William III. (Forez)

William III. († 1097 before Nicaea ) was a count of Lyon and Forez . He was a son of Count Artaud IV , who died around 1078/79, and the Raimonde.

Wilhelm appears for the first time in a deed of gift to the Abbey of Savigny from 1078 as Count von Forez ( Vuillelmus comes Foresii ). From 1096 he took part in the first crusade , first in the entourage of Count Raymond IV of Toulouse and then in that of Count Robert II of Flanders . In the course of this enterprise he was killed during the siege of Nicaea in the summer of 1097. He had two sons, Wilhelm IV and Eustache.

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• A. Bernard: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Savigny (1885), no.758, p. 395
• Wilhelm von Tyrus , Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum Liber I, §17, ed. in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1844), Historiens occidentaux I, p. 45
• Wilhelm von Tyrus, Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum Liber II, §17, ed. in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1844), Historiens occidentaux I, p. 96
• Wilhelm von Tire, Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum Liber III, §5, ed. in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1844), Historiens occidentaux I, p. 118
• Albert von Aachen , Alberti Aquensis Historia Hierosolymitana Liber II, §22, ed. in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1879), Historiens occidentaux IV, p. 315

Web link

• Comtes de Forez et de Lyon at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.fmg (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Artaud IV.	Count of Lyon and Forez 1078 / 1079-1097	William IV