Adelaide de Angers (Possibly Empress Mathilda) - Hamelin was not Matilda's son.

Started by MaryAnn Jackman on Thursday, February 23, 2017
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He was the son of one of Geoffrey's many mistresses. He was raised in the household. His mother died when he was still quite young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamelin_de_Warenne,_Earl_of_Surrey

Pam Wilson (on hiatus), as you are the curator of this profile I would be reluctant to make a change especially as there are conflicting references in the about me for the profile.

Adelaide of Angers was also not the daughter of Henry I. Among the list of his many offspring, she is not there. I can't find much about her except a reference here and there as possibly the mother of Hamelin. The Empress Matilda was definitely not the mother of Hamelin.

Here's another short article about Hamelin. The author recommends Dan Jones' The Plantagenets -- I recommend it, too. Great book. It's non-fiction but reads like a novel.
https://historytheinterestingbits.com/2015/01/30/the-kings-brother/

We were always told ur Cornish family Aunger was from D'Angiere/ De Angers but I think it is a place in France ?

De Angers literally means of or from Angers. My maiden name, Lovier, was originally de Louviers, meaning my father's family came from Louviers, in Normandy. Angers was the capital of Anjou, in France, where the Planagenet line began. People from Anjou were called Angevins, a name also applied to the Plantagenet kings. Geoffrey of Anjou married Henry I's daughter, the Empress Matilda and they started the Angevin dynasty which ruled England for 331 years.

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