Renaud III of Castle-Gontier

Renaud III of Castle-Gontier , lord of Castle-Gontier.

Biography

Castle-Gontier

Renaud III is still known as Infantulus in 1080, and Junior shortly after this date, because, undoubtedly, him these nicknames had been given when it succeeded his father. He is known as still the Goat in a charter of Saint-Vincent, of 1080 with 1096, where his/her son is pilot. The first charter which mentions it, former to 1078, is that of Foulque Réchin which defends to him to take in the borough of Ménil of the habits belonging to the monks of the Trinity of Vendôme. Itself gives up in Ronceray the habit of all the houses which the convent has with Castle-Gontier. In same time, it is pilot with Robert Burgundian the, his father-in-law, of the delimitation of the parish of the Ronceray by the count of Anjou in the presence of the Eusèbe bishop. It had a stronghold with Cré where the abbot Achard of Saint-Serge establishes a monk (1083 - 1094), the year that itself was going in France to serve the king Philippe Ier; it was also, at least partly, lord of Segré, where it gave, of the assent and in the presence of Elisabeth, her mother, with the abbot of Saint Nicolas's Day, under the abbot Christmas, a ground intended for the construction of a church, like thirteen borderings and a ground between the church of Azé and the bridge of Castle-Gontier. It approved also the gift made with the same abbey by Raoul the Fat and gave itself to Saint-Aubin two ponds which it had formed with Castle-Gontier close to his castle.

Subject of Anjou

One always sees it with Foulque Réchin, for example: to attest a donation with the Mount-Saint-Michel time of the abbot Roger (1084 - 1098), or when it obliges Eude de Blason to give up his vairie on the grounds of Saint Nicolas's Day, or when it judges a disagreement between Saint-Aubin and a saddler about the borough of Bank. In all these acts, like in a litigation for the possession of a house on Bridge-of-Maine in Angers] and which was allocated to Saint-Aubin after 1096, Renaud of Castle-Gontier almost always the first rank has; in the same way with sat of the count. He pronounces itself in his court of Castle-Gontier, in favor of Ronceray and against Saint Nicolas's Day of Angers, about a ground ouche in front of the Holy-Gem church.

Quarrel with Laval

In 1085, took place between Castrogontériens and the Laval laws a quarrel which put them at the hands, but one gave, according to the Abbé Angot, to this event an exaggerated gravity. The only text which mentions it is that of the Chronique of Saint-Aubin . It is in five words: LXXXV. - Prælium inter Castrogunterianos and Lavallenses , which is interpreted battle better or brawls that of a war, which would have taken place between the inhabitants of both baronnies. As for what adds Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly that Solomon de Sablé and Amaury de Craon would have interposed for peace, “ after some losses on both sides ”, it should be left with its load, like much of other inaccuracies, more especially as there was then neither of Maurice de Craon nor of Amaury de Craon. At all events, war or simple combat without intervention probably of the barons, took place of the time of Renaud III of Castle-Gontier.

Urbain II

From its time still (1096), Urbain II came to Sablé to invite the old man Robert Burgundian the to take share with the crusade which he preached. He was listened. Renaud, son-in-law of Robert, could only imitate the example of his father-in-law. He did it, but as him also decided to delay of one year or two its departure. He prepared there by giving to Saint Nicolas's Day of Angers a portion of the church of Azé (February 23rd), in Saint-Maurice his meadows of Long-Island. He borrowed also six grounds on his fisheries from Gautier de Montsoreau. The black Cartulaire of the Chapter teaches us that he “ died glorieusement in the service of God ”. The news of its death remained been unaware of probably a long time. One makes it die in 1101. His/her son makes certainly act of personal government in 1102.

He had as a friend and Sénéchal Yves de Gratecuisse.

Family

Renaud III had married Burgonde, girl of Robert the Burgundian one, before 1080, because their Alard son major with had died of his father (1101), and probably as of 1095 and 1096, time when, of living even of this last, it granted after dispute to the abbey of Saint Nicolas's Day the right to form a borough close to the church of Genoa, and confirmed paternal acts.

She gave to her husband a son and a girl:

Alard II, successor of Renaud III;
Laurence, that the author of the House of Craon said by girl error of Alard, with this one, its brother, is quoted before 1098 in a charter of Ronceray for approval by his/her father of the gift of a house with Castle-Gontier made with the abbey by Anselme and Elisabeth, his wife. The Père Anselme says that she married Turpin, stock of the Turpin de Crissé.

One finds a Renaud of Castle-Gontier monk of Marmoutier in 1123, where it fulfilled the functions of secretary.

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