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Personal data Bertrade van Montfort 

  • She was born in the year 1070.

    Waarschuwing Attention: Was younger than 16 (0) when child (Eustatia van Frankrijk) died (??-??-1043).

  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Bertrada van Montfort (ca. 1070 - abdij van Fontevraud, 14 februari 1117) was een dochter van Simon I van Montfort en diens tweede echtgenote Agnes van Évreux. De mooie Bertrada huwde in 1089 met de bijna 30 jaar oudere Fulco IV van Anjou (1043-1109), die hiervoor zijn vierde echtgenote verstootte. Dit huwelijk was de bezegeling van een militair verbond tussen Simon en Fulco.

    Inmiddels was koning Filips I van Frankrijk uitgekeken op zijn vrouw Bertha van Holland, die heel dik zou zijn geworden. In 1092 trouwden Filips en Bertrada met elkaar, hoewel ze allebei nog getrouwd waren. Het is niet duidelijk of Bertrada Fulco uit vrije wil heeft verlaten of dat ze door Filips was ontvoerd. Hoewel Filips en Bertrada hun eerste huwelijken lieten ontbinden, werd hun huwelijk niet door de kerk erkend. In 1095 volgden zelfs de excommunicatie van Filips en Bertrada en een interdict voor heel Frankrijk. Filips en Bertrada scheidden om aan de eisen van de paus tegemoet te komen, maar bleven samenwonen als man en vrouw. Het is bekend dat Bertrada meerdere pogingen heeft gedaan om haar stiefzoon Lodewijk VI van Frankrijk uit de weg te ruimen zodat haar zoons Filips zouden kunnen opvolgen, maar dit had geen succes. Na de dood van Filips in 1108 trok Bertrada zich terug van het hof en stichtte de abdij van Fontevraud en trad daar in het klooster. Ze is begraven in de priorij van Hautes-Bruyères in Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré, waar haar halfzuster Isabella sinds 1112 als non leefde.
  • (Levens event) .Source 2
    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.
    Marriages

    First married to Fulk IV, Count of Anjou in 1089 and the mother of his son Fulk of Jerusalem, when the lovely Bertrade 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, and they became the parents of a son, Fulk, but in 1092 Bertrade left her husband and took up with King Philip I of France. Philip married her on 15 May 1092, despite the fact that they both had spouses living. He was so enamoured of Bertrade that he refused to leave her even when threatened with excommunication. Pope Urban II did excommunicate him in 1095, and Philip was prevented from taking part in the First Crusade. Astonishingly, Bertrade persuaded Philip and Fulk to be friends.

    Later life

    According to Orderic Vitalis, Bertrade was anxious that one of her sons succeed Philip, and 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. Bertrade lived on until 1117; 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." Her son from her first marriage was Fulk V of Anjou who later became King of Jerusalem iure uxoris. The dynasties founded by Fulk's sons ruled for centuries, one of them in England (Plantagenet), the other in Jerusalem.
  • She died on February 14, 1117 in Fontevraud, Frankrijk, she was 47 years old.
  • A child of Simon I van Montfort l'Amaury and Agnes van Évreux
  • This information was last updated on November 14, 2012.

Household of Bertrade van Montfort

(1) She is married to Fulco IV "le Rechin(= de Norse)" van Anjou.

They got married in the year 1089, she was 19 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):


The couple were divorced in 1092.Source 4

Oorzaak: ze was in bigamie gaan leven met Filips I van Frankrijk


(2) She is married to Philips I van Frankrijk.

They got married after May 15, 1092.Source 5


Child(ren):

  1. Filips van Mantes  1093-> 1133

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Sources

  1. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrada_van_Montfort
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrade_de_Montfort
  3. www.genealogieonline.nl/de-meijer-stamboom/I1228.php en http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulco_IV_van_Anjou
  4. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulco_IV_van_Anjou
  5. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filips_I_van_Frankrijk

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