Boson Vicomte de Châtellerault

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 183:2, Boso II, Viscount de Châtelleraut, son of Hugh de Châtellerault and Gerberga de la Rochefoucauld, died in 1092. He married Aliénor de Thouars, daughter of Aimery IV de Thouars and his wife Aurengarde de Mauléon. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Vicomtés Châtellerault, Poitou, Aquitaine .
"Boso vicecomes de Castello Ayraudi" confirmed the renunciation of rights by "pater meus Hugo vicecomes et mater mea Erberga" in favour of Saint-Hilaire de Poitiers, by charter dated to (circa 1076) [Saint-Hilaire de Poitiers, LXXXIX, p. 95]. "…Boso vicecomes de Castello Ayraudi…" affirmed the actions of "Amatus (archiepiscopi Burdagelensisi Legatique apostolici)" in the charter dated (circa 1090) [Poitiers Saint-Nicolas 8, p. 18]. Boson's wife is consdiered to be Eleanor of Thouars, daughter of Aimery vicomté de Thouars and his first wife, Oregarde de Mauléon. "Boso vicecomes et uxor eius Adenors et filii eorum" donated property to St Cyprien by charter dated 1088 subscribed by "Bosonis vicecomitis et Aenoris uxoris eius et filiorum ipsorum Aimerici et Bosonis et sororis eorum Gisberge" [Poitiers Saint-Cyprien 283, p. 180].

Boson married Aénor de Thouars, daughter of Aimery vicomté de Thouars and Aurengarde de Mauléon. (Aénor de Thouars was born about 1050 in Thouars, Deux-Sevres, Poitou-Charentes.)