Albéric Clément

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Albéric Clément ( German also Alberich , * around 1165 ; † July 3, 1191 in Akkon ) was lord of Le Mez and under Philip II August the first marshal of France .

Life

Albéric was the eldest of six Robert III children . Clément († 1181), who was first governor and from 1180 adviser and minister of Philip II August. He grew up in the family's castle near Dordives in the Gâtinais region .

Philip August created the rank of Marshal for Albéric Clément in 1190, making him the first Marshal of France. Albéric followed Philipp August into the Third Crusade . During an assault on Acre he was defeated by an overwhelming number of opponents and died on July 3, 1191. His armor was captured by a Saracen who was spotted wearing it by Richard the Lionheart a little later and personally killed by him with a shot from a ballista .

family

His brother Henri I. Clément was appointed Marshal of France after him in 1204, as the second of a total of four marshals from the Clément du Mez family.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rigord , Gesta Philippi Augusti , ed. by Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), p. 35
  2. ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 2, p. 173
  3. ↑ Roger von Hoveden , Chronica , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 51 (1870), Vol. 3, p. 117
  4. ↑ Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi Liber III, Cap. X, ed. by William Stubbs in: Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I, Rolls Series 38 (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 223-224
  5. ↑ Ambroise , Estoire de la guerre sainte , ed. by Marianne Ailes: The history of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la guerre sainte (2004), Vol. 2, p. 100
  6. ↑ Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi Liber III, Cap. XIII, ed. by William Stubbs in: Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I, Rolls Series 38 (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 225-226
  7. ↑ Ambroise, Estoire de la guerre sainte , ed. by Marianne Ailes: The history of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la guerre sainte (2004), Vol. 2, p. 101
predecessor Office successor
Robert III Lord of Le Mez
1181–1191 		Henri I.
–– Marshal of France
1190–1191 		Guillaume de Bournel
personal data
SURNAME Albéric Clément
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albéric du Mez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Le Mez Maréchal, Marshal of France
DATE OF BIRTH around 1165
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1191
Place of death Acre