Research Notes:

Seigneur de l’Isle-Bouchard. "Burchardus miles et senior, dominus Castri quem vocant ad insulam super fluvium Vigennæ" confirmed the donation of "allodio…Taventum" to Marmoutier by "Theobaldus", at the request of "Theobaldus, Aimericus et Alfredus avunculi", for the souls of "filiorum meorum Hugonis, Huberti atque Aimerici, conjugemque Hermengardis defunctæ, et Agnetis", charter dated 1020. A charter dated 1069 records that "Buchardus miles senior, castri dominus quod vocant Insulam" had donated rights over "allodio Tavennensi" to Marmoutier for the souls of "filiorum Hugonis, Huberti et Aimerici" and for the love of "conjugis suæ Hermengardis", that after his death "Tetbaldus comes" captured the land, that in compensation "Burchardus" donated half "villæ Ripariæ" to the monastery and that "Gaufridus avunculus suus" entered Marmoutier as a monk, and that "Buchardo mortuo, Pelopinus nepos eius" excluded "partem Ripariæ" from his inheritance, signed by "Fulco comes…" [Foulques IV "le Rechin" Comte d’Anjou]. ²