Rudolf II (Vermandois)

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Rudolf II. ( French Raoul II. "Le Jeune" or "le Lépreux"), called the younger or the leper (* probably 1145 or 1147; † 1167 or in January 1164) from the house of France-Vermandois was Count of Vermandois and Valois from 1160. He was the younger son of Count Rudolf I the Brave and Petronilla of Aquitaine, who was a sister of Eleanor of Aquitaine .

Life

When his half-brother Hugo II resigned from all offices and titles in 1160 and went to the monastery (he was canonized as Felix von Valois in the 17th century ), Rudolf II was his successor. At this time he married Margaret of Flanders (* probably 1145; † November 15, 1194), a daughter of Dietrich of Alsace , who had been Count of Flanders since 1128 .

In 1163 he was attacked by leprosy . At that time he was still childless, the marriage was also dissolved, so that with him, when he died four years later, the male line of the family was effectively extinguished (apart from his brother Hugo / Felix, who stayed in the monastery and continued until 1212 lived).

His successor was his sister Elisabeth, called "Mabile", who was married to Margarete's brother Philip of Flanders , and who took office in Vermandois (in the name of his wife) and the following year in Flanders (in his own name).

Raoul II was buried in Longpont .

literature

  • Louis Duval-Arnould: Les dernières années du comte lépreux Raoul de Vermandois (v. 1147–1167…) et la dévolution de ses provinces à Philippe d'Alsace. In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. Volume 142, No. 1, pp. 81-92. doi: 10.3406 / bec.1984.450329 , ISSN  0373-6237 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Louis Duval-Arnould: Les dernières années du comte lépreux Raoul de Vermandois (v. 1147–1167…) et la dévolution de ses provinces à Philippe d'Alsace. P. 82.
  2. ^ Louis Duval-Arnould: Les dernières années du comte lépreux Raoul de Vermandois (v. 1147–1167…) et la dévolution de ses provinces à Philippe d'Alsace. P. 83.
  3. ^ Louis Duval-Arnould: Les dernières années du comte lépreux Raoul de Vermandois (v. 1147–1167…) et la dévolution de ses provinces à Philippe d'Alsace. P. 89.
predecessor Office successor
Hugo II Count of Valois and Vermandois
1160–1167 		Philip of Flanders
(de iure uxoris)
personal data
SURNAME Rudolf II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolf the Younger; Rudolf the Leper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Vermandois and Valois
DATE OF BIRTH around 1145
DATE OF DEATH on June 17, 1167