Guy de Lucy

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Guy de Lucy (13th century) was a French crusader of the Albigensian Crusade .

He came from the Orléanais and had belonged to the intimate circle of the crusade leader Simon de Montfort since 1209 . During the siege of Minerve in June / July 1210, he led a troop of Gascogner. In June 1211, Guy had received the place Puylaurens as a fief, which had previously been taken without a fight. Immediately afterwards he was entrusted with the command of 50 crusaders who were sent to the Iberian Peninsula to fight the Muslim Almohads to fulfill Montfort's military duty to his formal liege lord, King Peter II of Aragón . But when Montfort a few months later in Castelnaudary by Raimund VI. was besieged by Toulouse , he had hurriedly ordered Guy de Lucy and his knights back. Since this happened at the time of an Almohad offensive and the siege of Salvatierra Castle ( Ciudad Real Province ), which belonged to the Order of Calatrava , the departure of the Crusaders was viewed by the Aragonese king as treason. Apparently he tried to ambush them, but they escaped. In any case, their withdrawal had further strained the suspicious relationship between Peter II of Aragón and Simon de Montfort, which ended fatally in the battle of Muret in 1213 . Back in Languedoc , Guy de Lucy had fought against Count Raimund Roger von Foix near Saint-Martin-la-Lande . In the spring of 1212 he was awarded again Puylaurens that had meanwhile been taken by the Count of Toulouse. After that, Guy de Lucy is no longer reported.

Guy de Lucy probably carried the Madonna flag from Rocamadour with him on his way to Spain, whose miraculous power there is said to have helped the Christian armies to defeat the Almohads in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 . Simon de Montfort had visited the tomb of the holy hermit Zacchaeus of Rocamadour in June 1211.

literature

  • Michel Roquebert: The History of the Cathars, Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Languedoc. German translation by Ursula Blank-Sangmeister, Philipp Reclam jun. GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 2012. (French first edition, Histoire des Cathares. Hérésie, Croisade, Inquisition du XIe au XIVe siècle. Éditions Perrin, Paris 1999).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Roquebert, p. 140.
  2. ↑ Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay , Historia Albigensium , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 19 (1880), p. 31.
  3. ↑ Roquebert, p. 168.
  4. ↑ Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensium , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 19 (1880), p. 51.
  5. ↑ Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensium , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 19 (1880), p. 54.
  6. ↑ Roquebert, p. 180.
  7. ↑ Alberich von Trois-Fontaines , Chronica , ed. by P. Scheffer-Boichorst in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , SS 23, pp. 894–895.
  8. ↑ Roquebert, pp. 174-175. Wilhelm von Tudela , Chanson de la Croisade , ed. by Paul Mayer: La chanson de la croisade conte les Albigeois , vol. 1 (1875), laisse 84–85, p. 88.
personal data
SURNAME Guy de Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French crusader of the Albigensian Crusade
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 13th Century