39979510. Comte Guy of Thouars & 39979511. Duchess Constance of Brittany
12/19/1154, Henry II succeeded King Stephen of England.
~1160, Guy born in Thouars, France , s/o §§Geoffrey
de Thouars & Aenor de Lusignan.
6/12/1161, Constance born in Brittany, France, d/o 79959022.
Conan IV, duke of Brittany & 189118337. Margaret of Huntingdon.
1166, Margaret, mother of Constance, instigated a grant to
the Cistercian abbey of Sawtry, Hertsfordshire, for the souls of herself, Duke
Conan IV, and ‘our children.’ [This likely indicates a male heir had died
leaving Constance as the heir.]
1166, King Henry and Duke Conan made an agreement to let his
daughter Constance succeed to the duchy; seated at Rennes.
1167, King Louis VII of France protested the proposed
marriage of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Constance to the Pope on the grounds of
consanguinity, but the appeal was rejected.
1171, Constance’s father died.
1173, Guy’s father died, his brother Aimeri succeeding.
9/18/1180, Philip Augustus succeeded as King of France.
[––Constance & Geoffrey––]
7/1181, Constance 1st
married Geoffrey Plantagenet, s/o King Henry II of England. Geoffrey adopted
the designs of Conan IV’s seal and ducal coinage; and took the title “dux
Britannie et comes Richmundie.” [Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond.]
1184, Geoffrey sent to Normandy as one of its custodians.
8/19/1186, Geoffrey Plantagenet died in a tournament in
Paris, France; buried at Notre Dame. [Geoffrey’s son Arthur’s right to the
throne of England would be usurped by Geoffrey’s younger brother (King) John.]
Aft. 1186, Constance styled herself ‘Conani comitis filia.’
Bef. 4/1187, at Nantes, Duchess Constance recorded a
donation for the soul of her late husband Geoffrey.
[––Constance & Ranulph––]
2/3/1188, King Henry II of England married Ranulph, earl of
Chester and viscount of the Avranchin, to Constance of Brittany.
11/3/1189, Richard I crowned king of England.
6/1191, Duchess Constance named in the testament of Maurice
de Craon (39979516), seneschal of Brittany.
1193, Duchess Constance issued 2 charters attested by W.
Ragot.
1194, Constance abdicated her ducal crown in favour of her son
Arthur.
1196, Guy of Thouars [Guido frater Reymundi vicecomitis
Thoarcensis] captured by King Philip at Aumale. King Richard had to pay 3000
silver marks for the ransom of his knights.
1196, Ranulph, 4th Earl of Chester, arrested his wife
Constance of Brittany, widow of Geoffrey Plantagenet and mother of Arthur of
Brittany. He shut her up in the castle of St. James in Normandy.
4/1/1197 at Tours, King Richard restored all of Duchess
Constances’s lands and pardoned her barons. Constance agreed on behalf of her
barons and knights to keep the peace. Once all the oaths were taken and the
treaty recorded, Constance was to be set free.
1197, Constance was visited by her mother.
1198, Ranulph divorced and released Constance.
[––Constance––]
4/6/1199, King Richard died.
4/1199, Constance with son Arthur and a force of Bretons
entered Maine and Anjou to take possession.
4/18/1199, Constance and her son Arthur were received at
Angers to take possession. (S) The Scholar’s History of England, Ramsay, 1903,
P378.
4/6/1199,
King John succeeded Richard I as King of England. [Richard
made his brother John his heir, but previously had named Arthur of Brittany,
who was next in line.]
6/1199, King Philip met with Constance and Arthur at Le
Mans, where Arthur did homage for Maine and Anjou; Philip offering to hold his
castles for him.
[––Guy & Constance––]
By 10/1199, Guy married Constance, her 3rd.
11/1200 at Paris, Peter, son of Robert, count of Dreux,
bound himself to hold to an agreement between King Philip and Guy of Thouars,
count of Brittany.
3/1201, Guy of Thouars, brother of the Viscount of Thouars, recognized
as count of Brittany. Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of King John [and
grandmother of Arthur of Brittany], summoned Guy and his brother to Fontrevault
abbey to solicit their support for her son against King Philip.
1201, Duchess Constance founded the abbey of Villeneuve.
9/1201, Constantia Ducissa Britanniæ died after giving birth to twin girls.
[––Guy––]
5/1202, Guy of Thouars, William de l’Etang, seneschal of
Poitou, and others captured Le Mans [Mont-Saint-Michel] and Angers [Avrenches –
property of the Earl of Chester] for King Philip. Guy was then sent to attack
castles on the western frontier between Pontorson and Mortain.
6/4/1202, Arthur did homage to King John for his English
lands, Guy [Guidon de Toarc] was present.
