Gersende of Maine

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Herbert “Wake Dog”, count of Maine.

This relationship is given by Barton (p. 124 fn), by Lesmesle (p. 22), and by LoPrete (p. 577).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Thibaut III, count of Blois.

This relationship is given by Barton, by Lesmesle (p. 22), and by LoPrete (p. 577).

Spouse: Azzo II of Este.

This relationship is given by Barton (p. 124 fn.), by Lesmesle (p. 22), and by LoPrete (p. 576).

Lover: Geoffrey of Mayenne.

This relationship is given by Barton (p. 124 fn.).

Children (by Thibaut):

Étienne (died 19 May 1102 in Ramleh), count of Blois, married Adela of Normandy.

Children (by Azzo):

Fulk (died 15 December 1128).

Hugh V, count of Maine (died 1131) married a daughter of Robert “the Weasel”, duke of Apulia.

References

Barton, Richard E. Lordship in the County of Maine c. 890-1160 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004).

Cawley, Charles. GERSENDE du Maine in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Lesmesle, Bruno. La société aristocratique dans le Haut-Maine (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1999).

LoPrete, Kimberly A. Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067 - 1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).