Ancestral Trails 2016 » STEPHEN de PENTHIEVRE I (1061-1136)

Personal data STEPHEN de PENTHIEVRE I 

• He was born in the year 1061 in Bretagne, France.
• Title: 3rd Lord of Richmond
• Title: Count of Brittany, Treguier & Lamballe
• He died on April 21, 1136 in Bretagne, France, he was 75 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1136 in York, Ainsty, Yorkshire.
• A child of EUDES OTTO de PENTHIEVRE and AGNES de CORNOUAILLE

Household of STEPHEN de PENTHIEVRE I

He is married to HAWISE de BLOIS.

They got married in the year 1090 at Bretagne, France, he was 29 years old.

Child(ren):

1. OLIVE de PENTHIEVRE  1105-???? 
2. ELEANOR AGNORIE de PENTHIEVRE  1108-1194 
3. MATILDA de PENTHIEVRE  1094-> 1130 
4. Theophania de PENTHIEVRE  1102-1130 
5. ALAIN de PENTHIEVRE  1096-1146 
6. Henry de PENTHIEVRE  1099-1183 
7. GEOFFREY II BOTEREL de PENTHIEVRE  1091-1148 

Notes about STEPHEN de PENTHIEVRE I

Stephen of Penthièvre, Count of Tréguier, 3rd Lord of Richmond (1058/62- 21 April 1136) was a Breton noble and a younger son of Odo, Count of Penthièvre and Agnes of Cornouaille, sister of Hoel II, Duke of Brittany. In 1093, he succeeded to the title of Count of Tréguier; in 1098, he succeeded his brother Alain as Lord of Richmond in Yorkshire, England.

He is sometimes misidentified as "Stephen, Count of Brittany" in the court documents of King Henry I. This is likely due to his Breton heritage, when in fact at the time Brittany was a Duchy ruled by Alan IV, Duke of Brittany.

Stephen was a benefactor of religious houses. In 1110, he and his wife, Hawise founded the Augustine Abbey of St Croix in Guingamp. On an unknown date, he is recorded as having donated property to Rumbaugh Priory for the souls of his wife and children.

He was the paternal grandfather of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany.

He married Hawise of Guingamp and their children were:

Geoffrey II "Boterel", Count of Penthièvre, married Hawise de Dol, by whom he had issue. Geoffrey received Stephen's Breton lands and was a supporter of Empress Matilda during The Anarchy.
Alan de Bretagne, 1st Earl of Richmond (died 15 September 1146) married Bertha of Brittany, by whom he had issue, including his heir Conan IV, Duke of Brittany. Alan is also known as Alan Niger II; he received Stephen's English lands and supported Stephen, King of England during The Anarchy.
Henry, Count of Tréguier, married Mathilde de Vendome, by whom he had issue.
Maud, married Walter de Gaunt, by whom she had issue, including:
Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln
Agnes de Gaunt, married William de Mohun of Dunster, 1st Earl of Somerset.
Olive, married firstly Henry de Fougères, by whom she had issue; secondly William de St. John.
Theophania (Tiphanie), married Rabel de Tancarville, Chamberlain of Normandy, by whom she had issue
Eléonore, married Alan de Dinan, by whom she had issue.

He died on 21 April 1136 and was buried in York.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_Count_of_Tr%C3%A9guier

Eudes' youngest son, he succeeded his brother Alan the Black in the honor of Richmond, as well as succeeding to the Breton lands. He served as a surety for Henry I for the observance of an alliance with Robert, Count of Flanders, and in 1101, at Windsor, witnessed charters of the King for Herbert, Bishop of Norwich. He was a benefactor of St. Mary, York, and from 1125-35 confirmed to that house gifts of churches, tithes and lands in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, which formed part of the honor of Richmond.

Around 1110 he and his wife founded the Augustinian abbey of Ste. Croix at Guingamp, and in 1130, he founded the Cistercian abbey of Begard. Stephen, in addition to son Alan, his successor of the honor of Richmond, also had sons Geoffrey Boterel II and Henry, and three daughters, Maud, wife of Walter de Gant, Tiffany (or Theophania) who married the chamberlain of Tancarville, and Olive, wife of Henry de Fourgeres and William de St. John. Ancestral Roots states there was another daughter, Eleanor (or Agnorie), wife of Alan de Dinan.
SOURCE: http://www.geneajourney.com/brttny.html#notec

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