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Lower Botevyle Manor, Church Stretton, England
Lower Botevyle Manor is located in Church Stretton, Shropshire, England. There is a listing for Lower Botevyle Manor on TripAdvisor, as a bed and breakfast. The photos that follow are from that listing:
(https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g315989-d2204236-Reviews-Lower_Botvyle_Manor-Church_Stretton_Shropshire_England.html).
These ancestors of mine lived at Lower Botevyle Manor
16. Sir Thomas Thynne (1495-1546), my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
17. Sir Ralph Boteville (Thynne) (c. 1480-1515)
18. Sir John Thynne (Boteville), O’ th’ Inne (1449-1485)
19. Richard Botevile (c. 1417-1481)
20. William Botevile (Botevyle) (c. 1380-1461)
21. Thomas Botevile (1350-1439)
22. Richard De Botevyle (1326-1416)
23. Thomas De Botevyle (1282-1357)
24. John Botevyle (1250-1309)
25. William Botevyle (1217-1256)
26. Sir Geoffroy Botevyle (1150-1246)
27. Geoffroi Martel d’Angoulême (1118-1179), my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Botvyle Farm Campsite C&CC Certificated Site – Google Maps
Château de Bouteville, Bouteville, France
This is our ancestors’ previous estate: Château de Bouteville, previously known as Castle Angoulême. This is a description, from the first link below, Destination Cognac:
From the middle of the 9th century, the first Counts of Angoulême had fortified this hill to integrate it into the network of fortified towns that defended the county against the Vikings. At the beginning of the 11th century, the castle, then the property of the Lord of Archiac, came back under the control of the Counts of Angoulême through the marriage of Geoffroy Taillefer and Pétronille d’Archiac. The Taillefer family made it one of their residences. Pétronille and Geoffroy then founded the Saint Paul priory which was donated in 1029 to the Savigny abbey in the diocese of Lyon.
https://www.tourism-cognac.com/uk/patrimoine/chateau-de-bouteville/
The stories of Lord of Archiac controlling the property as well as the marriage of Geoffroy Taillefer and Pétronille d’Archiac are both false.
According to the proper listing on Geni.com, Geoffroi Martel d’Angoulême was married to Emma de Limoges and Marguerite de Turenne, comtesse d’Angoulême.
This is the description from the other link, FrenchChateau.net:
Château de Bouteville which there remains an imposing ruin, was the seat of a powerful chatellenie and one of the finest castles of Charente. It is located in the municipality of Bouteville, near Châteauneuf-sur-Charente.Castle built on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa; then a castle reported in 1028, the castle belonged to the family of Angouleme. Built around 1000, it is the beginning of the eleventh century Geoffroy Taillefer, the son of Count William IV of Angoulême, following his marriage to Petronilla daughter of the Lord of Archaic who brings her dowry. They pursue the construction of the church and founded the priory. He entered the house of Lusignan. At the meeting of the Angoumois to the crown of France in 1203, Bouteville passes Joan of Navarre, then Aimery III de La Rochefoucauld. In 1360 the English seize it, it is taken at the end of the fourteenth century and ruined; restored in 1453 by Jean d’Orleans, he was again in ruins in 1598
https://frenchchateau.net/chateaux-of-poitou-charentes/chateau-de-bouteville.html
Henry II was not the son of Geoffroi Martel d’Angoulême, as claimed in his Wikipedia entry. Henry II was the husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The descendants of Geoffroi Martel d’Angoulême lived at what is now called Lower Botevyle Manor in Stretton, Shropshire, England.
The ancestor of mine who built what is now called Château de Bouteville was Arnaud “Manzer” d’Angoulême, comte d’Angoulême (927-992), in 987 AD.
Pages about Château de Bouteville
A page on Destination Cognac: https://www.tourism-cognac.com/uk/patrimoine/chateau-de-bouteville/
A listing on FrenchChateau.net: https://frenchchateau.net/chateaux-of-poitou-charentes/chateau-de-bouteville.html
A French-language Wikipedia page: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Bouteville
Chateau de Bouteville‘s location on Google Maps
