Joan of Clermont

Johanna von Clermont († 1252 ) was a member of the French royal dynasty of the Capetians as the paternal granddaughter of King Philip II August . She was the only child of Prince Philipp Hurepel († 1234) and Countess Mathilde von Dammartin († 1259).

Johanna's year of birth is unknown. She is mentioned for the first time after her father's death in a document from her mother dated May 1236. In December of the same year she was betrothed to Walter von Châtillon , heir to the counties of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre. The wedding took place in 1236. Johanna herself was on her father's side heiress of County Clermont and part of County Mortain, and on her mother's side she was the candidate for Counties of Boulogne and Dammartin . Although she was nominally the Countess of Clermont since the death of her father in 1234, Johanna never held the Countess title, probably because her mother and her second husband Alfons of Portugal carried out the actual official business throughout her life . In her own documents she always called herself “daughter of Philip” or “heiress of Clermont”. In 1248 her husband was in the retinue of King Louis IX. drawn on the Sixth Crusade , on which he fell against the Mamluks in Egypt in April 1250 . There were no children from the marriage.

In November 1251 Johanna gave her cousin Matthäus von Trie the forest of Hez to equip his manor house in Plessis-Billebaud with a lucrative estate. On December 28, 1251, in La Neuville-en-Hez , her last act was a donation to a religious institution in Beauvais . Perhaps she was already ill at this point, which is why this gift can be understood in favor of her future salvation. In any case, she died shortly afterwards, probably in the first days of January 1252. Since she had left no heirs, her possessions have returned to the royal domain as settled fiefs.

literature

• Recherches historiques et critiques sur l'ancien Comté et les Comtes de Clermont en Beauvoisis du XIe auf XIIIe siècle, in: Mémoires de la Société académique d'archéologie, sciences et arts du département de l'Oise, vol. 10 (1847), Pp. 11-213.
• Delisle, Léopold, Recherches sur les comtes de Dammartin au XIIIe siècle, in: Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, Vol. 31 (1869), pp. 219-222.
• Teulet, Alexandre, Layettes du Trésor des Chartes, Volume 2. Paris, 1866.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Teulet, Vol. 2, No. 2449, pp. 317f.
2. ↑ See Teulet, Vol. 2, No. 2473, pp. 330f.
3. ↑ See Extraits de la chronique attribuée a Baudoin d'Avesnes, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 21 (1855), p. 162.
4. ↑ See Recherches historiques…, No. CXIII, pp. 193f.
5. ↑ See Recherches historiques ..., No. CXV, p. 195.

predecessor	Office	successor
Philipp Hurepel	Countess of Clermont Countess of Mortain 1234–1252	royal domain