Guy VI DE FOREZ Count of Forez

   Research Notes:

The testament of "Raynaudus comes Forensis et dominus Bellijoci" is dated Jun 1270 and names "Guiotum filium meum…Ludovico filio meo clerico…"

Comte de Forez. A charter dated [1/28] Nov 1282 records an agreement between the monks of Cluny and "Ludovicum dominum Bellijoci", and names “dominam Ysabellam matrem suam, relictam domini Raynaudi, quondam comitis Forensis, patris sui” and “dominam Johannam, relictam Guidonis, quondam fratris dicti Ludovici, et comitis Forensis”. The first testament of "G. comes Forensis" is dated 29 May 1275, chooses his burial "in ecclesia beatæ Mariæ Montisbrisonis", names "Isabellam filiam meam" as his heir, and names "consanguinei domini Humberti de Bellojoco, militis, domini Montis Penserii et conestabuli Franciæ…Joannæ…uxoris meæ…Ludovicum fratrem meum". The second testament of "G. comes Forensis" is dated Nov 1277, names "Johannem filium meum" as his heir, and names "Ysabellam filiam meam…Loram filiam meam…Johannæ uxoris meæ et tutorum liberorum meorum". The third testament of "G. comes Forensis" is dated 27 Dec 1277, names "Johannem filium meum" as his heir, and names "Isabellam filiam meam…Loram filiam meam" (adding that he wished the latter to enter the church) "Johannæ uxori meæ".

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   Marriage Information:

Guy married Jeanne DE MONTFORT, daughter of Philippe II DE MONTFORT Seigneur de Castres et de la Ferté-Alais and Jeanne DE LÉVIS, in 1268. (Jeanne DE MONTFORT was born between 1255 and 1260 and died in 1300.)