Individual Details
Guy II de Laval
( - 1105)
According to Wikipedia:
Guy II de Laval 1 dit Le Chauve († after 1105), third lord of Laval (Mayenne) is the eldest son of Hamon de Laval , to whom he succeeded between 1076 and 1085 in the seigneury of Laval. Note that there is sometimes confusion in the books between Guy II of Laval , and his son Guy III of Laval.
Family [ edit | modify the code ]
He gets married three times:
Wife with an unknown name.
Denise de Mortain, daughter of Robert de Mortain , Count of Mortain and half-brother of William the Conqueror through her mother Arlette de Falaise .
Cecile
From his marriages, he has the following children of whom it is not known exactly who is the mother of each of them:
Guy III de Laval († between 1130 and 1142).
Gervais de Laval († after 1142).
Agnès († after 1142), wife of Hugues, sire of Craon.
A girl whose name remains unknown and who would be the wife of Raoul VII of Beaumont-au-Maine viscount of Maine.History [ edit | modify the code ]
Heir [ edit | modify the code ]
For the Art of checking dates 2 , he is the successor of Hamon de Laval in the land of Laval. Having become heir in 1080, he violently seized the property with which his predecessors had enriched their pious foundations. After taking over the monks of St. Martin vineyards they derived from the munificence of his father, he robs nuns Avesnières that last buy with money confirmation of their rights 3 .
Then he attacked the Abbey of Evron and forced the monks to give him back the land of Sainte-Marie and other goods that the lords of Laval had given them.
Quarrel with Chateau-Gontier [ change | modify the code ]
In 1085 , a quarrel took place between the Castrogontériens and the Lavallois which put them in the hands, but one gave, according to the abbot Angot , to this event an exaggerated seriousness. The only text that mentions it is that of the Chronicle of Saint-Aubin . It is in five words: LXXXV. - Prælium inter Castrogunterianos et Lavallenses , which is better interpreted as a battle or brawl than a war, which would have taken place between the inhabitants of the two baronies 4 . As to what Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly 5 adds that Salomon de Sablé and Amaury de Craon would have intervened for peace, “ after a few losses on both sides ”, he must be left to his charge, like many other inaccuracies, especially since there was then neither Maurice de Craon nor Amaury de Craon . Be that as it may, war or simple combat, probably without intervention from the barons, took place during the time of Renaud III de Château-Gontier.
Religion [ edit | modify the code ]
Guy made donations to various monasteries, and especially that of Marmoutier and those of Saint-Serge 6 and Ronceray d'Angers , recorded in the cartularies of these houses: for example, the Chapel of Notre-Dame de Bréal . We notice that he had married Cécile for the second time, whom some of them are taking out of the house in Mayenne .
Death [ edit | modify the code ]
Guy does not join forces with Geoffroy II de Mayenne and Hubert de Sainte-Suzanne to push back Norman domination from Maine; his alliance with William the Conqueror and the favors he had received from it kept him out of this debate.
Guy died around 1105, and was buried at the Abbey of Marmoutier with his first wife.
Captions [ edit | modify the code ]
The custom wants to show that the arms of the family of Laval were given to them by William the Conqueror in recognition of the services they would have rendered him during the invasion of England in 1066 . " Guillaume, in the enthusiasm of his success, does not believe he should better reward the sons of the House of Laval than by making an alliance with her by the marriage of Denise de Mortain , his niece, and by tearing up a third of her arms which he makes him present to insert it in his coat of arms ". It is a pure legend since the Lavals do not appear in any of the documents or lists drawn up after the events.
Another legend mentions that returning from the expedition against the Abbey of Evrone, intoxicated by success, joking without respect the monks he had defeated, he turned to the Church and dared to insult the Blessed Mother with presumptuous threats. of God herself, who is honored there. It was too much; his head remained turned back, without his being able to bring it back to its natural position. The lesson was as strong as it was deserved; it was not useless. Guy, touched by repentance, implored his forgiveness, restored, and finally obtained his cure by the prayers of "a good abbot" . Tradition adds, according to Father Gérault, that at the time of his punishment, he made a vow to build a chapel where he was: it is shown on the road from Saint-Christophe to Evron. WeChapel of Torticolis or Hermaudières ; it is small and ends in a roundabout.
Notes and references [ edit | modify the code ]
↑ Genealogy of Guy II on the Medieval Lands website [ archive ]
↑ Historical chronology of the lords, then counts of Laval , 1784 , t. II, p. 864-875 .
↑ In 1091, by virtue of an agreement between the nuns and Guy II, the chaplains were reduced to two. These taken from the lord's house, had the title of parish priests, one from Bonchamps, the other from Avesnières
^ Chronicle of the churches of Anjou , ed. Marchegay, 1869 , p. 27
↑ T. I, p. 129 .
↑ Guy II was judge of a cause between the monks of Saint-Serge d'Angers and the lord of Astillé .
