Bouchard I, count of Vendôme

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 9 January 1007.

Place of Death: Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.

The date and place are given by Cawley. Barthélemy (p. 291) gives 1005. Van Eickels gives 1007.

Place of Burial: Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Mother: uncertain.

Barthélemy states that Bouchard came from a line of Bouchards. The Anjou genealogical table in the Lexikon des Mittelalters (volume 9), prepared by Klaus van Eickels, gives his parents as Fulk II "the Good", count of Anjou, and Gerberga of Maine.

Spouse: Élisabeth, widow of Hamon, count of Corbeil.

This relationship is given by Cawley and by the Anjou genealogical table in the Lexikon des Mittelalters (volume 9), prepared by Klaus van Eickels.

Children:

Renaud (died 6 January 1016), count of Vendôme, bishop of Paris.

Élisabeth de Vendôme (died 1000) married Foulques III, count of Anjou.

References

Barthélemy, Dominique. La société dans le comté de Vendôme de l’an mil au XIV^e siècle (Fayard, 1993).

Cawley, Charles. “ BOUCHARD [IV] "le Vieux/le Vénérable" de Vendôme” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Eickels, Karl van. Anjou genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.