William I (Joigny)

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Coat of arms of Wilhelm I of Joigny

Wilhelm I of Joigny († 1221 ) was Count of Joigny . He was a son of Count Rainald IV ( House Joigny , † 1172) and Adele von Nevers ( House Monceaux ).

In 1180 he organized a large tournament in Joigny , in which the young King Heinrich Plantagenet and the famous knight Guillaume le Maréchal took part. Both are said to have cast an eye on Wilhelm's beautiful mother. From 1190 William took part in the third crusade in the entourage of King Philip II of France . In 1209 he founded the Abbey of L'Enfourchure near Dixmont . In December 1213 he took an oath of allegiance to Countess Blanka and her underage son Theobald IV of Champagne in Provins and thus took sides in the upcoming war of succession in the Champagne region .

According to a will written as early as 1179, Wilhelm declared the Premonstratensian Abbey of Dilo (today Arces-Dilo in the Yonne department ) to be his desired burial place, where his mother was already buried in a splendid Gothic tomb. When he died in 1221, however, he was buried in the Clunyzian Abbey of Notre-Dame in Joigny , the traditional burial place of his family. The monks of Dilo gave up their protest against it in 1224 after they had received a donation from Wilhelm's son as compensation.

Marriage and offspring

His first marriage was to Alix (Alice) von Courtenay , a daughter of Peter I von Courtenay and thus a granddaughter of King Ludwig VI. of France . With her he had the son Peter († 1222), but separated from her again in 1186.

His second wife was called Beatrix († 1226 or after), with whom he had two children:

literature

  • Edouard de Saint-Phalle: La première dynastie des comtes de Joigny XIe-XVIIIe siècles (Joigny, 1991)
  • Jean-Luc Dauphin: Notre-Dame de Dilo: Une Abbaye au coeu du pays d'Othe (Villenauve-sur-Yonne, 1992)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, pp. 125-26
  2. ↑ Gesta Regis Henrici secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 2, p. 150
predecessor Office successor
Rainald IV. Count of Joigny
1172–1221 		Peter
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES William I of Joigny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Joigny
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1221