Ermengarde d' Anjou ¹

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Ermangarde D'Anjou Bretagne
Ermengarde
Also Known As: "Elizabeth", "Irmgard", "Ermengard", "Gotfredsdatter", "Ermengarde /D Anjou/", "Duchess", "Ermengarde /d Anjou/", "Ermengard /De Anjou/", "Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou", "Countess of Rennes", "Regent of Brittany (992-994)", "Countess of Angouleme", "Duchess Ermangarde Bretagne"
Birthdate: November 11, 958
Birthplace: Duchy of Anjou (now Pays de la Loire, France)
Death: Died June 27, 1022 in Duchy of Anjou (now Pays de la Loire, France)
Cause of death: MZC5-D28
Place of Burial: Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, Normandy, France
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Geoffrey I "Greymantle", count of Anjou and Adele de Vermandois, Comtesse de Châlons & de Beaune
Wife of Conan I le Fort, duc de Bretagne
Mother of Geoffroy I, duc de Bretagne; Judith of Brittany; Catuallon de Bretagne; Hernod de Bretagne; Alain Glanderius and 1 other
Sister of Gerberge d'Anjou, Comtesse d'Angoulême; Geoffroy d'Anjou; Adelais d' Anjou and Fulk III "the Black", count of Anjou & Vendôme
Half sister of Walter I
Occupation: Duchess of Bretagne, Duchess of Brittany, Prinsessa, Countess of Anjou

Source: https://www.geni.com/people/Ermengarde-of-Anjou-duchess-of-Brittany/6000000009909505293

Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou
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Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou
Spouse(s) Conan I of Rennes
William II of Angoulême
Noble family House of Ingelger
Father Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou
Mother Adele of Meaux
Born c.?956
Died circa 1024
Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou, also called Ermengarde of Anjou (c.?956 - c.?1024), was the Countess of Rennes, Regent of Brittany (992\endash 994) and also Countess of Angoulême.

Life
Ermengarde-Gerberga was born c.?956, the daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Meaux. She married Conan I of Rennes, Count of Rennes, in 973. Her husband Conan of Rennes opposed her father and brother Fulk even though the marriage was apparently designed to form a political alliance between Anjou and Brittany. Even after Conan had been killed by Fulk at the Battle of Conquereuil in 992, and during the period 992-994 when Ermengarde was Regent for their son Geoffrey, she remained loyal to her brother Fulk III, Count of Anjou. In 992, following the interests of her brother, and functioning as Regent, she accepted Capetian over-lordship for Rennes while rejecting that of Odo I, Count of Blois.
About 1000 her brother Fulk III arranged his widowed sister to marry, secondly, William II of Angoulême, one of his close allies.

Issue
By her first husband Conan I 'le Tort' Count of Rennes, she had the following children:
Judith (982\endash 1017), married Richard II, Duke of Normandy.
Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, the eventual heir to Conan I.
Judicael, count of Porhoët (died 1037).
Hernod.
By her second husband William II 'Taillefer' Count of Angoulême, she had the following children:
Alduin, Count of Angoulême (d. 1032), married Alaisia de Gasçogne.
Geoffrey, Count of Angoulême (d.1048), married 1stly Petronille d'Archiac, 2ndly Anceline.
Fulk of Angoulême, married Aynors.
Odon (flourished c. 1030).
Arnauld (died young).
William (died young).
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Notes
Jump up ^ She is called Ermengarde in northern [French] sources however at least one early southern source calls her Gerberga. Angevins were known to give daughters two names as evidenced by her aunt, called Adelaide-Blanche. See: Bachrach, 'Henry II and the Angevin Tradition', Albion, Vol. 16, No. 2, (1984), p. 117 n. 35; Crisp, 'Consanguinity and the Saint-Aubin Genealogies, Haskins Society Journal 14 (2005), p. 114; also: Bachrach, ""Fulk Nerra,, (1993), p. 42.

Ermengarde married Conan de Rennes I, Count of Bretagne and Rennes about 973. (Conan de Rennes I, Count of Bretagne and Rennes was born about 922 in Brittany, France, died on 27 Jun 992 in Battle of Conquereuil, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France and was buried in Mont Saint-Michel Abbey, Pontorson, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France.)

Ermengarde next married William "Taillefer" II, of Angoulême about 1000. (William "Taillefer" II, of Angoulême was born in Angoulême, Aquitaine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France, died in 1028 in Angoulême, Aquitaine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France and was buried in Saint-Cybard, Verdille, Departement de la Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France.)