Marguerite de Montmorency

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a) CHARLES [I] de Montmorency (-11 Sep 1381, bur Notre-Dame du Val). Seigneur de Montmorency. "Madame Iehanne Dame de Montmorency et...damoisel Charles son filz sires de ce mesmes lieu" confirmed a grants of revenue “en la ville de Saint Brice” to “monsieur Pierre Troussel chevalier, chambellenc nostre sire de Roy et noble dame Madame Ysabeau de Dreus sa fame” by charter dated 14 Jun 1328[783]. Edward III King of England granted protection and free passage to “Charolus de Mountmorensy et Mathæus frater eius” by charter dated 20 May 1341[784]. The necrology of Val abbey records the death “III Id Sep” of “dominus Karolus dominus de Montemorenciaco”[785].

m firstly (contract 7 Jan 1331) MARGUERITE de Beaujeu, daughter of GUICHARD [VI] Seigneur de Beaujeu & his second wife Marie de Châtillon (-1336). The marriage contract between "Guichart seigneur de Biaueiu chevalier...sa fille" and “Charles seigneur de Montmorency escuier” is dated 7 Jan 1331[786]. An epitaph at Val abbey records the death "la veille de la Tiphaine" 1336 of “madame Marguerite de Beaugeu iadis fame de messire Charles de Montmorency”[787].

m secondly (contract Paris 26 Jan 1341) JEANNE de Roucy Dame de Blason et de Chimeliers-en-Anjou, daughter of JEAN [V] Comte de Roucy & his wife Marguerite de Bommiers (-10 Jan 1361, bur Abbaye du Val). The marriage contract between "monsieur Charles seigneur de Montmorency chevalier" and “damoiselle Ieanne de Roucy fille de...monsieur Iean comte de Roucy et de Braine et de...madame Marguerite de Bomez sa femme” is dated 26 Jan 1341[788]. An epitaph at Val abbey records the death 10 Jan 1361 of “madame Ieanne de Roussy iadis fame de monseigneur Charles sire de Montmorency”[789].

m thirdly as her first husband, PERNELLE de Villiers Dame de Vitry-en-Brie, de la Tour de Chaumont et de Villiers-le-Sec, daughter of ADAM “le Bègue” Seigneur de Villiers & his wife Alix de Méry (-[1400/15], bur Notre-Dame du Val). A charter dated 7 Apr 1372 records the division between “monsieur Charles de Montmorenci et dame Perrenelle de Villiers” and “monsieur Gilles de Poissoy et dame Leonor de Villiers sa femme” of the lands of “monsieur Adam de Villiers seigneur de Villiers le sec et à Alix de Mery sa femme, pere et mere desdites Perrenelle et Leonor”[790]. She married secondly as his third wife, Guillaume d’Harcourt Seigneur de la Ferté-Imbault et de Montfort-le-Rotrou. Letters dated 26 Apr 1392 record the dower of "Perrenelle de Villiers dame de Montmorency” assigned by “Jacques seigneur de Montmorency son fils”, specifying that “feu Charles de Montmorency son mary” had bought the land in question from “monsieur Jean de Chastillon et de madame Marie de Montmorency sa femme, fille dudit defunt”[791].

Charles [I] & his second wife had children:

i) MARGUERITE de Montmorency (after 1339-after 21 Sep 1406). m (contract Paris Jan 1352, 30 Nov 1356) ROBERT [VII] Seigneur d’Estouteville, son of ROBERT [VI] Seigneur d’Estouteville & his wife Marguerite de Hotot (-[11 Jul] 1396).

ii) JEANNE de Montmorency (-after [1364/68]). m (contract Paris 29 Sep 1358) GUY dit Brumer de Laval Seigneur de Chaley, de Blazon et de Chemillé, son of --- (-[1383]).

iii) MARIE de Montmorency (-after 26 Feb 1372). Letters sealed 26 Feb 1372 record that "messire Iean de Chastillon et dame Marie de Montmorency sa femme” sold Argentan to “monsieur Pierre comte d’Alençon”[792]. Letters dated 26 Apr 1392 record the dower of "Perrenelle de Villiers dame de Montmorency” assigned by “Jacques seigneur de Montmorency son fils”, specifying that “feu Charles de Montmorency son mary” had bought the land in question from “monsieur Jean de Chastillon et de madame Marie de Montmorency sa femme, fille dudit defunt”[793]. m firstly GUILLAUME d’Ivry Seigneur d’Oissery et de Saint-Pathus, son of --- (-after 1368). m secondly (before 26 Feb 1372) [as his second wife,] JEAN Seigneur de Châtillon, son of GAUCHER [VIII] de Châtillon-sur-Marne Seigneur de Châtillon, de Troissy et de la Ferté-en-Ponthieu & his second wife Alemande de Revel (-1416). Charles [I] & his third wife had children:

iv) JACQUES de Montmorency (-1414, before 20 Oct). Seigneur de Montmorency. Letters dated 26 Apr 1392 record the dower of "Perrenelle de Villiers dame de Montmorency” assigned by “Jacques seigneur de Montmorency son fils”, specifying that “feu Charles de Montmorency son mary” had bought the land in question from “monsieur Jean de Chastillon et de madame Marie de Montmorency sa femme, fille dudit defunt”[794].