Alix DE THOUARS, Duchess of Brittany, Countess of Richmond
- Born: Abt 1200
- Married: Between Mar 1214 and Oct 1214
- Died: 21 Oct 1221
- Buried: 24 Nov 1225, Abbaye de Notre-Dame, Villeneuve-les-Nantes, France
 Research Notes:
The Genealogia Comitum Richemundiæ names "Adelicia" as the daughter of "Constantia filia Conani" and her third husband "Guidoni de Thoarcio", stating that she married "domno Petro Mauclerc". The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "unam filiam Mabiliam" as the child of "Constantiam comitis Conani filia" and her [third] husband "Guido frater vicecomitem de Tuart". A Chronicon Comitum Pictaviæ et Aquitaniæ Ducum names "Alipsam et Catherinam" as the two daughters of "Wido…comes de Thoarcio" and "Constantiam Gaufridi Ducis Britanniæ relictam", stating that Alix married "Petro Comiti Drocarum".
She succeeded her half-brother in 1203 as ALIX Dss of Brittany, Ctss of Richmond. The marriage contract between "G. de Thoarco comes Britannie...A filia mea quam habeo de comitissa Britannie Constancia" and "Alanus filius comitis...Henricus filius predicti Alani primogenitus" is dated 1209. 1
Marriage Information:
Alix married Cte Pierre I "Mauclerc" DE DREUX, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, son of Cte Robert II DE DREUX & de Braine and Yolande DE COUCY, between Mar 1214 and Oct 1214. (Pierre I "Mauclerc" DE DREUX was born in 1187, died about 30 May 1250 at sea off Damietta and was buried in église abbatiale de Saint-Ived, Braine, Aisne, Picardy, France.) |
