Roger III de Tosny

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Roger III de Tosny († around 1160) was a Norman nobleman from the Tosny family . He was lord of Tosny , Conches-en-Ouche and Nogent-le-Roi and of Flamstead in Hertfordshire . He was the son of Raoul III. de Tosny and Adelheids of Northumbria.

Life

He succeeded his father 1126. At that time, ruled the English King Henry I the Normandy with an iron hand. Outwardly, however, he gave the barons, including the warlike Roger de Tosny, a free hand. In Chartrain (county of Chartres ), where his castle Nogent-le-Roi, formerly called Nogent-l'Érambert, was, he fought against Hugo von Châteauneuf in 1133.

In the last years of Henry I, his son-in-law, Count Gottfried V von Anjou , pushed for his successor in Normandy. In order to achieve success here before the king's death, he made arrangements with several Norman barons, including Roger de Tosny and Wilhelm III. Talvas von Ponthieu , whom the suspicious king encountered, among other things, by setting up a garrison in Roger's most important castle in Tosny. A little later, in December 1135, Heinrich died.

Gottfried von Anjou reactivated his connections in Normandy and seized the duchy, but met supporters of the nephew of the late king, Stephan von Blois , who had just been crowned in England - war broke out in Normandy. Roger de Tosny was now one of the Count of Anjou's most active supporters. He attacked his powerful neighbor Robert de Beaumont , Earl of Leicester and Baron von Breteuil-sur-Iton , a loyal follower of Stephen, whom he was able to imprison in the castle of Le Vaudreuil . His actions required the intervention of Count Galéran IV. De Meulan , deputy of the King in Normandy, and then later of Count Theobald II of Champagne , Stephen's brother. Galéran was able to capture Roger in 1136 near Louviers , but Roger was released within six months on the orders of Stephen, who hoped to gain a new ally. But when Stephan was back on the island, Roger revolted again in 1138, whereupon Galéran and Wilhelm von Ypres devastated the area around Conches. With the assistance of his brother-in-law, Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut , Roger responded by burning Breteuil, a fief of Robert of Leicester. Eventually Galéran, Robert and Roger made peace. It is possible that one of the clauses of the contract was the marriage between Roger's son, Raoul, and Marguerite, a daughter of Robert de Beaumont. Subsequently, Roger de Tosny traveled to England in 1138 to see King Stephen to be reconciled with him. After that he is no longer mentioned in the Chronicle of the Ordericus Vitalis.

Around 1150 Roger founded the small convent in Flamstead. In 1160, King Louis VII of France took possession of Nogent-le-Roi Castle during his war with King Henry II of England , but he gave it back. However, it is unclear whether Roger III. de Tosny was still alive at this point.

progeny

He had two sons with his wife, Ida von Hennegau, daughter of Count Baldwin IV von Hennegau:

  • Raoul († 1162), ∞ Marguerite de Beaumont
  • Baudouin de Tosny († 1170)

literature

  • Lucien Musset : Aux origines d'une classe dirigeante. Les Tosny, grands barons normands du Xe au XIIe siècle . Reprint from Francia Research on Western European History. Munich 1978, pp. 45-80.
  • Ordericus Vitalis : Histoire de la Normandie . Volume IV. Édition Guizot, 1826.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Power: The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries . Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 179.
  2. ↑ Ordericus Vitalis: Histoire de la Normandie , p. 458
  3. ↑ Ordericus Vitalis: Histoire de la Normandie , pp. 515-516
personal data
SURNAME Roger III de Tosny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roger III from Tosny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norman nobleman from the Tosny family, lord of Tosny, Conches-en-Ouche and Nogent-le-Roi as well as von Flamstead
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1160