Jean de la Flèche

Jean de la Flèche, also known as Jean de Beaugency, Seigneur de la Flèche (c.1030 – c.1097) was an 11th-century French nobleman.[1] He was the youngest son of Lancelin I de Beaugency and Adelberg de Maine and was born about 1030 in La Flèche, Sarthe. In 1059, he married Paula of Maine, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine.[2] Jean and Paula were the parents of Elias I, Count of Maine, who married Mathilde de Château-du-Loir[3], and the great-grandparents of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, father of Henry II of England.

References
  1. Documents historiques sur l'Anjou (in French). Lachèse. 1896. p. 383. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. Cauvin, Thomas (1831). Essai sur la statistique de l'arrondissement de la Flèche (in French). p. 136. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. Vitalis, Ordericus (1854). The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Vol. 3. H.G. Bohn. p. 222.


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