Warin of Domfront

French: Guérin de Domfront.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1026.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by White. According to Orderic, Warin had cut off the head of a knight named Gouhier de Bellême, who had approached him smiling, and was soon afterwards seized by a demon and strangled before the eyes of his companions. White suggests that the strangulation is probably a description of a death by poison or by stroke.

Relationships

Father: William I de Bellême.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:285) and by Thompson (p. 37).

Mother: Mathilde.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:285) and by White. Thompson (p. 198) suggests that Matilda may have been the daughter of Count Fulcuich.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

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

Adelise married Rotrou I, vicomte of Châteaudun.

Ralf. (Raoul was probably illegitimate.)

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).

Thompson, Kathleen. Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of the Perche, 1000-1226,(The Boydell Press, 2002).

White, Geoffrey H. “The First House of Belleme” in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Vol. 22 (1940) pp. 67-99.