William (William) Gouet (1080 - aft. 1117)

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William Gouet III (b. ante 1080)

• LORD or MONTMIRAIL and other fiefs in that part of Perche which, later became known as Perche-Gouet.^[1]

Early Life

p. William Gouet II, LORD of Montmirail and Chateau-du-Loir, and (jure matris) of Alluye and Brou & wife Eustache^[2]

abt. 1117: William Gouet II suc. his father.^[3]

Family

m. Mabel^[4]

Religion

Joined father, mother Eustache, and his brothers Robert and Matthew, in the foundation of the Priory of St. Gilles des Chateigniers as a cell of Tiron.

Timeline

1114: as William Gouet junior (juvenem), he was one of the nobles (optimates) of Theobald, Count of Chartres, whom the Count called in to advise him.

1116: with his father and mother, he gave judgement in a dispute between the abbey of Marmoutier and Gaston de Brou.

Sources

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 17

MABEL OF ENGLAND, married before c. 1125 GUILLAUME GOUET (or GOET). They had one son, Guillaume Gouet. He married ISABELLE (or ELIZABETH OF BLOIS, Duchess of Apulia [see DONZY 4].

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. II page 462

1. ↑ Medlands. fmg.ac
2. ↑

   2nd but 1st surv. s. and h.; His elder br. Hugh having d. v.p. he became heir.

3. ↑

   He has been confused with his father, and with his s. and h., William Gouet IV, with whom the line ended.

4. ↑

   Although Medlands calls her Eustacie, "Correction and Additions to CP" indicates that her name is Mabel.

   MEDLANDS: "R. de Torigny does not name her, and Marx does not try to ascertain her name; nor has it been found in charters. She is called Eustacie by Ramsay, presumably through confusion with her mother-in-law."

Stephen Wilkinson