Boson III. (La Marche)
Boson III. (also Boso ; † 1091 ) was a Count of La Marche from the House of Périgord . He was a son of Count Aldebert II of La Marche and his wife Ponce.
Boson succeeded his father, who died in 1088, as Count of La Marche. He feuded the Count of Angoulême and besieged his castle of Confolens in 1091 . He was eventually killed in the fighting for this castle.
Since he had no children, his sister Almodis and her husband Roger Poitevin de Montgommery , who was a wealthy Norman nobleman in England, would have been the legitimate heirs of the Marche. But her uncle Odo , with the support of the Count of Angoulême, denied her inheritance rights and took control of the Marche. At the same time, however, Hugo VI. von Lusignan , who was related to the Count's House on his mother's side, made a claim to the inheritance. He and his descendants stuck to them, even against the claims of the House of Montgommery , from which the Lusignans' future feud against their patrons from the House of Plantagenet originates.
literature
- Sidney Painter: The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , in: Speculum 32 (1957), p. 37
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicon sancti Maxentii Picravensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou , ed. by P. Marchegay and E. Mabille (1869), p. 410
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Aldebert II |
Count of La Marche 1088-1091 |
Odo I. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boson III. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boson III. from La Marche |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of La Marche |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 11th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1091 |