Judith d'Évreux, dame de Saint-Cénéri

Normandy Nobility (21 Nov 2021) Alençon, Évreux, Meulan, Perche

3. GUILLAUME d'Evreux. Guillaume of Jumièges records that “Richardus Ebroicensis comes...Willelmus...frater eius” married “Hadevisam filia Geroii relictam Roberti de Grentemaisnil”[695]. He is named as "son of Archbishop Robert" by Orderic Vitalis[696].

m (after 17 Jun [1040]%29 as her second husband, HAWISE, widow of ROBERT de Grantmesnil, daughter of GIROIE & his wife Gisla de Bastenbourg (?-10 May ---).
Guillaume of Jumièges records that “Richardus Ebroicensis comes...Willelmus...frater eius” married “Hadevisam filia Geroii relictam Roberti de Grentemaisnil”[697].
Orderic Vitalis records that "Geroius" married “Gislam Turstini de Basteburgo filiam” by whom he had “septem filios et quatuor filias...Ernaldus, Willermus, Fulcoius, Radulfus Mala-corona, Rodbertus, Hugo et Geroius, Heremburgis, Hadvisa, Emma, Adelais”, adding in a later passage that Hawise married firstly “Rodberto de Grentemaisnilio”, by whom she had “Hugonem et Rodbertum et Ernaldum et totidem filias”, and secondly “Willermo Rodberti archiepiscopo filio” by whom she had “Judith” who later married “Rogerii comitis Siciliæ”[698].
The necrology of the monastery of Ouche records the death "10 May" of "Haudvisa mater Hugonis de Grentesmesnil"[699].
Guillaume & his wife had [two] children:

a) JUDITH d'Evreux (? - 1076). Orderic Vitalis names “Judith” who later married “Rogerii comitis Siciliæ” as the child of “Willermo Rodberti archiepiscopo filio” and his wife[700]. Orderic Vitalis records that “duæ sorores uterinæ Rodberti abbatis [Robert de Grantmesnil, ex-abbot of Ouche] Judith et Emma” had been left “apud Uticum in capella sancti Ebrulfi...sub sacro velamine”, that when they learnt that “Rodbertum fratrem suum” was established in Apulia with “secular power” (“sæculari potentia”) they left for Italy where they both married, Judith marrying “Rogerius Siciliæ comes” and Emma marrying “aliusque comes, cujus nomen no recolo”, dated to [1061/63][701]. Malaterra records the marriage "apud Sanctum Martinum" of "abbatum Sanctæ Euphemiæ Robertum…Judicta sorore sua" and Count Roger[702]. m (San Martino d'Agri Nov 1061) as his first wife, ROGER de Hauteville, son of TANCRED de Hauteville & his [second wife] [Fressenda] ([1031]-Mileto 22 Jun 1101, bur Mileto, Abbey of the Holy Trinity). His brother installed him as ROGER I Count of Sicily in 1072.
b) [EMMA. Orderic Vitalis records that “duæ sorores uterinæ Rodberti abbatis [Robert de Grantmesnil, ex-abbot of Ouche] Judith et Emma” had been left “apud Uticum in capella sancti Ebrulfi...sub sacro velamine”, that when they learnt that “Rodbertum fratrem suum” was established in Apulia with “secular power” (“sæculari potentia”) they left for Italy where they both married, Judith marrying “Rogerius Siciliæ comes” and Emma marrying “aliusque comes, cujus nomen no recolo”, dated to [1061/63][703]. The reference to Judith and Emma being “sorores uterinæ” suggests that they did not share the same father as Robert. However, in another passage, the same source names Judith as the child (implicitly “only child”) of “Willermo Rodberti archiepiscopo filio” and his wife[704]. It is ... unclear whether Emma was one of Robert’s full sisters or half-sisters, although the order of the names of the two sisters suggests that Emma was younger than Judith and therefore born from the same marriage of their mother. m ---.]

References [695] Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Duchesne, 1619), Liber VII, IV, p. 269.
[696] Orderic Vitalis (Chibnall), Vol. II, Book III, pp. 30 and 31.
[697] Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Duchesne, 1619), Liber VII, IV, p. 269.
[698] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, pp. 23 and 30.
[699] RHGF XXIII, Ex Uticensis monasterii necrologio, p. 487.
[700] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, p. 30.
[701] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, V, p. 91.
[702] Malaterra, II.19, p. 35.
[703] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, V, p. 91.
[704] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, p. 30.

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Books

Crawford, Francis Marion. (1900). The Rulers of the South: Sicily, Calabria, Malta, Vol 2. New York: Macmillan Co. pp. 205-6, 391.

“Once Messina was secured, the brothers returned to the mainland, Roger to his base at Mileto in Calabria. Here he was married to Judith d’Évreux, daughter of a cousin of William the Conqueror, described as “beautiful and of excellent parentage”.[6] It was a match that went back several years. It did not prevent him returning shortly afterwards to Sicily. Here he was welcomed by the Christian citizens of Troina, in the interior of the island, a city Roger made his temporary base.”
In Sicily, “Roger learned that the lovely daughter of William Evreux, with whom he is said to have fallen in love on his way to Italy, had arrived in Calabria and was ready to marry him. Judith of Evreux was the great granddaughter of Richard the First of Normandy, and had just escaped from that country with her sister and half-brother, the latter having for some reason incurred the dangerous wrath of William, who was soon to be called the Conqueror. Judith is now believed to have been the same person as Eremberga, and to have adopted the latter name when she left the convent in which she was brought up.“
“1061 — Count Roger marries Judith, daughter of William of Evreux, at Mileto.”
“1089 — Judith, wife of Count Roger dies.”

Byfield, Ted, and Paul Stanway. (2004). The Quest for the City A.D. 740-1100: Pursuing the Next World, They Founded this One. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Christian History Project.

p. 242 – “Duke William, it seems, had seriously quarreled with his half-brother, the abbot of St. Evreux, a monastery renowned for the magnificence of its music. The abbot and his monks fled for Italy, taking with him three children for whom the abbot was godfather. One of the was Judith, about seventeen years old. Duke Robert made them all welcome in Italy. The abbot established a new monastery there, and in one of its first services, he married Judith of Evreux to Roger Hauteville. The wedding music, people said, was magnificent.”

Houben, Hubert. (2002). Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler Between East and West. Translated by Diane Milburn and Graham A. Loud. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

“For Malaterra, the Count of Sicily [Roger II], represented the ideal model of a knight: ‘He was very handsome, tall, well proportioned, extremely eloquent, clever in decision making, farsighted in his plans, friendly and affable with everyone, very strong, and fierce in battle.’ He was married three times. The count had more than ten children by his first two wives, the two Normans, Judith of Evreux and Eremburga of Mortain. When he was about fifty in 1089/90, he married Adelaide del Vasto, who was barely fifteen.”

• Brown, Gordon S. (2003). The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily. Jefferson, NC, USA: McFarland & Co. pp. 110, 116-17, 134, 178, 206.
• Brown, Paul. (2016). Mercenaries to Conquerors: Norman Warfare in the Eleventh and Twelfth Century Mediterranean. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK, Pen & Sword Books.
• Fernández-Aceves, Hervin. (2020). County and Nobility in Norman Italy: Aristocratic Agency in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1130-1189. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 31-3.
• Dummett, Jeremy. (2015). Palermo City of Kings: The Heart of Sicily. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co.
• Hill, Paul. (2015). “Chapter 6: Roger I, Count of Sicily (d. 1101).” In The Norman Commanders: Masters of Warfare 911-1135, 53–62. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword.