Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000 1200

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction: Aristocrats and Their Families
1. The Lands of the Loire, 1000–1200
2. Aristocratic Family 
Life
3. Aristocratic Family Life Writ Small: The Fréteval, Mondoubleau, and Dives Kindred
4. Inheritance: Diversity and Continuity
5. Marriage and the Disposition of Property: A Sign of Status?
6. Marriage: Practicalities, Ideologies, and Affection
7. For Better, Not Worse: Wives and Husbands as Partners in Family and Lordship
8. Contestations: Asserting and Reasserting a Place in the Family
Conclusion: Out of Love for My Kin
Appendix. Genealogical Charts
	1. The Counts of Chartres
	2. The Viscounts of Châteaudun to c. 1200
	3. The Viscounts of Chartres
	4. The Vidames of Chartres
	5. The Lords of Alluyes-Gouet
	6. The Lords of Montigny
	7. The Fréteval-Mondoubleau-Dives Kindred
	8. The Lords of Fréteval
	9. The Dives Family
	10. The Lords of Mondoubleau
	11. The Descendants of Ingelbald Brito and Domitilla of Vendôme
	12. The Lords of Lisle
	13. The Lords of Langeais
Works Cited
Index