Isabeau de Saint Martin le Gaillard (abt. 1310)

Born about 1310 in Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard, Eu, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France

Wife of Jean de Bethencourt II — married 1338 in France

Wife of Mathieu de Bracquemont — married 1357 in France

Descendants

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Isabeau de St. Martin^{24,18,7,12,18} was also known as Anne Isabeau de Clermont.¹⁷ She was also known as Anne Isabelle de Clermont.¹⁸ She was also known as Izabel de Saint Martin.²⁰ She was also known as Isabelle de Saint Martin Le Gaillard.⁷ She was also known as Izabel de São Martinho.²⁵ She was also known as Isabeau de Clermont.⁹ She was also known as Isabeau de Saint-Martin.¹⁰ She was also known as Anne Izabeau.¹² She was born circa 1310 at Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard, Eu, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France; Barony of St. Martin.¹⁸

(Monsieur Pierre Cleret has presented a different genealogy for this line. He states that the wife of Jehan (Jean) de St. Martin, Isabeau's father, was not Isabeau de Harcourt, but Isabelle Martel de Basqueville. Her ancestor was Guillaume de Basqueville who was married to the great-granddaughter of Herfaut, brother of Duchess Gonor, wife of Richard Sans Peur, 3d Duke of Normandy. Guillaume de Basqueville was the son of Nicolas de Basqueville, whose father, Baldric le Teuton, married a niece of Gilbert de Brionne, who was the grandson of Richard Sans Peur, son of Guillaume Longue Épée, son of Rollon, 1st Duke of Normandy. Nicolas married Albreda, great-granddaughter of Harfaut, sister of Guillaume Fitzaubert).^26,27,11 She married an unknown person in 1338 at France.²⁸

After 1353 Isabeau sold or pretended to sell her inherited castle at Saint-Martin to Mathieu de Braquemont.²⁹ She married Mathieu de Braquemont, son of Regnault de Braquemont (I), after 1357 at France.^17,23 Before 1360 in the division of her father's property, the castle must have fallen to Isabeau and, in this way, by the said sale or by her second marriage, passed to the possession of Mathieu de Braquemont. In it then lived Mathieu with his wife and probably their children. It followed, however, that meanwhile, war broke out between the King of France and Charles the Bad, King of Navarre, the Braquemonts taking the side of the latter. For this reason, the King of France ordered that the castle belonging to Mathieu be seized, and Pierre d'Auxy was charged with the task. Pierre was the son of Hugues d'Auxy, Lord of Dompierre, and his wife Isabeau de Marigny who was descended from the ancient barons of Saint-Martin; he was, therefore, cousin once removed of Isabeau de Saint-Martin. She was still young and attractive. Pierre fell in love with her and sequestered her, perhaps with her consent. An illegitimate child appears to have beenborn from this adulterous affair, taking the name of Dompierre and is presumed to be the nobleman of this name who accompanied Jean (IV) in the expedition to the Canary Islands. Enraged by the seizure and by the sequestration andadultery of his wife, Mathieu killed Pierre, later begging pardon for this crime from the King.³⁰ In 1376 Isabeau put in motion proceedings against various people, including her sisters, proceedings in which she complains of having been wronged in the division of her father's property.²⁹

Children of Jean de Bethencourt (II) and Isabeau de St. Martin all born at Normandy, France, were as follows:

• + 9 i. Jean de Bethencourt (III) was born circa 1339. He married Marie de Bracquemont, daughter of Regnault de Braquemont (I), at the instigation of her brother (Jean's step-father), Mathieu de Braquemont in Jun 1358 at Normandy.

• + 10 ii. Jeanne de Bethencourt (I) was born after 1339. She married Pierre de Neuville circa 1355 at France. She married Eustache de Erneville in 1362 at France.

• 11 iii. Daughter 2 Bethencourt^31,31,31 was born circa 1340.³¹ She was married in Auge or Angles, producing from this marriage the Demoiselle d'Espreville, the Lords of Vipars (Vipari) and of Maillot (Mailos), and the wife of theLord of Angles. According to some, this sister of Jean (III), of unknown name, was the mother of Georges, Henri, and Maciot de Bethencourt.

From: Bettencourts 1200-2000 - Generation Five: Isabeau de St. Martin, accessed 22 Mar 2013.

Jean II disfrutó de los señoríos de Béthencourt y de Grainville la Teinturiere y aparece citado en los cuerpos de armada de René de Belleval, como caballero "bachelier", en el grupo del conde de Neqon, para hacer la guerra a los ingleses; peleó en las fronteras de Flandes y de la Guyena y pasó luego a Bretaña, al disputarse el ducado Juana, condesa de Penthiévre, y Juan de Bretaña, conde de Montfort l'Amaury, hermano del último duque. Intervino también en la guerra entre el monarca francés y los navarros, apoyados éstos por Inglaterra, luchando junto a los primeros.

Estaba casado, desde el 1338, con Isabeau de Saint Martin le Gaillard, hija y sucesora del baron de Saint Martin le Gaillard; y de este matrimonio fué hijo Jean III, señor de Béthencourt y de Grainville la Teinturière y barón de Saint Martin le Gaillard, típico caballero de la época, que luchó primero a1 lado de loa ingleses, hasta que a la llamada del Delfín acude a Nantes a ponerse a las órdenes del famoso Bertrand du Guesclin y murió en la batalla de Cocherel, que tuvo lugar el 1364.

From: Anuario de Estudios Atlanticos: LOS BETHENCOURT EN LAS CANARIAS Y EN AMERICA, p. 4.

Juan II de Bethencourt debió nacer entre los años 1330 a 1331. Se inscribió como Caballero marino en la Armada, a las órdenes del Conde de Alezon. En 1354 había casado con Isabel de Saint-Martin, hija del Barón de Saint-Martin le Gaillard. Isabel, por su madre, descendía de los Caballeros Martel, personajes muy importantes en la Corte de Guillermo el Conquistador.

El II de los Bethencourt debió hacer la guerra con fortuna al lado de su Rey, al recibir de él la cantidad de 120 libras tornesas, para fortificar su castillo de Saint-Martin le Gaillard. lo que así consta en un mandamiento fechado en Gaillon a 26 de mano de 1353.

Según la «Chronique des quatre premiers Valois». Juan muere en la batalla de Harfleur. dada el 19 de septiembre de 1356 (?), luchando contra sus compatriotas al lado del Rey de Francia y contra los ingleses del Príncipe Negro. Muerto Juan, el castillo de Grainville fue sitiado y constantemente atacado. La viuda de Juan tuvo grandes problemas para hacerse obedecer de sus defensores. Uno de sus parientes, Mateo de Braquemont, le prestó ayuda, y con él contrajo matrimonio. Para la señora viuda de Bethencourt fue un matrimonio de conveniencia. Braquemont simuló la compra de las tierras del patrimonio Bethencourt y asegurar así la fortuna de Juan III. Se estipuló que éste se casara con María, hija de uno de los hermanos de Mateo llamado Regnault, Señor de Traversin, con la que casó a final de 1358. Pero no terminaron los problemas de la viuda de Bethencourt. Este matrimonio la convirtió en rebelde a la Corona francesa, por lo que fueron confiscados sus bienes. Transcurrido un año, el Delfín se los devolvió.

From: XXV años de la Escuela de Genealogía, Heráldica y Nobiliaria, p. 368.