♀Eremburge of Maine

Eremburge of Maine is a medieval ancestor of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), her twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth great-grandmother by three separate lines of descent, all through her son Geoffrey of Anjou (1113–1151).

Douglas Richardson’s Plantagenet Ancestry names her as Countess of Maine, the daughter and heiress of Hélie, Count of Maine, and the first wife of Foulques of Anjou. She is said to have been the mother of Geoffrey, born in 1113, who became Count of Anjou and Maine and married Maud of England.

Lines of descent

The three lines all run through Geoffrey of Anjou and come down to Nancy Jane Blanchard through her father Kenneth Blanchard (1897–1975). They meet again in Polly Knapp (1798–1863), whose parents Joseph Knapp (1763–1839) and Eunice Carver (1763–1845) both descend from Eremburge, and in Joan of England (1272–1307), whose parents Edward of England (1239–1307) and Eleanor of Castile both descend from her.

Notes

Source and grade

Everything here rests on one printed compilation, Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, vol. I, England 1, p. 1, which names Eremburge, Countess of Maine, as the first wife of Foulques V and the mother of Geoffrey Plantagenet. The entry gives no dates for her. No contemporary record is held for her, so her title and her son’s parentage are carried as compiled, not as documented.