Not a nice woman. No wonder she was murdered. http://genealogy.patp.us/conq/montgmry.shtml
Roger first married a young lady by the name of Mabel Talvas, daughter of the the Count of Alencon. This was a useful dynastic alliance as eventually in 1070 Roger came eventually to inherit estates at both Belesme and Alencon through his wife. His wife Mabel Talvas earned herself an unfortunate reputation for cruelty and wickedness and was eventually murdered on the 2nd December 1079 by one Hugh de la Roche d'lgé in retaliation for some of her earlier crimes. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Roger%20of%20Montgomery
LDS records show a long, extensive line:
Vulgrin,
son of Guilluame III 1084-16 Apr 1118 & Vitapoy de Benauges
son of Foulques 1015-1087 & Cundo Vagena
son of Geoffrey 998-1048 & Petronille de Archaic
son of Guilluame II 952-6 Par 1028 & Gerberga d'Anjou
son of Armand Manzer Taillefer 924-992
son of Guilluame I 895-956
son of Alduin Count of Angouleme 866-25 Mar 0916
son of Wulgrim De Angouleme 835-3 May 0886 & Rosalinde Countess of
Agenois
son of Count of Maine Roricon c 790
Isabella was betrothed to Hugh before she married John, King of England. After John's death she retired to her native city and eventually married Hugh after about 3 years
Marriage 3 Hugh Brun X Count de la Marche (Hugues X de Lusignan) b: 1183 in Lusignan, Vienne, France m May 1217/1220
Children:
Isabella de Lusignan b: 1214
Henri De La Marche Count de la Marche b: 1217
William De Lusignan Valance b: 1220 in Cistercian Abbey, Valence, Charente,
France
Hugh Lusignan XI Count of Marche & Angouleme b: 1221
Alice le Brun b: 1223 in Lusignan, Vienne, France
Geoffrey le Brun De Jarnac Chateauneuf b: 1224
Marguerite le Brun b: 1228
Isabella of Angoulême (c. 1187 – May 31, 1246) was countess of Angoulême and queen consort of England.
She was the only daughter and heir of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by Alix de Courtenay; her maternal great-grandfather was King Louis VI of France. She became Countess of Angoulême in her own right in 1202, by which time she was already queen of England. Her marriage to King John took place on August 24, 1200, at Bordeaux, a year after he annulled his first marriage. At the time of this marriage Isabella was aged about thirteen, and her beauty was renowned; she is sometimes called the "Helen" of the Middle Ages by historians.
It could not be said to have been a successful marriage, as Isabella was much younger than her husband and had a fiery character to match his. Before their marriage, she had been betrothed to Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche. As a result of John's temerity in taking her as his second wife, King Philip II of France confiscated all his French lands, and armed conflict ensued.
When John died in 1216, Isabella was still in her twenties. She returned to France and in 1220 proceeded to marry Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, her former fiancé.
Isabella was accused of plotting against the French king in 1244; she fled to Fontevrault Abbey, where she died on May 31, 1246, and was buried there. Afterwards most of her many children, having few prospects in France, set sail for England and the court of their half-brother King Henry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Angouleme
Taksony (c. 931 - 970) (Slovak: Takšon) was the fejedelem (ruling prince) of Hungary between 955 and 970. We have few details on his life. His father was Zoltan of Hungary.
Taksony's policies were a change from the previous habit of the Hungarian leaders of conducting rapid raids on neighbouring countries, as he was probably present at the Battle of Lechfeld, where the Hungarian army was defeated and lost its leader Bulcsú. Relations with the Byzantine Empire progressively deteriorated, possibly due to progaganda from the Holy Roman Emperor Otto who depicted the Hungarians as ungodly. In the second half of his reign Taksony increasingly pursued campaigns against Byzantine Empire. Although Taksony asked the pope to send a bishop to Hungary (a request which was thwarted by Otto), he didn't follow an open policy to the spreading of Christianity within his realm. Taksony arranged the marriage of his son Géza to Sarolt, the daughter of Gyula of Transylvania. He also had a son called Michael, father of Vazul.
His father, Zoltan, also known as Zolta, Zaltas, or Zsolt, is probably the name of the son of Árpád and the father of Taksony and possibly Jutas. Gesta Hungarorum names Zolta as the son and successor of Árpád. Although he ruled Hungary from 907 to 946, his leadership meant much less than with previous leaders, as during his time, tribal leaders had most of the powers. Latest researches questioned his position as a ruler and prefer other sons of Árpád. In this era, the raids of Hungarians were common in much of Europe.
His grandfather Árpád (c.850–907) was the first ruler of Hungary. He was the probable leader of the Magyar tribe, and the founder of the Arpad dynasty. Árpád was the son of Álmos.
