Étiennette (Stéphanette) de Gévaudan

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1. ETIENNETTE de Gévaudan (-after 1160). Her parentage is confirmed by the charter dated 4 Aug 1145 under which Emperor Konrad III granted the right to mint coinage at Arles, Aix and at their château de Trinquetaille to Raymond de Baux and Etiennette his wife, and reconfirmed his possessions acquired since the death of his father Guillaume-Hugues and all the possessions of comte Girbert and comtesse Françoise Gerberge, parents of Etiennette[353]. Gaufridi says that Etiennette was her parents’ older daughter, basing this on the treaty dated 1150 ending a war between Provence and Baux disputing the succession to the county (known as “Les guerres baussenques”[354]), which reads that “Gisbertus pater suus et mater sua Gerisbergua eam (=Etiennette) maritaverant et hereditaverant”[355]. This extract quoted by Gaufridi is insufficient to prove his point, although it does indicate that Etiennette was married before her father died and therefore before her sister Douce. The complete document, as published by Bouche, is an undated manuscript note which provides background to the claims, records that “Stephania uxor...Raimundi de Baucio et filii sui” claimed “partem et hæreditatem in comitatu Provinciæ” from “Berengarium Raimundi comitem Provinciæ” who answered with the statement quoted by Gaufridi, but gives no other relevant details[356]. The idea is consistent with Manteyer’s comment, in relation to the exclusion of Cécile daughter of Bertrand [II] Comte de Provence and her descendants from succession to the county (see above), that “la coutume de Provence oubliait, au moment de la mort de leurs parents, les filles précédemment dotées par eux”[357]. The claim to Provence, which resulted in Les guerres baussenques, only really makes sense if based on the seniority of the Baux line to the Barcelona line. Boisson de la Salle (writing in 1820) proceeded on the assumption that Etiennette was the older daughter of Gerberge[358]. The Brevi Historia Comitum Provinciæ incorrectly names "Berengarius primogenitus…Gilbertus secundo-natus qui fuit Comes Provinciæ, Raimundus tertio-natus, et Stephana qui fuit uxor Raimundi de Bauxio" as the children of "Raymundus-Berengarii vulgo Cap-De stoupes…dictus, Comes Barcinonæ in Catalonia" & his wife[359]. Raymond de Baux, his wife Etiennette and their son Hugues de Baux abandoned property rights in favour of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem by charter dated May 1121[360]. "Raimundus de Baucio…consilio…uxoris mee Stephanie et filiorum meorum" made a donation by charter dated 1143[361].

m (before [1110/15]) RAYMOND de Baux Seigneur de Berre, son of GUILLAUME-HUGUES de Baux & his wife Vierne --- (-Barcelona 1150).