Sibylle d'Anjou

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SIBYLLE d'Anjou ([1112/16]-Bethany 1165, bur Bethany, Abbey of St Lazarus). She is named by Orderic Vitalis, who also names her father and specifies that he arranged her (first) marriage as part of the support he gave to Guillaume de Normandie, on the suggestion of Amaury de Montfort, and that her dowry was the county of Maine. According to Orderic Vitalis, King Henry broke off the marriage "making use of threats and pleas and an enormous quantity of gold and silver". Both passages in Orderic Vitalis refer only to a betrothal, but a marriage must have taken place otherwise a papal annulment would have been unnecessary. Her father supported her husband against his uncle Henry I King of England, indignant that the latter retained the dowry of his other daughter Alice, married to King Henry's son who had been drowned in the Blanche Nef [White Ship] in 1120. Orderic Vitalis records Sibylle's second marriage, as does William of Tyre (who says she was her father's older daughter). The Cartulaire de Saint-Bertin records the marriage of "Sibillam comitis Andegavensis filiam" with Thierry after the death of his first wife. She left France with her second husband in Jun 1147 on the Second Crusade. She accompanied her husband to Palestine in 1157 but refused to return with him to Europe in 1158. She became a nun at the convent of St Lazarus at Bethany. After the death of her stepmother Mélisende Queen of Jerusalem in 1161, Ctss Sibylle assumed a position of influence among the royal family of Jerusalem. The Annales Aquicinctini record the death in 1165 of "Sibbilla comitissa Flandrie apud Sanctum Lazarum".

m firstly (1123, annulled by papal bull 26 Aug 1124) as his first wife, GUILLAUME de Normandie , son of ROBERT Duke of Normandy & his wife Sibylle de Conversano (Rouen 1101-St Omer, Abbey of St Bertin 27 Jul 1128, bur St Omer, Abbey of St Bertin). He succeeded in 1127 as GUILLAUME I "Clito"Count of Flanders. He died from wounds received at the battle of Aalst.

m secondly (1134) THIERRY I Count of Flanders, son of THIERRY II Duke of Lorraine & his second wife Gertrude de Flandre ([1099/1101]-17 Jan 1168).

Sibylle married Thierry I de Lorraine Comte de Flandre in 1134.¹ (Thierry I de Lorraine Comte de Flandre was born between 1099 and 1101 and died on 17 Jan 1168 in Gravelines, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 59820, FR.)

Sibylle next married Guillaume de Normandie, son of Robert III de Normandie Duc de Normandie and Sibilla di Conversano, in 1123.² (Guillaume de Normandie was born about Jan-Mar 1103 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, 76000, FR,² died on 27 Jul 1128 in Abbaye Saint-Bertin, Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 62500, FR ² and was buried in Abbaye Saint-Bertin, Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 62500, FR ².). The cause of his death was Died from wounds received during siege of Aalst.