Montbard (noble family)

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The House of Montbard was a family of the feudal nobility in the high medieval duchy of Burgundy in France . His ancestral castle, which gives it its name, is located in today's municipality of Montbard (Latin: Mons Barrus ) in the Côte-d'Or department . The family existed from the 11th to the 13th centuries.

Seal of André de Montbard (1103–1156), Master of the Templar Order

The family gained importance in the 12th century through two of their relatives. André de Montbard was one of the founding members of the Templar Order and its fifth grand master. Through him, the Montbard family stood at the beginning of the broad networking of this order in the political and social structure of French Burgundy. His nephew Bernhard von Clairvaux was the first important representative of the Cistercian Brotherhood and founder of the Clairvaux monastery . He was largely responsible for the spread of his order far beyond the borders of Burgundy. He as well as his mother Aleth de Montbard and his siblings were canonized in the 12th century .

The first known gentleman on Montbard was Bernard I, who was first documented in 1065. André I was married to Helvis of Montréal, heiress of the Époisses castle . Their son Bernard III. Finally, the Montbard Castle passed to Duke Hugo III. from Burgundy , so that only that of Époisses remained in the family. When this happened is unclear, but on July 24th 1189 Montbard is first mentioned in the possession of the ducal family. André III, called "d'Épiosses", took part in the Damiette crusade in 1219 and was temporarily captured by the Saracens . He was the last male descendant of his family. About his heir daughter Helvis and her husband Dreux VI. de Mello came Époisses into the possession of the noble family Mello .

Tribe list

  • Bernard I. († ~ 1101/04), Lord of Montbard; ∞ with Humberge
    • Renaud († approx. 1128), Lord of Montbard; ∞ with aanolde
      • Bernard II († 1140), Lord of Montbard
        • André I. († ~ 1166/70), Lord of Montbard; ∞ with Helvis, mistress of Époisses, daughter of Anséric I of Montréal ( House Chacenay )
          • André II († approx. 1189), Lord of Montbard; ∞ with Mabile d'Arcy-sur-Cure
          • Bernard III († approx. 1212), lord of Montbard and Époisses; ∞ with Aremburge de Villehardouin, niece of the chronicler Gottfried von Villehardouin
            • André III. († approx. 1233), lord of Époisses; ∞ with Huguette
              • Helvis, mistress of Époisses; ∞ approx. 1224 with Dreux VI. de Mello († 1252)
            • Anséric
            • Helvis († 1245), ∞ with Hugues de Lormes († after 1235)
            • Guy, Deacon of Langres
            • Jean, lord of Chevigny
            • Bernard, lord of Vie
          • Aenor de Montbard; ∞ with Bouchard de Seignelay
          • Jean de Montbard, Cistercian monk in Fontenay
      • Melisende "Comtesse" de Montbard; ∞ with Renier de la Roche
      • Étienne de Montbard, Archdeacon of Langres
    • Milon de Montbard
    • Aleth de Montbard ; ∞ with Tescelin the Red († around 1130), lord of Fontaines-les-Dijon
    • NN (daughter)
    • André de Montbard († 1156), Grand Master of the Templar Order

literature

  • Ernest Petit, Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la race capétienne, avec des documents inédits et des pièces justificatives, Volume 4. Dijon 1891. Appendice I: Les seigneurs de Montbard et d'Epoisses. Pp. 455-476.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Petit, No. 2931, p. 462.
  2. ^ S. Bernardi, abbatis primi Claræ-Vallensis, opera omnia IV, ed. by Jacques Paul Migne in: Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina. Vol. 185, No. CXVIII, Col. 1471.
  3. ↑ Petro Roverius, Reomavs sev Historia monasterii Sancti Johannis Reomænsis in tractu lingonensi. Paris 1637, p. 221 f.
  4. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur, in: Recueil des Historiens des Croisades. Historiens Occidentaux , Vol. 2 (1859), p. 341.
  5. ^ S. Bernardi, abbatis primi Claræ-Vallensis, opera omnia IV, ed. by Jacques Paul Migne in: Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina. Vol. 185, Col. 537.

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