County of Beauvais

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The Carolingian county of Beauvais with the capital Beauvais existed essentially only in the 9th and 10th centuries and largely comprised the arrondissements of Beauvais and Clermont in what is now the Oise department .

The area was surrounded in the north by the counties of Amiens and Vermandois , in the east by the area of ​​the Bishop of Noyon and the county of Soissons , in the south by the crown domain ( Senlis and Compiègne ) and the Vexin . The count's rights were relatively low and were limited to the castles of the county, while the Bishop of Beauvais had direct control over the city of Beauvais and its surroundings .

The best-known Count of Beauvais was Bernhard (* probably 880 , † after November 10, 949 ), who received the county in 936 . He is considered a Carolingian and is part of the family of the Counts of Vermandois , although the exact relationship is not known.

At the beginning of the 11th century the county was owned by Count Odo II of Blois , but at the same time a Hugo von Beauvais is named with him. It is unclear whether Odo and Hugo simultaneously exercised the count's rights in the Beauvaisis or whether Odo succeeded the latter in this office. What is certain, however, is that Hugo was a close partisan of the Blois family at the court of King Robert II , where he exercised the court office of a seneschal or count palatine and there attracted the hostility of Queen Constance , who was close to the Anjou family . Hugo was murdered in 1008 during a hunting party in front of the king of Count Fulko Nerra of Anjou .

In 1015 Odo II of Blois gave his rights to the bishop, who was his biological brother, in exchange for the county of Sancerre . The bishop in turn appointed a new count a little later as his vassal, who took his seat in Clermont , thus establishing the county of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis .

Even before 1216 the bishops of Beauvais were counted among the old pairs of France because of this possession .

Counts of Beauvais

• Bernhard (of Vermandois), † after 949
• Odo I , † 995, Count of Blois etc., grandson of Count Heribert II of Vermandois
• Theobald II, † 1004, Count of Blois etc., son of Odos
• Odo II. , † 1037, Count of Blois etc., brother of Theobald II.
• Theobald I , † 1089, Count of Blois etc., lost Beauvais after 1037