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Drogo of Mantes, Count of Valois, Amiens, and Vexin

Male 996 - 1035  (39 years)


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  • Name Drogo of Mantes  
    Relationshipwith Robert Alan Roy
    Birth 996  [6
    Title(s) 1027 (Age 31)  [6
    Death 1035  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6
    • Drogo died while on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. [1]
    Person ID I24627 
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2021 

    Father Walter II the White, Count of Amiens, Valois, and the Vexin   d. 1017 - 1024 
    Mother Adele 
    Family ID F2810  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Godgifu, Princess of England,   b. About 1010, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. by 1049 (Age 39 years) 
    Marriage 7 Apr 1024  [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
    Age at Marriage He : ~ 28 years and 4 months - She : ~ 14 years and 4 months
    Information According to David Bates, the marriage between Godgifu and Eustace was criticized for unspecified reasons at the Council of Reims in 1049, which was presided over by the Pope. This seems to have resulted in an end to the marriage and her return to England, where she was treated generously by her brother.  [7
    Children 
    +1. Ralph "the Timid" de Sudeley, Earl of Hereford   d. 21 Dec 1057
     2. Gautier III, Count of Vexin
     3. Fulk of Vexin   d. 1068
    Family ID F8832  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2021 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1940] Panton, Kenneth J. Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, (Lanham, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2011).

    2. [S1715] Searle, William George. Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1899).

    3. [S65] Sewell, Robert James. Sewell: A History of the Sewell Family from the Earliest Times, (unknown: manuscript, March 2008).

    4. [S1682] Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Families, (London: Vintage Books, 1989).

    5. [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982).

    6. [S304] Wikipedia, Drogo of Mantes.

    7. [S304] Wikipedia, Godgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready.