Walter III. from Châtillon

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Walter III. of Châtillon (French Gaucher ; † October 1219 ) was a lord of Châtillon , Troissy , Crécy , Montjay , Broigny and Pierrefonds , and by marriage Count of Saint-Pol .

He was a son of Guido II of Châtillon and the Adèle of Dreux, a daughter of Count Robert I of Dreux .

Life

Together with his older brother, Guido III. von Châtillon , Walter accompanied King Philip II of France on the Third Crusade , where his brother died in the siege of Acre in 1191. After his return he supported the king in the fight against the Plantagenets in Normandy . In 1192 he inherited the castle of Pierrefonds from a distant relative, but a year later he exchanged it with the king for Clichy . Walter married Elisabeth in 1196 († around 1240), the heir to Count Hugo IV of St. Pol . After he died in 1205, the couple inherited the county of Saint-Pol.

Walter promoted the establishment of a Trinitarian monastery near Cerfroi by St. Felix of Valois . From Count Theobald III. he became a Grand Chamberlain of Champagne and of Duke Odo III. appointed Seneschal of Burgundy . During the War of Succession in Champagne , he supported the party of Countess Blanka and her son.

In 1209 Gaucher took part in the Albigensian Crusade and fought in the sieges of Béziers and Carcassonne . In 1214 he fought for the King of France in the victorious battle of Bouvines . In 1219 he again took the cross with Prince Ludwig the Lion to the Albigensian Crusade and took part in the Marmande massacre . Shortly afterwards he died.

progeny

He had several children from his marriage, including:

  • Guido I († 1226), Count of St. Pol, Lord of Montjay and Broigny
  • Hugo I († 1248), Lord of Châtillon, Troissy and Crécy, 1226 Count of Saint-Pol ( Hugo V ) and 1231 Count of Blois ( Hugo I )
  • Eustachia ⚭ 1) 1215 Daniel, Lord of Béthune ⚭ 2) Robrecht II of Wavrin , Marshal of the County of Flanders
  • Elisabeth ⚭ Raoul von Coucy († 1250), son of Raoul I. de Coucy
  • Beatrix ⚭ Aubert von Hangest, Herr von Senlis

Walter had divided his possessions among his sons in a will, with the older one mainly taking over the maternal and the younger the paternal inheritance.

literature

  • Theodore Evergates: The aristocracy in the county of Champagne. 1100-1300. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA 2007, ISBN 978-0-8122-4019-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog des actes de Philippe Auguste , ed. by Léopold Delisle (1856), no.394, p. 95
  2. ↑ La Chanson de la Croisade contre les Albigeois , tome second, ed. by Paul Meyer (1879), §CCXII, p. 461
predecessor Office successor
Hugo IV Count of Saint-Pol
(de iure uxoris with Elisabeth of Saint-Pol)
1205–1219 		Guido I.
Guido III. Lord of Châtillon
1191–1219 		Hugo I.
Guido III. Lord of Crécy
1191–1219 		Guido I.
personal data
SURNAME Walter III. from Châtillon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaucher III. de Châtillon; Walter of St. Pol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Châtillon, Troissy, Montjay, Crécy and Pierrefonds, Count of St. Pol
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH October 1219