Seigneur Hugues DE CRAON
(-Abt 1140)
Marquise DE VITRÉ
(-Aft 1162)
Valéran DE BEAUMONT, Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester
(1104-1166)
Agnès DE MONTFORT, dame de Gournay-sur-Marne
(Abt 1122-1181)
Seigneur Maurice II DE CRAON
(-1196)
Isabelle DE MEULAN, dame de Beaumont-Le-Roger
(-1220)
Seigneur Amaury I DE CRAON
(-1226)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Jeanne DES ROCHES, dame de Sablé...

Seigneur Amaury I DE CRAON 1

  • Born:
  • Married: Abt 1212
  • Died: 15 May 1226

  Research Notes:

"Mauritius de Credone filius Hugonis" appointed "meæ uxoris Isabel" as guardian of his lands and his children in his undated testament, in which he named his sons "Mauritium et Amauricum…Petrus…qui futurus est clericus" and provided for their inheritance of his lands in the order "Mauritius…Petrus…Amauricius". The Gesta Guillelmi Majoris Andegavensis Episcopi names “Amauricus filius primogenitus et heres nobilis viri Domini Mauricii Domini de Credonio et de Brioleto, puer undecim annorum vel circa”, undated. Maurice Seigneur de Craon donated property to Chaloché, with the approval of "Isabelle sa mère…Pierre et Amaury ses frères", by charter dated 1207.

Seigneur de Craon. "Amauricus dominus Credensis, junior filius Mauricii de Credone" donated property to Roë, for the soul of "Mauricii de Credone fratris mei primogeniti", and records another donation “defuncto...postea Petro de Credone...fratre meo”, by charter dated 1216, recorded in a vidimus dated 1241. "Amaurricus dominus de Credonio" donated property to Craon Bonshommes by charter dated 1217. The Chronicon Turonense Magnum records that "Amorricus de Credone" succeeded "in senescallia" after the death in 1222 of "Guillelmus de Rupibus senescallus Andigavensis", whose daughter he had married. "Amaury de Craon et Jeanne de Roches, Geoffroy de Châteaudun et Clémence des Roches" confirmed the donation of revenue made to Bonlieu abbey by “Guillaume des Roches et Marguerite de Sablé” by charter dated [16/31] Jul 1222. "M[argarita] domina Sabolii [...quondam uxor domini Guillelmi], Amauricus de Credone senescallus Andegavensis [...Johenna uxore mea], G[aufridus] vicecomes Castriduni [...de assensu...Clementiæ uxoris meæ]" confirmed exemptions granted to the inhabitants of Cohémon by “dominus noster bonæ memoriæ G[uillelmus] de Rupibus seneschallus Andegavensis” by charter dated 1222 [after 15 Jul]. “Amalricus de Credonio” noted that Louis VIII King of France granted him property of “dominus meus Guillelmus de Ruppibus senescallus Andegavensis” by charter dated Aug 1223. "Amauricus de Credone" confirmed donations to Craon Bonshommes made by "domino Mauricio bone memorie patre meo et a domina Isabelle matre mea et a fratre meo Mauricio" by charter dated Jun 1224.

The Chronicon Savigniacensis Monasterii records the death in 1226 of "Amalricus de Creon, senescallus Angliæ [Andegaviæ]". The obituary of Craon Bonshommes records the death 15 May of "dominus Amauricus de Credone senescallus Andegavensis", recording his donation to the monastery which is noted above. 2

  Marriage Information:

Amaury married Jeanne DES ROCHES, dame de Sablé, Briolé et Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe, daughter of Guillaume DES ROCHES, Senechal of Anjou, and Dame Marguerite DE SABLÉ. (Jeanne DES ROCHES died on 28 Sep 1238.)

Sources


1 Racines et Histoire, Lignages, Seigneurs de Craon, p. 4.

2 Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Medlands: Amaury [I].


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