Herluin (Montreuil)

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Herluin († July 13, 945 ) was a count of Montreuil and Amiens in the 10th century, as the successor to his father Helgaud, who had fallen in 926 .

Herluin was besieged in 929 by Count Heribert II of Vermandois and the dux Hugo Magnus in Montreuil , but was able to successfully assert himself against them. In 939 Herluin was driven out of Montreuil by Count Arnulf I of Flanders and the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelstan . He fled to the Normans of Wilhelm Long Sword , with whose help he was able to quickly recapture Montreuil. With a 942 einberaumten peace talks on a Somme Island in Picquigny , William Longsword was murdered at the behest of 942 Arnulf of Flanders.

Against the sovereignty claims of the Robertin Hugo Magnus on the whole of Ponthieu , Herluin leaned closely on the Carolingian King Ludwig IV , from whom he also received the castle of Amiens around 943 . In the same year, Arnulf von Flanders again attacked Montreuil, which was successfully defended by Herluin's son. Shortly afterwards, through the mediation of the king, he was reconciled with the Count of Flanders. In the following years Herluin remained loyal to the king and fought with him several times against the Normans. However, he was killed on July 13, 945 in the fight against the Danish king Harald Blue Tooth, while King Ludwig IV fell into captivity by the Normans. His brother, Lambert, also fell shortly afterwards against the Normans in an attempt to avenge him.

The Norman poet Wace ( Roman de Rou ) described an alternative course of events to Herluin's death in the 12th century. Accordingly, he had also been taken prisoner by the Normans and brought fearlessly before their leader Richard . This accused him of his hostility to the Normans, although he owed the recovery of Montreuil Castle solely to the help of Wilhelm's long sword. As a result, Richard's father was murdered without fear, whereupon the latter now demanded divine justice. Herluin was then beheaded by a Danish warrior.

Herluin had a son, Roger , who succeeded him as Count in Montreuil.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flodoard von Reims , Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), p. 378
  2. ↑ Flodoard von Reims, Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), pp. 385–386
  3. ^ Hugo von Fleury , Liber qui modernorum regum Francorum continet actus , ed. by Georg Waitz in MGH SS 9 (1851), p. 383

literature

  • Glyn Sheridan Burgess, Elisabeth MC Van Houts: The History of the Norman people: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004), pp. 63-64

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personal data
SURNAME Herluin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Montreuil and Amiens
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 945