Yves

Events


Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.


Date of Death: in or soon after 1005.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by White.


Relationships


Father: unknown.

White holds that he was probably named Yves, which many authors give with less caution.

Mother: unknown.


Spouse: Godeheut (Godehildis).

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:283), by White, and by Lesmesle (p. 228). White notes that Godeheut’s parentage is unknown, but that her brother Seinfroy was bishop of Le Mans and she was also sister either of Fulcoin or of his wife Rhotaïs.


Children:

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


William de Bellême.


Avesgaud (died after March 1039/40), bishop of Le Mans.


Yves


Hildeburg married Aubert le Riche.


Godeheut mararied Hamon, lord of Château-du-Loir.


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).


Lesmesle, Bruno. La société aristocratique dans le Haut-Maine (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1999).


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.