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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“AGNORIE OF BRITTANY, married ALAN DE DINAN, Chev., son of Geoffroi, Vicomte of Dinan (died 1123), Domesday tenant in Devonshire. They had one son, Roland, Knt. [seigneur of Dinan], and one daughter, Emma. About 1120 his father divided the barony of Dinan and his English lands between him and his brother, Oliver. Alan's share of the Breton territory comprised one-third of the territory of the barony. It included the southern half of the town of Dinan and lands extending south from there to the south-eastern limits of the barony (where Alan made the castle of Becherel his caput). The additional grant to Alan of important manors in England may, however, have been intended to make his share equal to Oliver's. As a young man, Alan won the favor of King Henry I of England by his military exploits. He was granted the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire by the king. He also was granted the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire sometime before 1130. In 1130 he was pardoned 16s. of danegeld in Cambridgeshire. He was an adherent of King Stephen. Alan founded a priory of Marmoutier at his new caput at Becherel. SIR ALAN DE DINAN died about 1157.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [II] de Vitré, as the daughter of [Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitra et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [II] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthièvre). Morice Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1 (1750): xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthievre ped) (author misidentifies husband of Agnorie of Brittany as "Olivier, Seigneur de Dinan"). La Comtesse de la Moire-Rouge Les Dinans et leur Juveigneurs (1892). Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75 (author identifies Agnorie of Brittany as wife of Olivier II de Dinan). Jones Fam. of Dinan in England in the Middle Ages (1987). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.31 (author assigns Agnorie of Brittany as wife of Olivier II, seigneur of Dinan). Meazey Dinan an Temps des Seigneurs (1997). Everard & Jones Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany & her Family, 1171-1221 (1999): 196. Everard Brittany & the Angevins: Province & Empire 1158-1203 (2004): 56, 189-192. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 433.
Children of Agnorie of Brittany, by Alan de Dinan:
i. ROLAND DE DINAN, Knt., seigneur of Dinan in Brittany, also lord of East Ginge (in West Hendred), Berkshire, Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, Nutwell, Devon, Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, Meon and Ringwood, Hampshire, Wymondley, Hertfordshire, Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, Corton Denham and Buckland Denham, Somerset, and Wepham, Sussex, son and heir. Sometime before 1161, he was granted the manor of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, which manor he briefly forfeited for rebellion in Brittany c. 1167-8. He likewise held the manor of Gussage St. Michael, Dorset in 1167-8. He gave the manor of Chieveley, Cambridgeshire to his sister, Emma, when she married Robert de Vitré, retaining an overlordship which was forfeited in 1168. He served as Governor of Brittany c.1175-78. At some unknown date, he gave half a hide of land at Ickleford, Hertfordshire to the nuns of Sopwell Priory, Hertfordshire. SIR ROLAND DE DINAN died in 1184. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclesiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 663 (charter of Roland de Dinan, seigneur of Dinan), 664 (charter of Roland de Dinan to Marmoutiers Abbey names his father, Alan de Dinan, and his nephew [nepote], Alan de Vitré). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Bull. & Mémoires de la Société Archéologique du Départment d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 370- 371. Desc. Cat Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 441-451 (D. 381). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 607. Book of Fees 1(1920): 92. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 302-307. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. VCH Hertford 4 (1971): 422-426. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 292-295; 10 (2002): 46. Jankulak Medieval Cult of St. Petroc (2000): 174-175 ("Roland de Dinan is perhaps best known in his Breton context as one of the barons who rebelled against Henry II in 1167-8 and who later became Henry's Breton royal agent. Roland's role in Eudon II's struggle against Henry II is only noted by Robert of Torigny in 1168, although Tonnerre and le Patourel, for example, have dated Roland's opposition to Henry from 1160. It is clear that Roland was involved in the 1167-8 rebellion: Robert of Torigny tells us that Roland's castle at Becherel was besieged and captured by Henry's forces ... The Breton lords were pardoned, and on Christmas Day 1169 Geoffrey II Plantagenet, in the presence of his father, received the homage of the Breton lords at Nantes."), 217-222 (Appendix III).
ii. EMMA DE DINAN, married ROBERT [III] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 4].â€
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].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].â€
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