Matthew I (French: Mathieu de Montmorency; died 1160) was lord of Montmorency, Marly, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and Attichy. He was also Constable of France from 1138 to 1160 under Louis VII.
He was the eldest son of Bouchard IV de Montmorency and Agnes de Beaumont-sur-Oise.
In 1126 he married Alice FitzRoy (Alix), illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, and had the following issue:
- Henri, died young before 1160
- Bouchard V de Montmorency, (d. 1189 in Jerusalem), who married in 1173 Laurette of Hainaut (d. 9 August 1181), daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut. They had a son Matthieu II de Montmorency, nicknamed the Great.
- Theobald de Montmorency, seigneur de Marly, he went on crusade in 1173. He died as a Cistercian monk sometime after 1189.
- Herve de Montmorency, abbot of Saint-Martin de Montmorency, then deacon of the Church and dean of Paris before his death in 1192.
- Matthieu de Montmorency (d. Constantinople 1204), he inherited the lordship from his brother Theobald; father of Bouchard de Marly.
Alix died before 1141. Matthew then married Adelaide of Maurienne, the widow of Louis VI of France.
References
- Crouch 1986, p. 64.
- ^ Zerner 1992, p. 449.
- Lippiatt 2017, p. xvii.
- Henneman 1995, p. 7.
Sources
- Crouch, David (1986). The Beaumont Twins: The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century. Cambridge University Press.
- Lippiatt, G. E. M. (2017). Simon V of Montfort and Baronial Government, 1195-1218. Oxford University Press.
- Henneman, John Bell Jr. (1995). "Adelaide of Savoy". In Kibler, William W.; Zinn, Grover A. (eds.). Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Routledge.
- Zerner, Monique (1992). "L'epousa de Simon de Montfort, et la croisade albigeoise". In Duby, Georges (ed.). Femmes, mariages, lignages – XIIe-XIVe siècles: Mélanges offerts à Georges Duby (in French). De Boeck-Wesmael.