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Guy V de Laval
( - 1210)
According to Wikipedia:
Guy V de Laval 1 († 1210) lord of Laval (Mayenne) . Note that there is sometimes confusion in the books between Guy V of Laval, and his son Guy VI of Laval.
Family [ edit | modify the code ]
He is the son of Guy IV de Laval and Emma de Dunstanville. He succeeded his father in 1130. He married Avoise de Craon († 1230), daughter of Maurice II de Craon . They have as children:
Guyonnet de Laval († 1211), Guy VI, died around 11-12 years old, buried in the Abbey of Clermont, his tomb is decorated with a small sword. We have a testimony of his will by a copy of 1213.
Ozanne, mentioned in a charter of the Réau abbey , cited by Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly 2
Emma de Laval (c. 1200 -April 27, 1264) who inherited the seigneury in 1211 upon the death of his brother Guyonnet.
Isabeau (Isabelle) de Laval († 1244) who married Bouchard VI de Montmorency .History [ edit | modify the code ]
Richard-Coeur-de-Lion [ edit | modify the code ]
Barely invested in the barony of Laval in 1185, Guy V saw rushing to Laval, to seek refuge there, the vassals of the Lord of Vitré, chased by Mercadier and the Brabant hordes that Richard-Cœur-de-Lion had launched on Brittany. , after having locked up the Duchess Constance of Brittany 3 . He participated in the siege of Le Mans in 1189.
Conflicts [ edit | modify the code ]
The continental possessions held by the King of England and the quarrels between Richard and Brittany offered the lords of Maine, Anjou, Poitou and Normandy, the opportunity to seek to free themselves from them. The policy of the kings of France was to support them and increase their power with whatever they could manage to make the English kings lose. His interests should have brought Guy V closer to the discontented, however he remained faithful to his overlord. So far from welcoming the Breton refugees, he treated them so badly that the Lord of Vitré, André, thought it his duty to ask him for reason. This little war lasted a short time and an accommodation put an end to it after some hostilities. The two barons agreed to each other except conduct on their lands andGuillaume de Fougères , alliance against and against all, except the Lord of Laval. .
Arthur of Brittany [ edit | modify the code ]
Business had become complicated in Brittany, Richard was dead, and, recognizing the rights of young Arthur , Maine, Anjou and Touraine had saluted him king of England. But Jean Sans-Terre , his uncle, was recognized in England and Normandy.
Guy V served the cause of Arthur of Brittany, and when, abandoned and betrayed, the young duke was taken prisoner and died, he united with the other barons of Anjou and Maine, to demand revenge for this attack. Guy V de Laval joins Philippe Auguste . Philippe-Auguste confiscates all the property of Jean sans Terre owned in the kingdom of France, who seizes the lands granted in England to the French lords during the conquest of England. The house of Laval thus lost the property it had owned there since Hamon and Guy II de Laval .
Religion [ edit | modify the code ]
Guy V, noticed as much by his piety as by his valor 4 , brings together Barthélemy de Vendôme , archbishop of Tours, Hamelin , bishop of Mans , the abbots of Evron , Clairmont and Bellebranche , Pierre d'Anthenaise , dean of Sablé, as well as several lords. He abolished in their presence, in all his lands, the right of dead hand 5 established by his father and which he qualifies as bad custom, even submitting to excommunication if he ever happened to undertake to restore this right. . The following year (1198), he founded the conventual priory of Olivet, which he gave to the canons regular of the Abbey of Réal in Poitou.
Conflict with Hamon of the Child [ change | modify the code ]
Guy V de Laval came into conflict with his vassal Hamon L'Enfant.
Notes and references [ edit | modify the code ]
↑ Genealogy and descendants of Guy V de Laval on the Medieval Lands website [ archive ]
↑ Memoir on the Lords of Laval , t. I, p. 166 .
↑ Moreover we find around him in a charter of 1186: Robert IV de Sablé , by Raoul de Fougères who took refuge in Laval following the invasion of his lands by Richard the Lionheart , by Hervé de Vitré , of Raoul monine, of Hamelin and Hugues Le Franc (feudatory of the House of Laval ), and of Hamelin L'Enfant . Departmental Archives of Sarthe , H. 665 f ° 270.
↑ pietate insignis et armis.
↑ The goods of the dead hand were those of the religious communities of the inhabitants of the towns, hospitals, etc. As these goods, once in the hands of their owners, never had to pay any transfer duties, nor lods and sales, we paid for them, at the time of their depreciation, a right to the king and to the lord an indemnity. set at three years of income. It is undoubtedly this indemnity which Guy V renounced in favor of the donees.
Bertrand de Broussillon, La Maison de Laval, Paris, 1895.
Guy V de Laval 1 († 1210) lord of Laval (Mayenne) . Note that there is sometimes confusion in the books between Guy V of Laval, and his son Guy VI of Laval.
Family [ edit | modify the code ]
He is the son of Guy IV de Laval and Emma de Dunstanville. He succeeded his father in 1130. He married Avoise de Craon († 1230), daughter of Maurice II de Craon . They have as children:
Guyonnet de Laval († 1211), Guy VI, died around 11-12 years old, buried in the Abbey of Clermont, his tomb is decorated with a small sword. We have a testimony of his will by a copy of 1213.
Ozanne, mentioned in a charter of the Réau abbey , cited by Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly 2
Emma de Laval (c. 1200 -April 27, 1264) who inherited the seigneury in 1211 upon the death of his brother Guyonnet.
Isabeau (Isabelle) de Laval († 1244) who married Bouchard VI de Montmorency .History [ edit | modify the code ]
Richard-Coeur-de-Lion [ edit | modify the code ]
Barely invested in the barony of Laval in 1185, Guy V saw rushing to Laval, to seek refuge there, the vassals of the Lord of Vitré, chased by Mercadier and the Brabant hordes that Richard-Cœur-de-Lion had launched on Brittany. , after having locked up the Duchess Constance of Brittany 3 . He participated in the siege of Le Mans in 1189.
Conflicts [ edit | modify the code ]
The continental possessions held by the King of England and the quarrels between Richard and Brittany offered the lords of Maine, Anjou, Poitou and Normandy, the opportunity to seek to free themselves from them. The policy of the kings of France was to support them and increase their power with whatever they could manage to make the English kings lose. His interests should have brought Guy V closer to the discontented, however he remained faithful to his overlord. So far from welcoming the Breton refugees, he treated them so badly that the Lord of Vitré, André, thought it his duty to ask him for reason. This little war lasted a short time and an accommodation put an end to it after some hostilities. The two barons agreed to each other except conduct on their lands andGuillaume de Fougères , alliance against and against all, except the Lord of Laval. .
Arthur of Brittany [ edit | modify the code ]
Business had become complicated in Brittany, Richard was dead, and, recognizing the rights of young Arthur , Maine, Anjou and Touraine had saluted him king of England. But Jean Sans-Terre , his uncle, was recognized in England and Normandy.
Guy V served the cause of Arthur of Brittany, and when, abandoned and betrayed, the young duke was taken prisoner and died, he united with the other barons of Anjou and Maine, to demand revenge for this attack. Guy V de Laval joins Philippe Auguste . Philippe-Auguste confiscates all the property of Jean sans Terre owned in the kingdom of France, who seizes the lands granted in England to the French lords during the conquest of England. The house of Laval thus lost the property it had owned there since Hamon and Guy II de Laval .
Religion [ edit | modify the code ]
Guy V, noticed as much by his piety as by his valor 4 , brings together Barthélemy de Vendôme , archbishop of Tours, Hamelin , bishop of Mans , the abbots of Evron , Clairmont and Bellebranche , Pierre d'Anthenaise , dean of Sablé, as well as several lords. He abolished in their presence, in all his lands, the right of dead hand 5 established by his father and which he qualifies as bad custom, even submitting to excommunication if he ever happened to undertake to restore this right. . The following year (1198), he founded the conventual priory of Olivet, which he gave to the canons regular of the Abbey of Réal in Poitou.
Conflict with Hamon of the Child [ change | modify the code ]
Guy V de Laval came into conflict with his vassal Hamon L'Enfant.
Notes and references [ edit | modify the code ]
↑ Genealogy and descendants of Guy V de Laval on the Medieval Lands website [ archive ]
↑ Memoir on the Lords of Laval , t. I, p. 166 .
↑ Moreover we find around him in a charter of 1186: Robert IV de Sablé , by Raoul de Fougères who took refuge in Laval following the invasion of his lands by Richard the Lionheart , by Hervé de Vitré , of Raoul monine, of Hamelin and Hugues Le Franc (feudatory of the House of Laval ), and of Hamelin L'Enfant . Departmental Archives of Sarthe , H. 665 f ° 270.
↑ pietate insignis et armis.
↑ The goods of the dead hand were those of the religious communities of the inhabitants of the towns, hospitals, etc. As these goods, once in the hands of their owners, never had to pay any transfer duties, nor lods and sales, we paid for them, at the time of their depreciation, a right to the king and to the lord an indemnity. set at three years of income. It is undoubtedly this indemnity which Guy V renounced in favor of the donees.
Bertrand de Broussillon, La Maison de Laval, Paris, 1895.
Events
| Death | 1210 |
Families
| Spouse | Avoise de Craon (1178 - 1230) |
| Child | Emma de Laval (1197 - 1264) |
| Father | Guy IV de Laval ( - 1180) |
| Mother | Emma de Dunstanville ( - ) |