Gauthier Seigneur de Mayenne

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Seigneurs de Mayenne. ¹⁰⁰²
Guthier de Mayenne's parentage is confirmed by the charter dated to (1050/60) under which "Hugo…castri Breietelli possessor in pago Cenomannensi" donated "ecclesiam…in Dunensi pago…Lazellam" to Marmoutier, with the permission of "domine mee Mahildis filie Galterii de Aloia filiorumque ac filiarum eiusdem, quibus patres fuere Guillelmus cognomento Gugetus et Gauffredus de Medana…Willelmi, Hildeburgis et Richildis, item Hamelini, Galterii et Hersendis" [Menjot d´Elbenne (1876), Appendice, I, p. 47]. The Actus pontificum Cenomannis names "Gaufridus, filius Gaufridi de Meduana" when recording that he was in Apulia [Actus pontificum Cenomannis, p. 417]. Gauthier married Adeline of unknown parents. "Juhellus Goualterii filius, dominus castelli Meduanæ…matre mea Adelina et sorore Felicia" organised the transfer of the monks of Saint-Martin to Mayenne castle, for the souls of "Gaufredi…avi mei et Gualterii patris mei…Hamelini fratris mei", by charter dated 1144, witnessed by "…Hugo de Lavalle…" [Guyard de la Fosse (1850), Preuves, IV].

Gauthier married Adeline.