Gilbert de Brionne

Gilbert de Brionne († around 1040) from the Rolloniden family was Count of Eu and perhaps also Count of Brionne . He was the son of Geoffroy de Brionne († probably 1015) and grandson of Duke Richard I of Normandy .

biography

Gilbert followed his uncle in County Eu at an unknown date. Following the historian Pierre Bauduin , Duke Robert I appointed him Count at the beginning of the 1030s, which would explain why he was leading a campaign in Vimeu against his neighbor Enguerrand I of Ponthieu at the same time . The historian Robert von Torigni places the transfer of the county of Eu to the time shortly before Gilbert's death in 1040.

In addition, Gilbert may have been Count von Brionne. This is attested by Ordericus Vitalis , but the history of this county remains largely in the dark. What is certain is that from 1032 onwards he called himself Graf, without historians being able to assign him a county. As an opponent of the Giroie family, he fought with them for control of the Pays d'Ouche ; after the death of Giroie the Elder, he tried to take away the heir from Montreuil-l'Argillé .

After the murder of Duke Alain III. of Brittany (October 1, 1040) he was his successor as guardian of the young Duke Wilhelm II , but himself murdered in the same year by Robert, the son of Giroies the Elder, at the instigation of his cousin Raoul de Gacé .

progeny

Gilbert de Brionne had at least two sons:

Richard de Bienfaite (called in England: Richard Fitz Gilbert), Seigneur de Bienfaite et d' Orbec , later Lord of Clare and Tonbridge ; he is the founder of the powerful Anglo-Norman family Clare
Baudouin de Meules (called Baldwin Fitz Gilbert in England), Seigneur de Meules et du Sap .

Footnotes

^ Robert de Torigni: Interpolations à Guillaume de Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum , IV, 18, édition E. Van Houts, t. I, p.130
↑ Marie Fauroux, Recueil des actes of ducs de Normandie (911-1066) , Caen, 1961 n ° 64, 66, 67, 70, 80, 85
^ Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècles), 2004, p.295.
↑ Ordericus Vitalis, Marjorie Chibnall (ed.), The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis , Oxford University Press, 1969–1980, volume, II, p.25.
^ François Neveux , La Normandie des ducs aux rois , Ouest-France, 1998, p. 107.
^ Wilhelm von Jumièges , Gesta Normannorum ducum , Ed. Guizot, 1826, livre VII, chapitre II.

personal data
SURNAME	Gilbert de Brionne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Eu and perhaps also of Brionne
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1040

[1] Robert de Torigni: Interpolations à Guillaume de Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum , IV, 18, édition E. Van Houts, t. I, p.130

[2] Marie Fauroux, Recueil des actes of ducs de Normandie (911-1066) , Caen, 1961 n ° 64, 66, 67, 70, 80, 85

[3] Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècles), 2004, p.295.

[4] Ordericus Vitalis, Marjorie Chibnall (ed.), The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis , Oxford University Press, 1969–1980, volume, II, p.25.

[5] François Neveux , La Normandie des ducs aux rois , Ouest-France, 1998, p. 107.

[6] Wilhelm von Jumièges , Gesta Normannorum ducum , Ed. Guizot, 1826, livre VII, chapitre II.