Alix of Brittany, Dame de Pontarcy
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Alix | |
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Dame de Pontarcy suo jure Countess of Blois | |
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Father | John I, Duke of Brittany |
Mother | Blanche of Navarre |
Alix of Brittany, Dame de Pontarcy, Countess of Blois (6 June 1243 – 2 August 1288), was a
Alix, named after her paternal grandmother,
Sometime after a contract was signed on 11 December 1254, she married
Through Alix's marriage to John, the Château de Brie-Comte-Robert passed to the Châtillon family.
Alix and John founded several religious houses including the Monastery of La Guiche near Blois in 1277. She became a widow on 28 June 1279. In 1287, the year before her own death, Alix travelled to Palestine. From there she journeyed on to Syria, where she commissioned the erection of two barbican towers at Ptolemais.[2]
Death
Alix died on 2 August 1288 and was buried in the Monastery of La Guiche which she had founded.[
References
- ^ a b Morvan 2009, Genealogie n2.
- ^ (in French) Histoire du diocèse et de la ville de Chartres By Jean Baptiste Souchet, vol. 3, 1869 – Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir – p. 74
Sources
- Morvan, Frederic (2009). La Chevalerie bretonne et la formation de l'armee ducale, 1260-1341 (in French). Presses Universitaires de Rennes.