Elisabeth Le Riche

Elisabeth Le Riche (* before 941 ; † shortly after 1007 ) was a French noblewoman who, as a daughter, wife and mother, belonged to the closest circle of Hugo the Great and Hugo Capet .

Sceaux-du-Gâtinais

With a document from November 941, her father Lisiard Le Riche ( Elisiernus ) gave the property of Sceaux-du-Gâtinais with the churches, mansions and serfs of the abbey of Saint-Benôit-sur-Loire 40 kilometers south-west, shortly before his retreat into the monastery . This donation was limited by the lifelong usufruct that he granted his son Joseph, an acolyte (the last stage before ordination), his daughter Elisabeth, who was still unmarried at the time, and her eldest son, provided that he was born in a legitimate marriage.

In 998 Sceaux was in the joint administration of Renaud II , Chancellor King Hugo Capets and Bishop of Paris († 1017), and his father Bouchard le Vénérable , Count of Vendôme and Count of Paris († 1007), so (still ) not owned by the monastery. Renaud's mother and Bouchard's wife was named Elisabeth and was the widow of Count Aimon von Corbeil , who outlived her second husband for a short time. She is apparently the daughter of Lisiard Le Riches, who continued to have the usufruct of Sceaux.

family

From the documents mentioned it follows: Elisabeth was the daughter of Lisiard Le Riche , her mother is unknown. She was unmarried in 941, she will have been born between 925 and 935. She had a brother Joseph, who was already an adult in 941 (he was one of the signatories of the deed) and who is identified with the Archbishop of Tours of the same name (officiated from 946 to 957).

Her first marriage was Haymon , the first known Count of Corbeil (he was also a signatory of the deed), who died around 957 ( House of Melun ), then around 960 Bouchard le Vénérable , Count of Vendôme and from 987 Count of Paris , which he received from Hugo Capet for the support Bouchard had given him in the past ( Burchardinger ). Bouchard died around 1007. Elisabeth died shortly after her second husband and was buried at his side.

From her two marriages, Elisabeth had (at least) four children, two from her first and two from her second marriage:

• Thibaut, Abbot of Saint-Paul de Cormery , 1006 Abbot of Saint-Maur
• Maurice, ancestor of the Counts of Corbeil
• Renaud II , 988 Chancellor Hugo Capets, 991 Bishop of Paris , 1006 Count of Melun , † 1016
• Elisabeth, † December 999; ⚭ 985 Foulques Nerra , Count of Anjou ( First House of Anjou ); her daughter of Adele (or Agnes), † 1033 or 1035, who inherited the county of Vendôme, married Bodo of Nevers in 1023, then Count of Vendôme ( House of Monceaux )

literature

• Gustave Estournet, Origines des Seigneurs de Nemours , in: Annales de la Société historique et archéologique du Gâtinais , Volume 30, 1912, pp. 53-57
• Jean Mabillon , Annales Ord. S. Benedicti , III, p. 711, No. LV;
• Maurice Prou , Alexandre Vidier, Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire , I (1900), p. 121

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mabillon; Prou, Vidier
2. ↑ Prou, Vidier
3. ↑ Alodo quod Seda dicitur in Guastinesum pago
4. ↑ Since Joseph became a clergyman, the existence of an older brother as the heir of the father can be assumed to be certain, who is known from other sources as Ansoud I. Le Riche
5. ↑ Quia vero juxta Apostolum cura proximorum negligenda non est, volo, ut easdem res filius meus Joseph, necnon & filia mea Elisabeth, & primogenitus ejusdem filiæ, si de legitimo conjugio fuerit, ad usumfructuarium teneant: post eorum discessum ipsæritate res cum omni prædictum cœnobium transferantur; & ita in usibus fratrum cedant, ut nulli abbatum liceat inde beneficium laïcis dare.