Individual Details
Hamon de Laval
( - Bet 1076 and 1085)
According to Wikipedia:
Hamon Laval 1 († v. 1076/1085), second lord of Laval (Mayenne) , is the son of Guy I st Laval and Bertha Tosny.
History [ edit | modify the code ]
Instead of Jean, his eldest son, who had become a monk in Marmoutier, Guy Ier de Laval had as his successor, at a date that can only be fixed approximately around 1065, the second of his sons, Hamon, born like Jean, of Berthe de Toësny. Hamon must have been almost fifty years old, because in all the documents relating to Guy I, he appears next to his brother, Jean, who is known to have entered religion in his twenty-ninth year.
As for Guy I, the chronicles are silent on Hamon, and the charters only disclose a small number of charitable provisions taken by him in favor of the religious orders. Among them we find those relating to the foundation of the priory of Ronceray, established in Avénières, thanks to the generosity of Guérin de Saint-Berthevin, vassal of Hamon. So he was called to give his approval as a suzerain to the donations made by Guérin to the famous abbey of Angers.
It was in 1066, while Hamon was Lord of Laval, that William the Bastard accomplished his coup de main on England. Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly does not hesitate to declare that Hamon "passed with his brothers to England", this is not the case the old documents do not mention the fact and the name of Laval does not appear in any of the lists drawn up at the same time. of the conquest, in order to keep the names of the victors 2 .
Guy I was destined to live many more years when he gave Hamon for wife Hersende, whose family is not known and who did not die until after her husband, as evidenced by charter 402 of Ronceay, where she intervenes with Guy II, his son. For the Art of verifying dates 3 , he succeeded his father in the land of Laval.
It is impossible to fix exactly the time of death of Hamon, whose last dated act is his intervention in the sentence by which, in 1076, Raoul, archbishop of Tours, settled the dispute between Couture and Marmoutier, about Saint -Malo de Sablé; as for Guy II, of all his acts only one is dated, that which was drawn up in 1090, at the time of the burial of Denise de Mortain, his wife. Hamon thus died between 1076 and 1090 one should hardly deviate from the truth by fixing his death in 1080.
Hamon ended his days in 1080 , and was buried in the abbey of Marmoutier following one of the cartularies of this house.
Marriage and descent [ edit | modify the code ]
He married around 1035 a certain Hersende with whom he had two children:
Guy II († after 1105), Lord of Laval.
Hugues de Laval who, after the death of Agnès de Mayenne , his wife, was canon of Le Mans, under Bishop Hoël .Notes and references [ edit | modify the code ]
↑ Genealogy of Hamon de Laval on the Medieval Lands website [ archive ]
^ De Lestang, What part did the inhabitants of the province of Maine take in the conquest of England? in the Bulletin of the Société d'Agriculture de la Sarthe, XI, 390-406, and in an off-print; see also the note by Jules Le Fizelier in Bourjolly , I, 117.
↑ Historical chronology of the lords, then counts of Laval , 1784 , t. II, p. 864-875.
Hamon Laval 1 († v. 1076/1085), second lord of Laval (Mayenne) , is the son of Guy I st Laval and Bertha Tosny.
History [ edit | modify the code ]
Instead of Jean, his eldest son, who had become a monk in Marmoutier, Guy Ier de Laval had as his successor, at a date that can only be fixed approximately around 1065, the second of his sons, Hamon, born like Jean, of Berthe de Toësny. Hamon must have been almost fifty years old, because in all the documents relating to Guy I, he appears next to his brother, Jean, who is known to have entered religion in his twenty-ninth year.
As for Guy I, the chronicles are silent on Hamon, and the charters only disclose a small number of charitable provisions taken by him in favor of the religious orders. Among them we find those relating to the foundation of the priory of Ronceray, established in Avénières, thanks to the generosity of Guérin de Saint-Berthevin, vassal of Hamon. So he was called to give his approval as a suzerain to the donations made by Guérin to the famous abbey of Angers.
It was in 1066, while Hamon was Lord of Laval, that William the Bastard accomplished his coup de main on England. Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly does not hesitate to declare that Hamon "passed with his brothers to England", this is not the case the old documents do not mention the fact and the name of Laval does not appear in any of the lists drawn up at the same time. of the conquest, in order to keep the names of the victors 2 .
Guy I was destined to live many more years when he gave Hamon for wife Hersende, whose family is not known and who did not die until after her husband, as evidenced by charter 402 of Ronceay, where she intervenes with Guy II, his son. For the Art of verifying dates 3 , he succeeded his father in the land of Laval.
It is impossible to fix exactly the time of death of Hamon, whose last dated act is his intervention in the sentence by which, in 1076, Raoul, archbishop of Tours, settled the dispute between Couture and Marmoutier, about Saint -Malo de Sablé; as for Guy II, of all his acts only one is dated, that which was drawn up in 1090, at the time of the burial of Denise de Mortain, his wife. Hamon thus died between 1076 and 1090 one should hardly deviate from the truth by fixing his death in 1080.
Hamon ended his days in 1080 , and was buried in the abbey of Marmoutier following one of the cartularies of this house.
Marriage and descent [ edit | modify the code ]
He married around 1035 a certain Hersende with whom he had two children:
Guy II († after 1105), Lord of Laval.
Hugues de Laval who, after the death of Agnès de Mayenne , his wife, was canon of Le Mans, under Bishop Hoël .Notes and references [ edit | modify the code ]
↑ Genealogy of Hamon de Laval on the Medieval Lands website [ archive ]
^ De Lestang, What part did the inhabitants of the province of Maine take in the conquest of England? in the Bulletin of the Société d'Agriculture de la Sarthe, XI, 390-406, and in an off-print; see also the note by Jules Le Fizelier in Bourjolly , I, 117.
↑ Historical chronology of the lords, then counts of Laval , 1784 , t. II, p. 864-875.
Events
| Marriage | 1035 | Hersende | |||
| Death | Bet 1076 and 1085 |
Families
| Spouse | Hersende ( - ) |
| Child | Guy II de Laval ( - 1105) |
| Father | Guy I de Laval (980 - 1062) |
| Mother | Bertha of Tosny ( - ) |