189125340. Eudes III, duke of Burgundy, & 189125341. Alix de Vergy
1166, Eudes (Odo) born in Burgundy, eldest s/o 378250680. Hugh
III & 378250681. Alix of Lorainne.
1182, Alice born in Prenois-en-Montage, d/o §Hugues, Seigneur
de Vergy, & Gillette de Trainel.
1171, ‘Hugo dux Burgundie … Aeliz ducissa Burgundie cum
Odone [Odo] filio meo’ donated property to Cîteaux abbaye.
9/18/1180, Philip Augustus succeeded Louis VII as King of
France.
1186, ‘Hugo…dux Burgundiæ et Albonii comes’ confirmed with ‘assensu
filiorum meorum Oddonis [Odo] et Alexandri’ the concession to Cluny by ‘consanguineæ
meæ Matildi comitissæ Tornodori.’
12/1188, ‘Hugo Burgundie dux et Albonii comes’ donated property
to the Templars at Beaune, with the support of ‘Beatricis uxoris mee et … filiorum
meorum Odonis [Odo], Alexandri et Dalphini’.
6/1190, Eudes regent of Burgundy after his father had left on
crusade.
1191, ‘Odo filius Hugonis ducis Burgundie’ granted privileges
to the abbey of Autun Saint-Martin.
8/25/1192, Odo became Duke of Burgundy on the death of his
father [who died in the Holy Land.]
1193, Eudes founded the monastery of Val-de-Choux of the order
of La Trappe.
2/1194, Eudes married Teresa, d/o Count Alfonso Henriques I of
Portugal & Mafalda of Savoy.
1195, Eudes repudiated Teresa on the grounds of consanguinity.
1197, Etienne
III Comte d'Auxonne, took the title of Earl of Auxonne as a vassal of the duke
of Burgundy. [This started successive wars between rival families.]
1198, Odo,
duke of Burgundy made an agreement with King Philip of France. (S) Loss of
Normandy, Powicke, 1999, P121.
5/1199, Eudes married Alice; acquiring the fortress of Vergy.
1200, Eudes mother died.
1200, “We, Odo, duke of Burgundy, make known to all men,
present and future, that we have received our relative and faithful subject,
Theobald of Troyes, as our man for the land which his father, count Henry, held
of our father, Hugo, duke of Burgundy, just as the his father, count Henry, was
the man of our father.” [Thibaut III, Comte de Champagne, did homage to the
duke of Burgundy.] (S) Source Book for Medieval History, Thatcher, 1905 P371.
1201, On the death of Thibaut, count of Champagne, leadership
of a newly planned crusade was offered by Pope Innocent III to Odo; which he
turned down. (S) Pope Innocent III, Moore, 2003, P107.
1201-2, Odo III gave assistance to Stephen of Chalon against
Philip of Swabia. (S) The New Cambridge Medieval History, V5, 1999, P359.
5/1203, Eudes, duke of Burgundy; Blanch, countess of Troyes;
Herve, count of Nevers, [15 in all] signed a letter to King Philip urging him
to resist papal efforts to impose a peace agreement with King John of England.
(S) Government of Philip Augustus, Baldwin, 1986, P194.
1203, Eudes renounced his rights to the duchy of Lorainne.
8/1203, Eudes met with King Philip and the other magnates at
Mantes.
1204, Blanche of Navarre and Odo, duke of Burgundy, signed a
percursus agreement [that they would not keep each other’s serfs, but would
mutually surrender them.]
1204, Eudes built a church dedicated to the Holy Ghost at
Dijon. (S) Christian Iconography, Pt1, Didron, 2003, P437.
11/1204, Odo III wrote a letter about a confiscated fief-rent.
1205, Pope Innocent III called for stricter control of Jews and
their lending policies. Eudes protested the proposed policies of the Pope. (S)
Pope Innocent III, Moore, 2003, P144.
1205, Eudes, duke of Burgundy, lodged a formal protest with
Pope Innocent III over the marriage of Herve of Donzy with Mathilda, heiress of
the counts of Nevers. (S) Social France, Luchaire, 1912, P291.
11/17/1207, Pope Innocent III called for the ‘Albigensian’ crusade—this
time, against a country of fellow Christians, led by Raymond VI, Count of
Toulouse, prince of all the territories in southern France where the langue
d’oc was spoken. [The Cathars’ intepretation of the bible was different from
the Pope’s.] The letter was addressed to King Philip, the Counts of Vermandois,
Blois, Bar and Nevers, and Odo, duke of Burgundy. (S) History of Latin
Christianity, Vs5-6, Milman, 1892, P175.
