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Elias I (also Hélie or Élie;
died 11 July 1110), called de la Flèche or
de Baugency, was the Count of Maine from
1093. He was the son of the lord of La Flèche, John de Beaugency, and his wife
Paula, daughter of Herbert I,
Count of Maine.
In 1093, when his cousin Hugh V died, he inherited Maine. With
the support of Fulk IV of Anjou, he continued the war with
Robert II of
Normandy. After Robert's departure with the First Crusade,
Elias made peace with William Rufus,
Robert's regent in Normandy.
Elias married Matilda, daughter of Gervais, Lord of Château-du-Loir. Their daughter,
Eremburg, married Fulk V of Anjou. In
1109, says Orderic Vitalis, Elias remarried to
Agnes, the daughter of 'William of Poitou' and relict of Alfonso VI of Castile. This is perhaps
confused, as the name and parentage match that of Alfonso's first
wife, but she last appears thirty years earlier. It has been
suggested that the true bride was Alfonso's widow Beatrice.
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