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- BIOGRAPHY
Guy was born about 1245, the son of Guy VII, sire de Laval, and Philippe de Vitré, dame de Vitré.
In 1254 Guy joined the campaign of Charles I Etienne, then duke of Anjou, on the side of Margarethe, Gravin van Vlaanderen en Henegouwen, against her son Jan I d'Avesnes, Graaf van Henegouwen, in the War of the Succession to Flanders and Hainault.
About 1260 in Paris he married Isabeau de Beaumont, dame de Villemomble, contessa di Caserta, daughter of Guillaume de Beaumont, sire de Villemomble, conte di Caserta. They had two sons of whom Guy IX would have progeny.
About 1266 Guy and his father joined Charles I Etienne on his campaign to conquer the kingdom of Sicily. In 1270 Guy accompanied King Louis IX in the expedition to Tunis that would cost the king his life. The following year he was with Louis' son King Philippe III 'le Hardi' in his campaign against Roger Bernard III de Foix, comte de Foix, vicomte de Brulhois.
About 1276 Guy went to take possession of the county of Caserta in the kingdom of Naples, which had come to him following the death of his father-in-law. In 1283, as count of Caserta, Guy was one of the principal nobles who went to Bordeaux to seek support for Charles I Etienne in his campaign to hold Sicily against Pedro III, king of Aragón. In the spring of 1285, at the head of his vassals, he joined the army of King Philippe III 'le Hardi' against Pedro III, who died in November that year.
Guy's wife Isabeau died about 1277, and was buried at the abbey of Clermont. In 1286 Guy married Jeanne de Brienne, dame de Loue, daughter of Louis de Brienne, vicomte de Beaumont, and Agnès, vicomtesse de Beaumont. Of their nine children, André and Philippe would have progeny.
In 1294 Guy accompanied Charles, comte de Valois, to war in Auvergne, and took part in the capture of Riom. From there he took part in the siege of Saint-Sever. Having opposed the armies of Charles' brother King Philippe IV 'le Bel' and those of Edward I, king of England, he fell ill and was brought to the Isle-Jourdain, where he died on the Monday after the Assumption, 22 August 1295. His body was returned and buried alongside that of his first wife Isabelle in the abbey of Clermont. In his will he had directed that the sums should be returned to his vassals that he had raised from them for his expeditions to Tunis and Bordeaux.
His widow Jeanne de Brienne survived him until 1333 and became abbess of the convent of Étival-en-Charnie in Mayenne.
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