Jean de la Flèche
Jean de la Flèche, also known as Jean de Beaugency, Seigneur de la Flèche (c.1030 – c.1097) was an 11th-century French nobleman.[1] He was the youngest son of (possible son of Landry Sore de Beaugency (??-1042)) and Adelberg de Maine and was born about 1030 in La Flèche, Sarthe. His father was Seigneur (lord) de Beaugency and they were powerful Barons of Beaugency until the 13th century. They built the original wooden fort, Château de Beaugency, which was later replaced by stone castle. The massive keep still survives as a ruined shell. A later mansion was built on the grounds of the castle.
Jean de la Flèche became the first Seigneur of La Flèche where he held it's original castle (the current one is from the 15th century). In 1059, Jean married Paula of Maine, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine.[2] Jean and Paula were the parents of Elias I, Count of Maine, who married Mathilde de Château-du-Loir,[3] and the great-grandparents of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, father of Henry II of England.
Most of the people with the English surname Fletcher, are descended from Jean de la Flèche, who was given land by William the Conqueror and who's decedents settled in Yorkshire, England following the Norman Conquest.
References[]
- ^ Documents historiques sur l'Anjou (in French). Lachèse. 1896. p. 383. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Cauvin, Thomas (1831). Essai sur la statistique de l'arrondissement de la Flèche (in French). p. 136. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Ordericus Vitalis (1854). The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Vol. 3. H.G. Bohn. p. 222.
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