Walter I. (Brienne)

Walter I (French: Gautier Ier de Brienne ; † approx. 1090) was a Count of Brienne from the House of Brienne . His father was probably Count Engelbert III.

Walter I first appeared as Count of Brienne on December 28, 1035 when he, together with his mother Petronilla, granted the Priory of Requignicourt (now Saint-Léger-sous-Brienne ) the Abbey of Montier-en tax exemption from the Bishop of Troyes -Who obtained in honor of Saint Leodegar of Autun . On June 6, 1050, mother and son also achieved the exemption of the priory from the jurisdiction of the abbey. Apparently, these decisions had resulted in a conflict between the House of Brienne and the abbey, to the detriment of the abbey, in which the abbey was able to win the support of the powerful Count Theobald I of Champagne . In any case, at a church council held in Meaux in 1082 , he tried to obtain an excommunication from the papal legate, Bishop Hugo von Die , but the legate managed to settle the relevant issues between the abbey and Count Walter.

Walter was married to Eustachia von Tonnerre, heir to her brother Hugo Rainald von Tonnerre († 1084), Bishop of Langres . The marriage must have entered into around the period 1055, at least their eldest son Engelbert was old enough in 1072 to be able to act as a documentary witness. After the death of his brother-in-law, Walter took over the county of Bar-sur-Seine on behalf of his wife and was able to name himself accordingly in his last document dated between the years 1085 and 1089 (Walterio, comite brenensi et barrensi) .

Walter must have died by 1090 at the latest; his widow survived him until at least 1101. The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters, the oldest son being attested as a monk for the last time around 1080:

• Engelbert.
• Erhard I († ~ 1114/25), Count of Brienne.
• Milon II († approx. 1126), Count of Bar-sur-Seine.
• Mantia.
• NN; ∞ with Count Fulko IV of Anjou (marriage annulled).

literature

• Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, Catalog d'actes des comtes de Brienne 950-1356, in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, Vol. 33 (1872), pp. 141-186.
• Louis Le Clert, Saint-Léger-sous-Brienne (Aube), in: Revue de Champagne et de Brie, Vol. 11 (1881), pp. 124-139.

Remarks

1. ↑ See Charles Lalore, Collection des principaux cartulaires du diocèse de Troyes, Vol. 4 (1878), pp. 157f.
2. ↑ See ibid., P. 163ff. On this occasion, Petronilla is mentioned for the last time.
3. ↑ See ibid., P. 182ff.
4. ↑ See ibid., Pp. 173f.
5. ↑ See Émile Socard, Chartes inedites extraites des cartulaires de Moléme, in: Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts du département de l'Aube, Series 3, vol. 1 (1864), p. 228f.
6. ↑ See ibid., P. 227f. Two sisters (due sorores mee) are confirmed by Erhard I. See ibid., P. 239.
7. ↑ In old historical treatises and encyclopedias Engelbert von Brienne, who appears as a monk around 1080, is listed as the progenitor of the House of Conflans , who lived in 1138. For example, in Guillaume Marlot, Metropolis Remensis Historia, Vol. 2 (1679), p. 666; Louis Moréri, Le grande dictionnaire historique ou le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane, vol. 3 (1731), p. 292 and finally in Père Anselme , Histoire genealogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, 3rd edition, Vol. 6 (1730), p. 142. They all fail to provide evidence of this information by providing evidence.
8. ↑ See Émile Socard, Chartes inedites extraites des cartulaires de Moléme, in: Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts du département de l'Aube, Series 3, vol. 1 (1864), p. 261.
9. ↑ See Louis Halphen and René Poupardin, Genealogiæ comitum Andegavensium, in: Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise, (1913), p. 249.

Web link

• COMTES de BRIENNE at fmg.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Engelbert III.	Count of Brienne approx. 1035 – approx. 1090	Erard I.
Hugo Rainald of Tonnerre	Count of Bar-sur-Seine ( iure uxoris with Eustachia) 1084 – ca. 1090	Milon II