Jacques of Castle-Gontier

Jacques of Castle-Gontier , lord of Castle-Gontier.

Biography

Jacques was obviously minor with died of his father, towards 1220. One sees it quoted only in 1226, represented by Mathieu II of Montmorency, lord of Laval, his uncle, who goes parking assent of the young man to the division of the Perche. Jacques had been previously under the supervision of Amaury de Craon. If the note of a Cartulaire of Philippe-Auguste written whereas the child was twelve years old is same year, 1226, one should believe that Jacques was born in 1214. It is a fragment of genealogy establishing the relationship of the heir to Castle-Gontier with Guillaume of the Pole, bishop of Châlons, lord of the Pole, with the succession of which it had rights. The rights to succeed of the son of Alard IV of Castle-Gontier on the Pole, came to him from the alliance of Renaud IV of Castle-Gontier, its great-grandfather, with Béatrix. girl of the first woman of Rotrou III of the Pole, count of the Pole. But to put forward them, it was necessary to proceed against the king of France, holy Louis, the Reine Berengere and Blanche of Navarre, girls of king de Navarre, and against the countess of Chartres, rams of Amboise.

By the final division of this succession which took place in 1230, Jacques of Castle-Gontier had the city and the castle of Nogent-le-Rotrou, a share of the Wood-Porchet, the field of Longvilliers and Montigny. For him, in 1257, it yielded to Louis saint all the rights which it claimed on the counties of Alençon, from the Pole and Mortagne, and accepted in exchange the ground of House-Maugis.

In 1237, it had had to make excuses and to pay fine with the abbot of Saint-Aubin for refusal of homage, insults and vexations; it had order, in June 1238, to for its part pay homage to the Duc of Brittany of the Comté of the Pole; in 1239 attended matrimonial conventions of Guy VII of Laval and Philippe de Vitré; convened like Knight banneret, in 1242, in the royal army of Chinon, it accompanied holy Louis in the countryside which ended in the defeat of the English, with Taillebourg and Saintes.

The lord of Castle-Gontier, which had properties contiguous to that of the Duc of Brittany, repurchased Abbaye of Pale the right of use in his wood to the Chartres-native Pays (1242); made an exchange with the abbey of Clermont in Coudray; and assisted, in 1246, with Orleans, with the other barons Angevin S, with the payment of the repurchase of the noble goods; in the same way, the May 27th 1250, with the “ barons ” of the Craon be born, it decided the conditions of the burial of Maurice V of Craon, between the abbeys of Bellebranche and Roë. It still made before the transfer with the king of Nogent-le-Rotrou, in 1257, an agreement with the prior of Saint-Denis for the clearing of the wood of Verneuil.

Jacques of Castle-Gontier married, in September 1239, Avoise of Laval, girl of Mathieu II of Montmorency. His/her father-in-law was at the same time his uncle, and had always effectively dealt with his interests, putting at his service the influence of his high situation of Connétable of France, the first of the State. The marriage contract between Jacques of Castle-Gontier and Avoise of Laval ensured like dowry of the wife: half of the town of Meslay apart from the castle, all the rights on the ways and passages of the châtellenie of Meslay, the Champagne of Maine, the strongholds of Craon, formerly given to Avoise de Craon, wife of Guy VI of Laval, the Vairie of Quelaines and Houssay, the stronghold of L. of Plessis, faith and homage of Hamelin of Rongère, 1.200 books of revenues on the stronghold of Raoul de Thorigné in Bignon. The alliance of Jacques of Castle-Gontier with Avoise of Laval was that of the three baronnies of Laval, Castle-Gontier and Craon. Avoise of Laval survived her husband, according to a stop of the Parliament which ensures to him the high justice of Hérouville, and lived in 1270 more, at Pentecost.

It gave three children to her husband:

Renaud, dead young, announced by Household, without children;
Emits, married, not in 124 8, but in 1259, Geoffroy of Guerche, lord of Guerche and Pouancé, and convola in 1264 with Girard Chabot, wire of Richard, lord of Retz, with which it sold in 1265 with the archbishop of Tours what they had with the stronghold of Craon. She had died in 1271;
Philippe, married NR. of Lonray, and lived in 1319 more, lawsuit with the children of Bouchard of Laval, lord of Attichy.

Geoffroy of Guerche and Emmette Castle-Gontier had Jeanne of Guerche, woman of Jean de Beaumont, author of the second house of the Viscounts of Beaumont, lords, by this alliance, of Castle-Gontier.

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