Delphine Philippe-Lemaître

Delphine Philippe-Lemaître (born 12 June 1798 in Pont-Audemer and died on 10 June 1863 in Illeville-sur-Montfort), (birthname Delphine Lemaître) was a French historian, archaeologist, botanist and poet.

Lemaître conducted a study on the barony of Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle to clarify a historical fact relating to the history of the Dukes of Normandy, by providing irrefutable testimonies that Guillaume Longue-Épée, second Duke of Normandy, had not married Sprota, daughter of Herbert, Count of Senlis. Instead he had married Liutgarde, daughter of Héribert, Count of Vermandois. Lemaître showed that Sprota was only a dalliance of this prince and that after his assassination, after she had been forgotten and abandoned by everyone, she was taken in by Asperleng, a wealthy man and owner of the barony of Saint-Philbert, who married her. What had made several historians mistakenly accept the marriage of Duke William to Sprota was that this Duke, intending to retire to the monastery of Jumièges and having no children by his wife Liutgarde, recognized as his successor his son Richard, the fruit of his adulterous about which writer Amélie Bosquet said that it "must place its author in the first rank among those erudite minds to whom it belongs to clear the thorny field of our local antiquities." Foreigner's guide or brief summary of the history and monuments of the city of Dreux, Rouen, Lecointe, 1845, in-12 of 36 p. Notice on the castle of Sorel in Pincerais (Eure-et-Loir), Revue de Rouen, 1848, p. 616–624. History of the town and castle of Dreux, with an archaeological notice on the church of St. Pierre de Dreux, by M. l'abbé de l'Hoste, Dreux, Lemenestrel, 1849–50, 2 vols. Historical documents and supporting documents for the history of Dreux, with a note on the church of St. Pierre de Dreux, by M. l'abbé de l'Hoste, Rouen, A. Peron, 1850, in-8° of 175 p.