (living 1209), and daughter of William de Vernon, Knt., 5th Earl of Devon, by Mabel, daughter of Robert II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 8 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included lands in Crewkerne, Somerset, with the foreign hundred and the chace there. They had three sons, John, Knt., William, Knt., and Robert [Dean of Auckland], and two daughters, Egeline and Hawise. In 1209 he paid a fine to the king of 400 marks and two great horses to have seisin of the manor of Sutton, Berkshire. In 1211 he owed 1,200 marks to have the honour of Oakhampton, Devon, which had been in the king's hands. In 1217 he was ordered by the king to release Exeter Castle and the stannaries and coinage of Devon to the queen mother. In 1214 he sued Roger Chike and two others regarding lands in Sutton, Berkshire. In April 1218 he offered 5 marks to have a jury concerning the hundred of Redlane which he said was his and pertains to his manor of Iweme, which hundred, and the hundred of Gillingham, were withdrawn from him and his ancestors. In July 1218 the king committed custody of the manor of Sutton, Berkshire to John of Wiggonholt for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answer for the issues of the same manor to Stephen de Croy, merchant of Amiens, for the debt which Robert de Courtenay owed him. In 1219 the king ordered the Sheriff of Devon that he cause Robert de Courtenay to have full seisin of all lands and appurtenances in Devonshire formerly of Hawise de Courtenay, his mother, which fell to the said Robert by inheritance. In 1220 he was granted a two day fair at his manor of Okehampton, Devon. In 1220 John de Saint Helen sued him regarding half a hide of land in Sutton, Berkshire. The same year Maud de Courtenay (his aunt and step-grandmother) sued him regarding the manors of Oakhampton, Chulmleigh, Kenn, and Musbury, and Sampford, Devon and Hemington, Somerset, which she claimed as her right. In 1224 he made fine with the king to render £30 to him annually at the Exchequer of the £190 8s. 7d. due from him to the king; he was allowed such costs he incurred, by order of the king and the same justiciar, to fill a breach in the wall of Exeter castle. In 1227 the king committed the manor of Sedborough (in Parkham), Devon with its appurtenances to his wife, Mary. In 1230 he was overseas in the service of the king. In the period, 1230-2, he settled a long standing dispute with Abingdon Abbey regarding digging turves from the manor of Culham for the repair of Sutton mill, Berkshire. SIR ROBERT DE COURTENAY died at Iweme, Dorset about 27 July 1242, and was buried at Ford Abbey, Dorset. His widow, Mary, was living 15 July 1250.
[*Mary de Vernon married (1st) in 1201 (date of charter) (betrothal dated early 1200) Peter de Preaux, Knt., of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc., lord of the Channel Islands, Constable of Rouen, younger son of Osbert de Preaux, of Normandy. They had no issue. He accompanied King Richard I on crusade in 1190. He distinguished himself at the Siege of Acre in 1192. In the period, 1194-9, he served King Richard I throughout his wars against Philip II of France. In 1203 he was in charge of the escheats of Normandy and the Jews, except for the Jews of Rouen and Caen. The same year he was granted all the land which Peter de Meulan (his Wife's uncle) held at Sens, Normandy. In 1204, in agreement with the leading men of the city, he surrendered Rouen to King Philippe Auguste of France. He was living in 1209.]
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76. Risdon Chorographical Desc. or Survey of the County of Devon (1811): 356-357. Burke Gen’l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Coll Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 62; 2 (1835): 390. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1 (1840): clxix-clxx, clxxii-clxxiii; 2 (1844): cidiv-cxlvi, cc, ccxxix-ccxxxii (Peter de Préaux styled "brother" [fratris] by Alice, Countess of Eu). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Qui Robertus [de Courtenay] cum tandem vitæ suæ laudabilem cursum fæliciter consummasset in stadio, septimo calend. Augusti [26 July] apud Ywren, manerium suum, diem clausit extremum anno Domini M.CCXLII. [1242] et regni regis Henrici III. 26..."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 464-472. (Courtenay ped.) Adams Hist., Topog., & Antiqs. of the Isle of Wight (1856): 132-133. Le Quesne Constitutional Hist. of Jersey (1856): 109-110. Collectanea Archæologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Shirley Royal & Other Historical Letters illus. of the Reign of King Henry III 1 (1862) (Rolls ser. 27): 40-41, 160, 232-233 (letters of Robert de Courtenay). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 1 (1863): 250-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6 (1870): 388; 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3; 8th Ser. 7 (1895): 441-443. Bibuotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes 32 (1871): 403-404. Reliquary 17 (1876-7): 97-104. MSS of the Marquess of Abergavenny (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1887): 72-73. Ouless Ecréhous, Illustrated (1884): 8-10. Worthy Hist. of the Suburbs of Exeter (1885): 61-62, 81-82, 149. