Rene Pot discrepancy ? ES Error?

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Leo van de Pas

Rene Pot discrepancy ? ES Error?

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 27 nov 2006 22:04:38

This Rene Pot is an ancestor of many interesting people, to mention a few :
Brooke Shields, Rachel Ward, Lady Diana Spencer, Sarah Ferguson and many more.

ES XV Tafel 144 gives
Rene Pot, seigneur de La Prugne, was a son of Guillaume Pot and his first wife.
Guillaume Pot married his second wife, Marguerite de Magnac, about 1345. This Tafel maintains Rene was born about 1342.

We are given that he married in 1392 when he was fifty. To me this seems unlikely for an eldest son and heir.

In 1430, when he is supposedly 88 years old, he becomes a knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece, and dies before July 1432 aged about 90.


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French historian Marie-Therese Caron has Rene Pot born about 1362 as son of (a different) Guillaume Pot and Radegonde de Guenand. This Guillaume turns out to be (same ES source) a son of the before mentioned Guillaume and his second wife Marguerite de Magnac. Radegonde was widow of Guy V de La Tremouille, by whom she had three sons, when she married Guillaume Pot.

I cannot find when Guillaume the younger died, but apparently he died when his son Rene was still very young and Rene's mentor was Guy VI de La Tremouille, a son of Radegonde by her first husband.

To confuse the matter even further, it appears that Rene did marry in 1392 but this was his second marriage and the name of his first wife is apparently not known.

Can anyone add to this? Any correction would be very much appreciated.
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia

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