Gauzlin of Fleury

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Gauzlin von Fleury († March 8, 1030 Châtillon-sur-Loire ) was a member of the high French nobility, but is also specifically regarded as the illegitimate son of Hugo Capet by an unknown woman. In 1004 he became Abbot of Fleury as successor to Abbos and probably in 1012 Archbishop of Bourges ; he held both offices until his death.

Life

He was educated by Abbot Abbo in the Fleury monastery on the Loire. When Abbo was murdered in 1004, it was King Robert the Pious , his presumed half-brother, who succeeded him against the resistance of the monks. As abbot, he defended his predecessor's exemption of the monastery from the Bishop of Orléans , to whom he refused the oath of obedience in 1008 (Twelve years later, in 1020, he supported William of Dijon regarding the exemption of the Fruttuaria Abbey , founded in 1003, in the year 1027 was finally reached).

Even his appointment as Archbishop of Bourges by King Robert could only be enforced through hierarchical intervention. As both the cathedral chapter as of Bourges and Geoffroy III. le Noble, Vice Count of Bourges opposed him, he traveled to Rome in 1012, where Pope Benedict VIII installed him by decree and at the same time banished the Vice Count. Gauzlin was finally introduced into office on December 1, probably in the year 1012.

For Fleury Abbey, Gauzlin achieved the return of property that had been taken away as well as the acquisition of additional property, thereby strengthening the economic situation of the monastery, which he used for brisk construction activity. He began the reconstruction of the abbey, which was set in flames by a lightning strike in 1026, but never saw its consecration of the church: Gauzlin died on March 8, 1030 on a visitation trip in Châtillon-sur-Loire ; he was buried in Fleury. Pope Innocent II consecrated the new church the following year, although it was not yet finished: work continued until 1218.

Gauzlin as the son of Hugo Capet

Gauzlin is often viewed as the illegitimate son of Hugo Capet. However, this is based solely on a position in Adémar de Chabannes , who describes Gauzlin as "the bastard of a very noble prince of the Franks", who is then equated with Hugo Capet without any specific information. This view is viewed critically today.

literature

  • Andreas von Fleury : Vita Gauzlini abbatis Floriacensis monasterii. Around 1042.
    • Paul Ewald (Ed.) In: New archive of the society for older German history. 3. Edition. Hannover 1878, pp. 351-383.
    • Robert-Henri Bautier , Gillette Labory (ed. And translator), Paris, CNRS éditions, 1969.
  • Georg Waitz (Ed.): Ademari Historiarum libri III. Chapter 39. MGH SS IV. 1841.
  • Jules Chavanon (Ed.): Adémar de Chabannes. Chronique III. 1897.
  • Neithard Bulst : Gauzlin. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume IV, column 1145.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Chronicon Aquitanicum et Francicum III, 39, p. 161 in the edition of Chavanon, p. 133 in the edition of Waitz
  2. ↑ "nobilissimi Francorum principis filius manzer"
  3. ↑ also Georg Waitz, Ademari Historiarum libri III, Chapter 39, MGH SS IV (1841), p. 133, footnote 13.
  4. ↑ "Les historiens ont fort mal jugé la nomination de Gauzlin à la tete de l'abbaye de Fleury, et cela sur la seule foi d'Adémar de Chabannes. Celui-ci a, en effet, indiqué, d'abord que Gauzlin, élevé dès l'enfance dans ce monastère, était un bâtard du "tres noble prince des Francs", et on en a fait un fils naturel soit de Hugues Capet, soit même de Robert le Pieux: en réalité, rien ne le prouve vraiment, sinon que des moines de l'abbaye l'ont qualifié de "bâtard" ( filius manzer ), injure facile, et qu'ils ont fait courir sur sa naissance des bruits aujourd'hui invérifiables ", Robert-Henri Bautier, La prize en charge du Berry par le roi Philippi Ier et les antécédents de cette politique de Hugues le Grand à Robert le Pieux, in: Media in Francia… (1989), p. 39, quoted in: Patrick Van Kerrebrouck, Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l ' August maison de France, Volume 2, Les Capétiens 98-1328 (2000), p. 55, footnote 59
predecessor Office successor
Dagbert Archbishop of Bourges
1013-1030 		Aymon de Bourbon
personal data
SURNAME Gauzlin of Fleury
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Fleury, Archbishop of Bourges
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1030
Place of death Châtillon-sur-Loire