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Personal data Adémar "Esmerin de La Roche" de La Roche 

  • Nickname is Esmerin de La Roche.
  • He was born in the year 952.
  • He died before 1037.
  • This information was last updated on December 3, 2016.

Household of Adémar "Esmerin de La Roche" de La Roche

He had a relationship with Alaïz NN.


Child(ren):

  1. Foucauld I de la Roche  ± 978-1047 


Notes about Adémar "Esmerin de La Roche" de La Roche

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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A9mar_de_La_Roche:

'''Adémar de La Roche'''

Adémar de La Roche (ou Amaury ou Esmerin) (v952-av1037) seigneur de La Roche, père de Foucauld Ier de La Roche, fondateur de la Maison de La Rochefoucauld.

Biographie légendaire

Adémar de La Roche naît vers 952, fils du seigneur Hugues Ier de Lusignan (Maison de Lusignan) et de la fée Mélusine (Mère Lusigne). (Certaines sources indiquent plutôt que Hugues Ier serait le fils de Mélusine et de Raymondin, cequi ferait d'Adhémar le petit-fils de Mélusine).
Son père lui donne en apanage le seigneurie de La Roche où la famille construit le Château de La Rochefoucauld.

Il épouse Alaïz avec qui il a pour enfants :
* Foucauld Ier de La Roche (973-ap.1047)
* Géraud.

Adémar disparaît vers 1037. Son fils Foucauld Ier de La Roche lui succède comme seigneur de La Roche, fondateur de la Maison qui prendra en 1063 (à l'avenement de Gui II) le nom de Maison de La Rochefoucauld (par association de son nom « Foucauld et de La Roche »).

Origines

Des historiens avancent qu'il serait fils cadet du vicomte Géraud de Limoges (Liste des vicomtes de Limoges) et de Rothilde de Brosse, et donc frère du Ier vicomte Aimery Ier de Rochechouart, or les armoiries famillales ne vont pas dans ce sens et cette éventuelle filiation n'est pas prouvée par actes. Il en est de même pour l'hypothèse d'une filiation avec les Lusignan. Pour cette dernière les armoiries semblent proches mais cela n'indique pas nécessairement une origine commune. Les motifs héraldiques du blason des Lusignan ne sont d'ailleurs pas rares.

Voir aussi

* Histoire de la Charente
* Château de La Rochefoucauld http://www.chateau-la-rochefoucauld.com/
* Maison de Lusignan - Maison de La Rochefoucauld http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_La_Rochefoucauld

Liens externes

* Charente.angouleme.free.fr
* http://www.chateau-la-rochefoucauld.com

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Ademar may have been a son of one of the early Hugues de Lusignan, although the legend repeated in the French Wikipedia article alludes to his mother as "the fairy Mélusine," a shape-shifting creature, half-woman, half-snake with a blue-and-white striped tail--not unlike a mermaid--who (according to a 14th century legend) married the first Hugh de Lusignan (the Hunter) (or sometimes the story is Guy de Lusignan) and bore him a number of children. See more about her in this article by art historian Vera Ostoia on pp. 22-23 (http://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3257836.pdf.bannered.pdf) and on this wikipage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melusine, from which the following is excerpted:

"Melusine legends are especially connected with the northern, most Celtic areas of Gaul, Poitou and the Low Countries. Sir Walter Scott told a Melusine tale in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–1803) confident that 'the reader will find the fairy of Normandy, or Bretagne, adorned with all the splendour of Eastern description. The fairy Melusina, also, who married Guy de Lusignan, Count of Poitou, under condition that he should never attempt to intrude upon her privacy, was of this latter class. She bore the count many children, and erected for him a magnificent castle by her magical art. Their harmony was uninterrupted until the prying husband broke the conditions of their union, by concealing himself to behold his wife make use of her enchanted bath. Hardly had Melusina discovered the indiscreet intruder, than, transforming herself into a dragon, she departed with a loud yell of lamentation, and was never again visible to mortal eyes ; although, even in the days of Brantome, she was supposed to be the protectress of her descendants, and was heard wailing as she sailed upon the blast round the turrets of the castle of Lusignan the night before it was demolished.'"

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