Hamon (or
Hamelin) de Château-du-Loir Hamon (or
Hamelin) de Château-du-LoirHamon appears in two charters of Hughes III, count of Maine, one in about 1013 and another in 1014 [Cart. Château-du-Loir 2]. He was apparently the "Haimonis, militis" who signed an agreement between bishop Avesgaud of Le Mans (his brother-in-law) and the monks of the abbey of La Couture on 19 June 1028 [Cart. Château-du-Loir 2]. He was succeeded by his son Gervaise sometime before the latter became bishop of Le Mans in 1036 [Cart. Château-du-Loir 3].
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: 15
January [Nec. Mans 10; Act. Pont. Cenom. 371
(testament of his son Gervaise)] 1028×1036 [The
1028 date in this range depends on the identification in the 1028
charter mentioned above.]
Place of Death: Unknown.
Father:
NN, son of Rorans.
[Cart. Château-du-Loir 8-9]
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse: m. 1006 or earlier, Hildeburge de
Bellême, daughter of Yves de Bellême.
The testament of Gervaise, archbishop of Reims, dated
before 1047, named, among others, his father Haimon, mother
Hyldeburge, and his mother's brother, bishop Avesgaud of Le Mans
[Act. Pont. Cenom. 367-72].
Children:
The foundation charter of the priory of Saint-Jean-de-la-Motte
mentions bishop Avesgaud, the dominus Gervaise and his
brothers Avesgaud, Guillaume, and Robert [Act. Pont. Cenom.
360-2], and Guillaume and Robert are mentioned as brothers of
Gervaise on other occasions.
Gervaise I, b. Chateau-du-Loir, 2 Feb.
1007 [Ex chronico Remensi, RHF
10:271], d. Reims, 4 July 1067 [Nec. Mans 161-2], lord of
Château-du-Loir, after 1028×1036-1067, bishop of Le Mans,
1036-1055, archbishop of Reims, 1055-1067.
The foundation charter for the priory of
Saint-Jean-de-la-Motte indicates that Gervaise succeeded his
father at some time before he became bishop of Le Mans [Cart.
Château-du-Loir 3].
Avesgaud, fl. 1028×1036.
[Known only from the charter of 1028×1036]
Guillaume, fl. 1028×1036, living 31
May 1040.
As "Guillelmus, frater Gervasii
episcopi" he was a witness to two charters dated 31 May
1040 [Cart. Château-du-Loir 5-6].
Robert, fl. 1028×1036-1065, prob. d. bef. 1067; m. Elizabeth.
Rotrude, m. (1) NN;
(2) Guy I de Laval.
A charter of about 1041 states: "Hamelinus
autem redonavit ecclesiam de Comburniaco Widdoni de Valle, cum
filia sua in maritagio, et Waldino Vetulo de Malicornant illam de
Artisiaco. Waldimus autem Vetulus dedit item ecclesiam de
Artisiaco Walterio Restivo, cum filio suo in maritagio"
(Translation: However, Hamelin/Hamon gave up the church of Busse
[Comburniacus] to Guy de Laval, as a marriage portion
with his daughter, and to Gaudin the Old of Malincorne [the
church] of Arthezé [Artisiacus]. Moreover, Gaudin the
Old gave the church of Arthezé to Walter Restivus, with his
daughter in marriage.) [Cart. Château-du-Loir 6]. A charter of about 1050 has as witnesses, Rotrudis,
wife of Wido de Valle [i.e., Gui de Laval] and her son
Gualterius, filius Rotrudis. Since this Gualter/Walter is called
a son of Rotrude rather than Gui, he was evidently the son of an
earlier marriage.
Possible daughter: Hildeburge, wife of Gaudin I de
Malincorne.
Hildeburge is given by ES 13:68, the
primary documentation being uncertain. However, the charter
mentioned above under Rotrude does not give such a marriage, and
the evidence for this is unclear.
Falsely attributed
spouse: Godehilde
de Bellême.
White (1940): 75-6, 98, erroneously makes Hildeburge's
sister Godehilde the wife of Hamon. See the pages of Yves de Bellême and Hildeburge for more details.
Supposed father
(probably falsely attributed): Hamon,
lord of Creuilly and Thorigny.
See, e.g., RFC2, 247-8, from which the claim has been
widely spread on the internet. I have not seen the claim given in
a credible source.
Falsely attributed
father: Adam de
Château-du-Loir.
A charter of 1080×1094, which mentions Adam de
Château-du-Loir and his son Hamelin, had been formerly misdated
to ca. 1030, with the result that the Adam of the charter was
misidentified as the father of the present Hamelin/Hamon [Cart.
Château-du-Loir 26-7]. In fact, this Adam de Château-du-Loir
was the present Hamon's grandson, son of his son Robert.
Act. Pont. Cenom. = Busson & Ledru, eds., Actus Pontificum Cenomannis in urbe Degentium (Archives Historiques du Maine 2, Le Mans, 1902).
Cart. Château-du-Loir = Eugène Vallée, Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (Archives Historiques du Maine 6, Le Mans, 1905).
Nec. Mans = Busson & Ledru, Nécrologe-obituaire de la Cathédrale du Mans (Archives Historiques du Maine 7, Le Mans, 1906)
RFC2 = Roderick Stuart, Royalty for Commoners (2nd ed., Baltimore, 1992).
RHF = Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France.
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
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