Avoise de Craon

Avoise de Craon (before 1178 – c. 1230) was a French noblewoman. She was the daughter of Maurice II de Craon and Isabelle de Meulan. She was the wife of Guy V de Laval.

Life

She was the eldest of the children of Maurice II Craon, and Isabelle de Meulan.^[1] In his testament, Maurice II bequeathed her Craon and Châtelais in the case that her three brothers predeceased her.^[2]

In about 1198, she married Guy V de Laval.^[1] They had:

Guy VI de Laval known as Guyonnet de Laval (died 1211)^[1]
Ozanne, mentioned in a charter of Réau Abbey, cited by Charles Maucourt de Bourjolly^[3]
Emma de Laval (about 1200 - 27 April 1264) who inherited the title in 1211 on the death of her brother Guyonnet. Married Robert I d'Alençon (died 1217), Mathieu II de Montmorency (died 1230) and Jean de Choisy et de Toucy.
Isabeau (Isabelle) de Laval (died 1244) who married Bouchard VI de Montmorency.

After the death of Guy V in 1210, Avoise remarried with Yves Le Franc in 1215. According to Gilles Ménage, they had four children.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Carron 1989, p. 89.
^ The printed texts cite "Choleteis", which M. de Bodard translated as Cholet. One can see, however, in the article by Dom Chamard, pages 401-432 of volume 1 (1885) of the Revue de l'Ouest, that the lords of Cholet, at the end of the 12th-century, were not of the house of Craon.
^ de Bourjolly, Charles Maucourt. Mémoire sur les Seigneurs de Laval. Vol. I. p. 166.