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Bertrade De Montfort

1070 - 14 February 1117

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Bertrade De Montfort

Female 1070 - 14 February 1117

Died, Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire.

Married to IV D'anjou. Mother of Fulk D'anjou. Daughter of Simon De Montfort and Agnes D'evreaux.

t and hisk IV ofAnjou in 1089 and gave birth to a boy, who was named Fulk after hisfather. She later left her husband to live at the court of the King ofFrance. Philipp I disowned his first wife and banned her to the Castleof Montreuil-sur-Mer where she died in 1094. Philipp and Bertrade gotmarried in May 1092, without getting divorces first. She had greatinfluence on his decisions. During the Council of Clermont in 1095,Pope Urban II excommunicated them for bigamy. Two years later theexcommunication was confirmed and the whole kingdom was put under theinterdict. They officially separated in 1104 and Pope Pascal IIrevoked the excommunication as well as the interdict. They continuedto live together at the court, but the pope needed Philipps help nowand overlooked any wrongdoing. She had given birth to four children,Philipp, Fleury, Eustachie and Cecile, but the king named his son,Louis, from his first marriage as his heir. She was not happy aboutthat decision and supposedly tried to poison Louis. After her husbandsdeath she had to leave the court. She sold her dowry and together withher brother Amaury III founded the Abbey of Haute-Bruyère in 1112. Sheretired to Fontevrault where she died. Her body was moved toHaute-Bruyère in 1128 and buried in the choir of the abbey church.

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