Gottfried I. (Gâtinais)

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Gottfried I (French: Geoffroy ; † after 991) was the first known Count of Gâtinais in the 10th century.

Count Gottfried is mentioned in a document from King Louis V , issued on June 9, 979. Between the years 985 and 987 he attested a deed of donation from Tédouin to the Abbey of Saint-Père of Chartres . He was also mentioned in documents of the kings Hugo Capet and Robert II from the years 990 and 991.

Gottfried was married to Beatrix, a daughter of Count Aubry II of Mâcon from the House of Mâcon , their son was Count Aubry of Gâtinais . After his death Beatrix married a Hugo von Le Perche ( Hugonis Pertice ).

origin

A letter from Abbot Abbo of Saint-Benoît-de-Fleury to Pope Gregory V from the year 997 suggests whether the family origin of Count Gottfried I von Gâtinais. In the letter, the abbot of the Pope asks the declaration of excommunication against a Qauz, nepos Wal comitis de castro Nantonis ... probably because of his activities against the abbey. The two named personal names are commonly identified as Q [u] auzfridus (Gottfried) and Walterius (Gautier).

Ferdinand Lot suspects that Wal [terius] is identical to Count Gautier I of Valois and that Gottfried I of Gâtinais was consequently his nephew. Christian Settipani, on the other hand, sees Count Gautier II of Valois in Wal [terius] as the older brother of Count Gottfried I, who after his death took over the reign in Gâtinais for the presumably still underage Aubry. Q [u] auzfridus, however, was an older son of Gottfried I who revolted against his uncle Wal [terius]. Edouard de Saint-Phalle also identifies Q [u] auzfridus with Count Gottfried I of Joigny ( House of Joigny ).

Edouard de Saint-Phalle also put forward the thesis that Count Aubry II of Mâcon was identical to one of the aforementioned Vice Counts Aubry of Orléans. By marrying his daughter, Gottfried I would have acquired the territories from which the Gâtinais emerged. However, this thesis is not supported by any contemporary evidence.

literature

  • Christian Settipani : Les comtes d'Anjou et leur alliances aux Xe et XIe siècles , ed. by KSB Keats-Rohan, in: Family Trees and the Roots of Politics (1997), pp. 211-267
  • Christian Settipani: Les vicomtes de Châteaudun et leur alliés , ed. by Keats-Rohan & Settipani in: Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval (2000), pp. 247-261.
  • Edouard de Saint-Phalle: Les comtes de Gâtinais aux Xe et XIe siècles , ed. by Keats-Rohan & Settipani in: Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval (2000), p. 233

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gausfridi comitis Wastinensis , M. Guérard: Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres , Vol. 1 (1840), p. 90, No. 6
  2. ^ Louis Halphen & Ferdinand Lot: Recueil des actes de Lothaire et de Louis V rois de France (1908), No. 69
  3. ↑ see Guérard (1840), p. 90, no. 6
  4. ↑ Martin Bouquet: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) 10 (1995), pp. 558 and 573
  5. ↑ J. Devaux: Étude chronologique sur les comtes de Gâtinais , in: Annales de la Société Historique & Archéologique du Gâtinais 3 (1885), pp. 81-82
  6. ↑ The letter was edited by Edouard de Saint-Phalle (2000), see literature.

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predecessor Office successor
--- Count of Gâtinais
before 979 – after 991 		Aubry
(or Wal [terius])
personal data
SURNAME Gottfried I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geoffroy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Gâtinais
DATE OF BIRTH before 979
DATE OF DEATH after 991