5/1208, A letter of Philip Augustus, specifically
permitting his vassals Odo, Duke of Burgundy, and Count of Nevers to
crusade if they wished; but restricted them to a maximun of 500 knights. (S)
The Occitan War, Marvin, 2008, P34.
5/1/1209, At an assembly at Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, in the
presence of Arnaud Aimery, Odo of Burgundy, and the counts of Nevers and St.
Pol, King Philip of France promised a royal contingent for the upcoming
crusade, but said he could not attend in person. (S) God’s War, Tyerman, 2006,
P589.
6/1209, Eudes participated in the crusade against the Cathars;
which was led by Simon de Montfort; departing from Lyon, France; then traveling
down the Rhine. [Estimated army of 20,000.]
7/1209, The crusaders reached Montpellier, where about 2000
additional ‘southern’ crusaders joined the group.
7/22/1209, The crusaders reached Beziers. The city fell to a
siege and many [possibly 20,000] were massacred when a fire erupted.
8/6/1209, The crusaders attacked Carcassone from the north;
then the next day from the south. The city surrendered after 8 days. Simon de
Montfort was chosen as the new vicount of Beziers and Carcassonne [Eudes had
previously refused the offer – the crusade was expected to last for several
years.] Many of the crusaders returned home, but Eudes stayed on at the request
of Arnau Amalric.
1209, Eudes and the remaining crusaders went into the Aude
valley, where they found empty villages. Eudes recommended an expedition
against the castle at Cabaret in the Montagne Noire, north of Carcassonne.
9/1209, After the initial assault against the castle failed,
Eudes, ‘crucesignatus contra hereticos Albigenses’, returned to France with
most of the knights.
1209, Odo III, duke of Burgundy, named in a letter about the
rights at Chablis: ‘Philip king of France, Odo duke of Burgundy, Herve count of
Nevers, … unanimously agree and by public consent confirm …’ (S) Toward a
Definition of Antisemitism, Langmuir, 1996, P144.
10/1210, Odo III, duke of Burgundy, and Blanche of Champage
agreed to not retain each other’s Jews. (S) Towards a Definition of
Antisemitism, Langmuir, 1996, P145.
1/1211, Odo III, duke of Burgundy, wrote a letter about the
sale of Gillancourt.
4/1213, ‘Odo dux Burgundie’ confirmed the donation by ‘domina
Egidia, mater Alaidis uxoris mee ducisse Burgundie’ to Colunge.
1213, Odo, duke of Burgundy, arbitrated a case between Blanche
of Champagne and the Bishop of Langres, William of Joinville. (S) Aristocracy
in the County of Champagne, Evergates, 2007, P288.
9/12/1213, Eudes and Simon de Montfort defeated the combined
forces of Raymond of Toulouse and Pedro II of Aragon at the battle of Muret.
7/27/1214, Eudes, commander of the right wing, in the army of
King Philip Augustus at the battle of Bouvines, near Tournai in Flanders. The
French King’s forces of 10,000 defeated an alliance of England, the Holy Roman
Empire, and rebellious French principalities, numbering 15,000. [Eudes
supposedly lost two mounts during the battle.] (S) Art of Warfare in Western
Europe, Verbruggen, 1997, P242.
Aft. 7/1215, Eudes, duke of Burgundy, and the Archbishop of
Rheims ratified a declaration associated with the succession of Champagne. (S)
Historical Account – Parliaments of France, V1, Boulainvillers, 1739, P165.
1216, Odo III formed an alliance with the Blanche of Champagne
[there was civil war in both Champagne and Burgundy]. (S) The New Cambridge
Medieval History, V5, 1999, P362.
1217-8, Emperor Frederick II helped King Philip of France and
Eudes III, duke of Burgundy, end the war of succession in Champagne. (S) Holy
Roman Emperors, P163.
7/6/1218, Eudes died on his way to rejoin the crusades; buried
in the Abbaye de Citeaux.
Alix governed Burgundy as regent for her son.
1231, Alix’s son became Duke of Burgundy.
3/1251, Alix died; buried in the Abbaye de Citeaux.
(S) A Most Holy Warm Pegg, 2008. (S) Littere Baronum,
Evergates, 2003, P168. (S) Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
Family notes:
·
1197, [Alix’s father & mother] ‘Huo dominus
Virgeii’ donated property to the Templars, with the consent of ‘domina Gilla
uxor dicti Huonis, Guillermus, Huo filii sui, Alais et Nicholeta filie sue.’
