Eleanor/Alinor de Vitre

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Eleanor / Alinor de Vitré

Also Known As: "Eleanor; Elinor; Aliénor; Salesbury; Salusbury; de Tillières"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Brittany, France
Death: August 12, 1233 (70-79)
Westcott, Dorking, Surrey, England
Place of Burial: Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Robert de Vitré, III, Lord of Tillars and Emma de Dinan
Wife of William Paynell, No. 1; William FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury and Gilbert V de Crespin, seigneur de Tillières
Mother of Ela, 3rd Countess of Salisbury suo jure; Joan Malmayns (Crespin) and Julienne de Crespin, dame de Tillières
Sister of Maud de Vitré; André II, seigneur de Vitré; Alain de Dinan, seigneur de Vitré; Robert de Vitré and Pétronille de Vitré

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About Eleanor/Alinor de Vitre

FMG: Brittany: Nantes, Porhoet:— "6. ELEONORE de Vitré (? - 20 Jul [1232/33]). “Willielmus comes Sarum” donated property to Bradenstoke priory, for the souls of “Alianoræ de Viterio comitissæ meæ…Patricii patris mei et Elæ matris meæ et Patricii fratris mei”, by undated charter, witnessed by “…Waltero filio meo…”[995]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "20 Jul" of "Alienor comitissa Salesberiensis"[996].
m firstly (before 1168) WILLIAM Paynell of Hambye, son of FULK [I] Paynell of Hambye & his wife Lesceline de Subligny (-Jun 1184).
m secondly GILBERT Crispin Seigneur de Tillières, son of --- (-Palestine 1190).
m thirdly WILLIAM FitzPatrick Earl of Salisbury, son of PATRICK FitzWalter Earl of Salisbury & his second wife Ela de Ponthieu (-[Normandy] 1196, bur Bradenstoke).
m fourthly GILBERT de Malesmains, son of ---."

from The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant: Rickerton to Sisonby, Vol. XI, pp. 377-379
II. 1168. — 2. WILLIAM (of SALISBURY, styled also FITZPATRICK), EARL or WILTSHIRE, styled also EARL OF SALISBURY, s. and h. by 2nd Wife,(j-1) received the 3rd penny of Wilts in 1168.(k-1) He remained loyal during the rebellion of the King’s sons, 1173-74.(l-1) In 1177, the Earl was one of those for whom the King provided a ship, for the crossing to Normandy in his train.(a-1) He was sheriff of Wilts 1189-90 and 1191-96.(b-1) At Richard’s Coronation, 3 Sep. 1189, he bore the sceptre with the dove;(c-1) and he appears to have been in close attendance upon the King until he left Dover for Normandy, 12 Dec.(d-1) In 1190-91, he served personally in Wales.(e-2) From Lent to the Close of Easter 1194. he was sheriff of Dorset and Somerset.(f) On Richard’s return from captivity, he attended the Great Council at Nottingham in Mar., and at the King's 2nd Coronation at Winchester, I7 Apr., he was one of the 4 earls carrying the canopy.(g) In the summer of 1194, he was fighting in Normandy.(h)
He m. Eleanor, (i) widow of Gilbert CRESPIN, lord of TILLIÈRES (d. on crusade, 1190),(j-2) relict of William PAYNEL of Hambye (d. 1184),(k-2) and da. of Robert DE VITRÉ, by Emma, da. of Alan DE DINAN.(l-2) He d. (P in Normandy) 1196,(m) and was bur. at Bradenstoke.(n)
His Widow m., 4thly, Gilbert DE MALESMAIN, who in 1198, and later, was holding in her right both her inheritance and her dower.(a-2) In 1205, he appears to have adhered to France, While the Countess was permitted peaceful enjoyment of her lands in England.(b-2) She d. between 31 May 1232 and I2 Aug. I233,(c-2) and was bur. in the Abbey of Mondaye, near Bayeux, of which she was a benefactress.(d-2)"

