Boson II (La Marche)

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Boson II (also Boso ; † around 1005) was a Count of La Marche and Périgord from the House of Périgord . He was a younger son of Boso I the old and Emma of Périgord.

Boson supported his older brother, Count Aldebert I , in the uprising against Duke Wilhelm V of Aquitaine in 996 , who was actually their liege lord. He asked the French King Robert II for help, who advanced into the Marche with an army in the spring of 997 and besieged Boson in Bellac Castle. Around the same time, Aldebert had fallen in battle and Boson took over his possessions. He succeeded in repelling the siege, after which the king had to retreat to the Île-de-France . This also represented the last military engagement of a French king in the area south of the Loire for the next hundred years.

However, in 997 the Duke of Aquitaine, with the support of the Count of Angoulême, conquered the castle of Rouchemeaux near Charroux , whereupon Boson submitted. He founded a spiritual settlement in Moutier-d'Ahun and went on a pilgrimage to Rome , which he presumably embarked on to break off an excommunication that may have befallen him because of the divine peace order that was first introduced in Aquitaine in 994. In 998 he returned from his journey and made contact with the entourage of the Duke, who had married his sister-in-law Almodis of Limoges.

However, he started a new feud against the Vice Count of Limoges , who had built a castle near the Abbey of Brantôme , which was under the protection of the Counts of La Marche. Boson attacked the castle, destroyed it and wounded the Vice Count Guido . His son, Vice Count Adémar I , conquered the castle of La Brosse and the Abbey of Le Sault. In league with the Duke of Aquitaine, Boson counterattacked Le Sault and captured Vice Count Adémar. For his freedom and peace he had to accept the property of the Count of La Marche in the future. In the year 1000 a council of the Aquitan clergy was convened in Poitiers with the aim of restoring peace and justice in the country.

Boson II was married to a woman unknown by name, by whom he was poisoned around the year 1005. They had two sons:

  • Elias II († after 1032/33), Count of Périgord
  • Boson III. († around 1044), Count of Périgord

Both sons were not of age when their father died, which is why the Duke of Aquitaine took over the reign of Périgord for them. In the Marche, however, he was inherited by his nephew Bernard I.

literature

  • Georges Thomas: Les comtes de la Marche de la maison de Charroux , in: Mémoires de la Société des sciences naturelles et archéologiques de la Creuze 23 (1927), pp. 561-700
  • Thomas Head: The Development of the Peace of God in Aquitaine (970-1005) , in: Speculum 74 (1999), pp. 677-680

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ademar von Chabannes , Chronicon III §34, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 156
  2. ↑ Ademar von Chabannes, Chronicon III §41, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 165
  3. ↑ Ademar von Chabannes, Chronicon III §35, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 159
  4. ↑ Ademar von Chabannes, Chronicon III §35, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 159
  5. ↑ Aimon von Fleury , Miracula s. Benedicti III §5, ed. by Eugène de Certain (1858), pp. 135-142; Ademar von Chabannes, Chronicon III §34, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), pp. 156-157
  6. ↑ Ademar von Chabannes, Chronicon III §45, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 167
predecessor Office successor
Aldebert I. Count of La Marche
997 – around 1005 		Bernard I.
Aldebert I. Count of Périgord
997 – around 1005 		Elias II
personal data
SURNAME Boson II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boson II from La Marche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of La Marche and Périgord
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1005