Raoul I. (Soissons)
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Raoul I the Good (French: Raoul le Bon ; † 1236 ) was Count of Soissons from the House of Nesle . He was the youngest of three sons of Sire Raoul II of Nesle , Burgrave of Bruges , and his wife Gersende of Montaigu. Although he never owned his family's ancestral castle himself, he is often Raoul III. called by Nesle .
Life
He inherited the county of Soissons from his eldest brother, Count Conon von Soissons , who died in 1180. The castle of Nesle and the burgraviate of Bruges went to the second oldest brother, John I († 1197/1200). In 1184 Raoul also took over the castle of Noyon .
Raoul took part in the entourage of King Philip II of France in the Third Crusade , where he distinguished himself at the siege of Acre . After his return to his homeland, he became a close friend of the royal court and supported the king in the fight against the Plantagenets . In 1214 he fought in the victorious battle of Bouvines . Beyond the borders of France, Raoul earned the reputation of a Prud'homme , a knight who was perfect in his appearance and actions. Pope Honorius III. described it in a letter from 1216 as the light of a candle ( comme une lampe posée sur candelabre ).
In 1216, Raoul accompanied Prince Ludwig the Lion on his invasion of England. In 1218 he took part as a crusader of the Albigensian crusade in the siege of Toulouse , where the leader of the crusade, Simon IV. De Montfort , was killed. After the death of King Louis VIII in 1226, Raoul and his son supported the regent Blanka of Castile against the revolting barons around Peter Mauclerc .
After his death he was buried in Longpont Abbey . He himself had the abbey church in 1227 in the presence of the young King Louis IX. (Saint Louis) inaugurated.
Marriage and offspring
His first wife was Adèle von Dreux († around 1210), a daughter of Count Robert I von Dreux . Your children were:
- Gertrude († 1220/22), 1st ∞ with Count Johann von Beaumont-sur-Oise († 1222) ( House Beaumont-sur-Oise ); 2. ∞ with Mathieu II. De Montmorency († 1230), Connétable of France ( tribe list of Montmorency )
- Alienor († 1229/34), 1st ∞ with Count Mathieu III. of Beaumont-sur-Oise († 1208) ( Beaumont-sur-Oise house ); 2. ∞ Stephan von Sancerre († 1252), lord of Châtillon-sur-Loing , grand cupbearer of France
Raoul's second wife was an unknown Yolande, with whom he had two sons:
His third wife was Ada von Avesnes († after 1249), a daughter of Jacob von Avesnes . He had no children with her.
literature
- Maur-François Dantine , Charles Clémencet , Saint-Allais (Nicolas Viton) , Ursin Durand , François Clément - " L'art de verifier les dates des faits historiques, des chartes, des chroniques et autres anciens ... " (1770)
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- ↑ On the year of death see Alberich von Trois-Fontaines , Chronica , ed. by Paul Scheffer-Boichorst in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 23 (1874), p. 940.
- ↑ On the taking of the cross on January 13, 1188 see Rigord , Gesta Philippi Augusti , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), p. 25.
- ↑ Anonymous de Béthune: Chronique des rois
- ↑ La Chanson de la Croisade contre les Albigeois , tome second, ed. by Paul Meyer (1879), §CCIII, p. 405 and §CCVII, p. 426
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Conon |
Count of Soissons 1180–1236 |
Johann II. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raoul I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raoul the Good; Raoul III. by Nesle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Soissons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1236 |