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 133-134, 137-138 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that he was the son of Hawise, the first born daughter of Maud d'Avranches; Hawise's sister, Maud de Courtenay, who was the plaintiff in the lawsuit, in turn testified that the said Hawise was the daughter of Geoffrey de Crimes (or Crunes, Cruues), the 1st husband of Maud d'Avranches), 404-405; 3 (1887): 320, 450-452 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that his mother, Hawise, was the daughter of William de Curcy, husband of Maud d'Avranches). Archer Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 (1889): 326. Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 65-68; 5 (1892): 21 (charter of Robert de Courtenay). Curtis Short Hist. & Desc. of the Town of Alton (1896): 21-22. Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 53 (Robert de Courtenay styled "king's kinsman" by King Henry III of England). Desc. Gat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 69. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 535. G.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 60. Devon Notes & Queries 4 (1907): 148-149, 229-232 (re. Preaux fam.). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 3) (1907): 79. C.P. 4 (1916): 317 (sub Devon) (ped.), 323 (sub Devon), 465. C.R.R. 7 (1935): 51, 97, 134, 146, 192-193, 244, 259, 333; 9 (1952): 26, 36-37, 104, 237, 294, 305-306, 322, 330, 362; 10 (1949): 22, 115-116, 119-120; 17 (1991): 166. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 136. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1211 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 61. Seversmith Col. Fams. of Long Island 5 (1958): 2413-2419, 2439-2440. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 70. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 68-74. VCH Somerset 4 (1978): 4-38. Schwennicke Europaische Stanmtfeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay). Bearman Charters of the Redvers family and the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994): 172. Reedy Rafret Charters c. 1120 to 1250 (Pub. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 128-129 (charter of Egeline de Courtenay, widow of Gilbert Basset dated 1205-6; charter names her late father, Reynold de Courtenay; charter witnessed by Robert de Courtenay). Barlow English Episcopal Acta XII (1996): 215. Golb Jews in Medieval Normandy (1998): 372. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 90 (charter of Robert de Courtenay dated 1225-42; charter witnessed by his sons, John and William, and Reynold de Courtenay [presumably his brother]); 109 (charter of Robert de Courtenay dated 1225-42; charter witnessed by his brother, Reynold de Courtenay), 152-153 (charter of John son of Ellis, parson of Crewkeme dated 1228-36; charter witnessed by Sir Robert de Courtenay and Reynold his brother). Church King John: New Interpretations (1999): 135 footnote 114, 202 ("The Courtenays to whom Henry II awarded landed in England, although related to the original Courtenay line, appear to have been only distant cousins. Nonetheless, cousins they were, so that in 1217, when Robert de Courtenay was asked to surrender Exeter to Isabella, he is described in King Henry III's letter as 'our kinsman.' Perhaps because of his kinship to one of the leading families of France, Robert de Courtenay of Okehampton appears to have been singled out for particularly harsh treatment by Louis and the French during the civil war of 1216-17, being deprived of his lands in one of Louis' few surviving English charters. The fact that the original of this charter survived amongst the Courtenay family archives in France provides further proof, if such were needed, of the kinship between the English and French Courtenays. Robert appears as witness to Isabella's charter in favour of the monks of St. Nicholas Exeter, issued at Exeter in May 1217.). Knight Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1222 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 51) (1999): 51. Sayer Original Docs. in Eng. & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 165-166 ("Lyons, 1250 Jul. 15. 369. Innocentius IV <> Protection for the noble lady, Mary de Cortenay of the diocese of Bath, Hawise de Neville and her other sons and daughters, with all their goods."). Barratt Receipt Rolls, Easter 1223, Michaelmas 1224 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 55) (2007): 85.
Children of Robert de Courtenay, Knt., by Mary de Vernon:
i. JOHN DE COURTENAY, Knt. [see next].
ii. ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Dean of Auckland, dead 1 Jan. 1258. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 190 (Robert le Clerc, son of Robert de Curtenay, styled "king's kinsman").
