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Thierry II de Mousson Comte de Mousson, Comte de Verdun
(Abt 1045-1105/1105) |
Thierry II de Mousson Comte de Mousson, Comte de Verdun
General Notes: THIERRY de Mousson, son of LOUIS Comte de Mousson & his wife Sophie of Upper Lotharingia ([1045]-1/2 Jan 1103, bur Autun Cathedral). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Theodericum" as son of "comiti Montionis Ludovico" and his wife Sophie. "Filia Wilelmi comitis de Burgundia Hermentrudis…" founded the Cluniac abbey of Froidefontaine by charter dated 8 Mar 1105 in which she names "suis antecessoribus…Lodewico, Sophia eius uxore, et filiis eorum Brunone, Theoderico, Lodewico, Friderico, filiabus vero Mathilde, Sophia, Beatrice…". On his marriage, he entered into possession of the château and seigneurie de Montbéliard. He succeeded his father in [1071/76] in his territories of Altkirch, Ferrette, and around Hagenau. He was present at the 1076 enfranchisement of the chapel in the castle of Amance. He inherited the region of the future county of Bar from his mother in 1093. He had taken a vow to join the First Crusade but was released from it due to illness. He was invested as Comte de Verdun after 1096 by Richer Bishop of Verdun. He dictated his testament in 1102 at the castle of Altkirch. The Obituaire de Saint-Mansuy-lès-Toul records the death "1 Jan" of "Henricus et Theodoricus comites". Events • Title: Seigneur de Montbéliard, Abt 1065. • Title: Comte de Mousson, Abt 1071/76 to 1105. • Title: Comte de Verdun, After 1096. Thierry married Ermentrude de Bourgogne, daughter of Guillaume I de Bourgogne Comte de Bourgogne, Comte de Mâcon and Étiennette, about 1065.1 (Ermentrude de Bourgogne was born between 1050 and 1055,1 died in 1106 1 2 and was buried in Cathédrale Saint-Nazaire d'Autun, Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, 71400, FR.) |
1 Charles Cawley, <i>Medieval Lands</i>.
2 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants</i> (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 144-23.
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