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    The House of Bellême also referred to as the Family of Bellême was an important seigneurial family during the 10th through the 12th centuries. Members...
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  • Mabel de Bellême (1030s -1079) was a Norman noblewoman. She inherited the lordship of Bellême from her father and later became Countess of Shrewsbury through...
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  • as rivals of the de Bellême family. Robert's mother eventually retired to become a nun at Montivilliers along with two of Robert's sisters, their brother...
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    the House of Bellême Robert de Craon (died 1147), the second Grand Master of the Knights Templar from June 1136 until his death. Robert de Juilly (died...
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    member of the House of Bellême. He was a son of William of Bellême and Mathilde of Condé-sur-Noireau. He held lands at Bellême, Domfront and Alençon,...
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    Duke William and Robert was entrusted with this key county which guarded the borders of Brittany and Bellême. In early 1066, Robert was present at both...
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    called William (II; III) Talvas. He was seigneur de Montgomery in Normandy and Count of Ponthieu. William was son of Robert II of Bellême and Agnes of Ponthieu...
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  • Mabel de Bellême. Arnulf's parents likely married in about 1050. His mother was a daughter of, and eventual heiress of, William de Bellême, Lord of Alençon...
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    holdings of the Bellême family, who held Bellême on the border of Maine and Normandy, as well as the fortresses at Alençon and Domfront. Bellême's overlord was...
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  • did not have any children and after William's death in 1159, King Henry II's younger brother, William FitzEmpress, sought her hand in 1162 or 1163, but...
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