Aymon II (Bourbon)

Aymon II. Vaire-Vache (Latin: Haimonem Variam Vaccam ; † around 1120) was a lord of Bourbon . He was a younger son of Archambault IV. The Brave and his wife Beliarde.

After the death of his older brother, Archambault V the Pious, around 1095, Aymon ousted his nephew Archambault VI. from the rule of the Bourbonnais . From then on he made a name for himself as a feud man and was in conflict with the neighboring Count of Nevers to the north . On June 4, 1099, however, he was defeated by this in a field battle, where he lost several knights. The conflict was then ended by a marriage between Aymon and Lucie, the daughter of Count Wilhelm von Nevers-Tonnerre .

Aymon's activities and the ousting of his nephew attracted the attention of the French King Louis VI. the fat man excited. To demonstrate his judicial authority, the king moved with an army into the Bourbonnais around 1117 and besieged Aymon in the castle of Germigny. Aymon was finally forced to surrender and submit and was brought to Francia (the crown land, cf. Île-de-France ) by royal order , where the king intended to convene a court day on which the question of the right of possession of Bourbon between Aymon was to be called and Archambault VI. should be discussed.

Apparently the royal judgment had been passed in favor of Aymon, because his son Archambault VII was able to succeed him in the rule around 1120.

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• Annales Nivernenses , ed. by Georg Waitz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 13 (1881), p. 91
• Suger von Saint-Denis , Vita Ludovici VI regis Philippi filii qui grossus dictus , ed. by Léopold Deslisle in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877), pp. 42–43

Web links

• Sire de Bourbon at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.fmg (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Archambault VI.	Lord of Bourbon 1095–1120	Archambault VII.