Rainald (Roucy)

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Rainald , or Ragenold , (French: Renaud de Roucy ; † May 10, 967 ) was the first Count of Roucy in the 10th century.

Norman origin

The person of Count Rainald von Roucy was probably identical or related to the leader of a Norman army named Ragenold ( Ragenoldus, princeps Nortmannorum ), who plundered the Loire Valley in 923 and 925 and invaded Burgundy across the Oise , but one there Suffered defeat. He was besieged by King Rudolf in his winter camp near Arras in 926 , but wounded him during a successful night raid and put his army to flight.

The identity of the count with the Norman leader is widely accepted in the more recent specialist literature, although due to the large time gap of twenty years, a separation of the two people is also considered, according to which the Norman Ragenold would have been the father of Count Rainald.

Earl of Roucy

Rainald is first mentioned in 944, when he and his brother Dodo were presented with Montigny-Lengrain (today in the Aisne department ) by King Ludwig IV . In the same year he attacked the Abbey of Saint-Médard de Soissons . In 947 he was first mentioned with the title "Graf" ( Ragenoldus comes ). In 948 Rainald began building Roucy Castle , shortly afterwards he attests to a document from Cluny Abbey as "Count of Reims" ( Rainaldus, Remensis comitis ). The Count's office of Reims was transferred from the king to the archbishop in 940, from whose hand Rainald in turn received this county as a fief, making him vassal of the archbishop.

Rainald died on May 10, 967 and was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims .

Familiar

Rainald was in all likelihood married to Alberada, daughter of Duke Giselbert of Lorraine and stepdaughter of King Louis IV of the Overseas. The marriage is not documented, but is deduced from the naming of their children and grandchildren. In addition, Alberada's tomb was located in Saint-Remi Abbey, right next to Rainald's. Your children were:

see also House Roucy

literature

  • M. Melleville: Les Comtes de Roucy , in: Bulletin de la Société académique de Laon 8 (1859)
  • H. Moranvillé: Origine de la Maison de Roucy , in: Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 83 (1922)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flodoard , Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), pp. 372–376
  2. ↑ Flodoard, Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), p. 391
  3. ↑ Flodoard, Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), p. 394
  4. ↑ On the construction of Roucy Castle ( Rauciacus ) see Flodoard, Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), p. 397. For the certificate from Cluny see Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Cluny , vol. 1; ed. by A. Bernard and A. Bruel (1876-1903), p. 687, no. 730

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predecessor Office successor
--- Earl of Roucy
947-967 		Giselbert
Archbishop Hugo of Reims Count of Reims
948–967 		Heribert the old man
personal data
SURNAME Rainald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ragenold; Renaud de Roucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Earl of Roucy
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 967