Sybil d’Anjou

Events

Date of Birth: between 1112 and 1116.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The dates are given by Cawley. Van Eickels gives 1112.

Date of Death: 1165.

Place of Death: Bethany.

The date is given by van Eickels and by Cawley. The place is given by Cawley.

Place of Burial: Bethany, Abbey of St Lazarus.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Foulques V, count of Anjou, king of Jerusalem.

This relationship is given by père Anselme ( 6:18), by Nicholas (p. 121), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.

Mother: Éremburge.

This relationship is given by père Anselme ( 6:18), by Nicholas (p. 121), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Guillaume “Clito”. Married 1123, annulled 26 August 1124.

This relationship is given by père Anselme ( 6:18), by Nicholas (p. 121), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Thierry d’Alsace, count of Flanders. Married 1134.

This relationship is given by père Anselme ( 6:18), by Pirenne, by Keats-Rohan (p. 242), by Nicholas (p. 121), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.

Children (by Thierry):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Baudouin.

Philippe (died 1 July 1191), count of Flanders, married (1) Elisabeth de Vermandois; married (2) infanta dona Mafalda de Portugal.

Matthew (about 1137 - 25 December 1173), married (1) Marie de Blois, countess of Boulogne; married (2) Éléonore de Vermandois, countess of Vermandois.

Pierre (died 1176), bishop of Cambrai, count of Nevers, married (1) Mathilde de Bourgogne.

Gertrude married Humbert III, count of Maurienne and of Savoy.

Marguerite I (about 1145 - 15 November 1194), countess of Flanders, married (1) Raoul II, coount of Vermandois (separated before consummation); married (2) Baudouin V, count of Hainaut (Baldwin VIII, count of Flanders).

Mathilde.

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).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Foulques (Fulk) V” in The Henry Project.

Cawley, Charles. “SIBYLLE d’Anjou” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Eickels, Karl van. Anjou genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

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

Nicholas, Karen S. “Countesses as Rulers in Flanders” in Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).

Pirenne, U. “Thierry d’Alsace” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 24 (Bruxelles:1924) pp. 871 - 882.