Wilhelm I (Eu)

Wilhelm I of Eu (12th century)

Wilhelm I of Eu († January 27, 1057) was a son of Duke Richard I of Normandy and Gunnora . He was the Count of Hiémois and was made Count of Eu after 998 .

However, different information is given in the sources about Wilhelm's mother.

• Dudo de Saint-Quentin sees him as the son of Richard and another mistress as Gunnora.
• Wilhelm von Jumièges names Gottfried (Geoffroy de Brionne) and Wilhelm as Richard's two sons from his concubines.
• Robert von Torigni also names Gottfried and Wilhelm as Richard's sons of concubines, and adds that Wilhelm was only Count of Eu and became Count of Brionne after the death of his brother.
• A document from 1012 is signed by "Richard ... son of the great Prince Richard ... Robert Archbishop ... of the Church of Rouen and Wilhelm and Mauger, brothers of Count Richard

Wilhelm von Jumièges reports of an uprising of a brother of the Duke against his father, Duke Richard, after he received the County of Hiémois, of his five years imprisonment in Rouen under the guard of Turquetil , Seigneur de Tourville, his escape and his installation as Count of Eu (after a reconciliation) by his ducal brother Richard II.

After his escape, Wilhelm married Lesceline, the daughter of his guard Turquetil. After Wilhelm's death, she and her sons founded the male monastery of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives and a female monastery in Lisieux ; she died on January 26, 1057/58 in the monastery.

The sons of Wilhelm and Lecelina are named:

• Robert , † 1089/93, Count of Eu
• Wilhelm Busac , Count of Soissons, 1052/57 Count of Eu, 1057–1059 Count of Soissons
• Hugo , Bishop of Lisieux 1050/77

In addition, one can attribute a daughter of unknown name to Wilhelm and Lescelina, who was the mother of Guillaume "de Alderi", who was hanged in 1096 for conspiracy against the English King Wilhelm II .

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• Dudo of Saint-Quentin: Gesta Normannorum
• Wilhelm von Jumièges: Histoire des ducs de Normandie , ed. by François Guizot (1826)
• Chronique de Robert de Torigny, abbé de Mont-Saint-Michel , ed. by Léopold Victor Delisle (1872)
• Chartes de l ' abbaye de Jumièges , ed. by Jules-Joseph Vernier (1916)
• The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis , ed. by Marjorie Chibnall (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80)
• Florentii Wigornensis Monachi Chronicon

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . Volume II (1984), Plate 79, Volume III.4 (1989). Plate 693 and Volume VII (1979). Plate 15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schwennicke, III.4, 693
2. ↑ Dudo of Saint-Quentin, chap. 58
3. ^ Godefroi et Guillaume , Wilhelm von Jumièges, IV.18, p. 105
4. ↑ "unus Godefridus alter… Willermus" as sons of "Ricardi primi ducis Normanniæ", "comes… Aucensis" and "comes Brionnensis", Delisle, 965, p. 25
5. ↑ Richardus… filius Ricardi principi magni… Robertus archiepiscopus… ecclesie Rotomagensis et Vuillelmus et Malgerus fratres Richardi comitis… ", Vernier, Volume 7, p. 16.
6. ↑ Wilhelm von Jumièges V.3, pp. 112-113.
7. ↑ Wilhelm von Jumièges, V.3, pp. 112-113. , Ordericus Vitalis identifies her as the wife of Count Wilhelm von Eu, Chibnall, Vol. II, Book III, p. 11.
8. ↑ Lecelina comitissa Aucensis relicta Willermi comitis "founded" mon. Sancti Petri super Divam virorum et mon. fem. ante urbem Lexoviensem "with" filiis suis Roberto comite Aucensi et Hugone episcopo Lexoviensi , Robert de Torigny, Vol. II, p. 200.
9. ^ Wilhelm von Jumièges: "Robert, héritier de son comté, Guillaume comte de Soissons et Hugues, évêque de Lisieux", V.3, pp. 113-114
10. ↑ "Willelmi de Owe… dapiferum illius Willelmum de Alderi filium amitæ illius" with "amita" in the narrow sense as a paternal aunt (Florentii Wigornensis Monachi Chronicon, p. 39.)

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Count of Hiémois around 990	-
Gilbert de Brionne	Count of Eu after 998 - just before 1040	Robert