Guy II de Laval 1 dit Le Chauve († after 1105), third lord of Laval (Mayenne) is the eldest son of Hamon de Laval , to whom he succeeded between 1076 and 1085 in the seigneury of Laval. Note that there is sometimes confusion in the books between Guy II of Laval , and his son Guy III of Laval.
Family [ edit | modify the code ]
He gets married three times:
Wife with an unknown name.
Denise de Mortain, daughter of Robert de Mortain , Count of Mortain and half-brother of William the Conqueror through her mother Arlette de Falaise .
Cecile
From his marriages, he has the following children of whom it is not known exactly who is the mother of each of them:
Guy III de Laval († between 1130 and 1142).
Gervais de Laval († after 1142).
Agnès († after 1142), wife of Hugues, sire of Craon.
A girl whose name remains unknown and who would be the wife of Raoul VII of Beaumont-au-Maine viscount of Maine.History [ edit | modify the code ]
Heir [ edit | modify the code ]
For the Art of checking dates 2 , he is the successor of Hamon de Laval in the land of Laval. Having become heir in 1080, he violently seized the property with which his predecessors had enriched their pious foundations. After taking over the monks of St. Martin vineyards they derived from the munificence of his father, he robs nuns Avesnières that last buy with money confirmation of their rights 3 .
Then he attacked the Abbey of Evron and forced the monks to give him back the land of Sainte-Marie and other goods that the lords of Laval had given them.
Quarrel with Chateau-Gontier [ change | modify the code ]
In 1085 , a quarrel took place between the Castrogontériens and the Lavallois which put them in the hands, but one gave, according to the abbot Angot , to this event an exaggerated seriousness. The only text that mentions it is that of the Chronicle of Saint-Aubin . It is in five words: LXXXV. - Prælium inter Castrogunterianos et Lavallenses , which is better interpreted as a battle or brawl than a war, which would have taken place between the inhabitants of the two baronies 4 . As to what Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly 5 adds that Salomon de Sablé and Amaury de Craon would have intervened for peace, “ after a few losses on both sides ”, he must be left to his charge, like many other inaccuracies, especially since there was then neither Maurice de Craon nor Amaury de Craon . Be that as it may, war or simple combat, probably without intervention from the barons, took place during the time of Renaud III de Château-Gontier.
Religion [ edit | modify the code ]
Guy made donations to various monasteries, and especially that of Marmoutier and those of Saint-Serge 6 and Ronceray d'Angers , recorded in the cartularies of these houses: for example, the Chapel of Notre-Dame de Bréal . We notice that he had married Cécile for the second time, whom some of them are taking out of the house in Mayenne .
Death [ edit | modify the code ]
Guy does not join forces with Geoffroy II de Mayenne and Hubert de Sainte-Suzanne to push back Norman domination from Maine; his alliance with William the Conqueror and the favors he had received from it kept him out of this debate.
Guy died around 1105, and was buried at the Abbey of Marmoutier with his first wife.
Captions [ edit | modify the code ]
The custom wants to show that the arms of the family of Laval were given to them by William the Conqueror in recognition of the services they would have rendered him during the invasion of England in 1066 . " Guillaume, in the enthusiasm of his success, does not believe he should better reward the sons of the House of Laval than by making an alliance with her by the marriage of Denise de Mortain , his niece, and by tearing up a third of her arms which he makes him present to insert it in his coat of arms ". It is a pure legend since the Lavals do not appear in any of the documents or lists drawn up after the events.
Another legend mentions that returning from the expedition against the Abbey of Evrone, intoxicated by success, joking without respect the monks he had defeated, he turned to the Church and dared to insult the Blessed Mother with presumptuous threats. of God herself, who is honored there. It was too much; his head remained turned back, without his being able to bring it back to its natural position. The lesson was as strong as it was deserved; it was not useless. Guy, touched by repentance, implored his forgiveness, restored, and finally obtained his cure by the prayers of "a good abbot" . Tradition adds, according to Father Gérault, that at the time of his punishment, he made a vow to build a chapel where he was: it is shown on the road from Saint-Christophe to Evron. WeChapel of Torticolis or Hermaudières ; it is small and ends in a roundabout.
Notes and references [ edit | modify the code ]
↑ Genealogy of Guy II on the Medieval Lands website [ archive ]
↑ Historical chronology of the lords, then counts of Laval , 1784 , t. II, p. 864-875 .
↑ In 1091, by virtue of an agreement between the nuns and Guy II, the chaplains were reduced to two. These taken from the lord's house, had the title of parish priests, one from Bonchamps, the other from Avesnières
^ Chronicle of the churches of Anjou , ed. Marchegay, 1869 , p. 27
↑ T. I, p. 129 .
↑ Guy II was judge of a cause between the monks of Saint-Serge d'Angers and the lord of Astillé .
Events
| Death | 1105 |
Families
| Spouse | Denise de Mortain ( - ) |
| Child | Guy III de Laval ( - 1130) |
| Father | Hamon de Laval ( - 1076) |
| Mother | Hersende ( - ) |