FOOTNOTES
(j-1): ”Successit ei filius natus ex filia Guillelmi comitis Pontivi, matte comitisse de Warenna“ (R. de Torigny, Chran., p. 236). [transl., He was succeeded by a son born to the daughter of William, count of Pontius, who was mated to be count of Warenne].
(k-1) Pipe Roll, 14. Hen. II, p. I 56.
(l-1) Gesta Henrici, vol. i, p. 51, note. In 1174, Queen Eleanor was imprisoned in Salisbury Castle (Pipe Roll, 20 Hen. II, pp. 29, 30). He was with Henry II at Winchester in 1177 or 1179 (Delisle-Berger, op. cit., no. dxxxix).
(a-1) Pipe Roll, 23 Hen. II, p. 177. He was with the King in Normandy in 1185 (Delisle—Berger, op. cit., Introd., p. 57, note 16, and no. dclxxv).
(b-1) Being for several of those years only keeper, and not sheriff (accounting for the farm).
(c-1) Gesta Henrici, p. 81. On the records of this Coronation, see Round, Com¬mune of London, pp. 201-06.
(d-1) Itinerary of Ric. I (Pipe Roll Soc.), passim.
(e) Pipe Roll, 3 Ric. I, p. 121. He was in England, I 192, witnessing at Windsor in Aug. a deed of the Count of Mortain (Hist. MSS. Com., 4th Rep., p. 452). He also witnessed an undated confirmation by John of a grant to Malmesbury Abbey, of which the Earl held a fee at Avon (Dugdale, Mon., vol. i, p. 26; Eng. Hist. Rev., 1917, p. 249)¬
(f) Pipe Roll, 6 Ric. I, p. 194..
(g) Hoveden, Chron., Rolls Ser., vol. iii, pp. 241, 248; Round, King’s Serjeants, p. 330.
(h) Pipe Roll, 6 Ric. I, p. 38. He was one of the 3 Earls put in control by the King’s scheme for regulating the holding of tournaments in England (Fœdera, vol. i, p. 65; Hoveden, op. cit., vol. iii, p. 268).
(i) Dugdale, Mon., vol. vi, p. 338.
(j-2) Gesta Henrici, vol. ii, p. 148.
(k-2) See Early Yorkshire Charters (ed. Clay), vol. vi, p. 22, and ante, vol. x, pp. 318-20.
(l-2) Stapleton, Mag. Rot. Scacc. Norm., vol. ii, pp. xliv–vii; Close Rolls, 1231-34, p. 99.
(m) Stapleton, op. cit., p. xlvii, says 17 Apr. Dugdale, Mon., vol. vi, p. 338, prints two of the Earl’s grants of the church of Canford to Bradenstoke, the 2nd dated at “Morters,” near Domfront in Passais, on the Monday before St. Barnabas (11 June) after the death of Richard of Candover; among the witnesses was “Walter, my son”—presumably the Walter, s. of the Earl of Salisbury, who was a benefactor of the hermitage of St. Leonard-on-Loddon (Clewer) (Hist. MSS. Com., 9th Rep., p. 355)
(n) See Appendix G, “The Plantagenet Enamel at Le Mans,” for a discussion of the theory that this famous enamel represents the Earl of Salisbury.
(a-2) Book of Fees, p. 11; Rot. Lit. Claus., vol. i, p. 37; Rot. Normanniæ, pp. 129, 130. He was serving in the English forces overseas in 1199 and 1203 (Rot. Cur. Regis, vol. i, pp. 218, 269; Cur. Regis Rolls, vol. ii, p. 216).
(b-2) Rot. Lit. Claus., vol. i, pp. 37, 105, 285. It is curious that, after their marriage, the Countess is once described, not by her title, as was usual, but simply as wife of G. de M. (Cur. Regis Rolls, vol. ii, p. 17).
(c-2) 35th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records, p. 31; Close Rolls, 1231-34., p. 24.7.
(d-2) Stapleton, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. xlvii, xlviii.
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from Global Find A Grave® Index:
BIRTH: 1157 — Vitre, Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
DEATH: Aug 1233 (aged 75–76) — Dorking, Mole Valley District, Surrey, England
BURIAL: Abbaye de St. Martin Mondaye, Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
BIO:
"Eleanor de Vitré, daughter of Robert III de Vitré and Emme de Dinan, was born abt. 1165, and died bet. 31 May 1232 and 12 August 1233. She married four times:
1.William Paynel, Seigneur de Hambye (d. 1184) - married before 1168.
2.Gilbert V Crespin, Seigneur de Tillières (~1140 - 1190).
3. William, Earl of Salisbury (~1150 - 1196).
4. Gilbert de Malesmains (~1158 - 1217).
SOURCES:
Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. XIV#136;
Conqueror & Companions.... Vol. 2, p.195
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700..., pp. 108-27.
–Cokayne. The Complete Peerage... Vol. XI, p. 378.

( http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/index.htm )
“He [William FitzPatrick] married Eleanor, widow of Gilbert CRESPIN, lord of TILLIÈRES (died on crusade, 1190), relict of William PAYNEL of Hambye (died 1184), and daughter of Robert DE VITRÉ, by Emma, daughter of Alan DE DINAN. He died (? in Normandy) 1196, and was buried at Bradenstoke.

His widow married, 4thly, Gilbert DE MALESMAINS, who in 1198, and later, was holding in her right both her inheritance and her dower. In 1205, he appears to have adhered to France, while the Countess was permitted peaceful enjoyment of her lands in England.

She died between 31 May 1232 and 12 August 1233, and was buried in the Abbey of Mondaye, near Bayeux, of which she was a benefactress.” —
Complete Peerage..., XI:378-9

Eleanor (Alianore) de Vitre was born abt 1157 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. She was the daughter of Robert III, Seigneur de Vitre (1132-1173) and Emma de (Dynan) Dinan (1130-1208).

Eleanor married Gilbert V Tillieres de Crispin (?-1191). Gilbert and Eleanor Tillieres were the parents of the following child: Joan Tillieres who married Thomas Malmains and was the mother of Nicholas Malmains.

Eleanor married William Fitz Patrick d' Evereux (1154-1196). William and Eleanor d' Evereux were the parents of one daughter: Countess Ela of Salisbury (Ela Fitz Patrick (FitzWilliam) D' Evereux) who married William "Earl of Salisbury" Longespée and was the mother of four sons and four daughters.

Eleanor married Jean (IV) de Soligny (?-1240). She was possibly the mother of …
Spouse William Fitzpatrick 1154–1196
Children Ela fitzPatrick d'Evereux Longspee 1187–1261
Eleanor was 67 years old when she died.

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Eleanor/Alinor de Vitre's Timeline

1158
1158
Brittany, France
1175
1175
Tilly-sur-Seulles, Calvador, France
1187
1187
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
1200
1200
France
1233
August 12, 1233
Age 75
Westcott, Dorking, Surrey, England
1233
Age 75
Abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye, Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
1938
June 4, 1938
Age 75
1992
May 14, 1992
Age 75