Peter (Geneva)

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Peter († 1392 ) was Count of Geneva from 1370 to 1392, and through his marriage Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville from 1374 to 1392. He is a son of Amadeus III. , Count of Geneva, and Mathilde of Auvergne.

Life

origin

Peter is a younger son of Count Amadeus III. of Geneva and Mathilde of Auvergne, who is also called Mahaut de Boulogne, daughter of Robert VII , Count of Auvergne and Boulogne (1314-1325), and Maria von Dampierre, his second wife. He had four brothers: Aymon III. († 1367), Amadeus IV. († 1368), Jean († 1370), Robert († 1394), who were successively at the head of the county.

As a loyal vassal of the Counts of Savoy , he helped them in their struggle against Milan.

Count

Peter became Count of Geneva in 1370 through the death of his brother Johann. In 1374 he married Margarete von Joinville (* 1354; † 1418), Countess of Vaudémont, widow of Johann von Châlon († 1373). They didn't have any children.

In Vaudémont he appears on two documents, 1374 and 1375. He paid homage to the Count of Bar on April 26, 1376.

Four years later, his brother Robert, named Clement VII, was elected Pope in Avignon . He was in conflict with Urban VI. in Rome, which gave rise to the Western Schism . Robert spent the rest of his life in Avignon struggling to secure his power.

In 1382 Peter von Geneva is one of the military leaders who Amadeus VI. , Count of Savoy sent to Italy to help Louis I of Anjou to conquer the Kingdom of Naples . He later fought on the side of Amadeus VII of Savoy . From 1389 he tried both through negotiations and in war and together with Odo von Thoire and Villars the private war that Raimond de Turenne led against his brother and against Marie zu Blois to end.

He wrote his will on March 24, 1392. He died a short time later.

Count Peter of Geneva had appointed his nephew Humbert de Villars , his sister's son, as heir. His younger brother Robert, the antipope Clement VII, refused to recognize the successor. He himself took on the title of Count of Geneva, but on December 19, 1393 also made Humbert his successor. Robert / Clemens VII died the following year.

literature

  • Réjane Brondy, Bernard Demotz, Jean-Pierre Leguay, Histoire de Savoie - La Savoie de l'an mil à la Réforme, XIe-début XVIe siècle , Ouest France Université, 1984, 626 pp. ( ISBN 2-85882-536-X ).
  • Matthieu de la Corbière, L'invention et la défense des frontières dans le diocèse de Genève: Étude des principautés et de l'habitat fortifié (XIIe - XIVe siècle) , Annecy, Académie salésienne, 2002, 646 pp. ( ISBN 978-2 -90110-218-2 ).
  • Pierre Duparc, Le comté de Genève, (IXe-XVe siècles) , Volume 39, Geneva, Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève, Coll.Mémoires et documents (reprint 1978) (1st new edition 1955), 621 pp.
  • Michel Germain, Personnages illustres des Savoie , Autre Vue, 2007, 619 pp. ( ISBN 978-2-9156-8815-3 ).
  • Paul Guichonnet, de Genève , in: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse online, version of February 11, 2010.
  • Michel François, Histoire des comtes et du comté de Vaudémont des origines à 1473 , Nancy, Imprimeries A. Humblot et Cie, 1935, 459 pp.

Remarks

  1. ^ Jean-Daniel Blavignac, Armorial Genevois. Livre cinquième. Armoiries des comtes de Genevois et de Savoie , Mémoires et Documents, Volume 7, Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève, 1849, pp. 17–170, p. 98, footnote 5
  2. a b Personnages illustres des Savoie 2007, p: 270.
  3. ^ Daniel Martin (ed.) L'identité de l'Auvergne: mythe ou réalité historique: essai sur une histoire de l'Auvergne des origines à nos jours , Éditions Créer, 2002, p. 251
  4. Duparc 1978, p. 302
  5. a b c d e f Christian Regat, Pourquoi le roi des Pays-Bas porte les armes des comtes de Genèves? , Les Rendez-vous de l'Académie salésienne, Académie salésienne, Volume 28, 2016, p. 19 ( online )
  6. Joseph-Antoine Besson, Mémoires pour l'Histoire ecclésiastique des diocèses de Genève, Tarentaise, Aoste et Maurienne et du décanat de Savoie , Sébastien Hénault imprimeur, Nancy 1759, p. 117.
  7. a b Duparc 1978, p. 331