Guillaume Talvas, count of Ponthieu

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 30 June 1171.

The date is given by Brunel (p. v). Père Anselme (1:539) gives 29 June 1171.

Place of Burial: Abbaye de Saint-André, La Hoguette, Calvados, France.

The place is given by Dodge, citing Kerrebrouck p. 562.

Relationships

Father: Robert de Bellême (baptized about 1057 - died in or after 1130), earl of Shrewsbury and count of Ponthieu.

This relationship is given by Thompson (ODNB), by Power, by Keats-Rohan (p. 236), by Brunel (p. v), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:497).

Mother: Agnès de Ponthieu.

This relationship is given by Thompson (ODNB), by Power, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 236).

Spouse: Hélie (died 1141), daughter of Eudes Borel, duke of Burgundy. Married about 1095.

This relationship is given by Père Anselme (1:539), by Power, by Chandler (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 236), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:497).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Robert (died before 1127)

Robert (died before 1127)

William (died before 1127)

William (died before 1127)

Enguerrand (died before 1127)

Enguerrand (died before 1127)

Mabel (died before 1127)

Clemence married Juhel, lord of Mayenne.

Philip

Guy (II) de Ponthieu (died 1147), count of Ponthieu married Ida.

John (died 1190-1), count of Sées, married Beatrix du Maine.

Ela de Ponthieu (died 10 December 1174) married (1) William (III) de Warenne, earl of Surrey; married (2) Patrick de Salisbury, earl of Wiltshire or Salisbury.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Brunel, Clovis. Recueil des actes des comtes de Pontieu (1026-1279), (Paris, 1930).

Chandler, Victoria. “Warenne, William (III) de, third earl of Surrey (c. 1119-1148)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volumes 5, 12.

Dodge, Roberta. “Guillaume III Talvas, comte de Ponthieu et Alençon” in Europe: Royal and Noble Houses of Europe.

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Kerrebrouck, Patrick van. Les Capétiens (987-1328), Volume 2 in Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France. (Villeneuve d’Ascq: 1987-2000).

Power, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).

Thompson, Kathleen. “Bellême, Robert de, earl of Shrewsbury and count of Ponthieu (bap. c. 1057, d. in or after 1130)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).