Person:Elias II of Maine (1)
Helias d'Anjou, Comte du Maine
b.Abt 1111 Of, , Anjou, France
d.15 Jan 1151
Parents and Siblings
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m. 11 Jul 1110
  1. Matilda of Anjou, Countess of FlandersAbt 1101 & 1107 - 1154
  2. Helias d'Anjou, Comte du MaineAbt 1111 - 1151
  3. Sibylle d'Anjou1112 - 1165
  4. Geoffrey V "the Fair" _____, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy1113 - 1151
  5. Walter de Cantilupe1120 -
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1120
  1. Beatrice d'Anjou
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Facts and Events
Name[3] Helias d'Anjou, Comte du Maine
Alt Name Elias Count of Maine d'Anjou
Alt Name Elias II of Maine
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1111 Of, , Anjou, France
Marriage Abt 1120 to Philippa du Perche
Alt Birth? Abt 1121 <, Anjou, France>
Death[1][3] 15 Jan 1151
Burial? L'abbey Des Serg, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Reference Number? Q693710?


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Elias II (also Helias, Hélie, Helyes or Élie) (died 15 January 1151) was the younger son of Fulk V of Anjou and his first wife, Eremburga, daughter of Count Elias I of Maine. There is debate as to whether he was ever count of Maine or whether he merely made a claim to it.

Elias was born no earlier than May 1114. By 1129, Elias had married Philippa, daughter of Count Rotrou III of Perche.

It is possible but unlikely that Elias' father left him the county of Maine; his elder brother, Geoffrey Plantagenet was ruler of Anjou, Maine and the Touraine. Elias rebelled in 1145 with the support of Lord Robert III of Sablé, sparking a conflict known in Angevin historiography as the "war of the barons" (guerra baronum). This war may have dragged on into 1146, but in the end Elias was captured and imprisoned by his brother. According to the Gesta consulum Andegavorum, Elias, acting "by the counsel of wicked men ... attacked his own brother, demanding the consulship of Maine". A 13th-century source, the Chronicon Turonense magnum, likewise call Elias the count of Maine. All chronicles agree that Elias was imprisoned in Tours and died as a result. John of Marmoutier, writing in the 1170s, states that Geoffrey released Elias, but that he died from a fever contracted during his incarceration a few days later. The annals of the priory of L'Évière place his death in 1151, and the necrology of the priory of Fontaines gives the date as 15 January.[1]

Elias and Philippa had daughter, Beatrix, who married John I of Alençon, by whom she was ancestor of the later counts and dukes of Alençon.

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References
  1. ↑ Elias II of Maine, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Helias II d'Anjou, Comte de Maine, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 HELIAS d'Anjou, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
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