Mabel de Bellême

Orderic describes Mabel as small, very talkative, ready enough to do evil, shrewd and jocular, extremely cruel and daring. (White)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 2 December 1079.

Place of Death: Bures.

The date of Mabel’s murder is given by White Mason (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 309), and byThompson (ODNB) give a date of 1077. Mabel was murdered by one of her husband's tenants.

Relationships

Father: William Talvas, lord of Alençon.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:286), by Mason (ODNB), and by Keats-Rohan (p. 309).

Mother: Hildeburg, daughter of Arnulf.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:286) and by White.

Spouse: Roger de Montgomery, first earl of Shrewsbury. Probably married about 1050.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:287), by Keats-Rohan (p. 309), and by Mason (ODNB).

Children:

Roger de Montgomery.

Robert de Bellême, earl of Shrewsbury, married Agnes.

Hugh de Montgomery (died 1098), 2nd earl of Shrewsbury.

Roger the Poitevin (about 1065 - before 1140) married Almodis, sister of Boso (III), count of La Marche.

Philip de Montgomery (died 1097/8).

Arnulf de Montgomery (about 1066 - between 1118 and 1122) married Lafracoth, daughter of Muirchertach Ó Briaín, king of Munster, in 1102.

Emma (died 1113), abbess of Almènêches.

Matilda (died between 1082 and 1084) married Robert de Mortain.

Mabel married Hugues de Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais.

Sybil married Robert fitz Hamon.

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).

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

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

Mason, J.F.A. “Montgomery, Roger de, first earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1094)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 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).

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