Robert IV of Sanded

Robert IV of Sanded , lord of Sablé is the eleventh Master of the Ordre of the Temple. It is noble which one knows little about the origins rather. It twice seems to have been married and to have had three children (two girls and a boy) before entering the Ordre of the Temple.

Biography

Origin

Besides the genealogists threw some darkness on the origin of last representing of the family of Sanded, by affirming that it is resulting from a lady of Chources, without bringing any text to confirm this assumption. It may be that they followed Of Paz, Of Holy-Marthe and of Quatrebarbes.

One could at most admit a first marriage of Robert III of Sanded, of which there would not remain any more evidence, since Hersende, his wife, is named since the beginning of its widowhood in 1152 until 1190, and that she is known as expressly mother of Robert IV (?). There exists well a charter of Evron, where the mother of Robert IV is named Emma, which one can explain by a double name that this lady had carried, Hersende and Emma, or by a bad reading.

Court of England

The foundation of Robert for his Geoffroi brother roughly goes back to 1170; it made admit a clerk with the Abbaye of Saint-Aubin, gratifié liberally by him, the same year. The nineteen years during which one does not intend any more to speak, it undoubtedly passed them to the court of Henri II of England and Richard Heart-of-Lion. When it decided to follow Richard to the Croisade of 1190, it was laid out to with it by pious foundations. That of the Perray, in Ecouflant, under the term of Notre-Dame for the Benedictine S, dated with forgery from the year 1120, is by the titles of lord of Briollay which the founder takes, and by all the circumstances of the text, of the year 1189. The founder and owner allot to him grounds and privileges in the parishes of Ecouflant, Briolay and Saint-Silvain. The second foundation, that of the Wood-Renou, known as later of Perray-Neuf, was made also in 1189, by Robert IV, in the presence of his mother and his wife, with the assistance for a third of Pierre de Brion. It will be question again, when Guillaume of the Rocks and Marguerite, his wife, transfers it to Précigné.

Crusade

Robert being about to leave for the crusade, the abbot of Évron Geoffroi asked for to him the recognition of two sums of money of revenue and a procuration on the ground of Cadoin. The noble knight made it receive honourably by his son, being prevented from doing it itself because of the preparations of his voyage. It was the June 6th. Then, it led it in its keep and showed him from there ground in charge of the royalty; finally with knees and without agree to be raised, it served the wine to him of hospitality. It had the insurance of the fraternity of the monks in the presence of Emma, her mother, and of Geoffroi, his son, who it requested never not to miss with his duties towards the monks. It left then.

Richard named it, with Gerard, archbishop of Auch, Bernard, bishop of Bayonne, Richard de Chamvil, Guillaume d' Oléron, member of his council for the government of the fleet English E, Normand E, Breton and of Aquitaine and the exercise of justice. The lord of Sanded had in particular the load of the fleet, attended during the voyage the constitution of the Douaire of the queen Bérangère de Navarre.

Order of the Temple

Arrived in Palestine, it was accepted Ordre of the Temple and was immediately promoted with the dignity of large-Master. One sees it in function until in 1193, date probable of his death. Robert de Craon, had had this dignity as of 1138.

After the death of Gerard de Ridefort, Templiers leave vacant the post of Master several months and benefit from it to reform certain points of the Rule which relate to in particular the disciplinary measures to be taken in the event of failure with its responsibilities for the supreme leader of the Order. It is thus probably only in October 1191 which Robert de Sablé - a new man - is elected some month after his admission in June 1189. Guillaume de Tyr locates even the election at the beginning of 1191.

Friend of the sovereign of England, Richard Lion-hearted, it takes part in the catch of Midsummer's Day d' Acre the July 13rd 1191 then with the Bataille of Arsouf where Saladin undergoes a broad defeat. Robert de Sablé is of all the engagements against Saladin and dies in October 1193 at the time when is signed the three years truce between Richard and the sultan of Egypt which authorizes the entry of the pilgrims with Jerusalem.

Family

Robert IV was the son of Robert III of Sanded and Emma ou Hersende .

Robert IV of Sanded married Clémence de Mayenne , girl of Geoffroy II of Mayenne . Juhel II of Mayenne, his/her brother, gave him for dowry the seigniory of Angon in the Cotentin, close to Coutances. It appears several times in the acts of her husband, but is not known later that 1189, and did not live in 1190 any more, when he left for the crusade, since it does not appear beside her mother-in-law Emma or Hersende in her last charter.

Robert had of this marriage:

  1. Geoffroi , known as of Cornillé , of the name of a seigniory angevine, in the Boissière-Saint-Florent, whose Robert Burgundian the had given the field to the Ronceray, and that Geoffroi, the last of the name, allotted for the share which remained to him with the Abbaye of Perray-Neuf in 1190. It still made a gift with the abbey of Perray, in Écouflant, in August 1200;
  2. Marguerite , woman of Guillaume of the Rocks;
  3. Philippe , woman of Geoffroi Hammer . “ Lord Robert de Sablueuil had two girls, reads one in an investigation of the 14th century into the use of the counties of Anjou, Touraine and Maine; lord Guillaume of the Rocks ot ainznée, and by this ot the aforementioned Guillaume all the baronnies which appartenoient to that the Guillaume and all the other seigniories Li ensement remestrent the baronnies free and delivered to hold and with expleiter, by reason of ainzness, without lord Jeuffroi Marciau which ot the other with woman in eust tenist riens in addition to LX books of revenue, which Li diz Robert Li avoit given in marriage. ” In spite of the last sentence member which would seem to indicate that Philippe had been married the alive one of his father, which would fix the marriage of Marguerite, his sister, to one former time, the Abbé Angot affirms that it of it is nothing.

He adds that no matter what says some Bertrand de Broussillon, Gilles Ménage had ended up identifying exactly Geoffroi Marteau in his last Additions, guessing in “ Jeuffroi Marciau, ” the name Geoffroi Martel or Hammer which are given to him expressly in the charters of the hospital of Angers. The January 8th 1195, indeed, Geoffroi Hammer, on the council of Philippe (of Sanded), his wife, concedes with the chaplaincy all that Foulque had given him of Mastac, his/her father, on Femart and Worst. He was father:

    1. of Guillaume Hammer, lord of Arvert and knight, died before the June 7th 1225;
    2. of Foulque de Mastas, which in its turn confirmed its donations;
    3. of Robert de Sablé, lord of Mastas and Mornac in Saintonge, which carried one ecu to the losangée band, which is of Mastas, and to the reverse a contrescel, with the eagle of Sanded and word SECRETUM forward. This last was father of Foulque de Mastas which owed 200 pounds in 1252 for the ransom of his/her father and owed homage to Henri III of England, king d' Angleterre, for a ground of the island of Oléron assigned with his/her Geoffroi brother.

Robert IV had towards 1170 armorié seal an undoubtedly of the ecu charged with an eagle which one still sees on the tomb statue of his father. The tombstone of Robert de Sablé is visible in the abbey church of the Abbey of Solesme located close to the city to Sanded in the south of the Sarthe (72) Source Rings Historical SAND ROBERT

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