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Female Abbess of Fontervault Mathilde de Lorraine Click to view Abbess of Fontervault Mathilde de Lorraine in the family tree

Mathilde was born in 1139 in Lorraine, Flandres, France.1   Mathilde's father was Thierry of Upper Lorraine III and her mother was Sybille of Anjou.  Her paternal grandparents were Thierry (The Brave) of Upper Lorraine II and Gertrude of Flanders; her maternal grandparents were King of Jerusalem Fulk (The Young) D'Anjou V and Ermengard of Maine. She had four brothers and two sisters, named Robert, Peter, Matthew, Philip, Marguerite and Gertrude.  She was the third youngest of the seven children. She had a half-sister named Seynarde.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michaelrneuman&id=I004596

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