Guillaume Ier de Sillé

Guillaume Ier de Sillé , lord of Sillé.

Biography

Corvaisier (pp. 79,329) put in circulation a legend according to which the first lord of Sillé, of the time of the bishop Sigefroy (960 - 995), would have assassinated the lord of Tucé and of Milesse.

For expier this murder, it would have been condemned to build a vault served by a chaplain, on the place of the crime. That was repeated by Dom Colomb, André Rene Paige (T. II, p. 32), Cauvin (Stat. of Mans, p. 206), Pesche (T. IV, p. 104), but without any old and serious reference. One even says that Guillaume, sons of the murderer, would have added to the vault of the forest of Milesse an old people's home of Saint-Christophe served by the monks of Saint-Anthony. Corvaisier does not speak about it, and Dom Piolin (T. IV, p. VI), reconsidering its first account, declares that a title of the files of the hospital of Mans proves that the old people's home of Saint-Anthony was rested by the son of Guillaume de Sillé under the reign of Henri Ier de France, king de France, i.e. of 1031 with 1060. That could defer us later that the first legend. In addition, confusion between Henri Ier de France and Henri Ier of England suggest the idea that one is perhaps opposite events of the 12th century rather than of Xe and XIe.

Guillaume Ier de Sillé, founder or not of the old people's home of Milesse, appears in 1049, with Hubert, his brother, and Herbrand de Pirmil, their uncle or grandfather, hostages of the count Hugue of Mans in his contentions with Geoffroy Martel. Like their chief, they broke the word given, and the count of Anjou withdrew to them the strongholds of Saint-Saturnin which it had yielded to Herbrand, and which Goslen, his/her brother, had had under Foulque Nerra. Guillaume would be probably the first lord of Sillé, thanks to the infeodation of a Raoul, Viscount of Maine.

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