Baldwin I DES MARETS (c.1076-c.1140)

Baldwin I DES MARETS

c.1076-c.1140

BIRTH: c. 1076 A.D, Marets, Cambray, Normandy, France

Father: Jean LORD OF BOUSIS (c.1043-1081)

Mother: Eulalia PICQUIGUY (c.1047-?)

Wife: Alice DE TYREL (c.1080-c.1142)

born in Marets, Cambray, Normandy, France Cambray, France

MARRIAGE: still researching this

FACTS: 1st Lord of the fiefdom of Marets and vicinity, near Cambray, France; He took part in the First Crusade in Palestine against the Turks, and was in command of Christian forces in Northern Palestine, on the western borders of the County of Edessa, and the northern portions of the County of Antioch. A station on the road to Jerusalem from Antioch was named "Maresia", after the home, Marets, in France of Baldwin. The Turks called it "Marash". Marash now (1993) appears "Maras" in Southern Turkey. Antioch is now called "Antakya" and is near Syria and the Mediterranean Sea. conquered Acre, Cesaraea, Ptolemais, Beirut, Sidon, and Tyre in the years 1110-1118.

DEATH: c.1140, Palestine

Children:
Lord Baldwin II DES MARETS (c. 1113-c.1145)

Reginald DES MARETS (c.1115-?) *born in Cambray, Normandy, France. Reginald fought in the First Crusade in Palestine. He married a daughter of the Count of Edessa. She remarried, after Reginald's death, to Almarick, Count of Joppe, who in 1162, became King of Jerusalem.

Pedigree

                             BARON OF BOUSIS 
 Jean LORD OF BOUSIS|
|                           |Hawise RUMIGNY
|
|--Baldwin I DES MARETS
|
|                            Gansemond UNKNOWN 
|Eulalia PICQUIGUY      |
                            |Adele ______________

Paul Keenan's 26th great-grandfather

SOURCE 1: "The Demarest Family: Volume 1", by the Demarest Family Association, 1964
SOURCE 2: Mormon Ancestral File Submission #AF89-101731, by Joan Marie Mason Luckett, 384-A Hogan Branch Road, Goodlettsville, Tennessee 37072

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