Aubri de Coucy

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Aubri de Coucy (also Aubry , English Aubrey , Latin Albricus de Cociaco , † after 1088 at Coucy Castle ) was Seigneur de Coucy and Earl of Northumbria from 1080 to 1086 in 1059/79 .

Aubri de Coucy was a Norman from the family of the Counts of Beaumont-sur-Oise . He is a son of Ivo II, Count of Beaumont ( comes Bellomontensis castri , † 1059), and his wife Emma. His first marriage was Ada (Adela), mistress of Coucy , daughter of Letard de Marle and Mahaut ( House of Roucy ), the marriage was divorced around 1059. Aubri was then until 1077 or 1079 lord of Coucy. His eldest brother Geoffrey (Josfredus) died around 1070, although it was not Aubri who inherited the county of Beaumont, but his brother Ivo III, actually a cleric. In addition, Aubri de Coucy had a sister, Ermengarde († after 1076), who was married to Guy, Seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Marne († after 1076), the son of Milon de Châtillon and brother of the future Pope Urban II .

Aubri de Coucy married a second time, Aveline, whose origin is unknown, at whose instigation he was then imprisoned at an unspecified time and expelled from the country. Since he is proven with possession in Yorkshire from 1059 , on the other hand, from 1066 to 1079 also documented documents of the French King Philip I , one can probably date this exile to 1079 and localize it with England, especially since he was there in the following year the highest ranks in the country.

When William Walcher , Bishop of Durham and Earl of Northumbria , was assassinated in 1080 during a feud between the knights of his court and the ancient aristocracy of northern Umbria, William the Conqueror gave his earldom to the Normans Aubri, along with extensive holdings in the Midlands . Aubri de Coucy soon resigned, however, probably shortly after an impending Danish invasion in 1085. He is listed as a feudal man in the Domesday Book in 1086 (with the estates of Hickleton and Cadeby), but the notes suggest that he had shortly before his English possession had forfeited. The chronicler Symeon of Durham notes: de Coucy, "being of very little use in difficult matters, has returned to his country"; the earldom was then given to Robert de Mowbray . Before King William died in Rouen in 1087, King William ruled that his eldest son, Robert Curthose , could succeed him in Normandy but not in England, and Aubri de Coucy was sent to bring Robert the news.

His sister Ermengarde (last attested in 1076) warned him of an assassination attempt against him, which was planned by an Engurrand and which - following the Vita Sancti Arnulfi - then became the new husband of his first wife as Enguerrand I. de Coucy ( House Boves ). Enguerrand is mentioned around 1085 as Sire de Coucy and 1095 as Vice Count of Coucy, but later also outlawed.

Aubri de Coucy died in his castle Coucy , so had returned from exile. He left a son, Foulques, about whom we only know that he probably lived in 1092, but not who his mother was.

literature

  • William M. Aird, Robert de Mowbray , Online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004
  • Thomas Arnold (ed.), Symeonis monachi Opera omnia: Historia regum , Volume 2, London, Longman & Co., 1885
  • David Bates (2004), William the Conqueror, Stroud, UK Tempus: p. 266, ISBN 0-7524-1980-3
  • Judith A. Green (2002), The Aristocracy of Norman England , Cambridge University Press
  • KSB Keats-Rohan , Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066–1166 , Volume 1, Domesday Book (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999),
  • Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables Volume III.4, 1989, Plate 644
  • Frank Stenton, (1971), Anglo-Saxon England , 3rd edition, Oxford University Press

Web links

  • Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Coucy ( online )

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Keats-Rohan, p. 131
  2. ↑ Cawley, who doubts the affiliation; at Schwennicke, Adela and Aubri are referred to as Vice Countess and Vice Count of Coucy, respectively
  3. ↑ Schwennicke
  4. ^ Cawley
  5. ↑ André Duchesne (1621), Châtillon, p. 23, and Preuves, p. 20, who admitted, however, that he had no evidence for this (“n'avoir rien veu qui justifie” the relationship), quoted in Cawley
  6. ^ Cawley
  7. ↑ Schwennicke
  8. ^ Cawley
  9. ↑ Green, p. 42f
  10. ^ Stenton, p. 614
  11. ↑ Aird
  12. ↑ by which the part of France ruled by William the Conqueror, especially Normandy, should be meant
  13. ^ Arnold (Ed.), P. 199
  14. ^ Bates
  15. ↑ AASS Aug. 11, p. 240
  16. ↑ Schwennicke
  17. ^ Cawley


predecessor Office successor
William Walcher Earl of Northumbria
1065-1066 		Robert de Montbray
personal data
SURNAME Aubri de Coucy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aubry de Coucy; Aubrey de Coucy (English); Albricus de Cociaco (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Seigneur de Coucy, Earl of Northumbria
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1088
Place of death Coucy Castle