Guillaume de Guînes

“ Arnould I st of Guines” French Wikipedia

Guillaume, receives this first name from the name of Guillaume, lord of Saint-Omer, his maternal ancestor. He wears the arms of Guînes, broken with a stick in a band. He married Flandrine de Saint-Pol , niece of Hugues, count of Saint-Pol . She was perhaps the daughter of Robert, Lord of Boves , Count of Amiens , and of Béatrix de Saint-Pol, sister of Hugues.

Together they give to the Abbey of Saint-Léonard de Guînes , the tithe of the new lands they owned in the parishes of Saint-Bertin, Saint-Pierre and Saint-Médard de Guînes, a donation which will be confirmed by his brother the Count Baudouin II. Guillaume witnesses the confirmation of a charter in favor of the Abbey of Andres, made by his brother Baudouin II[ 13 ] . This gives him, with the consent of his son Arnould, Lord of Ardres, future Arnould II of Guînes, the stronghold of Bochout near Aquinas which came from a former donation from the Bishop of Thérouanne to the founders of the dynasty of the lords of Ardres [ 14 ] . Guillaume subscribed to a charter from Didier, bishop of Thérouanne dated 1177, and two other charters from Guillaume, lord of Saint-Omer in 1187 and 1193, in favor of the abbey of Saint-Bertin. At the end of his life, in 1218, he returned to the abbey of Andres a pond or fishpond, located between Boquerdes and Fontaines, which he had taken and retained during the time of Abbé Pierre. The couple have Guillaume and Baudouin as children [ 15 ] '[ 16] . Guillaume ditle Jeune, will confirm renouncing all his rights to the lake mentioned in 1218 with the consent ofArnould II de Guînes, Count of Guînes, his first cousin. His younger brother Baudouin subscribed with his father to a charter sent by Baudouin II in favor of the abbey of Andres in 1202 [ 16 ] .