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  • Name Anseau or Ansel de Garlande 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I6443  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Children 
     1. Agnès de Garlande
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2828  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “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].”