Anseau de Garlande (Seneschal)

Anseau de Garlande , also called Ansel , Anselm or Anselmus († 1118 before Le Puiset ), was a Seneschal of France in the 12th century. He came from a lordly family of the Île-de-France ( Garlande ), his brothers were Guillaume and Étienne .

His father-in-law was Count Guido the Red of Rochefort from the House of Montlhéry , whose family had the greatest influence at the court of King Louis VI. exercised by France by occupying the office of royal seneschal. In 1108, however, there was a break between the king and the House of Montlhéry-Rochefort, which resulted in a revolt of the lords of the Île-de-France against the king. According to the report of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis ( Vita Ludovici Grossi ), the conflict was sparked by the ambition of the Garlande, who claimed the Gournay Castle , but which belonged to the Montlhéry.

Anseau was immediately appointed seneschal by the king, but this made his brother-in-law Hugo von Crécy , who had previously held the office, an enemy. In 1108 Gournay was conquered and given to Anseau. Because Count Odo von Corbeil had supported the king in this matter, Hugo von Crécy attacked him and took him prisoner. Anseau attacked Corbeil in December 1108 and freed the count. For his loyal service he was awarded the county of Rochefort by the king after his brother-in-law Guido III. died around 1115.

In the following years Hugo III proved . of Le Puiset as a dangerous opponent who had fallen out with the king over the inheritance of the County of Corbeil . Anseau and the king besieged Le Puiset castle in 1111 and 1112. He moved in front of this castle a third time in the spring of 1118, but this time he was killed in battle. His year of death is often wrongly moved to the year 1111 for the first siege of Le Puiset, but Anseau was last mentioned on January 16, 1118 as a witness to a royal document.

The king transferred the office of seneschal to Guillaume de Garlande († 1120). The third brother, Étienne , later rose to the highest offices. Anseau herself had a daughter and heiress:

• Agnès de Garlande († 1143), Countess of Rochefort
  • ⚭ 1st around 1118 Amalrich III. († after 1136), Lord of Montfort-l'Amaury and Count of Évreux
  • ⚭ 2nd around 1139/41 Count Robert I von Dreux († 1188), son of King Ludwig VI.

literature

• Achille Luchaire: Histoire des institutions monarchiques de la France sous les premiers Capétiens (987–1180) . Volume 1, 2nd edition. Picard, Paris 1891 ( online ).
• Achille Luchaire: Louis VI le Gros, annales de sa vie et de son règne (1081-1137), avec une introduction historique . Picard, Paris 1890 ( online ).

Individual proof

1. ^ Suger, Vita Ludovici Grossi , XXII, p. 170; Ordericus Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica , XI, XXVI, p. 22

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo of Crécy	Seneschal of France 1108–1118	Guillaume de Garlande
Hugo of Crécy	Lord of Gournay Lord of La Ferté-Alais (de iure uxoris ) 1108–1118	Amalrich III. from Montfort (de iure uxoris)
Guido II of Rochefort	Count of Rochefort Lord of Bréthencourt (de iure uxoris) 1115–1118	Amalrich III. from Montfort (de iure uxoris)