Philip of Cognac

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Philipp von Cognac (French: Philippe de Cognac , English: Philip of Cognac ; * probably around 1180, † after 1201) was an illegitimate son of the English King Richard the Lionheart and a mother whose name was unknown. Its existence is only documented in two contemporary documents and one compiled in the second half of the 13th century.

The Anglo-Norman chronicler Roger von Hoveden reports for the late year 1199 that Philip killed the Vice Count Adémar V of Limoges in retaliation for the death of his father a few weeks earlier. Richard the Lionheart was fatally wounded during the fight against the vice count in the siege of his castle Châlus in April 1199. The truthfulness of the revenge murder can no longer be verified. Hoveden was not an eyewitness to the events of 1199 and was not present in France. The murder is not confirmed by any other report, rather it is countered by a lament ( Plac e sospir ) by the troubadour Giraud de Bornelh , which only speaks of an unexpected death, but not of an unnatural death of the vice count.

Philipp is mentioned again in a certificate issued in 1201 by his uncle, King Johann Ohneland , who confirmed that he received a silver mark as a gift. "Et Philippo f. R. Ricardi 1 m. de dono R. "

Philipp von Hoveden is already mentioned in possession of Castle Cognac , which he received from his father. In a later register of Count Alfons of Poitiers (1220-1270) he is confirmed as the former lord of the castle, according to which Philip came into possession of the castle through a marriage arranged by his father with the heiress of the family previously resident in Cognac.

reception

Hoveden's account of Philip's alleged murder of revenge against the Vice Count of Limoges was taken up several centuries later by William Shakespeare . In his King Johann , the royal bastard Philipp Faulconbridge avenges the death of his father Richard the Lionheart by killing his murderer Limoges, Duke of Austria .

In the British television film Gwyn - Princess of Thieves (OT: Princess of Thieves , 2001), with Keira Knightley in the title role, the role of Philip is portrayed by Stephen Moyer .

literature

  • François Arbellot: La vérité sur la mort de Richard Cœur de Lion , in: BSHAL , t. 26 (1878)
  • Jacqueline Trace: Shakespeare's Bastard Faulconbridge: An Early Tudor Hero , in: Shakespeare Studies , 13 (1980), pp. 59-69
  • John Gillingham: The Unromantic Death of Richard I , in: Richard Cœur de Lion, Kingship, Chivalry and War in the Twelfth Century (London 1994)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronica magistri Rogeri de Houedene , edited by William Stubbs, Volume 4, London 1871, p. 97
  2. ↑ Giraud de Bornelh “Plac e sospir” with English translation ( memento of the original from June 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / colecizj.easyvserver.com
  3. ^ Pipe Roll John 3 (Pipe Roll Society 52, ns 14) (1936), p. 283
  4. ↑ The gift of money is also viewed in the context of a possible trade in which he sold the Cognac Castle to his uncle Johann Ohneland in 1201. See Chris Given-Wilson and Alice Curteis: The Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984), pp. 126-7
  5. ^ Registre des comptes d'Alphonse Comte de Poitiers, 1243–47 , in: Archives Historiques du Poitou 4 (1875), p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Philip of Cognac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philippe de Cognac; Philip of Cognac; Philipp Faulconbridge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION illegitimate son of the English King Richard the Lionheart, Lord of Cognac
DATE OF BIRTH around 1180
DATE OF DEATH after 1201