Lagery (noble family)

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The gatehouse and tower of Lagery.

The Lagery family was a family of the lower feudal nobility of the high medieval Champagne region in France , which existed from the 11th to the 13th centuries. The family owned the manor of Lagery ( Marne department ) and their only offspring of historical importance was Odo von Lagery, who as Pope Urban II ruled over Catholic Christianity from 1088 to 1099 and was one of the most important players in the reform papacy .

history

In the presence of Abbot Hugo , Pope Urban II consecrates the main altar of Cluny Abbey on October 25, 1095. Representation from the Miscellanea secundum usum ordinis Cluniacensis, 12./13. Century.

For centuries, historiography had access to the family background of Pope Urban II with the chronicle of Alberich von Trois-Fontaines alone , in which four sentences about the family of this Pope and his career before his appointment are noted. According to this, Urban II was born under the name Odo (French: Eudes ) in the "castle over the Marne" as the son of Lord von Lagery (natus de Castellione super Maternam, filius domni de Lageri) . A list of the genealogical succession of the Lords of Lagery, descended from a brother of the Pope up to the end of the 12th century, is attached. Alberich himself obtained his information from the long-lost historical works of Hugos von Saint-Victor and Guidos von Bazoches († 1203), whose family also had connections to Châtillon.

Châtillion-sur-Marne was the ancestral seat of one of the most prominent feudal families in northern France, whose name is particularly associated with the crusade movement of the high Middle Ages, which was initiated by Pope Urban II at the Synod of Clermont in 1095. His birth at the ancestral home of this family suggested to the historians of later generations that the Pope himself must have been a member of this family and that the Lords of Lagery therefore represented a side branch of the House of Châtillon . Among other things, this assumption led André Duchesne to construct a detailed family tree of the early Châtillon in the 17th century , in which "Eudes de Châtillon, ... fin Pape dit Vrbain II" as the son of "Miles Seigneur de Chastillon & de Basoches" had a clearly assigned place occupies. Duchesne could not base this construction with primary sources and consequently it soon collapsed with the rediscovery of old written sources. Only a century after him, Thierri Ruinart's inspection of the necrology of Molesme Abbey brought the facts to light . In it, June 5th is noted as the anniversary in memory of the parents of Pope Urban II: Item nonas junii Heucherius, Isabellis uxor ejus, pater et mater domni papae Urbani quorum anniversarium debemus facere solemniter annuatim ...

Eucherius was therefore Lord von Lagery, to whom three sons were born from his marriage to Isabella, one of whom was to rise to the rank of Pope. Whether he himself was a member of the Châtillion family cannot be determined with any certainty. Of course, he could only have been a servant of this house, to which the Lagery estate, about 10 km north of Châtillon-sur-Marne, was assigned as a fief. The Lehnsabhängigkeit Lagerys to the lords of Châtillon is documented until the 13th century. Eucherius and Isabella donated the land of Binson to the Abbey of Coincy ( Coincy , Département Aisne ) before 1077 for the establishment of the priory of Saint-Pierre de Binson, which is located no less than one kilometer south of Châtillon-sur-Marne. Pope Urban II transferred this monastery cell, founded thanks to his parents (qui nos ex parentum jure contingit) , at the Council of Tours on March 20, 1096 to the monastery association of Cluny .

Some documents from Igny Abbey and scrolls from the Chancellery of the Counts of Champagne provide information about the later generations of the von Lagery family . For example, Gerhard II von Lagery donated the Bailleul estate ( Arcis-le-Ponsart , Département Marne) to the Igny Abbey in consensus with his children . This donation was confirmed in 1159 by his liege, Guido II of Châtillon. The von Lagery family built a tower and gatehouse as their seat from the 12th century, but it was extinct in the early 13th century.

Tribe list

  1. Eucherius, Herr von Lagery; ∞ Isabella
    1. Rudolf, Herr von Lagery
      1. Gerhard I., Herr von Lagery
        1. Gerhard II, Lord von Lagery
          1. Odo, Herr von Lagery; ∞ Aelis
            1. Adam, Ritter, Herr von Lagery († around 1211); ∞ Goodbye
              1. Walter, knight, Herr von Lagery
              2. Rudolf von Lagery
              3. Wilhelm von Lagery; ∞?
                1. Wilhelm von Lagery, écuyer 1231; ∞ Anceline from Aguisy
              4. Isabella von Lagery; ∞ Enguerrand
            2. Gilles von Lagery, monk in Reims
            3. Sent by Lagery; ∞?
              1. Baldwin, monk in Igny
          2. Gerhard von Lagery
          3. Helvis von Lagery
          4. Gilles von Lagery; ∞ Aveline
            1. Adelice von Lagery, clergyman in Reims
    2. Odo von Lagery († July 28, 1099), monk in Cluny, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia , 1088 Pope Urban II.
    3. Joibert von Lagery

literature

  • Edouard de Barthélemy, De l'origine du pape Saint Urbain II, in: Revue de Champagne et de Brie, Vol. 12 (1882), pp. 446-449.
  • Edouard de Barthélemy, La famille d'Urbain II, in: Revue de Champagne et de Brie, Vol. 24 (1888), pp. 401-403.

Remarks

  1. ↑ René Crozet, Le voyage d'Urbain II en France (1095-1096) et son importance du point de vue archéologique, in: Annales du Midi, Vol. 49 (1937), pp. 42-69.
  2. ↑ Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium, ed. In: MGH , SS 23, p. 801.
  3. ↑ Andre Duchesne, Histoire Genealogique de la maison de Chatillon sur Marne. Paris 1621.
  4. ↑ Mabillon, Thierri Ruinart, Ouvrages Posthumes, Vol. 3 (1724), p.2.
  5. ↑ RHGF 14, p. 720 f.