TALVAS, Countess Mabel^[1]

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• Name	TALVAS, Mabel
  Prefix	Countess
  Birth	1026	Alencon, Bell, France
  Gender	Female
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	2 Dec 1079	Bures, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France   [2]
  Burial	5 Dec 1082	Eure, Haute-Normandie, France
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  Person ID	I68667	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	TALVAS, Lord William ,   b. 1000, Bellême, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France Bellême, Orne, Basse-Normandie, Franced. Apr 1048, Alençon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France (Age 48 years)
  Mother	BEAUMONT, Bildeburge de ,   b. 985, Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine, Pays-de-La-Loire, France Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine, Pays-de-La-Loire, Franced. Abt 1067, Alençon, Orne, Lower Normandy, France (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F32569	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	ALENCON, Guillaume ,   b. Abt 990, Alencon, Bell, France Alencon, Bell, Franced. 1048 (Age 58 years)
  Mother	BEAUMONT, Bildeburge de ,   b. 985, Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine, Pays-de-La-Loire, France Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine, Pays-de-La-Loire, Franced. Abt 1067, Alençon, Orne, Lower Normandy, France (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1015
  Family ID	F32587	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MONTGOMERY, Earl Roger de ,   b. 1022, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Englandd. 27 Jul 1094, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	1048	Perche, Normandy, France   [3]
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 6 May 1970, LANGE. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Abt 1038
  Children	5 sons and 5 daughters
  1. MONTGOMERY, Maud de ,   b. 1023, Mortaigne, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Mortaigne, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Franced. 1107 (Age 84 years)   2. ALENCON, Earl Robert de II ,   b. 8 May 1054, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Walesd. 8 May 1131, Charroux, Allier, Auvergne, France (Age 77 years)   3. MONTGOMERY, Earl Hugues de ,   b. 1052, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Walesd. 31 Jul 1098, Antioch, Turkey (Age 46 years)   4. MONTGOMERY, Phillip ,   b. 1056, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Walesd. 1099, Antioch, Syria (Age 43 years)   5. MONTGOMERY, Earl Roger Poitevin ,   b. 1058, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Walesd. 1102 (Age 44 years)   6. MONTGOMERY, Abbess Emma ,   b. 1060, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales   7. MONTGOMERY, Matilda ,   b. Abt 1062, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Walesd. 1107, Gloucestershire, England (Age 45 years)   8. MONTGOMERY, Mabel ,   b. 1064, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Walesd. 1131 (Age 67 years) + 9. MONTGOMERY, Sibyl de ,   b. 1066, Normandy, France Normandy, France   10. MONTGOMERY, Sir Arnulph de ,   b. 1074, St. Germain Montgomery, Normandie, France St. Germain Montgomery, Normandie, Franced. 1125, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F32500	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  --Other Fields Ref Number: 2830 --Other Fields Ref Number: 5988 BIRTH: Also shown as Born , Alencon, Bell or Orne, France. DEATH: Also shown as Died Bures Castle, France. BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Abbaye, Troarn, France. SURNAME: Also shown as Alencon AFN: Merged with a record that used the AFN 8JF1-JL DEATH: Also shown as Died 1082 Murdered by Hugh Bunel. The historian Orderic, who arrived at St.Evroul some five years after Mabel's death, describes Mabel as apoisoner and a 'monster of iniquity'. However, Cokayne indicates thatOrderic's interpretation of Mabel should be 'received with greatreserve.' (see Complete Peerage, XI:687, note a) According to Orderic (as reported in Transactions of the RoyalHistorical Society, XX:87): "She carried on the feud with the house ofGere, and with Roger [her husband] induced the duke to confiscate thelands of Arnold d'Echauffour, son of the unfortunate William mutilatedby her father; after which she obtained a large part of his estates.In 1063, however, Arnold secured a promise of restitution from theduke; whereupon Mabel plotted to have him poisoned at the castle ofEchauffour, then in her husband's hands. Being warned by a friend, herefused to drink; but Roger's youngest and only surviving brother,Gilbert de Montgomery, drank from the poisoned goblet and died. Soonafterwards the implacable lady bribed Arnold's chamberlain to make afresh and successful attempt....For nearly ten years more the countesscontinued her career of successful wickedness, in the course of which,says Orderic, she caused many nobles to be disinherited and to beg inforeign lands. One of her victims was Hugh de la Roche d'Ige, whomshe deprived of his castle. Driven to desperation, Hugh enlisted theaid of his three brothers; and on the night of 2 December 1079, whenMabel was at Bures on the Dive, they made their way into the castle.The countess was lying in bed after a bath when Hugh burst into herchamber and cut off her head with his sword."

  
  

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  [S985] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S984] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Mabel de Alencon; Female; Birth: About 1015 Alencon,Bell, , , France; Death: 1082; Father: William de Alencon; Mother: Bildeburge de Beaumont; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 30 Sep 2004 [S984] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. ROGER DE MONTGOMERY; Male; Birth: About 1005 , Normandie Province, France; Death: 1123; Father: ROGER DE MONTGOMERY; Spouse: MABEL DE ALENCON; Marriage: 1048 Of Alecon,Bell, , , France; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 30 Sep 2004