Almodis comtesse de la Marche

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Roger "the Poitevin," married Almodis, sister and heir of Boso, comté de Marche en Poitou.

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Shrewsbury), Vol. XI, p. 687, footnote (d)

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Almodis de la Marche.
The Chronicle of Saint-Maxence records that "Boso comes de Marchia" was killed "Confolento castro" in 1091 and was succeeded by "Aumodis soror sua", wife of "Rotgerio comite" [Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou, p. 410]. "Aalmodis comitissa Marchiæ et filius meus Boso" confirmed the donation of property "in parrochia Cambartensi et in parrochia Sancti Ylarii de Las Corbas et in parrochia de Trainiaco", held by "patre meo Aldeberto et…avunculo meo Oddone", by "avunculus meus Oddo comes" by charter dated 23 Mar 1112 [Uzerche, 98, p. 133]. Almodis was the second wife of Roger de Montgommery, so of Roger de Montgomery, seigneur Seigneur d'Alençon, Earl of Shropshire and Shrewsbury & his first wife Mabile d'Alençon.

Almodis married Roger "The Poitevin" de Montgomery, son of Roger de Montgomery et Vicomté de Hiémois and Mabel de Bellêsme Dame d'Alençon.¹³⁰ (Roger "The Poitevin" de Montgomery was born about 1058 in Marche, Poitou, France and died in 1122-1140 in Charroux, France.)