iii. EGELINE DE COURTENAY, married PHILIP DE COLUMBERS, of Nether Stowey, Honibere (in Lilstock), Huntworth, Puriton, Woolavington, and Woolstone (in Stogursey), Somerset and Battisford, Suffolk, son and heir of Philip de Columbers, of Nether Stowey and Honibere (in Lilstock), Somerset. They had two sons, Philip and John. At an unknown date, he confirmed William de Rokelle in his land in Akot and Beningham, which property the said Philip's grandfather, Philip de Columbers, gave in free marriage to Richard de Rokelle and Maud de Columbers his daughter, parents of the said William and Philip de Rokelle. PHILIP DE COLUMBERS died in 1262. In 1272 his widow, Egeline, settled 100 librates of land in South Kelsey, Lincolnshire and Blacktoft, Yorkshire, together with the advowson of the church of Torrington, Lincolnshire, on Gilbert Hansard and Joan his wife. Egeline was living in 1297. Roberts Excerpta è Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis 2 (1836): 256, 378, 384. Gairdner Letters & Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 7 (1883): 326-357. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 389-390 (confirmation charters of Philip de Columbers tertius). Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 145-146; 2 (1906): 126-133. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 292. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees (1923): 137-140. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxv (Columbers ped.). VCH Somerset 5 (1985): 103-107; 6 (1992): 137-145; 8 (2004): 210-223. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay).
iv. HAWISE DE COURTENAY, married (1st) JOHN DE NEVILLE, Knt., of Essex [see DE LA MARE 10]; (2nd) JOHN DE GATESDEN, Knt., of Broadwater, Sussex [see DE LA MARE 10].”
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WALERAN (or GALERAN) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, Vatteville, etc., son and heir, born in 1104. In 1123 he was drawn into a conspiracy on behalf of William Clito, son of Robert Curthose. He was intercepted by a royal force at Bourgteroude in March 1124. He charged at the head of 40 men-at-arms, but his horse was riddled with arrows and he was captured. He was imprisoned successively at Rouen, Bridgnorth, and Wallingford until 1129, when the king set him free and gave him back all his lands and castles, except the castle of Pont-Audemer. He was present at the death of King Henry I in 1135. He was at Westminster with King Stephen at Easter 1136, where he was contracted to marry the king's infant daughter, Maud; Maud died in childhood in or before 1141, and was buried in the Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate. He soon returned to Normandy and joined his brother, Robert, in fighting Roger de Toeny, whom he captured the following October. Early in 1138 he drove David I, King of Scots from the Siege of Wark Castle. In May 1138 he returned to Normandy, where he again fought against Roger de Toeny. He was created Earl of Worcester probably in the latter part of 1138. In 1139 he and his brother, Robert, took a leading part in the arrest of Roger, Bishop of Salisbury and his kinsmen. He founded Bordesley Abbey in 1140 or 1141. He married about 1141 AGNES DE MONTFORT, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux, by his 2nd wife, Agnes, daughter of Anseau (or Ansel) de Garlande. They had six sons, Robert [II] [Count of Meulan], Waleran [Earl of Worcester], Amaury [seigneur of La Queue and Gournay-sur-Marne], Roger [seigneur of La Queue and Gournay-sur-Marne], Ralph, and Stephen (or Etienne), and three daughters, Isabel, Mary (wife of Hugh Talbot, seigneur of Cleuville), and Amice (wife of Henri de Ferrieres). Her maritagium included the barony of Gournay-sur-Marne in France and the Haie de Lintot, near Lillebonne, in Normandy. At the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, he was one of the commanders of the royal army who fled when the front was broken by the opening charge, leaving the king to be captured. He joined the queen when she recovered London in June 1141. Before the end of 1141, however, he abandoned King Stephen and came to terms with Geoffrey Plantagenet. In 1144 he went to the aid of Geoffrey, who had taken the city of Rouen but had failed to take the tower. He subsequently acted as one of Geoffrey's Justiciars, and attested his charters at Rouen. Probably in the same year he went on pilgrimage to St. James of Compostela. About 1144 he founded the chapel of St. James at Meulan. He took the cross at Vezelay in 1146 and went on crusade in 1147. On his return home, his ship was wrecked off the south coast of France. He and his companions gained the shore by clinging to a couple of planks and some pieces of wreckage. About 1150 he founded the abbey of le Valasse in Normandy. In 1150 Geoffrey Plantagenet resigned the Duchy of Normandy to his son, Henry [future King Henry II]; Waleran acted as one of the young duke's justiciars. In 1153 he was seized at a conference by his nephew, Robert de Montfort, who imprisoned him at Orbec; he was compelled to surrender the castle of Montfort-sur-Risle to gain his freedom. The following year he besieged Montfort, but was put to flight by Robert. In 1160 he witnessed the treaty between Kings Henry II and Louis VII concerning the marriage of their children. In 1161 King Henry II seized Waleran's castles and those of his other barons in Normandy. At an unknown date, he witnessed a charter of his brother-in-law, Gnillaume (or William) Lovel, seigneur of Ivry, to the church of Ste.-Marie of Gournay-sur-Marne. WALERAN [II], Count of Meulan, became a monk at the Abbey of St. Peter, Preaux. He died at Premix 9 (or 10) April 1166, and was buried at the Abbey of St. Peter, Preaux. In 1170-1 his widow, Agnes, granted the church of Sainte-Genevieve in Paris a serf and his wife in execution of a vow made by Waleran, Count of Meulan. In 1181 she gave 20 shillings to the Chapter of Evreux for a lamp on the tomb of her late brother, Simon, Count of Evreux. Agnes, Countess of Meulan, died 15 Dec. 1181.