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:
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Beatrix († April 7, 1227), Countess of Chalon
- ∞ with Count Stephan III. of Auxonne († 1241)
- ∞ with Guillaume III. des Barres († 1249)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Maurice Prou and Alexandre Vidier: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire 2 (1907), No. 206, pp. 57-59
- ↑ Rigord , Gesta Philippi Augusti , ed. by Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878), p. 6
- ↑ Auguste Bernard and Alexandre Bruel: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Cluny 5 (1894), No. 4277, p. 639
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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 |
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Wilhelm I. |
Count of Chalon after 1166–1203 |
Beatrix |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wilhelm II. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Chalon-sur-Saône |
DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1203 |