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Guillaume De Sully de Blois (b. Bet. 1090 - 1093, d. 1150)
Notes for Guillaume De Sully de Blois:
Count of Chartres married Agnes of Sulli (d. aft 1104) and had issue.
GUILLAUME de Blois, son of ETIENNE II Comte de Blois & his wife Adela de Normandie (-[1150]).His parentage is stated by Orderic Vitalis, who names him first in order of the sons which he lists, specifying that his father-in-law was Gilo de Sully, and calling him a "good and peaceful man blessed with children and wealth"[606].Orderic also provides some indication of his birth year when he records[607] that his mother Ctss Adela provided troops to Louis VI King of France at the time of the siege of Montmorency in [1108] "because Count Stephen her husband had gone on crusade and her eldest sons, William and Theobald, who were not yet of age, were unable to command troops of knights".The description is confused because Count Etienne had died several years earlier, but it nevertheless provides some indication of the comparative youth of the brothers Guillaume and Thibaut at the time.Comte de Chartres.Sire de Sully, by right of his wife.He was disinherited, retaining only Sully.According to Weir[608], Guillaume is described in the chronicles as an idiot but she does not cite the primary source.During a dispute in [1103][609] with the chapter of Chartres that was awaiting arbitration, he forced the burgesses of Chartres to form a confederation and take a solemn oath to kill the bishop[610].Chibnall, in order to reconcile this incident with the description of Guillaume by Orderic Vitalis, speculates that he was of retarded mental development and, though irresponsible, violent only in words[611].
m AGNES de Sully, daughter of GILLES I de Sully & his wife Edelburge de Bourges .Orderic Vitalis specifies that the father-in-law of Comte Guillaume was "Gero de Solleio" but does not give his daughter's first name[612]."Post mortem Gilonis de Soiliaco, comes Stephanus Tebbaldi filius" confirmed the rights of Saint-Florent over the monastery of Saint-Gondon sur Loire by charter dated [1098/1101] which names "Willelmus filius comitis Stephani et Agnes filia Gilonis"[613].
Guillaume & his wife had five children:
1.EUDES [Archambaud] de Sully (-after 1162).He is named as son of Guillaume by Orderic Vitalis[614].Sire de Sully.m MATHILDE de Baugency, daughter of RAOUL [I] Sire de Baugency & his second wife Mathilde de Vermandois.The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not yet been identified.[1104/08].Eudes & his wife had six children:
a)GILLES [III] de Sully (-[1195]).The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified.He succeeded his father [after 1162] as Sire de Sully.
-see below.
b)HENRI de Sully (-11 Sep 1199, bur Abbaye de Loroy).The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the election of "Henricus frater Odo cantor Bituricensis in episcopum Parisiensem, post magistrum Mauritium eligitur" as Archbishop of Bourges in 1196, specifying that they were both brothers of "Egidii de Solleiro"[615].Archbishop of Bourges.The Obituaire de Notre-Dame de Paris records the death "III Id Sep 1199" of "Henricus de Soliaco frater Odonis Parisiensis, archiepiscopus Bituricensis"[616].
c)EUDES de Sully ([1168]-13 Jul 1208).The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the election of "Henricus frater Odo cantor Bituricensis in episcopum Parisiensem, post magistrum Mauritium eligitur" as Archbishop of Bourges in 1196, specifying that they were both brothers of "Egidii de Solleiro"[617].Archbishop of Paria.
d)ADELINE de Sully .The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to the unnamed sister of "Henricus frater Odo …[et] Egidii de Solleiro" as wife of "Radulfo filio Ebonis de oppido de Dolii" by whom she had "matrem Guilelmi de Cavingni qui per eam factus est domnus de castro Radulfi"[618].m RAOUL [VI] de Deols Seigneur de Châteauroux, son of EBLES de Deols & his wife --- (-Ravenna 1176).
e)AGNES de Sully .The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not yet been identified.m RENAUD de Montfaucon, son of ---.
f)MATHILDE de Sully .The primary source which confirms her parentage has not yet been identified.
2.RAOUL de Sully (-21 Sep 1176, bur Notre Dame de La Charité-sur-Loire).He is named "Raher" son of Guillaume by Orderic Vitalis[619].Abbot of Cluny.
3.HENRI de Sully (-10 Jan [1188 or after]).The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified.Abbot of Fécamp [1139/40]-1188[620].
4.MARGUERITE de Sully (-14 Dec 1145).Guillaume de Jumièges records that an unnamed daughter of Guillaume, oldest son of Etienne Comte de Blois, married "Henri comte d'Eu, fils du comte Guillaume, quoiqu'ils fussent très-proches parents"[621]."Henricus comes Augensis filius comitis Willermi" made donations to the abbey of St Michel, Tréport with the consent of "Margarita comitissa et fratres supradicti comitis Robertus, Willelmus major, Willelmus minor" by a charter dated 1101[622].m as his third wife, HENRI I Comte d'Eu, son of GUILLAUME I Comte d'Eu & his [first/second] wife --- (-Fécamp 12 Jul 1140).
5.ELISABETH de Sully (-Jul 1128).Orderic Vitalis records that the unnamed daughter of Guillaume de Sully succeeded Cecilia, daughter of William I King of England, as Abbess of Sainte-Trinité, Caen in 1127[623].The primary source which confirms her name has not yet been identified
Children of Guillaume De Sully de Blois and Agnes de Sully are:
- +Eudes-Archambaud III De Sully, b. Abt. 1105, d. 1189, 1189.