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76, 112. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres 2 (1840): 647 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1151). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 ([Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Waleran, Count of Meulan styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Brequigny Table Chronologique des Diplômes, Chartes, Titres & Actes imprimés concernant I’Hist. de France 5 (1846): 206 (charter of Galeran, Count of Meulan, and Countess Agnes his wife dated 1233). Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 191-192 (biog. of Matilda of England). Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 377 (undated seal of Galeran II, Count of Meulan - Sceau equestre. Bouclier à ombilic. Legende: SIGILLVM GVALERANNI COMITIS MELLENTI; Contre-sceau. Même représentation qu'a la face, si ce n'est que la lance remplace ici l'épée. Legende: SIGILLVM GVA[LE]RANNI COMITIS WIGORNIE); 377 (seal of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1170 - Ce sceau est très-fruste. On y entrevoit une figure de femme debout, vue de face, vêtue d'une robe à manches pendantes, et tenant un oiseau au poing. Legende: SIGILLVM AGNETIS COMITISSE MELLETI.). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 34-36 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan), 49-51 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1143-65, names her father, Amaury [de Montfort], Count of Evreux; her husband, Earl Waleran; and her son, Robert, and her other children). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Lasteyrie Cartulaire Générale de Paris 1 (1887): 283-284 (two undated charters of Waleran, Earl of Meulan), 405 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1170-71). Charencey Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Trappe (1889): 442-443 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan, and A[gnes] his wife). Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 71-120. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23(1894): 472 (Ex Obituanis Lirensis Monasterii: "9 Apr. [Obiit] Galeranus, comes Mellenti."). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise (1895): 474, footnote 936. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 45-46, 84 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan to Hospital of St. Giles, Pont-Audemer dated 1162), 84 (letter dated 1151-66 of Waleran, Count of Meulan, A[gnes] the countess, and Robert their son to Walter clek of Esturministre), 112-113, 114-115 (two charters of Waleran, Count of Meulan, one dated 1155; the 2nd charter is undated and concerns an agreement between Count Waleran and his "cousin" [cognate], Robert de Novoburgo), 115-118, 124 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1142 confirms gifts of his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont, and his father, Robert, Count of Meulan), 457 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1151). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327. Porée Hist. de L’Abbaye du Bec 1 (1901): 368 (undated charter of Galeran, Count of Meulan). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). Bodes Hist. du Canton de Meulan 1 (1906): 25-38. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 239 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Obiit secundus Galerannus, comes Mellenti, benefactor noster, idus aprilis [10 April]."), 241 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Agnes, comitissa Mellenti, XVIII kal. Junii [recte Januarii - 15 December]."). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinite' de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 10-17 (confirmation charter of Waleran II, Count of Meulan names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan; his mother, Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan; and his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont), 19 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1144), 21-22 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated after 1162), 25 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated before 1142), 28-29 (charter of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1162), 31-32, 42-45, 237-239, 242-243. Depoin Recueil de Chartes et Docs. de Saint-Martin-des-Champs 2 (Archives de la France Monastique 16) (1913): 282-283 (charter of William Lovel dated 1139-64). Revue Catholique d'Histoire, d'Archeologie & Litterature de Normandie 29 (1920): 163 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan, names her late brother Simon, Count of Evreux). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 17 (1934): 19-48. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1, 7-12. Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2450-2456. CP. 12(2) (1959): 829-837 (sub Worcester). Blake Cartulary of the Priory of St. Denys near Southampton 2 (Southampton Rec. Ser. 25) (1981): 234. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 319 (mandate of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1135-41). Coss Docs. Heraldry, Pageantry, & Social Display in Medieval England (2002): 33 (Robert du Neubourg styled "kinsman" [cognates] in charter(s) by Waleran, Count of Meulan). Power Norman Frontier in the Twelth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 228, 508 (Mayenne ped.), 509 (Meulan ped.). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 314 (Beaumont ped.).
Children of Waleran (or Galeran) of Meulan, by Agnes de Montfort:
i. ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan [see next].
ii. ISABEL OF MEULAN, married (1st) GEOFFREY [II] DE MAYENNE, seigneur of Mayenne [see MAYENNE 4]; (2nd) MAURICE [II] DE CRAON, seigneur of Craon [see MAYENNE 4].”
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
- Abt 1212
(Age 62 years)