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Birth:          ABT 1179 
Death:          AFT Jun 1238 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne,_Dame_de_Chateaudun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_de_Sabl%C3%A9
Marguerite de Sablé, Dame de Sablé (c.1179 – after June 1238), was a French 
noblewoman and one of the wealthiest heiresses in the counties of Anjou and Maine. 
She was the eldest daughter of Robert de Sablé, and the wife of William des Roches, 
Seneschal of Anjou, who two years after his marriage to Marguerite became one of the 
greatest barons in Anjou and Maine, her considerable inheritance having passed to 
him upon her father's death in 1193.
Family[edit]

Marguerite was born in about 1179, the eldest daughter of Robert de Sablé, and 
Clémence de Mayenne (died before 1209). Her paternal grandparents were Robert III 
de Sablé and Hersende, and her maternal grandparents were Geoffroy, Seigneur de 
Mayenne and Isabelle de Meulan (died 10 May 1220), daughter of Waleran de 
Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester, Count of Meulan, and Agnès de Montfort.[1] 
Marguerite had a brother Robert who died as a child, and a younger sister, Philippa, 
wife of Geoffroy Marteau. Her maternal uncle was Juhel III de Mayenne (1168- 12 April 
1220), a celebrated Crusader.

Her father was a Grand Master of the Knights Templar (1191–1193), and Lord of 
Cyprus (1191–1192); he was also a wealthy and powerful Angevin baron and 
landowner. Upon his death in the Holy Land on 23 September 1193, the lordships and 
lands, mostly in the River Sarthe valley passed to Marguerite, making her one of the 
wealthiest heiresses in Anjou and Maine. However, her honours and vast landholdings 
went to her husband, whom she had married two years earlier.

Marriage and issue[edit]

In 1191,[2] Marguerite became the second wife of William des Roches, Seneschal of 
Anjou; a knight during the Third Crusade in the service of the Angevin kings of 
England and King Philip II of France. He was the son of Baudoin des Roches and Alix 
de Châtellerault. His first wife, Philippa had died childless.[2] Upon the death of her 
father in 1193, Marguerite, being the eldest daughter had consequently succeeded 
him. She brought to William the lordships of Sablé, La Suze, Briollay, Mayet, 
Loupeland, Genneteil, Precigné, and the Norman manor of Agon; this made him one of 
the greatest barons in Anjou and Maine.

Together William and Marguerite had three children:
Robert des Roches ( died 1204)
Jeanne des Roches (c.1195- 28 September 1238), married Amaury I, Sire de Craon, by 
whom she had issue including a son Maurice IV de Craon, Sire de Craon (1213–1250), 
who married Isabelle de Lusignan, a half-sister of King Henry III of England; and two 
daughters, Jeanne, and Isabelle (born 1212), wife of Raoul III, Sire de Fougères.
Clémence des Roches (died after September 1259), married firstly Theobald VI, Count 
of Blois; and secondly Geoffrey VI, Viscount de Chateaudun, by whom she had issue, 
including a daughter, Jeanne, Dame de Chateaudun

William died on 15 July 1222. The Sablé barony and hereditary seneschalship passed 
on to Amaury I de Craon, husband of Jeanne, the eldest daughter of William and 
Marguerite.

Marguerite died sometime after June 1238, and she was buried in Perray-aux-
Nonnains.[2]

Parents
DE SABLE Robert (ABT 1120 - 23 Sep 1193)
DE MAYENNE Clemence (ABT 1160 - BEF 1209)

Siblings
DE SABLE Marguerite (ABT 1179 - AFT Jun 1238)

Marriage To DES ROCHES William (1165 - 1222)
    m. 1191 

Notes

Parents
DES ROCHES Badouin ()
DE CHATELLERAULT Alix ()

Children by DES ROCHES William 1165 - 1222
DES ROCHES Jeanne (ABT 1195 - 28 Sep 1238)
DES ROCHES Clemence (ABT 1205 - AFT Sep 1259)

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