Godehilde
GodehildeGodehilde was the wife of Yves I, lord of Bellême, who was living in 1005. She is known to have survived her husband, because she and her son Guillaume confirmed one of the charters of Yves after his death. [Cart. Marmoutier 1-3]
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: After 1005.
Place of
Death: Unknown.
Father: Unknown (see Commentary section).
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse: Yves I, lord of Bellême, living 1005.
Children:
See the page for Yves de Bellême for
details..
Guillaume (William), d. after 1027,
lord of Bellême, after 1005-after 1027.
Avesgaud, bishop of Le Mans, ca.
1004-ca. 1036.
Yves II, lord of Bellême, probably in
the 1040's.
Hildeburge, m. Hamon, lord of Château-du-Loir.
Godehilde.
Conjectured father
(no supporting evidence): Hugues II, count of Maine.
[Keats-Rohan (1994), 16, 19, with no reason
given]
Conjectured father
(no supporting evidence): Avesgaud,
fl. 970.
[Keats-Rohan (1996), 18, abandoning the
earlier conjecture in favor of an unsupported conjecture which
attempts to explain the name of Godehilde's son Avesgaud]
Possible bother: Seifrid, d. 16 February of an unknown year [Nec. Mans 39], bishop of Le Mans, ca. 971-1004. [See the page on Yves.]
Cart. Marmoutier = M. Barret , ed., Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Mortagne, 1894).
Keats-Rohan (1994) = K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, "Two Studies in North French Prosopography", Journal of Medieval History 20 (1994): 3-37.
Keats-Rohan (1996) = K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, "Politique et Parentèle: Les comtes, vicomtes et évèques du Maine c. 940-1050", Francia 23 (1996): 13-30.
Nec. Mans = Busson & Ledru, Nécrologe-obituaire de la Cathédrale du Mans (Archives Historiques du Maine 7, Le Mans, 1906).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
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