Mathieu I. de Marly

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Mathieu I. de Marly (German: Matthias von Marly ; † 1203 before Constantinople ) was a French nobleman and crusader. He was a younger son of Mathieu I. de Montmorency († 1160), Connétable of France , and Alix, an illegitimate daughter of the English King Henry I Beauclerc . Since he came from the House of Montmorency , he was simply called Mathieu de Montmorency in the chronicles . The Montmorency-Marly line he founded existed until 1356.

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As a younger son, Mathieu inherited the castle of Attichy from his father , while the family castle of Montmorency went to his older brother Bouchard IV . After his second brother Thibaut became a monk in the Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val around 1177 , Mathieu also took over Marly's castle . With his brothers he took part in the third crusade in the entourage of King Philip II August . Then he fought for the king against Richard the Lionheart , but was captured by him in 1198 in the battle of Gisors .

In November 1199, Mathieu took the cross for the fourth crusade , after the Count of Champagne and several high knights had already done so after a sermon by Fulk von Neuilly at the tournament of Écry . After the conquest of Zara (1202) he was one of the proponents of a diversion of the crusade to Constantinople , as can be seen in a letter from Count Hugo IV of Saint-Pol . At the first siege of Constantinople (July 1203) Mathieu led one of the crusaders' attack lines. Shortly afterwards, he fell ill and died. He was buried in a nearby Hospitaller Church. Of Villehardouin , he was considered one of the best knights of the kingdom of France.

Mathieu I. de Marly was married to Mathilde de Garlande († 1224), a daughter of Guillaume IV. De Garlande. Your children were:

  • Bouchard I († 1226), Lord of Marly
  • Mathieu († 1249 on the Sixth Crusade ), Lord of Laye
  • Guillaume († around 1220), canon in Paris
  • Marguerite, ∞ with Vice Count Aimery III. of Narbonne († 1239)

See also the Montmorency tribe list

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amédée Renée: Madame de Montmorency: moeurs et caractères au XVII siècle (1858)
  2. ↑ Rigord , Gesta Philippi Augusti , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), p. 49
  3. ↑ Annales Colonienses maximi , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 17 (1861), p. 812
  4. ^ Jean Longnon, Les Compagnons de Villehardouin , 1978 p. 118, after Villehardouin §200
  5. ↑ Amédée Renée: Madame de Montmorency: moeurs et caractères au XVII siècle (1858)

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SURNAME Mathieu I. de Marly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathieu de Montmorency
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Marly and Attichy, crusaders
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1203
Place of death Constantinople