Amauri de Montfort Comté de Evreux

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 50:25, Amauri de Montfort, count of Evreux m. Agnes, daughter of Anseau de Garlande ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Amauri de Montfort, brother and heir of Simón, is said by both Orderic and Robert de Torigni to be the son of Simón (father of both Amauri and his elder brother Simón) by Agnes, sister of William Count of Evreux. In 1098 he aided William II against his brother's castles of Montfort and Épernon. After the death of William de Bréteuil in 1103, Amauri supported the claim of William's Burgundian nephew, Renaud de Grancei, to succeed to his estates against that of his Breton nephew, William de Gael. On the death, in 1118, of his maternal uncle, William, Count of Evreux, Amauri claimed the comté, and when Henry I denied him the inheritance led a widespread revolt, and obtained possession of Evreux. In the following year, Henry besieged Evreux, but his nephew Theobald, Count of Champagne, reconciled him and Amauri, who surrendered the castle to the King and thereupon received his uncle's comté.

In 1123 Amauri joined the revolt of Waleran, Count of Meulan, subsequently husband of his daughter Agnes, against Henry. Next year Amauri fought at Bourghteroulde, and was captured when fleeing from the field by William de Grandcourt. William de Grandcourt who, rather than hand over his prisoner to captivity, went into exile with him. Before the end of the year Amauri made his peace with the King, and seems to have maintained friendly relations with him during the rest of the reign.

Amauri de Montort married, 1^st, Richeude, daughter of Baldwin, Count of Hainault, from whom he separated. His 2^nd wife was Agnes, niece of Stephen de Garlande, with whom he received Rochefort and Gournay-sur-Marne. She was probably the mother of his eldest son, Amauri, and certainly of his second son Simon, and of a daughter, Agnes who married Waleran, Count of Meulan. Amauri died 18 or 19 Apr, year unknown, and was buried at the Abbey of Haute-Bruyere, which he had founded.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Appendix D), Vol. VII, pp. 713-714

Amauri married Agnes de Garlande, daughter of Anselm de Garlande Comte Rochefort and Mademoiselle de Montlhéry. (Agnes de Garlande was born about 1105 in Rochefort-en-Yevlines, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France and died in 1143 in Gournay-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France.)