Mathilde of Angoulême

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Mathilde von Angoulême († after 1233) was the heir to Count Vulgrin III. by Angoulême († 1181) from the House of Taillefer .

When her father died, Richard the Lionheart , Duke of Aquitaine, declared himself her guardian, but her uncles Wilhelm VII (before 1186) and Aymar (1202) denied their inheritance. In the course of a settlement, Lionheart recognized Aymar in possession of Angoulême in 1188.

In the conflict over the marriage of her cousin Isabella von Angoulême , Aymar's daughter, to Johann Ohneland in 1200, Mathilde gained importance again. Hugo IX, who was previously engaged to Isabella . von Lusignan († 1219) took her in response to the "bride robbery" shortly thereafter in order to be able to lay claim to Angoulême. It did not come to fruition, however, as Hugo recognized the possession of Angoulême in 1214 in favor of Isabella and Johann. After the death of Johann Ohneland, Isabella married Mathilde's stepson Hugo IX in 1220. of Lusignan, with which the county of Angoulême came to the House of Lusignan after all . In 1233 Mathilde and Isabella came to a settlement, in which Mathilde gave up her inheritance claims. After that, nothing more is reported about them.

literature

  • Dieter Berg : Richard the Lionheart. WBG, Darmstadt 2007.
  • Sidney Painter: The Houses of Lusignan and Chatellerault 1150-1250 , in: Speculum 30 (1955) 374-384

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex Chronico Gaufredi Vosiensis §72, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1867), p. 448
  2. ↑ See Dieter Berg: Richard Löwenherz . Darmstadt 2007, p. 117
  3. ↑ Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati , ed. by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1837), pp. 197-198
  4. ↑ Cartulaire des comtes de la Marche , ed. by G. Thomas (1934), pp. 40-43. See also Painter: p. 379.
personal data
SURNAME Mathilde of Angoulême
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Heiress to Angoulême from the Taillefer family
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1233