Varasque

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Varasque (also Varais , German: Warasch ) was a Pagus in what is now the French Département Doubs in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region southeast of Besançon . The term has been preserved in the place names Pierrefontaine-les-Varans and Scey-en-Varais .

The name of the region already appeared at the time of the Kingdom of Burgundy , and - unlike in the later neighboring Duchy of Burgundy - was used until the time of feudalism . In the course of the partitions of the Carolingian Empire , the area (now as Gaugrafschaft ) only came to Lotharingia ( Treaty of Verdun 843). When it was divided again after the death of Lothar II († 869) ( Treaty of Meersen 870), the Pagus fell to Ludwig the German as a border region , while the neighboring Besançon went to Charles the Bald . The independence of the Kingdom of Burgundy (888) then brought the two areas together again.

In the first half of the 10th century, Alberich (Aubry) I , Count of Mâcon , and his two sons Letald (Liétaud) II and Humbert began to expand their power in the region. They seized the counties of Amerous (Amous), Portois, Varasque and Scodinque (Escouens, around Salins-les-Bains ), Humbert became the first known lord of Salins and its wealthy saltworks . Humbert descendants ruled Salins until the end of the 12th century, Letald's possession fell to his grandson Otto Wilhelm († 1026) from the House of Burgundy-Ivrea , who then appeared as the first Count of Burgundy . With the Kingdom of Burgundy, Varasque came to the Empire in 1033 as part of the county of Burgundy .

Known as Lords of Varasque:

  • Aubry I, † 943, Vice Count of Narbonne and Vice Count of Mâcon, who called himself Count of Mâcon from 932 , was also Lord of Scodingue and Varasque when he died in 945.
  • Liétaud II., † 966, Count of Mâcon etc.
  • Count Stephan I of Mâcon († 1102) also appears as Lord of Varasque.

See also: Narisker (Varisker)

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Warasch is also the former name of two villages in Eastern Europe: see Warasch (Ukraine) and Apátvarasd or Bonyhádvarasd in Hungary