Biography of Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders 1112-1165

Paternal Family Tree: Anjou aka Plantagenet

Maternal Family Tree: Matilda Chateau Du Loir Countess Maine

In 1110 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 21) and [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou were married. She by marriage Countess Anjou. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Elias La Flèche De Baugency I Count Maine and [her grandmother] Matilda Chateau Du Loir Countess Maine. He the son of [her grandfather] Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou and [her grandmother] Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France (age 40).

Around 1112 Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders was born to Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 23) and Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou.

In 1123 William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 20) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 11) were married. She the daughter of Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 34) and Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou. He the son of Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 72) and Sybilla Conversano Duchess Normandy. He a grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.

In 1124 William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 21) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 12) were divorced.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. After 26 Mar 1124. After this went the king (age 56), and won all the castles of the Earl Waleram (age 20) that were in Normandy, and all the others that his enemies held against him. All this hostility was on account of the son of the [her former father-in-law] Earl Robert (age 73) of Normandy, named [her former husband] William (age 21). This same William had taken to wife the younger daughter (age 12) of [her father] Fulke, Earl of Anjou (age 35): and for this reason the King of France (age 42) and all the earls held with him, and all the rich men; and said that the king held his brother Robert wrongfully in captivity, and drove his son William unjustly out of Normandy.

In 1126 [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou died.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1127. And the King of France (age 45) brought [her former husband] William (age 24), the son of the [her former father-in-law] Earl of Normandy (age 76), and gave him the earldom; and the people of that land accepted him. This same William had before taken to wife the daughter (age 15) of the Earl of Anjou; but they were afterwards divorced on the plea of consanguinity. This was all through the King Henry (age 59) of England. Afterwards took he to wife the sister¹ of the king's wife of France; and for this reason the king gave him the earldom of Flanders.

Note. Maternal half-sister; their mother Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy (age 57).

In 1127 [her former husband] William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 24) and Joanna Monferrat Countess Essex were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. She the daughter of Rainier Aleramici Marquis of Monferrat (age 43) and Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy (age 57). He the son of [her former father-in-law] Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 76) and Sybilla Conversano Duchess Normandy. They were third cousins. He a grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.

On 02 Mar 1127 Charles Estrigen I Count Flanders (age 43) was murdered at Church of St Donatian. His second cousin [her former husband] William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 24) succeeded Count Flanders. Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 15) by marriage Countess Flanders.

1128 Death of William Clito

Florence of Worcester. 27 Jul 1128. [her former husband] William (age 25), count of Flanders, surnamed The Sad, falling into an ambush, was wounded by his enemies, and, his sufferings increasing, died, amidst universal lamentations, on the sixth of the calends of August [27th July], and was buried at St. Bertin.

On 02 Jun 1129 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 40) and [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 24) were married at Jerusalem [Map]. She by marriage Countess Anjou. Her father (age 54) had written to Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem requesting the marriage since he had no male heirs. She the daughter of Baldwin II King Jerusalem. He the son of [her grandfather] Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou and [her grandmother] Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France.

After 1132 Thierry Count Flanders (age 33) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 20) were married. She by marriage Countess Flanders. She the daughter of Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 43) and Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou. He the son of Theodoric "Valiant" Metz II Duke Lorraine and Gertrude Flanders Duchess Lorraine.

On 14 Jan 1139 [her brother-in-law] Simon Metz I Duke Lorraine (age 63) died. His son Matthias Metz I Duke Lorraine (age 20) succeeded I Duke Lorraine.

In 1143 [her son] Philip I Count of Flanders was born to [her husband] Thierry Count Flanders (age 44) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 31).

On 13 Nov 1143 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 54) was killed whilst hunting. His wife [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 38) continued to reign in her own right with their son [her half-brother] Baldwin III King Jerusalem (age 13).

In 1144 [her sister-in-law] Gertrude Metz Countess Holland died.

Around 1155 [her son-in-law] Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy (age 21) and [her daughter] Gertrude Metz Countess Savoy were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. She the daughter of [her husband] Thierry Count Flanders (age 56) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 43). He the son of Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy and Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy.