Wilhelm Busac
Wilhelm Busac ( Guillaume Busac , * around 1020, † around 1076), was a Norman , perhaps Count of Eu before he was deposed, then Count of Soissons from his wife's right ( de iure uxoris ).
Life
Wilhelm Busac is the son of Wilhelm (Guillaume) I , Count of Eu , and Lesceline. His father is an illegitimate son of Duke Richard I of Normandy . It was the chronicler Robert von Torigni who gave him the nickname "Busac".
There is controversy among historians over whether he was the eldest or later son of the Count of Eu and whether or not he owned the county for a period. For David C. Douglas (1946) Robert is the eldest son and heir of the county, and Wilhelm Busac is at no time ruler of the county.
Other historians, such as David Crouch, François Neveux and Pierre Bauduin , Wilhelm Busac was his father's heir and Count of Eu when he rose against Duke Richard II , and was deposed as a count and exiled. Neveux dates the process to around 1050.
For Douglas, the interpolation of the Ordericus Vitalis in his Gesta Normannorum ducum , on which the title of the Count is based, is wrong; the chronicler may have confused Wilhelm with another rebel, namely Wilhelm von Talou (Guillaume d'Arques). According to Bauduin, the county of Eu goes to his brother Robert.
Wilhelm Busac left Normandy and went to Henry I of France , who married him to Adelaide, the heiress of the county of Soissons , daughter of Renaud, Grand Maître d'hôtel du roi. Wilhelm Busac was thereby Count of Soissons from the right of his wife, and founded a line, which in 1141 with the cession of the county by Count Renaud III. ended at Ives II de Nesle .
family
Wilhelm Busac and Adelaide von Soissons had at least five children:
- Renaud II, Count of Soissons 1082/84
- Jean, † shortly after 1115, Count of Soissons 1106; ∞ Avéline de Pierrefonds , † after 1115, daughter of Nivellon II and Hadwide
- Manassès, † March 1, 1108, maybe 1109, 1095 Bishop of Cambrai , 1103 Bishop of Soissons
- Daughter (probably Ramentrudis); ∞ Ives I. de Nesle ( House Nesle )
- daughter
literature
- Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècle) , Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, réimpr. 2006
- David Crouch, The Normans: The History of a Dynasty , Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
- David Douglas, The Earliest Norman Counts , in: The English Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 240 (May 1946), pp. 129-156
- Elisabeth MC Van Houts, The Normans in Europe , Manchester University Press, 2000
- François Neveux, A brief history of the Normans: the conquests that changed the face of Europe , Robinson, 2008
- Warren Brown, Piotr Górecki, Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003
Remarks
- ↑ a b c d e Douglas
- ^ Van Houts, p. 293.
- ↑ a b Bauduin
- ↑ a b c Crouch, p. 65
- ^ Neveux, p. 123
- ^ Brown, Górecki, p. 145
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelm Busac |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guillaume Busac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | perhaps Earl of Eu, Earl of Soissons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1020 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1076 |