Galéran Ier de Meulan

Galéran Ier or Valéran Ier was one of the first ''' Viscount of Meulan ''', in second half of the 10th century. It is, seems it, resulting from the family of the Viscounts of Chartres. This family was probably driven out of Chartres at the end of the years 950, when the count de Blois Thibaud Ier the cheater, benefitting from the minority of Hugues Capet, seized the city.

It seems to have married after October 947 Lietgarde, viscountess de Mantes and of Meulan, and widow of Raoul II, count de Vexin, of Amiens and of Valois. According to certain historians, it would have controlled these three counties during the minority of Gautier Ier de Vexin, but this assumption is in fact erroneous, Gautier being the younger brother of Raoul II and not his son, and in addition born towards 920/5, therefore old of at least twenty years at the time of the marriage of Galéran with Lietgarde.

The history retained one son of its marriage with Lietgarde, Galéran II, which succeeded to him Meulan. The Viscount of Mantes returned to the county of Vexin and one can suppose that it was about a douaire made up in favor of Lietgarde.

Galéran Ier died a November 11th, but the historians hesitate in connection with the year, which could be 985,986 or 987. Its widow died one November 12th, into 990 or 991.

Sources

Detlev Schwennicke, Europaïsche Stammtafelm , 1989, band III, telband 4, tafel 700
Counts de Meulan

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