7/1202, Arthur of Brittany did homage to King Philip for
Brittany.
8/29/1202, Gui of Thouars styled “quondam comitem
Britannie”.
4/1203, Guy of Thouars, late count of Brittany, met with
King John; who confirmed the administrative measures he had taken in the honor
of Richmond.
1203, At a gathering of prelates at Vannes, Guy of Thouars,
Peter of Meulan, Hugh de Gournai, and others left allegiance of King John after
the disappearance of Arthur of Brittany.
9/1203, Guy became regent of Brittany to his step-daughter
on the death of her brother Arthur.
1203, All of Guy’s English lands were confiscated.
1203, Guy married 2nd Eustachie d’Argenton, Dame
de Chemille, widow of William V, vicomte d’Aulnay. (S) FMG.
10/1203, King Philip, declaring that he did not know if
Arthur was alive, issued a charter in favour of Guy of Thouars at Chateau
Gaillard.
1204, Gui of Thouars, with an army of Bretons, supporting
King Philip’s expedition into Normandy, took Mount St. Michael, Avranches, and
the other fortresses in the area.
1206, King Philip completely conquered Brittany; disposed
Guy as duke, but left him as regent for his daughter.
1206, Gui de Thouars supported the invasion of Brittany by
King John.
4/13/1213, Guy died; buried at Chateau de Chemille; the body
then moved in 1225 to Notre Dame abbey, Villeneuve, Nantes.
(S) The Charters of the Duchess Constance of Brittany,
Everard, 1999. (S) History of England, V2, Hume. (S) Loss of Normandy, Powicke,
1999. (S) Scholars History of England, Ramsay, 1903. (S) Brittany and the
Angevins, Everard, 2000.
Family notes:
·
Aenor de Lusignan likely d/o Hugh VIII de
Lusignan & Burgundia de Racon.
·
Guy brother of Aimeri, viscount of Thouars, who
controlled many castles in the north and west of Poitou.
·
A “Guy of Thouars” accompanied King Louis on
crusade in 1147.
Child of Geoffrey
and Constance:
i. Eleanor of Brittany, born 1182-84 in Brittany.
2/14/1192, Eleanor’s marriage to Frederick, son of Leopold
V, duke of Austria, arranged by her uncle King Richard I of England. [Never
finalized.]
1202, Eleanor, heiress of her brother, imprisoned by her
uncle King John, originally at Corf castle.
1204, King Philip II demanded the release of Eleanor.
1206, Eleanor was moved to Bristol castle. [She would be
moved multiple times.]
1208, The English bishops requested the release of Eleanor.
1209, Eleanor was joined by the daughters of King William of
Scotland [her greatuncle] who had been sent as hostages to King John to guarantee
fealty.
1213, King John declaring England a papal feif, Eleanor
became a ward of Pope Innocent III.
1214, Eleanor accompanied King John on his expedition into
France.
1216, King Henry III succeeded King John, even though
Eleanor had a better claim.
1222, ‘Damosell de Bretagne’ transferred from Corfe castle
to Gloucester castle.
1223-24, Eleanor moved to Marlborough castle.
3/1225, Eleanor at Bristol.
11/1237, Eleanor visited King Henry III at Woodstock.
8/10/1241, Eleanor died; buried at St. James, then at
Amesbury abbey. [She spent 40 years as a prisoner.]
ii. Arthur of Brittany, born 3/29/1187 in Brittany.
1190, Arthur designated as heir-apparent to the crown of
England by King Richard I because he was the son of Geoffrey, next in line
after Richard.
1199, Arthur claimed the right to the crown of England on
the death of King Richard. [Richard, on his death bed, designated his younger
brother John as the heir.]
7/1201, Arthur of Brittany led a force in the Norman
territory of King John, and was captured along with “Hugh le Brun”, viscount of
Thouars, and several other knights. (S) Rigord’s Deeds of Phillip Augustus.
1202, King John refused King Philip’s summons to Paris as
his vassal. The French court awarded his lands to his nephew Arthur of
Brittany. King Philip attacked Norman territories capturing most of Brai.
7/1202, Arthur did homage to King Philip for Brittany.
8/1/1202, Arthur of Brittany, potential heir to the throne
of England, imprisoned at Rouen by King John under the care of Robert de
Vieuxpont. [Where Arthur was likely killed by King John.]
4/3/1203 at Rouen, King John killed Arthur of Brittany. (S)
Antiquities of Shropshire, V2, Eyton, 1855, P212.
Children of Guy
and Constance:
i. Alix of Brittany (19989755), born 9/5/1201 in
Brittany.
ii. Catherine of Thouars, born 9/5/1201 in Brittany.
1212, Catherine married Andre, seigneur de Vitre.
1237-40, Catherine died.
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