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 .

The restored tomb of Gobert d'Apremont in Villers Abbey.

He was married to Juliane, Dame von Chaumont-Porcien , daughter of Gottfried II von Rosoy , from around 1221 . Your children were:

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

↑ 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

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predecessor	Office	successor
Gottfried I.	Lord of Apremont 1222–1238	Gottfried II.

personal data
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