Hugo III (St. Pol)

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Coat of arms of Hugos III.

Hugo III Candavène , French: Hugues III Campdavaine , (* before 1132, † after 1145) was a Count of Saint-Pol from the House of Candavene . He was a younger son of Count Hugo II of Saint-Pol .

Life

Like his father, Hugo had a warlike character, a later chronicle called him "Mauors Gaullois" in the sense of black (i.e. evil) or lowly barbarian. In 1132 he raided the town of Saint-Riquier , which belonged to the Count of Ponthieu , and killed its inhabitants. He did the same with the abbey near the city. For this he was excommunicated by Pope Innocent II . By founding the Cercamp Abbey in 1137, which he had occupied by monks from Auxerre , he was able to free himself from the ban. In 1140 he allied himself with Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut against Count Dietrich of Flanders , to whom they were however inferior. Hugo was buried in Cercamp after his death.

He was married twice. He had three sons with his first wife Beatrix:

  • Enguerrand († 1170 or later), Count of Saint-Pol
  • Hugo († around 1158), Master of the Order of Lazarus
  • Anselm († 1175 or later), Count of Saint-Pol

His second wife was Margaret of Clermont, daughter of Count Rainald II of Clermont . Your children were:

nickname

In a letter addressed to the Bishop of Amiens from the year 1112 by Bishop Lambert of Arras , Count Hugo III. First called by Saint-Pol with the nickname Campdavene , which means something like "oat field" ( French: Champ d'Avoine , picard .: Camp d'avaine , Latin: Campus Avenae or Candavena ). Why the bishop called him that is unclear, but the nickname was obviously well known and was also used by Hugo himself, for example in the founding deed of the Cercamp Abbey from 1137. It can only be assumed that it had a similar background like the gorse branch of the Plantagenets a little later , in which Hugo revealed himself to his surroundings using an oat stalk as a crest. His sons used sheaves in their coats of arms, which is still reflected today in that of the commune of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise .

The first Count's House of Saint-Pol is now called House Candavene after this epithet.

literature

  • Ernest Warlop: Campus Avenae: het wapen van de graven van Saint-Pol. In: Carlos Wyffels et al. (Ed.): Gedenkboek Michiel Mispelon. Familia et Patria, Kortemark-Handzame 1982, pp. 587-599.
  • Jean-François Nieus: Un pouvoir comtal entre Flandre et France. Saint-Pol, 1000-1300. De Boeck, Brussels 2005, ISBN 2-8041-4772-X ( Bibliothèque du Moyen Âge 23), ( Also : Louvain-la-Neuve, Univ., Diss., 2001: Le comté de Saint-Pol des origines à la fin du XIIIe siècle. ).

Remarks

  1. ^ Chronographical history of the counties and lands of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise by Ferry de Locre, parish priest of Saint-Nicolas in Arras (early 17th century)
  2. ↑ Documenta Catholica Omnia: Lambertus Atrebatensis Episcopus - Epistolae Lamberti et aliorum ad ipsum , p. 691, Epistola CXXII

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predecessor Office successor
Hugo II Count of Saint-Pol
1119–1145 		Enguerrand
personal data
SURNAME Hugo III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hugues Candavène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Saint-Pol
DATE OF BIRTH before 1132
DATE OF DEATH after 1145