Mathilde I (Bourbon)

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Mathilde I of Bourbon ( French Mahaut de Bourbon or Mathilde de Bourbon ; * 1165/69; † June 18, 1228 ) was mistress of Bourbon from 1171 .

Life

Mathilde was the only child of Archambault (VIII.) Of Bourbon and his wife Alix (also Adelheid) of Burgundy in the second half of the 1160s.

Before 1183 she married Gaucher IV. (Also Gauthier) de Vienne , Lord of Salins . From this connection a common daughter emerged:

  • Marguerite de Vienne (* 1190/95; † around 1259)
⚭ 1) Guillaume III. de Forcalquier
⚭ 2) Joceran, Seigneur de Brancion

Her father, heir of Bourbon, died in 1169, so that Mathilde succeeded her grandfather Archambault VII in the reign of Bourbon in 1171 .

After her husband's return from the Third Crusade , there were always frequent quarrels between the spouses, which ultimately resulted in Gaucher's violence against his wife. He even had her temporarily thrown in jail. Mathilde took refuge from her husband's attacks on her grandmother's property in Champagne . They should themselves also various acts of violence perpetrated, for which it receives Archbishop of Bourges , Henri de Sully , excommunicated was. From Champagne, she asked for a divorce from her husband in Rome . The reason she gave was a blood relationship that was too close to Gaucher IV, so that her marriage did not even come about legally. Pope Celestine III thereupon commissioned the bishops of Autun and Troyes as well as the abbot of the monastery of Montiers-en-Argonne with an investigation of the information collected by Mathilde. The churchmen came to the conclusion that the couple with their great-great-grandfather Wilhelm II , Free Count of Burgundy , were too closely related, so that Mathilde was divorced from her first husband in 1195. Their excommunication was also lifted by the Pope.

Only a few months after their divorce, Mathilde entered into a second marriage in September 1196: She married Guy II. De Dampierre , with which the Bourbonnais passed to the Dampierre family. The twenty-year marriage resulted in seven children:

⚭ 1) Guigone de Forez
⚭ 2) Béatrice de Montluçon
⚭ 1) around 1210 Hervé de Vierzon
⚭ 2) 1221 Henri I de Sully
  • Jeanne
  • Marguerite

Mathilde I of Bourbon died two years after her husband in June 1228. After her death, her daughter from her first marriage raised claims to the Bourbon rule. Her stepfather Guy II. De Dampierre had initially recognized Marguerite's rights, but then appointed his son Archambault as heir. Marguerite was ultimately unable to enforce her claims to seigneurism.

literature

  • Theodore Evergates: The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300 . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2007, ISBN 978-0-8122-4019-1 , pp. 117, 217, 343 ( excerpts online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on Mathilde von Bourbon on the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy website , accessed March 5, 2012.
  2. ^ House of Bourbon . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume 2. dtv , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 , Sp. 501.
  3. ↑ a b T. Ever Gates: The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300 , p 117th
  4. ↑ T. Ever Gates: The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300 , p 217th
  5. ^ Volkert Pfaff: The church marriage law at the end of the twelfth century . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Canonical department . Volume 63.Böhlau, Weimar 1977, p. 99.
  6. ↑ Luc d'Achéry: Spicilegium sive Collectio veterum aliquot scriptorium qui in Galliae bibliothecis delituerant . Volume 3, new edition. Paris 1723, pp. 557-558 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Etienne Pattou: Première Maison de Bourbon (Bourbon ancien) . 2006, p. 3 ( PDF ; 435 kB).
  8. ↑ Information on Guy II. De Dampierre on the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy website , accessed March 5, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Mathilde I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahaut de Bourbon, Mathilde de Bourbon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of bourbon
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1228