Robert
"Brochard" de Château-du-Loir Robert
"Brochard" de Château-du-LoirA younger son of the lord Hamon of Chateau-du-Loir, Robert
does not appear as lord of Château-du-Loir in the surviving
charters, and apparently did not survive his brother Gervais (d.
1067), archbishop of Reims and lord of Château-du-Loir, who was
evidently followed as lord of Château-du-Loir by Robert's son
Gervais II.
[For "Brochard" as a nickname of Robert, see OV x, 8
(vol. 5, p. 229).]
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: 30 June, probably 1065×1067.
["[II kalendas Julii] Eodem die, obiit
Robertus, filius Hamonis de Castrolidi" Nec. Mans, 147]
Place of Death: Unknown.
Father: Hamon, d. 1028×1036, lord of Château-du-Loir.
Mother: Hildeburg de Bellême, daughter of Yves I, lord of Bellême.
Spouse: Elizabeth, fl. 1067×ca. 1095.
Children:
Gervaise II, d. ca. 1095, lord of Château-du-Loir.
[OV x, 8 (vol. 5, p. 229); Cart. Château-du-Loir 11, 15,
19-21]
Adam de Château-du-Loir, fl.
1060×1067-1095.
[Cart. Château-du-Loir 12, 16, 21, 22, 25-8, 30, 32]
Gervaise (the younger) de
Château-du-Loir, fl. 1067, ca. 1085, canon of Saint-Martin
d'Angers.
[Cart. Château-du-Loir 16; ca. 1085: "Gervasius
de Castro Ledi, et Gervasius, frater eius, canonicus Sanctii
Martini; Adam, frater eorum; Helisabeth, mater eorum"
ibid., 25]
Robert de Château-du-Loir, fl.
1067×1068.
[Cart. Château-du-Loir 16]
The generation of Robert is accidently omitted in Winkhaus (1950), who evidently erroneously identified Robert's brother Gervais I with Robert's son Gervais II. This error is occasionally repeated in internet sources which used Winkhaus (1950) as a source.
Cart. Château-du-Loir = Eugène Vallée, Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (Archives Historiques du Maine 6, Le Mans, 1905).
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).
Winkhaus (1950) = Eberhard, "Ahnen zu Karl dem Grossen und Widukind in 765 Ahnenstämmen" (Westfaslen, 1950). [Note: An often unreliable secondary source with little in the way of documentation, this source has been frequently followed as a source by others.]
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin