Lisiard Le Riche

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Lisiard Le Riche († after 941 as a monk probably in the monastery of Saint-Benôit-sur-Loire ) was a French nobleman of the first half of the 10th century who was close to Hugo the Great .

He is at the head of the related genealogy of the Le Riche family and is therefore considered to be their progenitor. The only surviving document that contains his name is from November 941 and concerns a donation in favor of the famous monastery of Saint-Benôit-sur-Loire ( Odo von Cluny was abbot here at the time). Since Lisiard later retired to a monastery and died there as a monk, the donation and retreat can be seen in a temporal and factual context.

Sceaux-du-Gâtinais

With the document from November 941, Lisiard ( Elisiernus ) gave Le Riche the possession of Sceaux-du-Gâtinais with the associated churches, mansions and serfs of the 40 kilometers southwest of the Abbey of Saint-Benôit-sur-Loire shortly before his retreat into the monastery . This donation was limited by the lifelong usufruct that he granted his son Joseph, an acolyte (the last stage before ordination), his daughter Elisabeth, who was still unmarried at the time, and her eldest son, provided that he was born in a legitimate marriage.

This document is signed (in the order listed):

  • Elisierni : Lisiard as a giver
  • Ugonis comitis : Hugo the Great , Count of Paris etc., "Duke of the Franks" ( dux Francorum ) and regent of the West Franconia : the most senior present signs in front of the family members and the other vassals
  • Teudonis comitis : Count Thion (apparently the same who is called Vice Count in 925 and Count of Paris in 942, who, due to the position in this list, must be considered a close relative of Lisiards, probably the head of the family, i.e. Lisiard's father or - for chronological reasons more likely - his eldest brother)
  • Joseph acolyti : Joseph (the named son of the donor, who - due to his signature - was already an adult in 941 and is identified with the later Archbishop of Tours , who officiated from 946 to 957)
  • Bernardi comitis : Count Bernard (probably Bernhard, Count von Senlis )
  • Teutbaldi comitis : Count Thibaud (probably Theobald the deceiver I, Vice Count of Blois )
  • Fulconis comitis : Count Foulques (probably Fulko II., Count of Anjou )
  • Gauzfredi comitis : Count Geoffroy (probably not Gottfried I, Count von Gâtinais , who is only attested later)
  • Rodulfi : Raoul (perhaps Rudolf II, Count of Vexin , although the title of count is missing here)
  • Aymonis : Aimon (probably Haymon de Corbeil , the first count of Corbeil )
  • Frotmundi : Fromond (probably Vice Count von Sens )
  • Raynardi : Rainard (probably Rainald I , his son and first hereditary count of Sens in 949)
  • Arnardi, Girardi, Gauzberti, Rotberti, Hervei : five other vassals of Hugo

From this list it emerges that Lisiard belonged to the entourage of Hugo the Great and to the inner circle around the duke, although he did not have a count or vice count title.

In 998, Sceaux was under the joint administration of Renaud II , Chancellor King Hugo Capets (the son of Hugo the Great) and Bishop of Paris († 1017), and his father Bouchard le Vénérable , Count of Vendôme and Paris († 1007), so not (yet) owned by the monastery. Renaud's mother and Bouchard's wife was Elisabeth, the widow of Count Aimon von Corbeil (see above), who outlived her second husband for a short time. She is apparently the daughter of Lisiard Le Riches, who continued to have the usufruct of Sceaux.

family

The Lisiards family is as follows:

  1. NN
    1. ? Thion, 925 Vice Count of Paris, 942 Count of Paris
    2. Lisiard, attested in 941, Seigneur de Sceaux-du-Gâtinais, † as a monk in the monastery, probably in Saint-Benôit-sur-Loire
      1. Ansoud I. Le Riche, perhaps Vice-Count of Auxerre; ∞ after 956 Raingarde de Dijon, the surviving lover of Hugo the Great - descendants
      2. Joseph, Archbishop of Tours 946–957
      3. Elisabeth , Dame de Sceaux et de Larchant; ∞ (1) Aimon , Count of Corbeil , † around 957 ( House of Melun ); ∞ (2) around 960 Bouchard le Vénérable , Count of Vendôme and Paris, † 1007 ( Burchardinger ) - descendants from both marriages

literature

  • Gustave Estournet, Origines des Seigneurs de Nemours , in: Annales de la Société historique et archéologique du Gâtinais , Volume 30, 1912, pp. 53-57
  • Jean Mabillon , Annales Ord. S. Benedicti , III, p. 711, No. LV;
  • Maurice Prou , Alexandre Vidier, Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire , I (1900), p. 121

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mabillon; Prou, Vidier
  2. ↑ Prou, Vidier
  3. ↑ Alodo quod Seda dicitur in Guastinesum pago
  4. ↑ Since Joseph became a clergyman, the existence of an older brother as the heir of the father, known from sources other than Ansoud I. Le Riche, can be assumed to be certain (see below)
  5. ↑ Quia vero juxta Apostolum cura proximorum negligenda non est, volo, ut easdem res filius meus Joseph, necnon & filia mea Elisabeth, & primogenitus ejusdem filiæ, si de legitimo conjugio fuerit, ad usumfructuarium teneant: post eorum discessum ipsæritate res cum omni prædictum cœnobium transferantur; & ita in usibus fratrum cedant, ut nulli abbatum liceat inde beneficium laïcis dare.
  6. ↑ Her eldest son (from his first marriage), Thibaud, also lived; he was Abbot of Cormery and a few years later became Abbot of Saint-Maur
personal data
SURNAME Lisiard Le Riche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and lord of Sceaux-du-Gâtinais
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH 10th century
Place of death Saint-Benôit-sur-Loire monastery