Wilhelm II (Chalon)

Wilhelm II († January 3, 1203 ) was a Count of Chalon from the House of Thiern . He was a son of Count Wilhelm I of Chalon .

In 1174, William renounced his rights to the land of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire in favor of the abbey of the same name . He waged a long-term conflict with the Cluny Abbey over the possession of Paray-le-Monial , which in 1180 provoked an intervention by King Philip II August . The king forced a contractual agreement between the conflicting parties. Wilhelm took part in the third crusade and reached the siege of Acre in July 1190 .

From his marriage to a woman not known by name, he had a daughter:

• Beatrix († April 7, 1227), Countess of Chalon
  • ∞ with Count Stephan III. of Auxonne († 1241)
  • ∞ with Guillaume III. des Barres († 1249)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The date of death is recorded in the necrology of the Saint-Vincent cathedral in Chalon-sur-Saône. See Obituaires de la province de Lyon II: Diocèses de Mâcon et de Chalon-sur-Saône , ed. by Jacques Laurent and Pierre Gras in: Recueil des historiens de la France (1965), Obituaires 5, p. 569
2. ↑ Maurice Prou ​​and Alexandre Vidier: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire 2 (1907), No. 206, pp. 57-59
3. ↑ Rigord , Gesta Philippi Augusti , ed. by Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), p. 6
4. ↑ Auguste Bernard and Alexandre Bruel: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Cluny 5 (1894), No. 4277, p. 639
5. ↑ Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi Lib. I, Cap. XLII, ed. by William Stubbs: Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I , in: Rolls Series 38 (1864), Vol. 1, p. 93
6. ↑ Ambroise , Estoire de la guerre sainte , ed. by Marianne Ailes: The history of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la guerre sainte (2004), Vol. 2, p. 82

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm I.	Count of Chalon after 1166–1203	Beatrix