Gauthier III. de Nemours

Coat of arms of Gauthiers III. de Nemours

Gauthier III. de Nemours († August 23, 1270 before Tunis ) was a Lord of Nemours and Marshal of France in the 13th century.

He was the son of Philippe II. De Nemours, from whom he inherited the castle of Nemours after his death in 1255 . He thus belonged to the Le Riche family . Occasionally he is also called Gauthier de Villebéon because his family was related to the neighboring family of Villebéon .

Gauthier took part in the crusade to Egypt (1248-1250) and became a knight in the suite of King Louis IX. of the saint . According to Joinville's words, he and Charles of Anjou aroused the king's displeasure during the ship passage from Damiette to Acre (April 1250) because they were playing dice on the ship's deck , which the king regarded as a reprehensible sin. Later, Ludwig IX. in France even anchoring the ban on the game of dice in law.

In 1257 Gauthier replaced the late Guillaume de Beaumont as royal marshal, but was replaced in this office by Henri II Clément in 1262 . In 1270 Gauthier also took part in the crusade to Africa , where he died of the dysentery two days before the king in the camp outside Tunis .

He was married to the young Clémence von Dreux (* 1257; † around 1300, House France-Dreux ), daughter of Robert I († 1264), Vice Count of Beu and Châteaudun . The marriage remained childless. After his death, Clémence married Jean des Barres († 1324), 1318 Marshal of France.

His reign Nemours was passed on to King Philip III by Gauthier's brothers Jean and Philippe in 1274 and 1276 . sold.

literature

• Jean Richard: Saint Louis. Roi d'une France féodale, soutien de la Terre Sainte. Fayard, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-213-01168-0 .
• Jacques Le Goff : Louis the saint. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91834-5 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Guillaume de Beaumont	Marshal of France 1257–1262	Henri II. Clément