Bertrade de Montfort

Bertrade de Montfort

Female Abt 1070 - 1117  (~ 47 years)

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  • Name Bertrade de Montfort  [1
    Birth Abt 1070 
    Gender Female 
    Death 14 Feb 1117  [1
    Person ID I1255  Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
    Last Modified 27 Jul 2011 

    Father Simon I de Montfort,   b. Abt 1025, Montfort l'Amaury, Ile de France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1087, Epernon, Normandy Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 62 years) 
    Mother Agnes d'Evreux,   b. Abt 1040, Normandy Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1087 (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Family ID F640  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Foulques IV "le Rechin",   b. Abt 1043, Anjou Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1109, Anjou Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1090  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Foulques V "le Jenn",   b. Abt 1092   d. Abt 1143 (Age ~ 51 years)
    Family ID F333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jul 2007 

    Family 2 Living 
    Family ID F639  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2010 

  • Photos
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    Bertrade-montfort2.jpg

  • Notes 
    • Bertrade de Montfort (c. 1070 - 14 February 1117) was the daughter of Simon I de Montfort and Agnes, Countess of Evreux. Her brother was Amaury de Montfort. The oft-married Fulk IV, Count of Anjou, was married 1089, when the lovely Bertrade de Monfort caught his eye. According to the chronicler John of Marmoutier: "The lecherous Fulk then fell passionately in love with the sister of Amaury de Montfort, whom no good man ever praised save for her beauty." Bertrade and Fulk were married. William of Malmesbury says: "Bertrade, still young and beautiful, took the veil at Fontevraud Abbey, always charming to men, pleasing to God, and like an angel." A son from this marriage was Fulk V of Anjou who later became King of Jerusalem. The dynasties founded by Fulk IV's sons ruled for centuries, one of them in England (the Plantagenet Kings), the other in Jerusalem In 1092 Bertrade left Fulk IV and took up with King Philip I of France whom she married 15 May 1092, despite the fact that they both had living spouses. Pope Urban II excommunicated Philp in 1095 an action that prevented him from taking part in the First Crusade. According to Orderic Vitalis, Bertrade was anxious that one of her sons succeed Philip so she sent a letter to King Henry I of England asking him to arrest her stepson Louis. Orderic also claims she sought to kill Louis first through the arts of sorcery, and then through poison. Whatever the truth of these allegations, Louis succeeded Philip in 1108. -Wikipedia [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), pp82-83 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S534] Website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrade_de_Montfort (Reliability: 3).



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