Hildeburg (Unknown) de Bellême (abt. 1010 - bef. 1046)

Born about 1010 in Normandie, France

Descendants

Died before 1046 before about age 36 in Alençon, Normandie, France [uncertain]

Hildeburge Unknown was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Orderic Vitalis, in his additions or continuation of the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (History of the Dukes of Normandy) by William (Guillaume) of Jumièges, is the only near primary source to name the wives of William II 'Talvas' de Bellême, Count of Alencon.^[1]

His first wife was Hildeburg, daughter of a nobleman named Arnulf (Hildeburgam quippe, filiam Arnulfi cuiusdam nobilissime uiri) whose family name has not been identified.^[2] She was the mother of his two children, Arnulf, and Mabel (or Mabille)^[1] who was later to marry Roger II de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.^[2],^[3]

Orderic Vitalis, states that Hildeburg was of an excellent character, and a good Christian and did not approve of her husband's wicked actions. For this he resented her and eventually had her strangled while on her way to church.^[1]

Dates

The second marriage of William II 'Talvas' de de Bellême, to an unnamed daughter of Rodulf, Viscount of Beaumont^[1] is dated to about 1046^[4] which means Hildeburg must have died before then.

The marriage of her daughter Mabel is dated to the late 1040s - early 1050s, which would place her birth in about 1030 or perhaps slightly later

Research Notes

Who is her father Arnulf?

In some unsourced online genealogies, (including originally this profile) Arnulf (or Arnoul) the father of Hildeburg, has been equated with Arnulf, Count of Holland. However as he died in 993, it seems chronologically difficult for him to have been the father of Hildeburg, apart from the fact that the father, Arnulf is definitely named as a nobleman, not as a Count.

For similar reasons he couldn't be Arnulf II, Count of Flanders who died in 987 or 988.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of Wiliam of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, vol. 2, books V-Viii, edited & translated by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). pp. 108-09.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage; or, A History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times, vol. 11, ed. Geoffrey H. White (Vol. XI, 1949), p. 686
3. ↑ Gesta Normannorum Ducum, ed by E. Van Houts, pp. 118-9.
4. ↑ Gesta Normannorum Ducum, ed by E. Van Houts, pp. 110, note 1.

See also:

• Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands.