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André I, seigneur de Vitré
(Abt 1054-1135)
Agnes de Mortaigne
(Abt 1059-)
Alan de Dinan Dinan
(-Bef 1166)
Angoria de Bretagne
Robert de Vitré
Emma de Dinan
(Abt 1136-1205/1206)
Aliénor de Vitré Countess of Salisbury
(1166-1232/1233)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. William de Salisbury Earl of Salisbury

2. Glibert VI Crespin de Tillières

Aliénor de Vitré Countess of Salisbury

  • Born: 1166, Brittany, Normandy, France
  • Marriage (1): William de Salisbury Earl of Salisbury about 1190 1040
  • Marriage (2): Glibert VI Crespin de Tillières 1040
  • Died: After 31 May 1232 and before 18 Aug 1233, Normandy 141,725
  • Buried: Bef 18 Aug 1233, Abbaye St. Martin de Monte Dei 141,758

bullet  General Notes:


~Annals and Antiquities of Lacok Abbey, Pedigree V. pg. 264, shows Alianor as the daughter of Robert de Vitré and Emma de Dinan, and the mother Ela of Salisbury who married William Longespe, son of King Henry II. 759

bullet  Information about this person:

• Background Information. 725
Robert, son of André, married Emma, daughter of Alan de Dinan, and their only daughter, Eleanor de Vitré, married first, William, son of Fulk Painel, secondly, Gilbert de Tillières, and thirdly, William Fitz Patrick, second Earl of Salisbury, and fourth to Gilbert de Malmaines, and outlived him to die in 1233.

~The Conqueror and His Companions, Vol. II, pg. 301

• Background Information. 758
Aliénor de Vitré survived her husband, William, Earl of Salisbury, for thrity-five years. She was the daughter of Robert de Vitré, of Brittany, descended in the male line from a younger brother of the soverighn house of that country, and otherwise allied to them, and to the royal house of England. She married first, William Paynell, lord of Hambie in Normandy, and Drax in Yorkshire, whose widow she became in 1184. Her third husband was Gilbert de Malesmains, who in her right held the manor of Gatesden in Hertfordshire in the year 1205. Aliénor, countess of Salisbury died in Normandy, and was buried by the side of her daughter Juliana in the abbey of St. Martin de Monte Dei, commonly called Mondaye. By the earl of Salisbury she had three daughters, Ela, Juliana and Joane.

~Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Wiltshire, pg. 218-219

• Background Information. 141
Eleanor, widow of all four of her husbands, was the daughter of Robert de Vitré and Emma, daughter of Alan de Dinan. Eleanor married for a fourth time to Gilbert de Malesmaines. In 1205, Gilbert was living in France, while the Countess Eleanor was living on her lands in England. She died between 31 May 1232 and 12 Aug 1233, and was buried in the Abbey of Mondaye, near Bayeus, of which she was a benefactress.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Salisbury), Vol. VXII, pp. 378-379

• Background Information. 1040
Gilbert Tillieres
's wife was Eleanor, the daughter of Robert de Vitre and widow of William Paynell, who died in 1184. Eleanor married thridly William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury, who died in 1196, by whom she was the mother of Ela, Countess of Salisbury who married William Longespee. Eleanor's fourth husband was Gilbert Malmains, who was serving overseas with English forces in 1199 and 1203 but by 1205 had transferred his allegiance to France [Cokayne, Complete Peerage, 11:379]. He has incorrectly been called the father of Nicholas I Malmains [Cussans, History of Hertfordshire, 3:120], but his place in the pedigree is obscure.

Robert de Vitre, father of Eleanor, was married to Emma, daughter of Alan Dinan of Burton.

~New England Historical & Genealogical Registry, Vol. 140, pp. 221-222


Aliénor married William de Salisbury Earl of Salisbury, son of Patrick Earl of Salisbury 1st Earl of Wiltshire and Hele comtesse de Alençon, about 1190.1040 (William de Salisbury Earl of Salisbury was born about 1150 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, died in 1196 in England/France 141 and was buried in 1196 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England 141.)


Aliénor next married Glibert VI Crespin de Tillières, son of Gilbert V Crespin de Tillières and Juliana.1040 (Glibert VI Crespin de Tillières was born in Tillières-sur-Aure, Eure, France and died between Jul 1190 and 25 Mar 1191 in Acre, Palestine 1040.)


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