Liétald II (Mâcon)

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The landscapes ( pagi ) of medieval Burgundy west (duchy) and east (county) of the Saône.

Liétald II. , Or Liétaud called, († between 958 and 961) was a count of Mâcon and Burgundy in the 10th century. He was a son of Count Aubry I of Mâcon († probably 943), his younger brother was Humbert I of Salins .

Liétald is first mentioned in 935 with his first wife Ermengarde, a daughter of Manasses, Count of Dijon , in a deed of donation to the Abbey of Cluny . Although still during his father's lifetime, he is already mentioned with the title of Count ( Leotaldus, Dei gratia comes ).

After the death of Duke Hugo the Black of Burgundy in 952, Liétald took over his territories, which were east of the Saône ( Amous , Portois , Escuens , Varais ) with the main town Besançon in Burgundy . Contemporary chroniclers like Flodoard therefore dubbed him Count of Burgundy ( Burgundiae comes ). He called himself so in a document from King Lothar dated October 20, 955. The county of Burgundy (Franche-Comté) emerged from these Burgundian landscapes which he had put together .

Liétald died between the years 958 and 961. In the first year he was mentioned for the last time in a document from King Lothar, in the last year his son appears alone in a document.

After his first wife, Ermengarde, he was married to two other women, Bertha and Richilde. His heir-son Aubry II came out of the first marriage.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The maternal great-grandfather of Count Liétald II was the Vice Count Liétald I of Mâcon.
  2. ^ A. Bernard and A. Bruel: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Cluny. Volume 1 (1876-1903), p. 420, no. 432
  3. ↑ Flodoard: Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS. Volume 3, 1839, p. 400
  4. ^ A. Bernard and A. Bruel: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Cluny. Volume 2 (1876-1903), p. 76, no. 980
  5. ^ A. Bernard and A. Bruel: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Cluny. Volume 2 (1876-1903), pp. 137-138, No. 1044 and p. 180, No. 1087

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predecessor Office successor
Aubry I. Count of Mâcon
943–958 / 961 		Aubry II.
Duchy of Burgundy Count of Burgundy
952–958 / 961 		Aubry II.
personal data
SURNAME Liétald II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liétald II of Mâcon; Liétaud from Mâcon; Leotaldus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Mâcon and Burgundy
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH between 958 and 961