Emma of Laval
Emma of Laval
Guy IV of Laval, which one should name Guy III of Laval, by counting only its predecessors of the same name, and that one cannot qualify Guy IV like fourth founder of the dynasty, married “Emma, girl natural of Henri Ier of England, king d' Angleterre, and of Bathilde, sister of the count de Meulan, which it maintained some time. ” It is necessary to believe Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly, which thus affirms this relationship of the lady of Laval. The difficulty which one makes in this respect the English king did not have the bastard one of this name is not one, because among the eights that one knows, it is one which is not named, and whose husband is not known. Moreover their full number is not fixed.
Emma survived her husband, was tutor of her son until in 1142, and died after 1152, date of the foundation of the Abbaye of Clermont. She was buried there, said the Laval-native chronicler, but with the chapitreau only, and not in the chorus like the ladies of Laval of XIVe and XVe centuries. Its epitaph which is the proof of its origin carries:
GOVERNED EMMA ANGLORUM FILIA DOMINAQUE LAVALLENSIS
Mr. A. Bertrand de Broussillon notices that a “other lady of Laval had a similar epitaph, which is not very probable. ” We will see that the epitaph is different and that it indicates a second lady of Laval.
One even claims that the Abbaye of Clermont would have preserved a long time a tomb on which one read: Emma Anglorum Governed Filia Dominaque Lavallensis.
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