Guy IV. De Senlis

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Guy IV. De Senlis († 1221 ) was a lord of Chantilly , Ermenonville , Luzarches , Montépilloy and Bray, and a grand cupbearer of France . He was a son of Guy III. de Senlis († around 1188) and Marguerite, mistress of Luzarches, a daughter of Count Rainald II of Clermont . Because the office of the royal grand cupid was de facto hereditary in the family, he appears in the chronicles mostly as "Bouteiller de Senlis".

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Guy first appears at his father's side in the royal charters in 1182. As a member of an advance squad of French crusaders, he reached the siege of Acre on the occasion of the third crusade in 1190 . In the camp he belonged to the faction that, after the death of Queen Sibylle , pushed for the annulment of the marriage between her sister Isabella and Humfried IV of Toron in order to be able to marry her off to Margrave Conrad of Montferrat . When Humfried of Toron protested against his forced divorce, Guy challenged him to a judicial duel, but Humfried refused and suffered a loss of reputation. On the morning of the wedding between the Marquis and Isabella, November 24, 1190, Guy and other knights, while drunk, intended to hold a tournament to celebrate the day in the open field in front of the encampment. Unprotected, however, they were immediately attacked by Saladin's troops , and Guy was taken prisoner.

As the author of the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi wrote, Guy was never seen again after his capture and was perhaps also killed by the Saracens. Apparently, however, he was in fact soon ransomed by King Philip II August, who arrived in the camp in front of Acre in 1191 . However, it was only mentioned again in the royal documents from 1203 onwards. In 1204 he testified and guaranteed the fealty of Countess Alix of Angoulême to the king. In 1214 he fought with his eldest son in the victorious battle of Bouvines , which brought him 100 livre and 400 marks in ransom. The last time Guy was mentioned in correspondence with his eldest son in the royal chancellery shortly before his death in 1221.

Guy IV. De Senlis was married to Elisabeth, a daughter of Enguerrand II. Aiguillon von Trie. Your children were:

  • Guy V. de Senlis († after 1223), Lord of Chantilly, Ermenonville, Montépilloy and Bray, grand cupbearer of France
  • Guillaume II. De Senlis († 1227)
  • Raoul de Senlis († 1250), lord of Luzarhes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no. 51, pp. 13-14.
  2. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 25, cap. XI, in: Recueil des Historiens des Croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, p. 153.
  3. ↑ Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi Lib. I, Cap. LXIII, ed. by William Stubbs: Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I , in: Rolls Series 38 (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 122-123.
  4. ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 2, p. 148.
  5. ↑ Ambroise , Estoire de la guerre sainte , ed. by Marianne Ailes: The history of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la guerre sainte (2004), vol. 2, p. 89.
  6. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no. 768–769, p. 176.
  7. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no. 811-812, p. 184.
  8. ↑ Wilhelm der Breton , Gesta Philippi Augusti , ed. by Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), pp. 105 and 107.
  9. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no. 2057, pp. 456–457.

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SURNAME Guy IV. De Senlis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Chantilly, Ermenonville, Luzarches, Montépilloy and Bray, grand cupbearer of France
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1221