Mélisende DE GOURNAY, Countess of Evreux
- Born: Ashby, Leicestershire, England
- Married:
- Died: After 14 Mar 1217
 Research Notes:
Her parentage and marriage are confirmed by a letter which purports to be from her daughter "Dame Julian Tresgoze…espouse…a Sr Robert Tresgoos le Second" to "son frère St Thomas de Cantlow, Euesque…de Hereford" which gives a confused version of the family’s lineage: "Sr Hugh de Gornaye" married "la reyne Blanch" [widow of Louis VIII King of France, such a second marriage being impossible chronologically] and had "un fils…Hugh…nostre ayle", who married "la soer le count Renaud de Boloyng", whose daughter "Milsent nostre mere" married "a Count de Euoyse en Normandy" by whom she had one son and one daughter, before marrying "Will de Cantelow nostre pere". Henry III King of England granted "maneriis de Mapeldureham et Petrefeld" to "Rogero la Szuche", as granted by King John except for the dower of "Milesentie que fuit uxor comitis Ebroici", dated 14 Mar 1217. 1
Marriage Information:
Mélisende married Amaury VI DE MONTFORT, Comte d'Evreux, son of Amaury V DE MONTFORT, Comte d'Evreux, and Mabel FitzRobert DE GLOUCESTER, before 1203. (Amaury VI DE MONTFORT died about 1213.)
Marriage Information:
Mélisende also married Sir William III DE CAUNTELO, Knt., son of William II DE CAUNTELO of Aston Cantlow and Mazilia DE BRACI. (William III DE CAUNTELO was born in Eaton Bray, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England and died on 22 Feb 1250/1 in Calne, Wiltshire, England.)
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