Engelbert II (Brienne)

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Engelbert II. († before 1027/31) was a Count of Brienne from the House of Brienne .

In memory of the good relations of his predecessor of the same name and likely father to the Abbey of Montier-en-Der , Engelbert II and his wife Adelaide (Alix) made donations to them. The accompanying document was drawn up at Brienne Castle (Breona castello) and dates only vaguely to the reign of King Roberts II (996-1031), but this donation must have been made before 1018. Because, according to the tradition of the chronicler Alberich von Trois-Fontaines , Engelbert supported his son-in-law Stephan von Joinville in the fight for the county of Joigny and in the construction of his “new castle” (Joinville), which was built by 1018 at the latest, after the death of Adelaide .

Adelaide belonged to the Count's House of Sens and received Castle Joigny from its inheritance. Her first marriage was to Gottfried I von Joigny , with whom she had three sons.

Engelbert II von Brienne is likely to have supported his son-in-law Stephan von Joinville in the fight for Joigny, not least for reasons of power politics, in order to drive his step-sons by marriage from there in favor of a close relative. However, the Brienne-Joinville alliance was not granted any lasting success in this conflict, because in March 1042 at the latest, Count Gottfried II , a son of Adelaide from their first marriage, is attested by Joigny.

The brothers Count Engelbert III, who appeared in a document between the years 1027 and 1031 . and Guido are likely to have been the sons of Engelbert II, especially since their brother-in-law Stephan von Joinville appears. However, according to a genealogical treatise on the Count's House of Anjou from the early 12th century, her mother was not Adelaide von Sens, but a woman named Wandalmodis, who was descended from the von Salins family on her mother's side.

literature

  • Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, Catalog d'actes des comtes de Brienne 950-1356, in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, Vol. 33 (1872), pp. 141-186.

Remarks

  1. See Jean Mabillon, Annales ordinis S. Benedicti occidentalium monachorum patriachæ, Vol. 4 (1707), p. 268.
  2. See Alberich von Trois-Fontaines, in: MGH Scriptores (in folio) 23, p. 790.
  3. Cf. Maximilien Quantin, Cartulaire générale de l'Yonne, Vol. 1 (1854), No. XCIII, pp. 178f. The dispute over the inheritance of Joigny and the resulting equality of names between his family of counts and the Joinville family may have led Alberich von Trois-Fontaines to recognize one and the same identity in both by naming the lords of Joinville as Counts of Joigny . In fact, in this case, there were two different families who were related by marriage to each other only through Adelaide von Sens as a connecting link. Cf. Henri-François Delaborde, Recherches critiques sur les premiers seigneurs de Joinville, in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, vol. 51 (1890). Pp. 618-629.
  4. See Louis Halphen and René Poupardin, Genealogiæ comitum Andegavensium, in: Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise, (1913), p. 249.

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predecessor Office successor
Engelbert I. Count of Brienne
after 968 – before 1027/31
Engelbert III.