Agnes I (Nevers)

Agnes I (* 1170 ; † February 2 or 6, 1192, probably in Mailly ) was Countess of Nevers , Auxerre and Tonnerre . She was the daughter of Guidos of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre, and his wife Mathilde of Burgundy.

While Agnes' mother Mathilde succeeded her husband Guido after his death in 1175 in the rule of the county Tonnerre, Agnes inherited the counties Nevers and Auxerre after the death of her brother Wilhelm V in 1181 and is thus at the beginning of a century in which Nevers (1181-1280), Auxerre (1181-1290) and Tonnerre (1175-1309) were in female hands without interruption. Since her father placed her under the guardianship of the king shortly before his death, from then on she spent her childhood at his court; and the counties she inherited in 1181 were administered by the king until 1184.

First Agnes was betrothed to Olivier "Albus", Lord von Grignon, who died between 1181 and 1184. As a result, King Philip II of August married her to Peter II of Courtenay in 1184 . In 1185, Agnes and her husband confirmed the privileges of the Saint-Étienne church in Nevers in a document. On July 29, 1188, she renounced her right to the hand of the dead against the inhabitants of Auxerre . Furthermore, she exempted the Abbey of Saint-Marien from the rent owed to her as well as all places belonging to the chapter of Nevers from the obligation to host . Around 1190 she had her only child, her daughter and heiress Mathilde , also called Mahaut. In 1191 she and her husband bought the county of Tonnerre from her mother.

Agnes, who mostly resided in Mailly, died in 1192 while her husband was participating in the Third Crusade .

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume III, part 4. 1989, plate 717.
• A. Desforges Agnès 9 . In: Dictionnaire de Biographie française (DBF). Vol. 1 (1932), Col. 738.

Web links

• Collection of materials on Agnes I von Nevers (archive version from September 29, 2007) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A. Desforges, Dictionnaire de Biographie française . Vol. 1, Col. 738.
2. ^ ^{A b} Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Agnes de Nevers
3. ↑ A. Desforges, Dictionnaire de Biographie française . Vol. 1, Col. 738; AT THE. Chagny-Sève: Nevers . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , Sp. 1111–1114 (here Sp. 1113).

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm V.	Countess of Nevers, Countess of Auxerre, Countess of Tonnerre 1181–1192	Mathilde von Courtenay