Count Stephen Of Brittany

1065 - Bef 1136  (71 years)

• Name	Stephen Of Brittany
  Prefix	Count
  Birth	1065	Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 21 Apr 1136	St Marys, York, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I70272	Cecilie Family
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Duke Eudes Of Brittany,   b. Abt 999, Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d. 7 Jan 1079 (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Agnes Canhiart De Cornouaille,   b. Abt 1025, Cornouaille, Ille-Et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Aft 1056	2ND Wife   [3]
  Family ID	F30626	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. Matilda (Maud) Of Brittany,   b. 1090, Brittany, France d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F30598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1065 - Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Founder (1110) Augustinian Abbey of St. Croix at Guincamp, Brittany, France. Founder Cistercian Abbey of Begard, Brittany, France. Held Honour of Richmond in England. --------------------------------------- STEPHEN, a count of Brittany, youngest son of Eudon,[a] succeeded his eldest brother, Geoffrey Boterel I, or Geoffrey's son Conan in the Breton lands, and his brother Alan the Black in the honor of Richmond in England, thus uniting all the possessions of the family, but he appears to have been out of possession of the honor of Richmond for a time during the reign of William II. In March 1101, he was a surety for Henry I for the observance of an alliance with Robert, Count of Flanders, and on 3 September 1101 at Windsor he witnessed charters of the King for Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, and for St. Peter's, Bath. On 30 October 1107 he executed at Lamballe a charter for the abbey of SS. Sergius and Bacchus at Angers, and in 1123 at Guingamp one for the abbey of St. Melaine at Rennes. He was a benefactor of the abbey of St. Mary, York, and in the period 1125-35 confirmed to that house gifts of churches, tithes and lands in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, which formed part of the honor of Richmond. About the year 1110 he and his, wife founded the Augustinian abbey of Ste. Croix at Guingamp, and In 1130 he founded the Cistercian abbey of B

  
  

• Sources

  [S1631] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th, 119-26 (Reliability: 3). [S1634] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great, X:786-7 (Reliability: 3). [S1631] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th, 214-23 (Reliability: 3).