Gauthier II. De Villebéon

Gauthier II. De Villebéon , called le Jeune († 1219 ) was a lord of Villebon (Villebéon) and Lord Chamberlain of France . He was a younger son of Gauthier I. de Villebéon († 1205) and Aveline de Nemours and thus belonged to the Le Riche family .

Occasionally Gauthier is also called de Nemours , although this maternal inheritance was taken over by his older brother Philippe I, while he himself took over the paternal inheritance, including the office of royal chamberlain. He was first mentioned in a document on the side of his father in 1202. He was married to Isabella de Mondreville and their son was Adam de Villebéon , who in turn succeeded him as Lord Chamberlain. With the consent of King Philip II of France , he married his son in 1205 to a daughter of the Chamberlain of Normandy. He was last mentioned in a document in the summer of 1218, when the king gave him some goods in the Vexin .

Together with his son Gauthier took part in the Damiette Crusade (Fifth Crusade). Both were captured there in autumn 1219 by the Saracens after a battle. While Adam was soon released, Gauthier was missing, apparently he had died in captivity.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no.735, p. 169
2. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no.917, p. 210
3. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no.1814, p. 399
4. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 32, cap. III and X, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, pp. 332 and 341
5. ↑ Matthäus Paris , Chronica Majora , ed. by Henry Richards Luard in: Rolls Series 57 (1876), Vol. 3, p. 50

Web links

• Seigneurs de Nemours at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac (English)