Raoul VIII of Beaumont-with-Maine

. Raoul himself asks to the same day the king not to believe those which would have served it close to him and to approve his services.

But soon the things change face. Arthur and Philippe-Auguste, his ally, start again the fight against king Jean, ensure the possession of Domfront and of the Passais Norman with Raoul de Beaumont, who consequently and especially after the murder of Arthur by his uncle, remains always the ally of king de France, but being held as much as possible with the variation of the fights and the wars. Mr. A. Bertrand de Broussillon says that this fidelity was worth the lease of the young person to him Guyonnet of Laval, preferably to Guy de Thouars, brother-in-law of Guy VI of Laval. If the lease were at once made up after death of Guyonnet in 1201, it would have to be allotted on the initiative of Jean-without-Ground, rather than with Philippe-Auguste, who would have made only maintain it. Raoul kept it in any case until the majority of Emma of Laval, sister of Guyonnet, and still led the Ost of Laval to the Bataille of Bouvines, 1214. In this circumstance, it had renewed the gifts of its family to the abbeys of the Seam, Étival and Évron. Cartulaire of Perseigne names it by error Richard in two acts of Robert d' Alençon, 1214 - 1215.

At the time of the conquest of the Normandy by Philippe-Auguste, the Viscount of Maine gave between his hands Domfront, and the king had it on several occasions in favor of his partisans. Raoul made homage to the king in of it 1210, as well as all his other grounds. In 1216, it renewed with the king his oaths of fidelity and gave him his/her son Richard as an hostage, promising to make him open his places, undoubtedly when it left for the conquest the England with the prince Louis. This forwarding, blamed by the pope, attracted on him the Excommunication. It returned in sick France; was made exonerate, made wish, in the event of cure, to leave for the Ground-Holy , embarked indeed with the German S and the Czech S, with Raoul, wire of the Count de Chester, the Count de Nevers, Olivier, wire of the King d' Angleterre, the counts of Walk and Bar, was with the Siège of Damiette and fell to the hands from the Infidèle S in 1219.

Raoul, sunken to France towards 1222 - 1223, confirmed its alms. About to leave with Louis VIII against the Albigensian, it made repurchase for 300 pounds by the prior of Vivoin the constraint of an annual stay to the priory for its bleedings; and that more expensive “ of the ammunition ” where him, its knights and their wives came to take their frolicking in the establishment, three times per day during three days. It was in 1226. The same year, he inherited for a share, undoubtedly of the chief of his mother, Guillaume of the Pole, bishop of Châlons, last representing Famille of Rotrou; attended like referee the homage paid to the king by Jeanne of the Rocks, lady of Craon, for the seneschalsy of Anjou, 1227; was those which declared the forfeiture of Pierre Mauclerc. In 1231, one sees it among those which complained with the pope about the encroachments about the prelates on the secular jurisdiction.

Its pious liberalities are innumerable. Assent of Lucie of the Eagle, her mother, it gives to Saint-Aubin of Angers the vault of Raillou , for the safety of Richard, its father. One sees it carrying out the project of foundation of a birthday for Richard, his older brother, and concluding with the chapter from Mans a business which the wars of time had prevented it from carrying out: the exchange against a revenue of 110 grounds of the Castle of the Borough-the Bishop, known as Borough-the-King since his father held it of Henri II of England and of Richard Heart-of-Lion. It gives to the Prieuré of Vivoin the obligation to provide a man to carry his pot when it went in war, 1205; with the priory of Torcé the Right of past, 1212; with the priory of the Charts right to be made lodge with dogs and horses. At the time of the centenary of the foundation of Étival-in-Charnie by its grandfather, it founded his birthday with the abbey, 1209. Bilard wrongly allots this act to Richard de Beaumont.

Guillaume de Beaumont, bishop of Angers, always under the English influence, exhorted his/her brother, in the name of the nobility of his race, to respect the legacies of king Richard in favor of the Abbaye of Mélinais, if vultis vestram nobilitatem and honorem ab infamia evitare (after 1209). It did not miss there, in spite of its attachment with the French cause.

We see Raoul giving to the abbey based by the kings of England, its rights on the Loir, of Polers to the Port-Chevache; with the Abbey of Évron, a Holy-Suzanne revenue on ; with the Abbey of the Seam, new advantages with Rented; with Étival, 10 books of Holy-Suzanne revenue on and Beaumont.

In the last years of its life, it contributed effectively to the foundation of the Chartreux of the Park of Orcs , since it gave for this purpose with his niece, the Comtesse of Fiff, a canton of the Charnie, and made confirm by holy Louis the creation of this house, 1235, 1236. It supported the Minor Frères of Mans, approved the sale by the Cistercien S of the Abbaye of Bellebranche to the Chartreux of the Park of the place of Brutality given by him.

Family

Raoul had as a woman Agnès , whose family name is not indicated nowhere, but which often appears in the acts of her husband. She lived in 1226. Pierre-Joseph Odolant-Desnos supposes that it is of its chief that Raoul de Beaumont had the seigniory of the Arrow. It is the first of its family, in any case, which carried the title from there, and as the king of England previously had the Arrow, one can believe that it is them that it obtained this prerogative. Under these conditions, the most probable assumption is that a marriage, similar to that of Roscelin its grandfather, can have gotten this advantage to him.

Agnes would be thus a natural girl of the one of the last three kings d' Angleterre , Henri II of England, Richard or Jean-without-Ground, as been engaged of Roscelin was the girl of Henri Ier of England.

The children of Raoul and Agnes were:

Richard II of Beaumont († September 17th 1242), which succeeded his/her father;
the Raoul de Beaumont , youngest, but which lived in 1218 and perhaps later;
Guillaume de Beaumont († ~ 1241 - 1242), qualified knight in 1236, ratifying the gift of Raoul, his brother with the Park of Orcs, and another of same in the chapter of Saint-Pierre-of-the-Court, 1237. Its name is mentioned in the title of a charter of 1238, copied for Gaignières.
Agnes de Beaumont (° ~ 1225 - X February 12th 1253 - † May 9th 1301), viscountess of Beaumont-with-Maine, rams Arrow, Fresnay, Holy-Suzanne, of Lude and Castle-Gontier, which inherited all his/her brothers and married on February 12th 1253 Louis de Brienne , wire of Jean de Brienne, Prince de Jérusalem, becoming Viscount of Beaumont, baron of Holy-Suzanne. The dynasty of Beaumont-with-Maine dies out with it.

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