Matthias (Dammartin)

Matthäus von Trie ( French Mathieu de Trie ; * before 1209; † 1272 ), was a Sire of Trie (today Trie-Château and Trie-la-Ville ), Mouchy-le-Châtel and Plessis-Billebaut , and Count von Dammartin . He was the eldest son of Johann I von Trie († before 1237) and Alix von Dammartin († before 1237).

Life

From 1224, Matthew can be documented as castellan of Mouchy. After the death of his father he became lord of Trie and Mouchy (documented from 1241). In November 1251, Countess Johanna von Clermont gave him the forest of Hez for his manor house in Plessis-Billebaud.

In 1259, Matthäus inherited his cousin Mathilde as Count von Dammartin, and as such first registered it in October of that year. However, according to the tradition of the biographer Jean de Joinville , he had this inheritance to King Louis IX. must sue, which apparently intended the entry of the county of Dammartin into the royal domain . So Matthew had to refer to a document in which the king promised to hand over the county of Dammartin to the heirs of Countess Mathilde. The king, however, questioned the authenticity of the document, as the associated seal had already been broken and could no longer be identified by him. But then the royal secretary Jean Sarrasin examined the seal, compared it with one that the king still used before he set off for the sixth crusade in 1248 and came to the conclusion that it was an authentic seal and therefore a valid document because he recognized the feet still to be recognized on the seal and resting on a stool as those of the seal image of the king. The king had no choice but to recognize the right of inheritance of the House of Trie to the county of Dammartin and to enfeoff it with this. This event must have happened in 1259, since the Count von Dammartin, who appeared at the Parliament in Paris on September 15 of that year, must have already been Matthew von Trie.

Matthew was married to Marselie von Montmorency, a daughter of Mathieu III. de Montmorency , their children were:

Rainald († 1324), Lord of Plessis-Billebaut, Mouchy and Mareuil;
Philipp († 1272) ∞ Alix von Mareuil;
Johann I († 1302 in the Spore Battle ), Lord von Trie etc., Count von Dammartin;
Simon († around 1275), canon in Beauvais, deacon in Mortain;
Theobald († after 1302), Lord of Sérifontaine.

coat of arms

As Herr von Trie, Matthäus carried the ancestral family coat of arms, a gold shield with a blue ribbon (d'or à la bande d'azur). To underline his claim to the county of Dammartin, he also carried the coat of arms of his cousin from 1259 (fascé d'argent et d'azur de six pièces, à la bordure de gueules). Both coats of arms can be seen on his seal from a document from 1262, with that of Dammartin being shown in the counter seal.

Coat of arms up to 1259 ...
... and from 1259.

literature

Delisle, Léopold, Recherches sur les comtes de Dammartin au XIIIe siècle, in: Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, Vol. 31 (1869), pp. 225-231.

Remarks

↑ See Recherches historiques et critiques sur l'ancien Comté et les Comtes de Clermont en Beauvoisis du XIe auf XIIIe siècle, in: Mémoires de la Société académique d'archéologie, sciences et arts du département de l'Oise, vol. 10 ( 1847), No. CXIII, pp. 193f.
↑ See Pére Anselme, Histoire genealogique et chronologique de la maison de France, third edition, vol. 6 (1730), p. 663 .
↑ See Jean de Joinville, Histoire de Saint Louis, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 20, pp. 200f. Joinville, however, named a Renaut de Trie as a plaintiff before the king. In all likelihood, the aged Joinville was wrong in his name when he started writing in 1305, because Matthew's grandson, Rainald (Renaud) , was Count von Dammartin. Matthew himself had a younger brother named Rainald, who was not a Sire von Trie.
↑ Cf. Edgard Boutaric, Actes du parlement de Paris, Vol. 1 (1863), No. 368, p. 32.
↑ See Louis Douët d'Arcq, Collection de sceaux, Vol. 1 (1863), No. 688, p. 373.

Web links

Mathieu at fmg.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Mathilde	Count of Dammartin 1259-1272	Johann I.

personal data
SURNAME	Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Matthew of Trie; Matthew von Dammartin; Matthias von Trie; Matthias von Dammartin; Mathieu de Trie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lord von Trie, Mouchy and Plessis, Count von Dammartin
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	1272

[1] See Recherches historiques et critiques sur l'ancien Comté et les Comtes de Clermont en Beauvoisis du XIe auf XIIIe siècle, in: Mémoires de la Société académique d'archéologie, sciences et arts du département de l'Oise, vol. 10 ( 1847), No. CXIII, pp. 193f.

[2] See Pére Anselme, Histoire genealogique et chronologique de la maison de France, third edition, vol. 6 (1730), p. 663 .

[3] See Jean de Joinville, Histoire de Saint Louis, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 20, pp. 200f. Joinville, however, named a Renaut de Trie as a plaintiff before the king. In all likelihood, the aged Joinville was wrong in his name when he started writing in 1305, because Matthew's grandson, Rainald (Renaud) , was Count von Dammartin. Matthew himself had a younger brother named Rainald, who was not a Sire von Trie.

[4] Cf. Edgard Boutaric, Actes du parlement de Paris, Vol. 1 (1863), No. 368, p. 32.

[5] See Louis Douët d'Arcq, Collection de sceaux, Vol. 1 (1863), No. 688, p. 373.