Arnaud II (Angoulême)

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Arnaud II. Manzer (* probably before 946 ; † 988 ) was a Count of Angoulême from the House of Taillefer .

He was an illegitimate son of Count Wilhelm II Taillefer of Angoulême , which is why the County of Angoulême was taken over by his cousins ​​from the Périgord when he died around 945. In 975, despite his illegitimate birth, Arnaud raised hereditary claims to Angoulême and received the support of Duke Wilhelm IV. Iron Arm of Aquitaine . After killing his cousin Ranulf Bompar in battle , he was finally able to take over Angoulême.

In the following years he consolidated and expanded his power at the expense of Bishop Hugo of Angoulême. Furthermore he made himself the patron ( advocatus ) of the Abbey of Saint-Cybard . He supported the duke in the feud against the clan of Boson the old and took his son Gauzbert prisoner, whom he handed over to the duke. In 988 he took on the monk's habit in Saint-Amant-de-Boixe and entered the Abbey of Saint-Cybard, where he died a little later and was buried next to his father on March 4th.

Arnaud Manzer was successively married to the ladies Raingarde and Aldearde, the former being the mother of his son and successor Wilhelm IV Taillefer († 1028).

literature

  • Thomas Head: The Development of the Peace of God in Aquitaine (970-1005) , in: Speculum 74 (1999), pp. 659-661, 664

Individual evidence

  1. Ademar von Chabannes , Chronicon III §28, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), pp. 149-150; Ademari Historiarum Liber III , ed. by Georg Waitz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 4 (1861), p. 128
  2. Ademar von Chabannes, Chronicon III §36, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 159
  3. Ademar von Chabannes, Chronicon III §35, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 157
predecessor Office successor
Ranulf Bompar Count of Angoulême
975–988
Wilhelm IV Taillefer