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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRI DE FOUGÈRES, seigneur of Fougères (in Brittany), 3rd son. He married OLIVE OF BRITTANY, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond, by his wife, Hawise [see RICHMOND 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Long Bennington, Lincolnshire. They had four sons, Raoul [II], Fransgalon, Guillaume, and Robert, and one daughter, Clemence (wife of Robert de Montfort). By his wife or an unknown mistress, he also had one son, Guillaume l'Angevin. He was heir in 1124 to his older brother, Fransgalon de Fougères, seigneur of Fougères. In the summer of 1150 HENRI DE FOUGÈRES, then a dying man, he became a monk at Savigny Abbey. His widow, Olive, married (2nd) before 1162 WILLIAM DE SAINT JOHN, of Halnaker, Sussex, son and heir of Roger de Saint John, of Halnaker, Sussex, by Cecily, daughter of Robert de la Haie. They had no issue. He farmed the vicomte of Coutances for over 40 years. In 1162 he and his wife, Olive, and his brother, Robert, executed a charter for the abbey of La Luzerne. He was in frequent attendance on the king in Normandy between 1166 and 1172. In 1170 he was one of the tutors for Young King Henry. In 1172 the abbot and convent of Le Mont-Saint-Michel granted him the forestership of Bevais Forest. His wife, Olive, was living in 1174. In 1174-5 he confirmed his father's grant to Lewes Priory. He married (2nd) before 1187 GODEHEUT ___. In 1189 he accompanied King Richard I to England for his coronation. WILLIAM DE SAINT JOHN died between Michaelmas 1201 and Michaelmas 1202.
Morice Histoire Ecclesiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1 (1750): xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthievre ped). C.P. 10 (1945): 780 (chart), 786-787 (sub Richmond); 11 (1949): 343-344 (sub Saint John). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 244, 461-462, 691. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Cents. (2004): 499 (Fougères ped.).”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE) OF BRITTANY, Count of Brittany, youngest son. He married HAWISE ___ . They had three sons, Geoffrey Boterel (II) [Count of Brittany], Alan (II) the Black [Count of Brittany, Earl of Richmond], and Henri [Count of Brittany and Tréguier], and four daughters, Maud, Agnorie, Olive, and Tiphaine (wife of Rabel de Tancarville, Chamberlain of Normandy). He succeeded his eldest brother, Geoffroi Boterel [I], or Geoffroi's son, Conan, in the Breton lands, and his brother Alain the Black in the honour of Richmond in England, thus uniting all the possessions of the family. In 1101 he served as surety for King Henry I for the observance of an affiance with Robert, Count of Flanders. The same year he witnessed charters of the king for Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, and St. Peter's, Bath. In 1107 he executed a charter at Lamballe for the Abbey of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus at Angers. In 1123 he granted a charter at Guincamp for the Abbey of St. Melaine at Rennes. He was a benefactor of the Abbey of St. Mary, York, and, in the period, 1125-35, he confirmed to that house gifts of churches. STEPHEN OF BRITTANY died 21 April, probably in 1135 or 1136, and was buried in the quire of St. Mary's, York.
Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne (1638): 179 ("En l'an de nostre Seigneur 1137, selon lesdits Annaux, mourut Estienne Comte de Bretagne, & fut ensepulture en l'Eglise Cathedrale de S. Brieuc pres le Duc Eudon son pere."). Morice Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1 (1750): xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthievre ped). Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 4-14, 85. C.P. 10 (1945): 786-787 (sub Richmond). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.13, XIII.27-XIII.33. Everard Brittany & the Angevins: Province & Empire 1158-1203 (2004): 13, 31, 189. Karn English Episcopal Acta 31 (2005): 159-161.
Children of Stephen (or Étienne) of Brittany, by Hawise ___:
i. ALAN [II] the Black, Count of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, married BERTHA OF BRITTANY [see BRITTANY 4].
II. MAUD OF BRITTANY, married WALTER DE GANT (or GAUNT), of Folkingham, Lincolnshire [see GANT 2].
iii. AGNORIE OF BRITTANY [see next].
iv. OLIVE OF BRITTANY, married (1st) HENRI DE FOUGERES, seigneur of Fougeres in Brittany [see FOUGERES 3], (2nd) WILLIAM DE SAINT JOHN, of Halnaker, Sussex [see FOUGERES 3].”
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d. From 1150 to 1162, of Savigny Abbey, Manche, France