Amanous
Amanous (also Amerous and Amous ) was a Pagus in what is now the French department of Doubs in Franche-Comté .
The term occurs in the 9th century when the Treaty of Verdun (843) stipulated that the Burgundian counties of Varasque (Varais), Scodingue (Escouens, around Salins-les-Bains ) and Amanous as well as the abbeys of Luxeuil , Lure , Baume- les-Dames , Château-Chalon etc. should pass into the possession of King Louis the German .
In the first half of the 10th century, Alberich (Aubry) I , Count of Mâcon , and his two sons Letald (Liétaud) II and Humbert began to expand their power in the region. They seized the counties of Amanous, Portois, Varasque and Scodinque, and Humbert became the first known lord of Salins and its wealthy salt works . Humbert descendants ruled Salins until the end of the 12th century, Letald's possession fell to his grandson Otto Wilhelm († 1026) from the House of Burgundy-Ivrea , who then appeared as the first Count of Burgundy . With the Kingdom of Burgundy, Amanous came to the Empire in 1033 as part of the county of Burgundy .
At the end of the 11th century, Raimund of Burgundy , son of William I , Count of Burgundy , husband of Queen Urraca of León-Castile and progenitor of the subsequent kings, is referred to as the Count of Amerous; it can be assumed that this means Amanous.
Individual evidence
- ↑ so also Schwennicke, European Family Tables, Volume II, Plate 62