Éremburge de la Flèche
Éremburge de la FlècheHeiress of Maine through her father Helias de la Flèche and of Château-du-Loir through her mother Mathilde de Château-du-Loir, her large holding passed to the Angevin dynasty upon her marriage to Foulques V of Anjou.
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: 1126.
Two Angevin chronicles give the year as 1126 [Chr. S.
Albini Andegav., Chr. S. Flor. Salm.]. The necrology of the
cathedral of Mans shows a "Heremburgis" who died on 12
October, but her identity with the present Éremburge is
uncertain [Nec. Mans 273]. ES 6.4: 392 gives 15 January 1126
(original source not known).
Place of Death: Unknown.
Father:
Helias de la Fleche, died 11 July 1110, count of Maine.
[OV x, 8 (v. 5, pp. 228-9), viii,
11 (v. 4, pp. 196-7); Act. Pont. Cenom. 416; Cart.
Château-du-Loir 44]
Mother:
Mathilde de Château-du-Loir.
[OV x, 8 (v. 5, pp. 228-9), viii,
11 (v. 4, pp. 196-7)]
Spouse:
Foulques (Fulk) V, d. 1143, count of Anjou, king of Jerusalem.
[OV x, 8 (v. 5, pp. 228-9), viii,
11 (v. 4, pp. 196-7); Act. Pont. Cenom. 416]
Children:
[OV x, 8 (v. 5, pp. 228-9); see the page on Fulk V for further details.]
Geoffrey V
"Plantagenet", d.
1151, count of Anjou, duke of Normandy, m. Matilda of England and Normandy, daughter
of Henry I of England.
Helias, d. 1151 [Chr.
Vind.], count of Maine;
m. Philippe, daughter of
Rotrou, count of Perche [Will. Tyre xiv, 1 (vol. 2, p. 49, first
name not given)].
Mathilde, nun at Fontevrault after
husband's death [OV xii, 33 (vol. 6, pp.
330-1)], m. June 1119 [OV
xii, 15 (vol. 6, pp. 224-5] William
the Atheling, son of Henry I of England [Sim. Durh. 2: 257-8, 267].
Sybil, m. (1) Guillaume
(William) "Clito"
[OV xi, 37 (vol. 6, pp. 164-7); Sim. Durh. 2: 267]; (2) Thierry d'Alsace, count of
Flanders [OV xii, 46 (vol. 6, pp. 378-9); Gen.
Com. Flandr., MGH SS 9: 307; Ex Chronico Elnonensi S.
Amandi, RHF 13: 454]
Act. Pont. Cenom. = Busson & Ledru, eds., Actus Pontificum Cenomannis in urbe Degentium (Archives Historiques du Maine 2, Le Mans, 1902).
Cart. Château-du-Loir = Eugène Vallée, Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (Archives Historiques du Maine 6, Le Mans, 1905).
Chr. S. Albini Andegav. = Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis, in Marchegay & Mabille, eds., Chroniques des Églises d'Anjou (Paris, 1869), 19-61.
Chr. S. Flor. Salm. = Breve Chronicon Sanctii Florentii Salmurensis, in Marchegay & Mabille, eds., Chroniques des Églises d'Anjou (Paris, 1869), 179-195.
Chr. Vind. = Chronicon Vindocinense seu de Aquaria, in Marchegay & Mabille, eds., Chroniques des Églises d'Anjou (Paris, 1869), 153-178.
ES = Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln (neue Folge), (Marburg, 1980-present).
MGH SS = Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores series.
Nec. Mans = Busson & Ledru, Nécrologe-obituaire de la Cathédrale du Mans (Archives Historiques du Maine 7, Le Mans, 1906).
OV = Marjorie Chibnall, ed. & trans., The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1969-80).
Sim. Durh. = Thomas Arnold, ed., Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, 2 vols. (Rolls Series 75, 1882-5).
Will. Malmes. = R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, & M. Winterbottom, eds., William of Malmesbury - Gesta Regvm Anglorvm - The History of the English Kings, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1998).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin