Guillaume VII of Sillé

Guillaume VII of Sillé , lord of Sillé.

Biography

Guillaume VII of Sillé, wire of Guillaume VI of Sillé and Béatrix de Coulans, nephew of Robert II of Sillé since Jeanne de Maillé is known as his/her aunt, became heir to the baronnie. As of January 1363, it deadens the stronghold of Bernusse, with the Abbaye of Saint-Vincent of Mans, and exchanged a revenue of wine and wheat due to the priory of Fountain-Saint-Martin for a revenue of 6 silver books (1369). Guillaume de Sillé returned consent to the bishop of Mans by his stronghold of Touvoie for the ground of Montfaucon, and recognized that it was held to carry the prelate since the church of Saint-Ouen to his cathedral to his establishment, and to be used to him as wine waiter with table this day.

Its career was especially soldier. Guillaume was used under the orders of Amaury IV as Craon, lieutenant of the king in the Maine and the Anjou. With eleven other knights, it was committed with him paying with Perrot d' Uziez a sum of 10.500 books for the ransom of several places, the June 4th 1365, and saw its own castle taken by the English before 1368. Its military services are known by watches of the August 16th, the 8 and September 27th 1369; it then ordered a company of a knight and four riders, and with Amaury de Craon continued the English started from Castle-Gontier, in Brittany and with Saint-Saver-the-Viscount. He was under the orders of Jean de Bueil in February 1380, with a knight and twelve riders, and, in the army joined together with the Mans in July 1392, ordered a knight and ten riders.

With one of his brothers, whom one does not name, it engaged part of its goods and left for the Hungary, leaving his wife and her children. It was under the orders of the Count of Walk and did not give any more a its news. His/her mother declared it thus the March 2nd 1397. One believes it dead in Nicopolis the previous year.

Guillaume VII had married Perronelle de Coesmes, girl of Brisegaud de Coesmes, lord of Bourgon, and Marie d' Eschelle. Perronelle, by will of the July 15th 1400, founded its birthday, those of her husband and Jean, his son deceased, in the collegial one of Sillé.

It remained to him like children:

Anne de Sillé;
Marie, lady of Grandchamp, which married:
1. Jacques de Surgères, of which it was the third woman, and of which it had Isabeau, woman of Foucaud de Rochechouart, then of Guillaume de Fontville;
2. Jean de Champagne in Maine, which did it mother of Champagne Anne, woman of Rene of Laval, died in 1501.

There were still several others wire or girls, whose Olivier de Prez had the supervision in 1401 and 1405. Anne remained only heiress.

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