Bazoches (noble family)

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The ruins of the castle of Bazoches-sur-Vesles.

The house of Bazoches was a family of the feudal nobility of the high medieval Champagne in France that existed from the 11th to the 13th century. Their ancestral seat was the castle of Bazoches-sur-Vesles ( Dépt. Aisne ).

history

Based on the genealogical treatises of André Duchesne († 1640) from the 17th century, a view that was valid until the 20th century was established in the historiographic memory that the families of the lords of Bazoches and those of the lords of Châtillon ( Châtillon-sur- Marne ) had the same genealogical origin. Their common progenitor was "Miles Seigneur de Chastillon & de Basoches", who lived in the 11th century and whose immediate descendants also included Pope Urban II . But neither Duchesne nor any historical researcher who took him over without criticism (e.g. Maximilien Melleville , † 1872) could actually provide evidence of a relationship between the two families by means of traditional written documents, nor could they prove the existence of the alleged progenitor. Only a document dated to the year 1155 from the cartular of the Priorei Longueau (near Baslieux-sous-Châtillon , Arr.Reims ) contains a vague reference to a possible relationship, provided that Gervasius von Châtillon, who appears here as a witness, is actually identical to the one living at the same time Gervasius von Bazoches was the father of the chronicler Guido von Bazoches († 1203).

Bazoches-sur-Vesles is about halfway between Soissons and Reims . The martyrs Rufinus and Valerius are said to have been buried here on the old Via Agrippa leading from Chalon-sur-Saône to Boulogne-sur-Mer in the 3rd century , over whose graves a basilica was later built, around which a settlement was formed was known simply as the villa quae Basilica in the 10th century . In the Franconian Empire , the place was in the Pagus Tardanensis and belonged to the district of the Soissons diocese immediately adjacent to that of the Reims Archdiocese . The bishops of Soissons maintained a residence right next to the church building. In the 10th century, the Normans raided the region with regular raids, which prompted the church authorities to transfer the relics of the martyrs to the safe cities. Another measure to ward off the hordes of robbers was the erection of fortifications in strategically important locations. To secure the road between Soissons and Reims, a castle was built on the site of Basilica , which was apparently occupied by servants of the bishops of Soissons.

The first lord of the castle known by name was Manasses (Manasses de Basilica) , who made a donation to the church of Saint-Thibaut (south of Bazoches) in the late 11th century in the presence of the Bishop of Soissons and the Archbishop of Reims . Thereafter, in 1122, the lord of the castle Hugo (Hugo dominus Basulensis castri) appeared, who, by consensus with his wife Basilie and their sons Guido, Walter and Hugo, restituted property stolen from the church of Saint-Rufin et Valère. The crusader Gervaise von Bazoches , who is guaranteed in the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1104 and was beheaded in Damascus in 1108 , was probably a family member, perhaps as the younger brother of Hugos von Bazoches. He is identified with the knight Gervasius de Monte sanctæ Mariæ (now Mont-Notre-Dame , southwest of Bazoches) who appeared in 1101 in Coulommiers as a documentary witness for the Countess Adela von Blois .

Only from Gervasius von Bazoches (Gervasio de Basochis) and his wife Hadewidis von Rumigny can a line of trunks of the House of Bazoches extending into the 13th century be traced. The family was closely connected to the clerical hierarchy of Champagne and provided several bishops themselves. In terms of feudal rights , they were vassals of the bishops of Soissons, to whom their loyalty was also valid (ligius salva fidelitate episcopi Suessionensis) after they had taken fiefs in the hands of the Counts of Champagne. Nicholas II of Bazoches announced this feudal relationship to his brother Bishop Jakob von Soissons in November 1232 .

Tribe list

  1. Gervasius († after 1158), lord of Bazoches; ∞ Hadewidis of Rumigny
    1. Guido von Bazoches (* before 1146, † 1203), cantor of the Saint-Etienne cathedral of Châlons , chronicler
    2. Nicholas I († after 1189), Lord of Bazoches; ∞ Agnes from Chérisy
      1. Nicholas II († 1234), lord of Bazoches; ∞ Agnes
        1. Nicholas III by Bazoches († ~ 1232/34)
        2. Robert († after 1249), Lord of Bazoches
          1. Milon of Bazoches († 1290), 1263 Bishop of Soissons
        3. Walter of Bazoches
        4. Nivelon of Bazoches († 1262), 1252 Bishop of Soissons
        5. Fauque by Bazoches
      2. Johann of Bazoches
      3. Walter of Bazoches
      4. Jacob of Bazoches († 1241/1242), 1219 Bishop of Soissons
      5. Gerhard von Bazoches († 1228), 1222 Bishop of Noyon
      6. Agnes of Bazoches; 1. ∞ Rudolf, lord of Château-Porcien; 2. ∞ Erhard, Mr. von Aulnay
    3. Walter of Bazoches
    4. Milon of Bazoches († 1219), 1202 abbot of Sainte-Rictrude and Saint-Pierre zu Marchiennes ; 1203 Abbot of Saint-Martin in Tournai ; 1205 Abbot of Saint-Remi in Reims , 1206 Abbot of Saint-Médard in Soissons
    5. Alix of Bazoches; ∞ Gottfried von Grandpré, Lord of Château-Porcien
  2. Haimo of Bazoches († 1153), 1151 Bishop of Châlons

Remarks

  1. ↑ Andre Duchesne, Histoire Genealogique de la maison de Chatillon sur Marne. Paris 1621.
  2. ↑ Maximilien Melleville, Dictionnaire historique du département de l'Aisne, Vol. 1 (1865), pp 81-82.
  3. ↑ Paul Pellot, Chartes du prieuré de Longueau, in: Revue de Champagne et de Brie, Vol. 7, the second series (1885), page 162.
  4. ↑ Flodoard von Reims , Historia Remensis Ecclesiae, ed. In: MGH , SS 13, p. 599.
  5. ^ Gallia Christiana vol. 10, Instrumenta ecclesiæ Suessionensis, col. 103.
  6. ^ Gallia Christiana vol. 10, Instrumenta ecclesiæ Suessionensis, col. 108.
  7. ↑ Dom Toussaint du Plessis, Histoire de l'église de Meaux, Vol. 2 (1731), No. XXV, p. 16 ff.
  8. ↑ Auguste Longnon, Documents relatifs au comté de Champagne et de Brie 1172-1361, Vol. 1 (1901), pp. 82, 122.
  9. ↑ Georges Bourgin, Histoire de la commune de Soissons et du groupe communal Soissonnais (1908), p. 20, note 8.
  10. ↑ Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis , ed. In: MGH, SS 13, p. 254.
  11. ↑ Alberich von Trois-Fontaines , Chronica, ed. In: MGH , SS 23, p. 882.
  12. ^ Gallia Christiana Vol. 9, Col. 370.
  13. ^ Gallia Christiana Vol. 9, Col. 370.
  14. ^ Gallia Christiana Vol. 9, Col. 366.
  15. ^ Gallia Christiana vol. 9, col. 882.

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