Women's Biography: Amice of Gael and Montfort

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There are letters written to and by Amice of Gael and Montfort.


Woman's name:

Amice of Gael and Montfort

Woman's title:

Countess of Leicester

Woman's biography:

Amice was the daughter of Ralph, lord of Gael and of Montfort (Brittany). She was engaged to Richard, illegitimate son of Henry I, but he was lost in the White Ship in 1120. Amice married Robert II, earl of Leicester, who died in 1168. Robert le Bossu (the Hunchback) and his twin brother Waleran were brought up at the court of Henry I.
Robert and Amice had a son, Robert III, who succeeded his father, and three daughters, Isabel, Hawise, and Margaret. Amice outlived her husband and is reported to have entered a convent at Nuneaton.*

Biographical notes:

* The information about Amice and Robert is drawn from a biographical index in The Letters and Charters of Gilbert Foliot, ed. Z.N. Brooke, Dom Adrian Morey and C.N.L. Brooke(Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1967), 535, from The Complete Peerage, 7.527-30, and from L.Fox "The Honor and Earldom of Leicester: Origin and Descent, 1066-1399," EHR, 54/225 (1939)m 385-402.

Birth date:

early 1100's

Birth place:

Death date:

Letters

Sender(s): Receiver(s): Date:
Gilbert Foliot  Amice of Gael and Montfort  1148-63 
Gilbert Foliot  Amice of Gael and Montfort  1163-68