Raoul d'Ivry

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Raoul d'Ivry , also Raoul, Count of Ivry (* before 996, † after 1015) was a half-brother of Richard I , Duke of Normandy .

Raoul d'Ivry as guardian

Duke Richard I died in 996 and left with Richard II a minor successor. As half-brother of the deceased, Raoul d'Ivry secured the succession to the throne. François Neveux suspects that it was he who exercised power in the duchy when Richard II was a minor. What is certain is that he did so at least at the side of the widow Gunnora .

The chronicler Wilhelm von Jumièges reports that he was engaged in subjugating the two revolts that broke out immediately after the death of the old duke, on the one hand by the peasants and on the other hand by the aristocrats. He cracked down on the rural population and had the leaders' feet and hands amputated. A campaign against the nobility led to the arrest of the most important rebel, William I , Count of Exmes .

The Count of Ivry

The first counts appeared in the center of the duchy around the year 1000. Raoul is the first to be documented (1011). He probably had his title for a long time, since Robert von Torigni dates the appointment to the time of Duke Richard I, i.e. before the year 996. The county belonging to him is controversial among historians. Pierre Bauduin notes on the basis of David Bates that territorial assignments of counties did not appear until the 1040s. Contemporary documents and Dudo von Saint-Quentin simply call him Count Raoul and never Raoul d'Ivry or even Count von Ivry. This is reserved for later historians: Ordericus Vitalis calls him the Count of Bayeux . Historians are convinced that the monk was mistaken; they prefer to follow another of the later historians, Robert von Torigni, who calls him Count von Ivry.

His appointment was of strategic importance: Ivry was on the Normandy border at the important crossing of an old Roman road over the Eure . For several decades the region had been the scene of clashes between the Duke of Normandy and the Count of Blois and Chartres , who had gained a foothold in Dreux . By installing a family member in Ivry, Richard I strengthened his authority in the southeast of Évrecin . This ducal strategy also explains the other ducal concessions to Raoul in the county of Hiémois and in the Lieuvin ( Forêt du Vièvre ).

Family and offspring

Raoul d'Ivry was the son of Asperleng and Sprota, who married Count William I of Rouen from the Rollonids family for the second time . This made him the half-brother of Duke Richard I.

In his first marriage he married Eremberga, † before 1011, in the second Aubrée de Canville. His children were:

See also

literature

  • Wilhelm von Jumièges: Histoire des ducs de Normandie. éd. Guizot, 1826, with interpolations by Robert von Torigni and Ordericus Vitalis, pp. 111–114
  • Pierre Bauduin: La première Normandie (Xe – XIe siècles). Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004.
  • François Neveux: La Normandie des ducs aux rois. Ouest-France, Rennes, 1998

Footnotes

  1. ^ François Neveux: La Normandie des ducs aux rois. Ouest-France, Rennes, 1998, p. 65
  2. ^ Wilhelm von Jumièges: Histoire des ducs de Normandie. éd. Guizot, 1826, with interpolations by Robert von Torigni and Ordericus Vitalis , pp. 111–114
  3. ^ David Bates: Normandy before 1066, p. 114
  4. ^ Pierre Bauduin: La première Normandie (Xe – XIe siècles). Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004, p. 200
personal data
SURNAME Raoul d'Ivry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Half brother of Richard I.
DATE OF BIRTH before 996
DATE OF DEATH after 1015