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Birth:          ABT 1090 of Alencon, Orne, France
Death:          1172 

Notes
record showing bdate of 1055 is wrong.. see deathdate, father's bdate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III,_Count_of_Ponthieu
William III of Ponthieu (c.?1093[1] – 1172) also called William (II; III) Talvas.[a] He 
was seigneur de Montgomery in Normandy and Count of Ponthieu.
Life[edit]

William was son of Robert II of Bellême and Agnes of Ponthieu.[2][3][4] He succeeded 
his father as count of Ponthieu some time between 1105 and 1111,[2] when he alone 
as count made a gift to the abbey of Cluny.[3] His father Robert de Bellême had 
turned against Henry I on several occasions, had escaped capture at the battle of 
Tinchebrai in 1106 commanding Duke Robert's rear guard and later, while serving as 
envoy for King Louis of France, he was arrested by Henry I and imprisoned for life.[5] 
William was naturally driven by this to oppose King Henry. In June 1119, however, 
Henry I restored all his father's lands in Normandy. Sometime prior to 1126, William 
resigned the county of Ponthieu to his son Guy but retained the title of count.[3] In 
1135 Henry I again confiscated all his Norman lands to which William responded by 
joining count Geoffrey of Anjou in his invasion of Normandy after Henry I's death[3]

Family[edit]

He married, abt. 1115, Helie of Burgundy, daughter of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy.[2]
[6] The Gesta Normannorum Ducum says that they had five children, three sons and 
two daughters. Europäische Stammtafeln, however, shows eleven.[2] The five both 
agree on are:
Guy II. He assumed the county of Ponthieu during his father Talvas' lifetime, but died 
in 1147 predeceasing his father.[2]
William, Count of Alençon.[2]
John I, Count of Alençon, married Beatrix d'Anjou, daughter of Elias II, Count of Maine 
and Philippa, daughter of Rotrou III, Count of Perche.[2]
Clemence married (abt. 1189) Juhel, son of Walter of Mayenne.[2]
Adela (aka Ela) married William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey.[2] She married, 
secondly, Patrick of Salisbury.

Parents
DE BELLEME (DE ALENCON) (MONTGOMERY) Robert II "Talvas" (ABT 1050 - 8 May 1131)
DE PONTHIEU Agnes (ABT 1060 - 1103)

Siblings
OF PONTHIEU William (Guillaume) III "Talvas" (ABT 1090 - 1172)

Marriage To OF BURGUNDY Helie (Alix) (Alice) (ABT 1082 - 28 Feb 1141)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
BOREL Eudes I (Odo I) (ABT 1064 - 23 Mar 1103)
DE BOURGOGNE Sibylle (Mathilda) (ABT 1065 - 23 Mar 1102)

Children by OF BURGUNDY Helie (Alix) (Alice) ABT 1082 - 28 Feb 1141
DE PONTHIEU Guy II (ABT 1112 - 1147)
TALVAS (TALVACE) Ela (Adela) (ABT 1122 - 4 Oct 1174)
DESPENCER Roger (ABT 1124 - )

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