Gottfried II of Rancon

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Gottfried II. († 1194 ) was a lord of Rancon and Taillebourg . He was a son of Gottfried I von Rancon and the Fossifia.

Like the majority of the Aquitaine feudal nobility, Gottfried was an opponent of plantation rule (see Angevin Empire ). In 1173 he joined the younger Heinrich's revolt against his father, King Heinrich II . He then fought against Duke Richard the Lionheart , who, however , conquered Taillebourg on May 3, 1179 and shortly afterwards Pons , thus forcing Gottfried to submit. In 1188 he reunited with Count Aymar von Angoulême and Gottfried von Lusignan , again unsuccessfully. He then took part in the third crusade and stood in Sicily together with Hugo V of Châteaudun as a hostage to the French king for Richard the Lionheart, as a pledge for his promise to marry a sister of Philip II August. In June 1191 he joined other knights for the siege of Acre . Back home, he used Richard the Lionheart's captivity in Germany for a renewed rebellion and in 1193 took the feudal oath against King Philip II . The conditions for this feudal acceptance were confirmed by the king the following year. Gottfried died shortly afterwards.

His son was Gottfried III. by Rancon .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 1, p. 47
  2. ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 1, p. 213
  3. ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 2, p. 34
  4. ↑ Rigord , Gesta Philippi Augusti , ed. in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), p. 32
  5. ↑ Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi Lib. III, Cap. VI, ed. by William Stubbs: Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I , in: Rolls Series 38 (1864), Vol. 1, p. 218
  6. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no.413, p. 99

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SURNAME Gottfried II of Rancon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geoffroy II de Rancon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Rancon and Taillebourg, crusaders
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1194