Emma d'Arques, Countess of Guînes

From Medlands:

-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/normacre.htm#EmmaArquesdiedafter1140

(b) EMMA d'Arques (-after 1140). “Willielmus de Abrincis miles dominus de Folkestan” confirmed donations to Folkestone priory, including the donations made by "domini Nigelli de Munevilla quondam domini de Folkestan antecessoris mei…cum uxore sua Emma" for the souls of "antecessorum suorum…Willielmi de Archis et Beatricis uxoris illius" by undated charter, which also records that Nele died without male heirs and that Henry I King of England married "filiam eius…Matildam" to "Rualoni de Abrincis"[57]. “Manasses Gisnensis comes et Emma uxor eius…filia Willielmi de Arras” founded Redlingfield priory by charter dated 1120, witnessed by “Widonis fratris mei, Rosæ filiæ meæ”[58]. The Historia Comitum Ghisnensium names "Emmam filiam Roberti camerarii de Tancarvilla in Normannia, viduam Odonis de Folkestane in Anglia" as wife of "Manasses"[59], which appears to be incorrect. "Manasses Gisnensium comes et Emma comitissa" granted the administration of the church of Saint-Léonard to Saint-Bertin by charter dated 1129[60]. According to Domesday Descendants she became a nun at Saint-Leonard de Guines after the death of her second husband[61].

m firstly NELE de Muneville, son of --- (-1103). Lord of Folkestone.

m secondly (before 1106) MANASSES Comte de Guines, son of BAUDOUIN Comte de Guines & his wife Adela [Christina] [of Holland] (-Ardres 1137).

Emma & her first husband had one child: MATHILDE de Muneville

Daughter of Guillaume and Beatrix. From http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#_Toc384196781:

EMMA d'Arques (-after 1140). “Willielmus de Abrincis miles dominus de Folkestan” confirmed donations to Folkestone priory, including the donations made by "domini Nigelli de Munevilla quondam domini de Folkestan antecessoris mei…cum uxore sua Emma" for the souls of "antecessorum suorum…Willielmi de Archis et Beatricis uxoris illius" by undated charter, which also records that Nele died without male heirs and that Henry I King of England married "filiam eius…Matildam" to "Rualoni de Abrincis"[686]. “Manasses Gisnensis comes et Emma uxor eius…filia Willielmi de Arras” founded Redlingfield priory by charter dated 1120, witnessed by “Widonis fratris mei, Rosæ filiæ meæ”[687]. The Historia Comitum Ghisnensium names "Emmam filiam Roberti camerarii de Tancarvilla in Normannia, viduam Odonis de Folkestane in Anglia" as wife of "Manasses"[688], which appears to be incorrect. "Manasses Gisnensium comes et Emma comitissa" granted the administration of the church of Saint-Léonard to Saint-Bertin by charter dated 1129[689]. According to Domesday Descendants she became a nun at Saint-Leonard de Guines after the death of her second husband[690]. m firstly NELE de Muneville, son of --- (-1103). Lord of Folkestone. m secondly (before 1106) MANASSES Comte de Guines, son of BAUDOUIN Comte de Guines & his wife Adela [Christina] [of Holland] (-Ardres 1137). Emma & her first husband had one child:

(1) MATHILDE de Muneville . “Willielmus de Abrincis miles dominus de Folkestan” confirmed donations to Folkestone priory, including the donations made by "domini Nigelli de Munevilla quondam domini de Folkestan antecessoris mei…cum uxore sua Emma" for the souls of "antecessorum suorum…Willielmi de Archis et Beatricis uxoris illius" by undated charter, which also records that Nele died without male heirs and that Henry I King of England married "filiam eius…Matildam" to "Rualoni de Abrincis"[691]. m RUALON d´Avranches, son of --- (-[1130/34]).

Sources:

• [686] Dugdale Monasticon IV, Folkestone Priory, Kent, II, p. 673.
• [687] Dugdale Monasticon IV, Redlingfield Priory, Suffolk, I, p. 26.
• [688] Historia Comitum Ghisnensium 33, MGH SS XXIV, p. 578, undated but "c 1100" has been added in the margin by the editor.
• [689] Haigneré, D. (ed.) (1886) Les chartes de Saint-Bertin d´après le grand cartulaire de Dom Charles-Joseph Dewitte (Saint-Omer) ("Saint-Bertin (Grand Cartulaire)"), Tome I, 164, p. 65.
• [690] Domesday Descendants, p. 287.
• [691] Dugdale Monasticon IV, Folkestone Priory, Kent, II, p. 673.

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