Aldebert IV (La Marche)

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Aldebert IV (also Adalbert ; † 1178/1180) was a Count of La Marche from the House of Montgommery . He was a son of Count Aldebert III. , whom he had followed as Count at an unknown point in time.

Aldebert had at least two children, but they died before him. He separated from his wife, allegedly because she had been unfaithful to him. A chronicle of the Abbey of Saint-Martial of Limoges reports that he would have killed her and her lover, but Geoffroy du Breuil reports her remarriage to a nobleman after Aldebert's death.

Without heirs, he sold the Marche to King Henry II of England , the husband of his liegeess Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine , in 1177 in order to be able to use the proceeds to afford a pilgrimage to Jerusalem . This sale further fueled the feudal lust of the Lusignan family , who in turn raised an inheritance claim to the Marche.

The date of Aldebert's death varies in the traditions. According to Bernard Itier , he died in 1178, but a document from the Holy Land named him in 1179 as a participant in a dispute between the Order of the Templars and Hospitallers . Geoffroy du Breuil puts his death in Constantinople in 1180.

literature

  • Sidney Painter: The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , in: Speculum 32 (1957), p. 42

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chroniques de Saint-Martial de Limoges, Varia Chronicorum Fragmenta , p. 189; Ex Chronico Gaufredi coenobitæ , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) Vol. 12 (1781), p. 447
  2. ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 1, pp. 197-198
  3. ↑ Ex Chronico Gaufredi coenobitæ , in: RHGF Vol. 12 (1781), p. 447
  4. ↑ Chronicon Bernardi Iterii , ed. by H. Duplès-Agier in: Chroniques de Saint-Martial de Limoges (1874), p. 59; Regesta Regni Hierosolymitani , ed. by R. Röhricht (1893), No. 572, p. 152
  5. ↑ Ex Chronico Gaufredi coenobitæ , in: RHGF Vol. 12 (1781), p. 448
predecessor Office successor
Aldebert III. Count of La Marche
? –1177 		King Henry II of England
personal data
SURNAME Aldebert IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of La Marche
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH between 1178 and 1180