Walo II of Chaumont-en-Vexin

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Walo II (also Gualo or Galon , * 1060 ; † May 20, 1098 before Antioch ) was Viscount of Chaumont-en-Vexin .

His father was Odo de Beaumont († after 1088), Viscount of Chaumont-en-Vexin, son of Count Ivo of Beaumont from the noble family Beaumont-sur-Oise .

Walo was constable of the French King Philip I of France around 1085 . When his father died after 1088, he followed him as Viscount of Chaumont.

In 1096 he set out on the First Crusade in the contingent of the brother of King Hugo of Vermandois . He is mentioned in the battles at Nicaea and at Dorylaum . Walo died on May 20, 1098 during the siege of Antioch .

He was married to Humberge von Le Puiset, sister of Erhard III. , Seigneur of Le Puiset and Viscount of Chartres , both come from one of the famous Île-de-France family Le Puiset . He had three children with Humberge:

  • Drogo de Chaumont († after 1099), Seigneur von Trie , participant in the First Crusade, from 1099 monk in St. Germer , founder of the von Trie family ;
  • Hugo, provost of St. Germer in 1115;
  • Humberge († before 1089).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm of Tire : Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. Book I, Chapter XVII.
  2. ^ Albert von Aachen : Historia Hierosolymitana. Book II, Chapter XXIII.
  3. ^ Albert von Aachen: Historia Hierosolymitana. Book II, Chapter XLII.
  4. ↑ Malcolm Barber, Keith Bate: Letters from the East. Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers 12th – 13th Centuries. Surey 2010, p. 28
  5. ↑ Carol Sweetenham: Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade. Hants 2005, p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Walo II of Chaumont-en-Vexin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walo of Chaumont-en-Vexin; Walo of Chaumont; Walo of Beaumont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Viscount of Chaumont-en-Vexin
DATE OF BIRTH 1060
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1098
Place of death Antioch