Eudes Herpin of Bourges

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Eudes Herpin von Bourges , also called Harpin or Arpin († around 1109 in Cluny ), was a vice count of Bourges and a crusader .

King Philip I of France buys the vice-county of Bourges. Depiction from the Grandes Chroniques de Saint-Denis , 14th century.

He was a son of Mr. Humbert von Dun and married before 1092 Mathilde, eldest daughter of Mr. Gilles, Seigneur de Sully . Mathilde was the heir of her maternal uncle, Vice Count Stephan von Bourges, while the paternal inheritance fell to her younger sister Agnes and her husband Wilhelm von Blois. Eudes thereby became Vice Count of Bourges in Berry, right of his wife .

Eudes joined Duke Wilhelm IX. from Aquitaine to the so-called crusade from 1101 . In order to finance this armed pilgrimage he pledged Bourges for 60,000 sou to King Philip I of France . In Palestine he possibly became master of Caesarea . He fought in the second battle of Ramla in 1102 , where he fell into captivity with the Saracens. After his detachment, he returned home and entered Cluny Abbey as a monk , where he died around 1109.

Herpin of Bourges

Based on Eude's crusade journey , a chanson de geste , called Chanson de Lion de Bourges , was created in the Middle Ages . In this poem he appears as Duke Herpin von Bourges , who, after the intrigues of his enemies , is exiled from France by Charlemagne . In the process he loses his beloved wife, who ends up in Toledo , while Herpin fights against the infidels in a distant land. Captured by these, he is sold as a slave to Toledo, where he finds his wife and saves the city from enemy troops. Herpin is later murdered and his wife dies of a broken heart.

The central character of this story, however, is the couple's son, who was named Lion because he was suckled by a lioness. After many amorous affairs and dangerous adventures in the Kingdom of Sicily, Lion finally succeeds in regaining his father's inheritance.

The chanson was translated into German in the 15th century by Elisabeth von Lothringen (Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken) as a prose novel with the title "Lewenbuch von Burges in Berrye", but the title "Herpin" soon became generally accepted for the work.

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predecessor Office successor
Gilles of Sully
(de iure uxoris) 		Vice Count of Bourges
(de iure uxoris)
before 1096–1109 		Domaine royal
Reign created Lord of Caesarea
1102-1109 		Eustach I. Garnier
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SURNAME Eudes Herpin of Bourges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vice-Count of Bourges, crusader
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1109
Place of death Cluny