Hildeburge de Bellême
Hildeburge de BellêmeHildeburge was the eldest daughter of Yves I, lord of Bellême, and wife of Hamon, lord of Château-du-Loir. Little is known of her beyond brief mentions in a few sources.
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: 27 October, year unknown.
[Nec. Mans 285; Act. Pont. Cenom. 371 (testament of her
son Gervais)].
Place of Death: Unknown.
Father: Yves I, lord of Bellême, living 1005.
Mother: Godehilde, living 1005.
Spouse:
m. 1006 or earlier, Hamon de Château-du-Loir.
The testament of Gervais, 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]. White (1940):
75-6, 98, erroneously makes Hildeburge's sister Godehilde the
wife of Hamon. See also the page on Hamon
for more documentation on the children.
Gervaise I, b. Chateau-du-Loir, 2 Feb.
1007, d. Reims, 4 July 1067, lord of Château-du-Loir, after
1028×1036-1067, bishop of Mans, 1036-1055, archbishop of Reims,
1055-1067.
Avesgaud, fl. 1028×1036.
Guillaume, fl. 1028×1036, living 31
May 1040.
Robert, fl. 1028×1036-1065, prob. d. bef. 1067; m. Elizabeth.
Rotrude, m. (1) NN;
(2) Gui I de Laval.
Possible daughter: Hildeburge, wife of Gaudin I de
Malincorne.
See the page on Hamon.
Falsely attributed
husband: Albert le Riche,
abbot of Jumièges and Micy or St. Mesmin.
In his account of the lords of Bellême, Geoffrey White
carelessly switched Hildeburge with her sister Godehildis,
falsely making the latter the wife of Hamon, and gave Hildeburge
a husband named "Aubert" (i.e., Albert) "le
Riche", a son Albert II, abbot of Micy, and a grandson
Arnulf ("Arnold"), archbishop of Tours [White (1940:
75]. See Settipani (1997): 263-4 (& n. 261), for more on the
family of archbishop Arnulf, noting that it would be impossible
for Arnulf's grandmother Hildeburg to be the present Hildeburg.
Act. Pont. Cenom. = Busson & Ledru, eds., Actus Pontificum Cenomannis in urbe Degentium (Archives Historiques du Maine 2, Le Mans, 1902).
Nec. Mans = Busson & Ledru, Nécrologe-obituaire de la Cathédrale du Mans (Archives Historiques du Maine 7, Le Mans, 1906).
Settipani (1997) = Christian Settipani, "Les comtes d'Anjou et leur alliances aux Xe et XIe siècles", in K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, ed., Family Trees and the Roots of Politics (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1997): 211-267.
White (1940) = Geoffrey H. White, "The First House of Bellême", Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. ser. 4, 22 (1940): 67-99.
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
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