Alard IV of Castle-Gontier

Renaud VI of Castle-Gontier , lord of Castle-Gontier.

Biography

Renaud VI of Castle-Gontier and Alard, lords of Castle-Gontier, Rainaldus and Alardus, domini of astrogunterii , whose young age undoubtedly left vacant the years of 1195 with 1206, on this last date, that of their majority, is perhaps indicated both and together like holders of the baronnie. This community in the title makes suppose that a disease of Renaud, who was the elder one, dedicated it to a nearest death. They give, in 1206, a payment, of agreement with the middle-class men of the city, the chaplains of the Saint-Julien house, for the government of this establishment: the monks of Saint Nicolas's Day, to note their rights of patronage, could celebrate the office when they came in the vault and had alms; the chaplains buried only the brothers and did not receive associates without the opinion of the priests. The Joulain abbot allowed to rebuild the chaplaincy with a vault having only one bell, but required that the chaplain come to lend oath to him. The lord of Castle-Gontier made ratify this arrangement by the referees of Innocent III. As of before the end of this same year 1206, Renaud was buried with Bellebranche.

It is Alard IV alone which, to cure the misery of the poor, gave them a ground with the head of the bridge, and a place to build there; prévôté of the fair of All Saints' day and the heating of the establishment in the wood of Flée and the free passage of the bridge on the condition of maintaining the boards which formed the roadway. Alard, as of the beginning of its government, was also benefactor of the lately founded abbey of Chaloché, to which it yielded a house of his old field of Angers (1207); of that of Saint Nicolas's Day for the concession of a stronghold with Genoa, before 1211; it gave the dîme of its mill of Saint-Jean-on-Couesnon, dowry of his wife, and other mills, with Saint Nicolas's Day de Vitré (1212); it enriches the Abbaye by Bellebranche, yielded a serf to the Bonshommes of Craon, and a Muid of wine on its fortifyings of Castle-Gontier to the Abbaye of Roë.

One says that he was convened with the Bataille of Bouvines, in 1214, and Castling quotes it among the knights bannerets who followed prince operative Louis on the the Loire. He seals of his seal the donation of a Maison of Brissarthe in Saint-Serge, in 1215.

He had undoubtedly died in 1220

Alard IV of Castle-Gontier married, in May 1207, Emma, girl of André II of Glazed. Mr. A. Bertrand de Broussillon made, at the time of this marriage, various criticisms of the version of Pierre the Baud which gives for mother of Emma de Vitré a wife of Andre that it does not know, not named Guyen or Guyonne of Leon; in addition, he precisely recognizes that Eustachie de Raiz, mother of André III of Glazed, cannot be the mother of Emma, being married only in 1199, whereas the oldest daughter of Andre II had been already for a year, though young person still, hostage for the duchess Constance of Brittany, married in 1207 and, less than two years later, mother of Jacques of Castle-Gontier, since he was a minor still and under supervision in 1226. There is thus no reason to stop with the difficulties which suggests the author of the Maison of Laval , against the opinion of the Baud; one must probably admit that Guyonne of Leon was the first wife of André II of Glazed and the mother of Emma before 1196, towards 1190. Mr. de Broussillon mentions marriage, projected or carried out, of Andre of Glazed with Mathilde de Mayenne, girl of Geoffroy II of Mayenne, but which was broken for close relationship; it announces also another alliance contracted by the same lord of Glazed, widower of Eustachie de Raiz, with Luce Paynel, which survived to him.

The setting as an hostage of Emma de Vitré, in England, had been stipulated and authorized by Herbert, old abbot of Clermont and bishop of Rennes, and by Hercot de Raiz in 1198. The young child was to be returned to freedom with the other hostages after the delivery of the Constance duchess, but in fact it was retained until the death of Richard Heart-of-Lion (1199). Approximately seventeen years old, she married Alard of Castle-Gontier the December 7th 1207. She assisted this year with the foundation of the Madeleine de Vitré, with André of Glazed, her brother, and again in 1209 approved it. Though André II of Glazed excluded Alard, his/her son-in-law, with the lease of his brother-in-law André III, in 1211, on the complaints that it made some with Guy de Thouars, husband of the duchess Constance, the young baron of Castle-Gontier was provided with the supervision of his brother-in-law for seven years.

He had of his marriage only one only son: Jacques of Castle-Gontier.

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