Mathieu IV. De Montmorency

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Mathieu IV. (German: Matthäus ; † 1305 ) was a lord of Montmorency from the house of Montmorency . He was a son of Mathieu III. de Montmorency and the Jeanne de Brienne.

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In 1282 he moved in the entourage of Count Robert II of Artois to southern Italy to assist Charles of Anjou in the fight against the Aragonese ( Sicilian Vespers ). In the fight against Edward I of England in 1295 he and Jean II. D'Harcourt devastated the English port city of Dover .

His first wife Marie was a daughter of Count Robert IV von Dreux . His second wife Jeanne was a daughter of Guy III. de Lévis , lord of Mirepoix . The sons Mathieu V. († around 1310) and Jean I († 1325) came from the second marriage.

The tomb of Mathieu IV. De Montmorency is in the Saint-Maclou church in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine . It is equipped with a reclining figure.

See also the Montmorency tribe list

Individual evidence

  1. Guillaume de Nangis , Gesta Philippi Regis Franciæ , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 20 (1840), pp. 522-523
  2. Guillaume de Nangis, Chronicon , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 20 (1840), p. 577
  3. Chronicon Girardi de Fracheto et anonyma ejusdem operis continuation , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 21 (1840), p. 13

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