According to (not very reliable) medieval chronicles, seven proto-Magyar tribes elected him – as the leader of one of those tribes – their common leader in Etelköz around 890. He is said to have been the leader ("prince" – fejedelem) of the proto-Magyars for 20 years and to have died in 907. The Byzantine De administrando imperio says around 950: Prior to this Árpád, the Magyars did never have another ruling prince ('archont') and since then up to today the ruling prince of Hungary has been from that family. Other sources however imply that there was a second ruling prince called Kursan, who was either at the same "level" with Árpád, or a kind of "vice-prince". Based on Arabic sources, Árpád's title seems to have been kende -though some scholars consider Kende to be the name of a person- or gyula.
After several looting raids in Europe (from the 860s onwards), the proto-Magyars in Etelköz under Árpád, pushed by the Pechenegs from the East, decided to definitively pass the Carpathian Mountains. In 896 they occupied the Upper Tisza river, from there they undertook numerous looting raids in central and western Europe, and in 900/901 they moved to Pannonia. The proto-Magyars entering the Pannonian fields in 896 represented about 200,000 - 250,000 people. According to legends, Árpád is also said to have been holding the first "parliamentary" session with 40 other "nobles" on horseback before 900 AD.
According to De administrando imperio, his children included (maybe not exclusively) : Tarhos (Tarkacsu), Üllo (Jeleg), Jutas (Jutocsa), Liüntika (erroneously Levente in older references) , Zolta (Zaltasz) - the youngest one.
His great grandfather High Prince (fejedelem) Álmos (IPA: [a:lmo?]) was the legendary father of Árpád, the founder of the Hungarian state. He was probably born around 820, and was leader of the Hungarian tribes from 858 till his death in 895 or 896. His mother was Emese; his father was Ogyek, both of Dentumogeria, Central Asia.
The legends say that "his mother Emese had seen a divine dream of a Turul bird that flew over her and got her with child; she saw her womb as the source of many great kings, but they would multiply in foreign lands". This is given as the explanation for the name Álmos (ie, "The Dreamt One"). Although this may seem unusual compared to Christian stories, it justified the divine origins of the Hungarian leaders.
He strengthened the alliance between the tribal leaders, and he probably led the movement to secede from the Khazar empire. He successfully kept his son Árpád in power, contrary to tribal practices. The raids were widespread, and the tribes successfully settled in Etelköz, where they were able to fight back the Besenyo (Pecheneg) attacks, becoming stronger by them.
His death, according to the legends prophesied by a warning that "he is going to found a great line of emperors, but he must not enter the land of Pannonia", was probably caused by either assassination or human sacrifice. Unfortunately, we do not have enough information on tribal beliefs to explain the real significance of the prophetic legend.
Note that the two legends concerning Álmos' conception and death are reported to us by 13th century (already Christian) scholars in medieval codices, who lived 400 years after the actual life of Álmos, and that both legends show very strong parallels to Christian stories from the Bible. It is possible that, for Álmos' birth, the authors borrowed elements of Mary's conception by the Holy Spirit; and for his death, of Moses' not being allowed to enter Canaan after leading Israel to the Holy Land.
Alternatively, there is a very disputed interpretation saying that these legends correspond to elements of Sumerian mythology, eg. with regard to the Turul bird, which could be seen to correspond to the Sumerian Dugud.
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William I Talvas (ca. 995 – after 1030), seigneur of Alençon. He was a son of William of Bellême and Mathilde of Condé-sur-Noireau.
He assumed the Bellême estates upon the murder of his brother Robert, by the Sor family in revenge for the deaths of their father and brothers (Robert of Bellême had hanged them after their capture in battle). His reputation was that of a wicked man, "in all things worse than his brothers, and his wickedness has flourished to this day among his heirs." He was married to Hildeburg, who was the mother of his son Arnulf and daughter Mabel. But his marriage was unsatisfying and he had his wife murdered on her way to church. He soon married the daughter of Rodulf the vicomte of Beaumont. Then he angered his neighbors by mutilating one William of Giroie: the Giroie family and their allies raided his lands then invested his castle in revenge. His son Arnulf quarreled with him, and he threw him out. His enemies challenged him to come out and fight, but Talvas' courage failed him and he surrendered and was exiled: the vicomte's daughter abandoned him at this point. Only his daughter Mabel stood by him. Although Arnulf got all his father's wealth and lands, it did him no good, and he was strangled one night in his sleep. After years of wandering about, Talvas and Mabel finally were taken in by the Montgomery family. And Talvas offered his daughter to Roger of Montgomery in marriage. These were the parents of Robert of Bellême, and a numerous family of other sons and daughters (nine in all). The girls are recorded as being of high moral character, but the Bellême-Montgomery sons were "dangerous, greedy and like madmen they harmed the poor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_Talvas