Aimery vicomté de Thouars

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition:

183:1, Aimery IV de Thouars, Viscount de Thouars, born Hastings, 1029, died, 1093, was a companion of William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings in 1066, and the son of Geoffroy de Thouars, viscount do Thouars. Aimery IV married Aurengarde de Mauléon.


275:22, Hugh VI de Lusignan, "the Devil," son of Hugh V de Lusignan and Almodis de la Marche, married before 1060, Hildegarde (Aldéarde) de Thouars, sister of Alíenor de Thouars, daughter of Aimery IV de Thourars.

271:23, Aimery Iv de Thouars, Viscount of Thouars, living in 1048, died in 1993, and married as his first wife, Aurengarde de Mauléon, sister of Raoul and Geoffroy de Mauléon. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ¹⁹⁷
A companion of William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings, 1066

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Aimery de Thouars.
"Seniori meo Gaufredo vicecomite et filiis eius...Aimerico, Savarico, Gaufredo et Radulfo et uxore sua Adenordi et cunctis primoribus castri Toarcensis" are named as present in the charter dated Jan 1038 under which "Dodelinus..." donated the monastery of Saint-Jacques de Thouars to the abbey of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes [2174]. "…Aymerici vicecomitis de Tuarz…" subscribed the charter dated (circa 1047) under which "Guilelmus…princeps Arvernorum" donated property to the abbey of Charroux [Charroux IV, p. 91]. "Vicecomes Aimericus filius Gaufredi et nepos Radulfi vicecomitis" donated property "Flauziacus" to St Cyprien by charter dated (1055/73) subscribed by "uxor sua Aremgardis" [Poitiers Saint-Cyprien 166, p. 109]. Orderic Vitalis names "...Haimericus Toarcensis præses..." among those who took part in the battle of Hastings [Le Prévost, A. (1845) Orderici Vitalis Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ (Paris) ("Orderic Vitalis (Prévost)"), Vol. II, Liber III, XIV, p. 148]. "...Aimerici vice-comitis, Radulfi, Gaufredi fratrum...Ermengardis vicecomitisse" subscribed the undated charter (dated to after 1055) under which "Petrus frater Dodelini" recorded a dispute between Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes about Thouars Saint-Jacques donated by "Dodelinus..." and a horse bought from "vicecomite Gaufredo" [Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes, p. 4].

Aimery married Aurengarde de Mauléon.¹⁶⁰ (Aurengarde de Mauléon was born in 1030 in Mauléon.)