Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen

MAUGER, ARCHBISHOP OF ROUEN

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11/11/2017

Mauger le Jeune, Archbishop of Rouen, son of Richard II of Normandy, was the father of William de Saint Clair. The Knights Templar of the Middle East: The Hidden History of the Islamic Origins of Freemasonry, By Hrh Prince Michael of Albany, ‎Michael James Alexander Stewart, ‎Walid Amine Salhab, 2006, p. 68. According to Pierre Plantard's dossiers secret, Hugues de Payens was a widower and the father of two sons when he went to Jerusalem. His wife, who died in 1093, was Catherine de Saint Clair, daughter, not of a Scottish Sinclair, but rather that of a French one, Robert fitz Hamon ("son of Hamon") de Saint Clair, Lord of Thorigny, a crusader who traveled with Hugues to the Middle East. Robert had a paternal uncle, Walderne de Saint Clair, and it is from this Walderne that the Scottish Sinclares are descended through his son William. Walderne had another two sons and from those were descended the Saint Clairs in Devon, Cornwall and Sussex. Their Sinclair name was inherited via the heiress of Saint Clair of Bassenville in the French district of Auge. She married Mauger le Jeune, archbishop of Rouen, and younger son of Richard II of Normandy and produced three sons, Hebert (follower of William the Conqueror), Walderne and Hamon. Wikipedia: Archbishop of Rouen: Mauger, son of Richard I. Duke of the Normans, was the Comte of Corbeil, [he was never Archbishop of Rouen]. Wikipedia: Mauger, Count of Corbeil: Mauger was a son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy and his second wife, Gunnora. He was a younger brother of duke Richard II and uncle of duke Robert I. He married in the year 1012, Germaine de Corbeil, daughter of Aymon, Count of Corbeil, and his wife Elizabeth. Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings (Complete), Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Baron - 1903, 1st page of Chapter One. Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen, excommunicated the Duke and his bride, and then fell idle; for Lanfranc sent from Rome the Pope's dispensation and blessing, conditionally only that bride and bridegroom founded each a church. The History of the Island of Guernsey: Part of the Ancient Duchy of Normandy, By William Berry, 1815, Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen, son to Richard II. by his third wife, Papie, was one of those who made the strongest opposition to William's succession to the Dukedom. He carried his resentment farther than any of the other pretenders. Mauger, archbishop of Rouen, 1037 — May, 1055. He was son of Richard II. and Papia, and must have been very young when he succeeded his uncle Archbishop Robert. The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy. Tr., with notes, Ordericus Vitalis - 1854, p. 405. Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen, was reputed to be the greatest magician of the age. It is even said that he was aided in his works of darkness by a familiar demon, who is known in the annals of Normandy as the celebrated Thouret. It is easy to conceive that the terrors of the excommunication, coupled in the people's imagination with the dreaded powers of sorcery and magic, were more than doubly magnified. The Bayeux Tapestry: An Historical Tale of the Eleventh Century, 1858, From The French of Madame Emma L., p. 135.