ENGLAND, Count Guillaume

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• Name	ENGLAND, Guillaume
  Prefix	Count
  Birth	Abt 1139	Blois, Jura, Franche-Comté, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Oct 1160	Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
  Burial	21 Oct 1160	Montmorillon, Vienne, France, France
  WAC	2 Mar 1936
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  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	BLOIS, King Stephen ,   b. Abt 1095, Blois, Jura, Franche-Comté, France Blois, Jura, Franche-Comté, Franced. 25 Oct 1154, Canterbury, Kent, England (Age 59 years)
  Mother	ENGLAND, Queen Mathilde ,   b. 1105, Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Franced. 3 May 1152, Hedingham Castle, Essex, England (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1125
  Family ID	F24373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	WARENNE, Countess Isabella de ,   b. 1137, Surrey, England Surrey, Englandd. 13 Jul 1199, Lewes, Sussex, England (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	1153
  Family ID	F16092	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CENTRAL%20FRANCE.htm#GuillaumeChartresSullydied1150B, as of 11/4/2014 GUILLAUME de Blois, son of ETIENNE II Comte de Blois & his wife Adela de Normandie ([1090/93]-[1150]). Orderic Vitalis records that “Stephanus Blesensis palatinus comes” and his wife had “filios quatuor: Guillelmum et Tedbaldum, Stephanumque et Henricum”, adding that Guillaume was “gener Geronis de Solleio et hæres” and “vir bonus...et pacificus, et sobole pollens atque facultatibus” (“a good and peaceful man, powerful through his descendants and his wealth”)[2467]. Orderic also provides some indication of his birth year when he records[2468] that his mother Ctss Adela provided troops to Louis VI King of France at the time of the siege of Montmorency in [1108] "because Count Stephen her husband had gone on crusade and her eldest sons, William and Theobald, who were not yet of age, were unable to command troops of knights". The description is confused because Count Etienne had died several years earlier, but it nevertheless provides some indication of the comparative youth of the brothers Guillaume and Thibaut at the time. "Henricus comes cognomina Stephanus necnon et Adela uxor eius cum filiis nostris" granted immunities to Chartres Notre-Dame by charter dated [Oct 1100/1101], signed by "Stephani comitis, Adele comitisse, Guillelmi, Stephani, Odonis, Teobaldi"[2469]. Comte de Chartres. Sire de Sully, by right of his wife. He was disinherited, retaining only Sully. According to Weir, Guillaume is described in the chronicles as an idiot but she does not cite the primary source[2470]. The comment may based on a letter of Ivo Bishop of Chartres which records that, during a dispute (dated by Chibnall to [1103][2471]) with the chapter of Chartres that was awaiting arbitration, he forced the burgesses of Chartres to form a confederation and take a solemn oath to kill the bishop[2472]. Chibnall, in order to reconcile this incident with the description of Guillaume by Orderic Vitalis ("good and peaceful man", quoted above), speculates that he was of retarded mental development and, although irresponsible, violent only in words[2473]. m AGNES de Sully, daughter of GILLES [I] de Sully & his wife Edelburge de Bourges . Her parentage and marriage are indicated by Orderic Vitalis who records that “Stephanus Blesensis palatinus comes...[filius] Guillemum” was “gener Geronis de Solleio et hæres”[2474]. "Post mortem Gilonis de Soiliaco, comes Stephanus Tebbaldi filius" confirmed the rights of Saint-Florent over the monastery of Saint-Gondon sur Loire by charter dated [1098/1101] which names "Willelmus filius comitis Stephani et Agnes filia Gilonis"[2475]. Guillaume & his wife had five children: 1. EUDES [Archambaud] de Sully (-after 1162). m MATHILDE de Baugency, daughter of RAOUL [I] Sire de Baugency & his second wife Mathilde de Vermandois. 2. RAOUL de Sully (-21 Sep 1176, bur Notre Dame de La Charité-sur-Loire). 3. HENRI de Sully (-10 Jan [1188 or after]). 4. MARGUERITE de Sully (-14 Dec 1145). m as his third wife, HENRI I Comte d'Eu, son of GUILLAUME I Comte d'Eu & his [first/second] wife --- (-Fécamp 12 Jul 1140). 5. ELISABETH de Sully (-Jul 1128). Abbess of Sainte-Trinité, Caen in 1127[2495]. ** from Wikipedia listing for William, Count of Sully, as of 11/4/2014 William, Count of Sully, also known as William the Simple (c. 1085 – c. 1150) was Count of Blois and Count of Chartres from 1102 to 1107, and jure uxoris Count of Sully. William was the eldest son of Stephen-Henry, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror. He was the older brother of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, King Stephen of England and Henry, Bishop of Winchester. In the absence of male issue to Henry I, William was the eldest legitimate male heir of the line of William the Conqueror. He would thus have been the principal rival to Henry's daughter Matilda to inherit the throne after Henry's death. However, he was not considered as a candidate for the English crown. Several historians have taken the view that he was passed over because of mental deficiency; hence his soubriquet "William the Simple". Though widely argued, this has never been clearly substantiated. William was at first groomed to inherit the comptal throne as Count of Blois and Chartres, and was designated count shortly before his father's departure on his second crusade in 1102.[1] However he was soon removed from wide ranging comptal duties by his mother, because of his erratic behaviour. He once assaulted and threatened to kill the Bishop of Chartres over a jurisdictional dispute. So, when her second son Theobald came of age, around 1107, Adela elevated him to the position of count of Blois-Chartres,[2] and forced William to retire to his wife's lands in Sully. Family and Children In 1104, William married Agnes of Sully, the heiress to the lordship of Sully-sur-Loire, a woman of admirable beauty attached to the court of William's mother. The marriage of William and Agnes was a happy one and several children were born. Their children included: Margaret (c. 1105–1145). She married Henry, Count of Eu, Lord of Hastings, about 1122. Henry de Sully, Abbot of Fécamp (died 1189) Notes Crouch, David "The Reign of King Stephen, 1135–1154" p12 LoPrete, Kimberly "Adela Countess and Lord" pp216ff References Crouch, David The Reign of King Stephen; 1135–1154 Harlow:Pearson Education Lmt, 2000 ISBN 0-582-22658-9 LoPrete, Kimberly Adela Countess and Lord Dublin:Fourcourts Press, 2007 ISBN 978-1-85182-563-9 Count of Boulogne, Earl of Surrey, William of Blois Third and youngest son of King Stephen of England and Countess Matilda of Boulogne. Grandson of Count Stephen of Blois and Adela of Normandy, the daughter of William the Conqueror, Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, and Mary, the daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland. William married Countess Isabel de Warenne, the daughter of William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey and Adela, daughter of William III of Ponthieu. William became Count of Boulogne at the death of his older brother, Eustace, in 1153, but was passed over for the crown of England in favor of making peace with Empress Mathilda and her son, Henry, became king, and confirmed William was the Earl of Surrey in right of his wife. It was speculated William was involved in a plot led by Flemish mercenaries to assassinate King Henry, but it was never proven. William died "before the gates of Toulouse" and buried at the Poitevin Abbey of Montmorel. Other sources state he was buried at the Hospital of Montmorllion in Poitou. After his death, his sister, Mary, succeeded the position of Countess of Boulogne, and his widow, Isabel married Hamelin de Warenne, the illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and half brother of King Henry II.