André de Rameru

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 151A:23, Andre I de Rameru and d'Arcis-sur-Aube, married as his first wife, a woman named Adele and as his second wife, a woman named Guisemode, who founded Abbey de Bassefontaine, 1143, and was the widow of Hugues of Pleurs. Andre was the father of Alix de Rameru, Dame of Rameru who married Erard I, Count of Brienne. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Champagne Nobility.
André de Ramerupt is named inChronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines, "Ebalus…de Roceio et Andreas de Ramerut et Arceis comites" as the two sons of "Hilduinus de Ramerut" & his wife Adelaide [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1063, MGH SS XXIII, p. 794]. The Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis names "Ebalum comitem…et Andream comitem de Ramerut et filias" as children of "comes Helduinus )et) Adelaide" [Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis 13, MGH SS XIII, p. 254]. Seigneur de Ramerupt et d'Arcis-sur-Aube. "Duo fratres Ebolus et Andreas et uxores nostre Sibilla et Adelisa et cognatus noster Hugo comes de Domno Martino uxorque eius Rothaidis" donated property to the church of Ramerupt Sainte-Marie by charter dated 1082, which also records that "post hæc comes Andreas" donated "molendinorum suorum de Grandi Prato" with the consent of "uxore sua Guindesmode et filiis duobus Hugone…et Oliverio" [Arbois de Jubainville ´Les premiers seigneurs de Ramerupt´, Pièces Justificatives, I, p. 451]