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Birth:          ABT 1195 
Death:          28 Sep 1238 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_de_Foug
%C3%A8res,_Countess_of_La_Marche_and_of_Angoul%C3%AAme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_des_Roches
Jeanne des Roches, Dame de Sablé, de La Suze, de Briollay, de Mayet, de 
Loupeland, de Chateauneuf-sur-Sarte, de Genneteil, de Precigné, de Agon, and de 
Craon (c. 1195 – 28 September 1238) was a wealthy French noblewoman and heiress. 
She was also the suo jure seneschal of Anjou,[1] which she had inherited from her 
father, Guillaume des Roches upon his death. The seneschalship passed to her 
husband, Amaury I, Sire de Craon, as well as the vast Sablè barony, to which she had 
succeeded in 1222.

Family[edit]

Jeanne was born in about 1195, the eldest daughter of Guillaume des Roches, 
Seneschal of Anjou and one of the greatest barons in Anjou and Maine. Her mother 
was Marguerite de Sablé, Dame de Sablé who had brought the rich Sablé barony to 
her husband. Jeanne had a brother Robert, who died in 1204, and a younger sister 
Clémence, Viscountess de Chateaudun (died after September 1259). Her paternal 
grandparents were Baudoin des Roches and Alix de Châtellerault, and her maternal 
grandparents were Robert de Sablé and Clémence de Mayenne, daughter of Geoffroy, 
Sire de Mayenne and Isabelle de Meulan.

Jeanne's father was a knight who had fought in the Third Crusade in the service of 
the Angevin kings of England and King Philip II of France. Upon his death on 15 July 
1222, Jeanne being the eldest surviving child, succeeded to the seneschalship of 
Anjou, as well as his vast lordships which included Sablé, La Suze, Briollay, Mayet, 
Loupeland, Chateauneuf-sur-Sarte, Genneteil, Precigné, and the Norman manor of 
Agon. Jeanne did homage to King Louis IX of France for Senescaltia Andegavie, 
Cenomannie et Turonie.. bone memorie Guillmus de Ruppiebus, genitor noster...tenuit 
in a charter dated 27 January 1226.[2] The seneschalship and barony passed to her 
husband Amaury.

Marriage and issue[edit]

On an unknown date, Jeanne married Amaury I, Sire de Craon. He was the son of 
Maurice II, Sire de Craon and Isabelle de Meulan. Jeanne's mother-in-law, Isabelle de 
Meulan was also her maternal great-grandmother, as Isabelle had married twice; 
Geoffroy de Mayenne was her first husband, and Maurice de Craon her second.

Together Amaury and Jeanne had three children:
Maurice IV de Craon, Sire de Craon (1213–1250), married Isabelle de Lusignan, half-
sister of King Henry III of England, by whom he had three children.
Jeanne de Craon, bethrothed in 1223 to Arthur of Brittany (1220–1223)
Isabelle de Craon (born 1212), married Raoul III, Sire de Fougères, by whom she had 
two children, Jean de Fougères, and Jeanne de Fougères, Dame de Fougères.

Jeanne died on 28 September 1238. Her husband had died in 1226.

Parents
DES ROCHES William (1165 - 1222)
DE SABLE Marguerite (ABT 1179 - AFT Jun 1238)

Siblings
DES ROCHES Jeanne (ABT 1195 - 28 Sep 1238)
DES ROCHES Clemence (ABT 1205 - AFT Sep 1259)

Marriage To DE CRAON Amaury I (1170 - 2 May 1226)
    m. 1212 

Notes

Parents
DE CRAON Maurice II (ABT 1132 - 1196)
DE MEULAN Isabelle (ABT 1148 - 10 May 1220)

Children by DE CRAON Amaury I 1170 - 2 May 1226
DE CRAON Isabelle (1212 - )

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