Alard II of Castle-Gontier

Alard II of Castle-Gontier , lord of Castle-Gontier.

Biography

Alard II, seems at least accidentally to control the Baronnie of Castle-Gontier as of 1095. As of before this date, it is pilot gift of the Saint-Germain church by Robert Burgundian the, his grandfather, with Saint-Vincent of Mans. Did he know the death of his father when, the November 16th 1101, it was pilot of a confirmation in extremis by Renaud Burgundian the, his uncle, of his gifts former to Roë? In 1105, we find it who assists, the sixth on seventeen witnesses, with the sentence of Geoffroy Martel the young person concerning Saint-Clement, and the same year with the agreement between Papin de Senonne and the canons of Roë, then in 1107 granting the donation of said Saint-Aignan of Genoa to Ronceray.

Alard is made excommunicate in this same year 1107 with the Concile of Troyes, for its vexations towards the Abbaye of Vendôme and its priory of Ménil, that Marchegay takes wrongly for a suburb of Angers. In same time it is pilot discharge of Guy II of Laval; ratify in 1110 a donation of his/her father to the nuns of Ronceray, and is used to them as witness and guarantee when his mother buys, for the priory of Oat-fields, the goods of the Hamon chaplain.

Alard was seriously sick with Castle-Gontier in 1112; Renaud, bishop of Angers, and Archambauld, abbot of Saint-Aubin, who visited it, accepted some like repair of his wrongs, various favors, such as the handing-over of a sum of money for ground on the selling price of their houses of Castle-Gontier, fee which it charged because these houses were built with the wood of its forests. Renaud, his father, had approved alms with Saint Nicolas's Day of Raoul the Fat; Alard asserted it then returned it to the abbot Lambert (1116 - 1118). He conceded in the same way with the Thiburge abbess, of Ronceray, the church of Saint-Michel-of-Pretend (1104 - 1120). He still desisted (1120 - 1123) from his complaints on the meadows of Long-Island given by his father to his departure for the Ground-Holy .

Time of Alard II the chaplaincy of Saint-Julien of Castle-Gontier needed to be reorganized. Alard initially thought of giving it to the disciples of saint Vital of Mortain, founder of Savigny, known in its area like companion of Robert d' Arbrissel; but the monks of Saint Nicolas's Day, benches with Azé, claimed and had win under the terms of acts of the pope Calixte, of the bishop of Angers, Renaud, of Jean, abbot of Saint Nicolas's Day, of Geoffroy, abbot of Vendôme, the count Foulque the young person and of Alard de Château Gontier. Saint Nicolas's Day began the January 29th and the February 25th 1122 to make serve the chaplaincy by twelve monks. In another form the charitable institution still lasts.

Saint-Aubin had the dîme then port with the wine (March 1st 1123). As of its origin the Abbaye of Roë was well seen by Alard II which made there receive one of its clerks in 1102, and in 1129 an adoptive son, named Herve, whom one finds later religious in Vaux, then prior of Fountain-Glaze. In this same year 1129, the abbot Jean, skilful doctor, came to visit sick Alard, which gave him what it still had with the Genéteil. The Gallia Christiana says wrongly that the patient was the son of Alard.

Alard, towards 1130, yields to Roë the house of the treasurer Hildier or Auger, in its stronghold of Angers, and makes approve this act by its three sons Renaud, Alard and Geoffroy, and by Exulate, his wife. It is pilot the February 14th 1141 (n.st.) of a concession of Geoffroy Beautiful the with the Abbaye of Ronceray of Angers. The charter which makes known to us most explicitly its alliances and its children is that who reports the gift of the vault and the chapter of Saint-Just to the Ulger bishop, the October 16th 1145. It accepted in exchange the sum of 90 books. For him, he added to his donation the transfer of three middle-class men: Gautier the Draper, Gautier de Loigné, Chantereau, and a house close to Saint-Jean-the Evangelist.

The death of Alard must have followed closely this last act. What strikes in its life, it is the importance which takes Castle-Gontier of its time and the taste that it marks there to live and enrich it, while not neglecting its duties and its functions near the count of Anjou.

Family

It had two women which one knows only the first names: Mathilde and Exilie. The first is mentioned only in 1122 and died in 1123, the December 28th. Exilie or Exulate, married undoubtedly shortly after 1123, lived in 1145 more and had to survive her husband. The children probably belong to the one and the other of its two wives, as it follows, of the first bed:

Alard, died before 1123;
Renaud, which lived in 1145, mentioned before Alard, and alone at the last date, after which it disappears;
Alard, which succeeds his/her father, mentioned in 1120;
Geoffroy, which one meets in 1129.

From the second bed probably comes:

Guihéneuc, only mentioned in 1140, witness of a gift with Saint-Serge by Frelon, wire of Agnes, brother of Aimery.

The “ others ” unknown, would be mentioned only in the charter of 1145. Alard II which provides a long career, saw disappearing before him his/her oldest son, and let its successor only survive to him well little of years.

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