Olive de Bretagne

   Another name for Olive was Olive of Brittany.

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 214A:25, Olive of Brittany, daughter of Stephen I of Brittany, married as her first husband, Henry de Fougères, seigneur of Fougères, and they were the parents of Raoul III de Fougères. She married, as her second husband, William de St. John. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ⁹⁶⁸
Olive was married to Henri de Fougères. She married Guillaume de St. Jean as her second husband. Name shows up with her second husband in 1163 in Carbul. de Luzerne [MS. des Archives de la Manche], p. 19. In England, Olive possessed the manor of Bennington, not as a dower, but as portion; that is to say, she held the property absolutely, and had not simply a life-interest in it, the estate being given to her by her parents.

~Journal of British Archaeology, Vol. VII, p. 126

Olive married Henri de Fougères, son of Raoul I de Fougères and Unknown.⁹⁶⁸ (Henri de Fougères was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne and died after 1150 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne ⁹⁶⁸.)