Rudolf II (Vexin)

Rudolf II. († 943 ) was a Count of Vexin , Amiens and Valois from the first House of Valois in the 10th century.

He was a son of Count Rudolf I (Raoul de Gouy) and probably a daughter of King Charles III. the simple-minded . The chronicler Alberich von Trois-Fontaines called him the nepos of King Ludwig IV the overseas . In 943 he attacked Count Heribert II of Vermandois and was killed in battle.

Rudolf was married to a lady Liutgardis, who was her second marriage to Count Galeran I. von Meulan. His successor in office Walter I could have been his son or brother.

Rudolf's biography served as a historical model for the chanson de geste "Raoul de Cambrai", which originated in the 12th century .

literature

• Philip Grierson : L'origine des Comtes d'Amiens, Valois et Vexin , in: Le Moyen Âge / 4. Série , Vol. 49 (1939), pp. 81-123, ISSN  0027-2841 .
• Paul Meyer and Auguste Longnon : Raoul de Cambrai. Chanson de geste (Société des anciens textes; Vol. 17). Johnson Reprint, New York 1965 (facsimile of the Paris edition 1882).
• Paul Tuffrau: Raoul de Cambrai. Chanson de geste du XIIe siècle . Ségurier, Paris, 2000, ISBN 2-84049-168-0 .

swell

• Flodoard of Reims : Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz (Ed.): MGH / Scriptores , Vol. 3 (1839), p. 389.
• Alberich von Trois-Fontaines: Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium . In: Paul Scheffer-Boichorst (Ed.): MGH / Scriptores , Vol. 23 (1874), p. 763.

Web links

• The Counts of Ostrevant at fmg.ac (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Rudolf I.	Count of Vexin , Amiens and Valois 926-943	Walter I.