Raoul from Soissons

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Raoul von Soissons (also Ralph or Rudolf , * around 1210/15; † 1270 near Tunis ) was lord of Cœuvres in Picardy . He took part in three crusades and made a name for himself as a trouvère .

He was the second-born son of Count Raoul I of Soissons and his second wife Yolande.

In 1232 he received the rule of Coeuvre as a fief.

In 1239 he joined the barons' crusade . Count Theobald IV of Champagne , King of Navarre, valued and promoted Raoul in particular as a trouvère; militarily, neither Raoul nor Theobald made any particular appearance.

On the return trip he stopped in the Kingdom of Cyprus , where he married Alice von Champagne († 1246) in 1241 . Alice was the mother of the King of Cyprus, heir to the throne in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and a cousin of Count Theobald. With her he was entrusted with the reign of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (in Acre ) in 1243, after the overthrow of the imperial governors (Filangieri brothers) , since the coming of age King Conrad II of Jerusalem himself did not appear in the kingdom. A little later he separated from Alice and returned to France.

There he joined the Sixth Crusade under King Louis the Holy to Egypt in 1248 . The last time he is mentioned as a participant in the Seventh Crusade in 1270, on which he presumably died during the siege of Tunis .

He is considered to be the author of at least seven court novels and a few chansonniers . Between 1230 and 1260 there were also some works by a certain Thierri (Dietrich) von Soissons , although it is possible but disputed whether this is identical to Raoul.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 33, cap. L, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, p. 420
personal data
SURNAME Raoul from Soissons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ralph from Soissons; Rudolf von Soissons; Raoul of Coeuvres
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French trouvère and crusader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1210
DATE OF DEATH 1270
Place of death Tunis