Rénier de Sabran, seigneur de Caylar

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RAINON [I] de Sabran (-1209 or after). Seigneur du Caylar et d'Ansouis. 1155/1209.

m firstly ([1178]%29 GARSINDE de Forcalquier, daughter of GUILLAUME [IV] Comte de Forcalquier & his wife Adelais de Béziers (-before 1193). Her parentage is confirmed by the charter dated [3] Jun 1202 under which "Willelmo…comite Forcalquerii filio dominæ comitissæ veterannæ" confirmed the marriage of "Delfino filio dominæ Beatricis…ducissæ Burgundiæ, Albonensis ac Viennensis comitissæ" and "neptem suam…filiam filiæ suæ…Beatricem"[564]. The primary source which confirms her name and her husband´s name has not yet been identified. m secondly ---.

The name of Rainon´s second wife is not known.

Rainon [I] & his first wife had two children:

i) GERSENDE de Sabran . Ctss de Forcalquier. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to the wife of "Sanctio [frater rege Petro de Arragonum" [presumably an error for "Alfonso"] as "neptem…comitis de Forcalcarie"[565]. The primary source which names her and confirms her precise parentage has not yet been identified. Nun at Celle 1222. m (Aix-en-Provence Jul 1193) Infante don ALFONSO BERENGUER de Aragón, son of ALFONSO II King of Aragon & his wife Infanta doña Sancha de Castilla ([1180]-Palermo Feb 1209). He succeeded his father in 1195 as ALFONSO II Comte de Provence, Millau & Razès.

ii) BEATRIX de Sabran (1182-after 5 Sep 1215). "Willelmo…comite Forcalquerii filio dominæ comitissæ veterannæ" confirmed the marriage of "Delfino filio dominæ Beatricis…ducissæ Burgundiæ, Albonensis ac Viennensis comitissæ" and "neptem suam…filiam filiæ suæ…Beatricem" and granted her the counties of Embrun and Gap as her dowry, by charter dated [3] Jun 1202[566]. Ctss de Gap et d´Embrun. The Aymari Rivalli De Allobrogibus records that "Andreas" married "Beatricem, filiam Guillermi Falcaquerii comitis" and inherited "comitatum Falcaquerium" from her, adding in a later passage that he repudiated her for consanguinity[567], although this skips a generation in recording the parentage of Beatrix. A charter dated 1210 records an agreement between "dominus Andreas Dalfinus" and the church of Embrun, relating to donations by "domino Wilelmo bonæ memoriæ comite Forcalcarii" and "eidem Delfino et uxori eius"[568]. m (Saint-Firmin-sur-le-Buech Jun 1202, divorced 1210) as his first wife, ANDRE de Bourgogne, son of HUGUES III Duke of Burgundy [Capet] & his second wife Béatrix de Viennois (1184-14 Mar 1237, bur Grenoble, église collégiale de Saint-André). He succeeded his mother in 1228 as Comte d'Albon, Dauphin.

Rainon [I] & his second wife had two children:

iii) GUILLAUME de Martortel (-before 1260). "Raino dominus Ucetiæ filius quondam d. Rainonis" sold property, in his name and that of "Guillelmum de Martortel fratrem meum", by charter dated 8 Jul 1223[569]. m ERMESSINDE, daughter of --- (-after 1260). Guillaume & his wife had one child:

(a) ELZEAR de Sabran (-after 1280). He sold his one-eighth share in the seigneurie d´Uzès to the bishop of Uzès in 1280.

iv) RAINON [III] (-after 1242). "Raino dominus Ucetiæ filius quondam d. Rainonis" sold property, in his name and that of "Guillelmum de Martortel fratrem meum", by charter dated 8 Jul 1223[570]. Seigneur de la Tour d´Aigue et d´Uzès. He sold his one-eighth share in the seigneurie d´Uzès to the bishop of Uzès in 1242.

Lord of Caylar and Ansouis