MAINE, Paula
- Born: Abt 1044, Fleche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France
- Marriage (1): DE BEAUGENCY, Jean on an unknown date
- Died: 1062, Fleche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France aged about 18
Research Notes:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Maine-34
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Biography
She has been detached from Herbert Maine and Bertha Blois as parents. The confusion is the result of confusion in the original sources (in particular, the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, written in the early 1100s, which is our principal primary source). There is a detailed discussion at the Henry Project (which is now located at https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/paula000.htm); this discussion was written by Stewart Baldwin, a very well-respected medieval genealogist. The Henry Project comes to the conclusion that we cannot reliably determine who Paula's parents were. Two other medieval genealogy sites with somewhat less rigor (Cawley's Medieval Lands and the late Leo de Pas' Genealogics) have Paula as the daughter of your Herbert Maine and an unknown wife (though Cawley also notes some caveats).
This profile takes position 21 in the Ahnentafel of Henry II, as wife of Jean de La Flèche, and mother of his son Helias, d. 11 July 1110, lord of La Flèche and count of Maine.
The equivalent position on the Henry II website of Baldwin and Farmerie is taken by Paula.[1]
The article states that "Paula does not appear in any known contemporary document. She appears by name only in a passage of Orderic Vitalis naming the parents of Hélie de La Flèche ["Helias Iohannis et Paulæ filius, ..." OV x, 8 (vol. 5, pp. 228-9)]." (OV stands for Orderic Vitalis.)
And also it states that Herbert I "Wake Dog", the count of Maine, is only one possible father for Paula.
He was the son of Jean de la Flèche and Paula, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine. In 1092, his cousin Hugh V sold Maine to him for 10,000 shillings. With the support of Fulk IV of Anjou, he continued the war with Robert II of Normandy. After Robert's departure with the First Crusade, Elias made peace with William Rufus, Robert's regent in Normandy.[2]
Sources
? http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/paula000.htm
? Wikipedia
Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Hosted online by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG), accessed 2021, Seigneurs de Baugency
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/24279608/person/1626657627/facts
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/24279608/person/1626673027/facts
Paula married Jean DE BEAUGENCY on an unknown date. (Jean DE BEAUGENCY was born about 1030 in Fleche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France and died about 1097 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France.)
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