Archambaud I (Comborn)

Archambaud I. Camba-Putrida († after 992) was a vice count of Comborn and Turenne and the progenitor of the House of Comborn , which was important in the high medieval Limousin .

Archambaud broke his leg fighting for Turenne Castle.

In European family tables he is named as the son of Count Hugo von Quercy († after 972), who was his predecessor in Comborn , which means that he would have belonged to the Raimundiner family. However, there is no contemporary evidence to support this assumption. He was married to Sulpice, a daughter of Vice Count Bernard von Turenne, with whom he had the sons Ebles and Archambaud, the former succeeding him.

Archambaud appeared as the defender of Queen Emma , the wife of King Lothar of West Franconia , who was accused of adultery by her brother-in-law Karl of Lorraine . He was known by two epithets among contemporaries. The first nickname given to him was Macellarius (German: Metzger , French: le Boucher ), which he got because of his merciless, warlike nature. His second and better-known nickname was Camba-Putrida , which means something like "rotten leg" (Occitan: Gamba puirida , French: Jambe pourrie ). He had received this after breaking a leg in the battle for Turenne Castle, probably after his brother-in-law had died around 984, which he had placed in a door frame to prevent the door from locking.

Archambaud is last mentioned in a deed of donation to the Abbey of Saint-Pierre von Uzerche from the year 992.

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• European Family Tables, Volume III, Plate 765.
• Ex Chronico Gaufredi Vosiensis §23, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1867), p. 423.
• JB Champeval: Cartulaire de l'abbaye d'Uzerche (Corrèze) (1901), No. 40, p. 73.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo	Vice Count of Comborn ? - after 992	Ebles I.
Adémar II.	Vice Count of Turenne around 984 – after 992	Ebles I.