Bertrada de Montfort
Events
Date of Birth: about 1156.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The Complete Peerage (3:167) states that she was aged 29 in 1186 and aged about 71 at her death in 1227.
Date of Death: 1227.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (3:167) and by Johns (p. 127).
Relationships
Father: Simon de Montfort, count of Évreux.
This relationship is given by Power, by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), and by the Complete Peerage (3:167).
Mother: Maud.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (3:167), by Power, and by Bauduin. Père Anselme makes Bertrade the daughter of a (supposed) second wife of Hugh, Amice, countess of Leicester. (Père Anselme appears to have conflated two Simon de Montforts.)
Spouse: Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th earl of Chester. Married in 1169.
This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by Johns (p. 120), by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), by Power, and by the Complete Peerage (3:167).
Children:
(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Ranulf “de Blundeville” (about 1170 - 28 October 1232), earl of Chester, married (1) Constance, daughter of Conan IV, duke of Brittany; married (2) Clemence, daughter of Guillaume de Fougères.
Matilda (about 1171 - January 1233) married David of Scotland, earl of Huntingdon.
Mabel married William d’Aubigny, earl of Arundel and Sussex.
Agnes (died 2 November 1247) married William de Ferrers, earl of Derby, in 1192.
Hawise married Robert de Quincy.
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).
Bauduin, Pierrre. La première Normandie (Xe - XIe siècles) (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).
Johns, Susan. "The Wives and Widows of the Earls of Chester, 1100-1252: the Charter Evidence" in The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History Volume 7 (1995) pp. 117 - 132.
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Power, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Tout, T.F. “Hugh, fifth earl of Chester (1147-1181)”, rev. Thomas K. Keefe in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).