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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):
“AVICE FITZ RICHARD, married before 1086 RAOUL [I] DE FOUGÈRES, seigneur of Fougères (in Brittany), son and heir of Main de Fougères, seigneur of Fougères, by his wife, Adelaide. They had four sons, Guillaume, Main surnamed Fransgalon [seigneur of Fougères], Henri [seigneur of Fougères], and Robert Giffard, and one daughter, Beatrice. He succeeded his father c.1064 as a minor. Sometime before 1076 he and his mother, Adelaide, founded the Priory of Holy Trinity of Fougères. In 1089 he witnessed a charter of Alan, Count of Brittany. At an unknown date, he and his wife, Avice, gave the tithes of Fougères to the Priory of Holy Trinity of Fougères. In 1112 he and his wife, Avice, founded Savigny Abbey. RAOUL [I] DE FOUGÈRES died in 1124.
Morice Mémoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 525-526 (charter dated 1112 of Raoul de Fougères and his wife, Avice; and their three sons, Main Fransgalon, Henri, and Robert to Savigny Abbey). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped). Bull. Archéologique de l'Association Bretonne 3 (1851): 195-196 (undated charter of Raoul de Fougères and his wife, Avice; charter names his father, Main de Fougères). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 7 (1852): 123-132. Cleveland Battle Abbey Roll 2 (1889): 218-219. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1(1899): 287-288 (confirmation charter of King Henry I of England dated 1113, confirming the gift of Raoul de Fougères and his wife, Avice, and his sons, Main Fransualo, Henry, and Robert to Savigny Abbey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Delisle Rouleau Mortuaire du B. Vital abbé de Savigni (1909), titre no. 182 (Gilbert Fitz Richard styled "uncle" [avanculi] of Fransualo [de Fougères]). Auberge Cartulaire de la Seigneurie de Fougères (1913). Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 325-326 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Ricardus autem frater Balduini, genuit ex Rohais quatuor filios, Gislebertum, Rogerium, Walterium, Robertum, et duas filias; altera quarum matrimonio copulata est Rodulfo de Felgeriis, natique sunt ex ea Fransvalo, Henricus, Robertus Giffardus."). Keats-Rohan Domesday People 1 (1999): 52, 332-333. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Cents. (2004): 499 (Fougères ped.). Tanner Fam., Friends, & Allies (2004): 316 (Clare ped).”
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