Gobert VI. from Apremont
Gobert VI. the lucky one (French: Gobert le Bienheureux ; * around 1187; † August 20, 1263 in Villers-la-Ville ) was a lord of Apremont-la-Forêt from the Apremont house . He was a son of Gottfried I of Apremont († 1222) and Isabella, a daughter of Wilhelm I of Dampierre .
He was married to Juliane, Dame von Chaumont-Porcien , daughter of Gottfried II von Rosoy , from around 1221 . Your children were:
- Gottfried II. († 1250), Lord of Apremont, Count of Saarbrücken
- Gobert VII († 1278/80), Lord of Apremont
- Johann, canon in Verdun , Prévôt of Montfaucon
- Guido von Rubigny († 1270 on the Seventh Crusade before Tunis )
- Alix; ∞ with Gautier III. de Ligne
- ? Daughter; ∞ with Simon von Leiningen, Count von Dagsburg
Gobert VI. took part in the Albigensian Crusade and accompanied Emperor Friedrich II on his crusade (1228–1229, fifth crusade) to the holy land . In 1238 he retired as a Cistercian monk to the Abbey of Villers in Brabant , where he lived a long life as a hermit. Since then he has been venerated as a saint.
The municipality of Saint-Gobert in the Aisne department in Picardy is named after him.
literature
- Thibaud de Maisières, Maury Dieudonné, Joseph Jules Marie: La tombe de Gobert d'Aspremont au cloître de Villers , in: Miscellanea Leo van Puyvelde (1949), pp. 285-290
- Jean-Baptiste Lefèvre: Gobert, seigneur d'Aspremont et moine de Villers (v. 1187-1263) , in: Villers, Revue trimestrielle de l'abbaye Vol. 8 (1998), pp. 5-13
Note and individual proof
- ↑ An older name variant of Apremont is "Aspremont" from the Latin asper mons . Alternatively, he is therefore often called Gobert d'Aspremont.
- ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 32, cap. XXIII, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, p. 364
Web links
- Seigneurs d'Aspremont at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac (English)
- Les Premiers Seigneurs d'Apremont
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Gottfried I. | Lord of Apremont 1222–1238 |
Gottfried II. |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gobert VI. from Apremont |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gobert VI d'Apremont; Gobert d'Aspremont; Gobert le Bienheureux |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lord of Apremont-la-Forêt, crusader, Cistercian monk and hermit |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1187 |
DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1263 |
Place of death | Villers-la-Ville |