Éverard III of Puiset, Viscount of Chartres

Éverard III (killed in Palestine on 21 August 1099), son of Hugh I of Le Puiset and Alice of Monthléry (daughter of Guy I, lord of Monthléry). Seigneur of Puiset and Viscount of Chartres.

Éverard had wanted to take to cross to fight the pagans. and his uncle Éverard II (see Everard I of Breteuil), a monk at the abbey of Marmoutier sought permission from the abbot to augment an existing Le Puiset endowmnent for the abbey. He joined Robert II, Count of Flanders, in the First Crusade and was killed after the capture of Jerusalem.

Éverard married Adelaide, Countess of Corbeil, daughter of Bouchard II, Count of Corbeil, and Adeliade de Crécy, Éverard and Adelaide had two children:

Gilduin
Hugh III (d. 1132), lord of Puiset, Count of Corbeil, Viscount of Chartres.

Upon his death, Éverard was succeeded by his son Hugh as Count of Corbeil.

Sources

Riley-Smith, Johathan, The First Crusaders, 1095-1131, Cambridge University Press, London, 1997

La Monte, John L., The Lords of Le Puiset on the Crusades, Speculum, 1942

Bernard Gineste, Corpus Étampois archive, 2008

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