Noblesse Européenne - European Nobility » Otton (Otton I) de Warcq (942-987)

Personal data Otton (Otton I) de Warcq 

  • First name Otton I.
  • He was born in the year 942.
  • Title: comte, de Warcq
  • He died in the year 987, he was 45 years old.

Household of Otton (Otton I) de Warcq

He is married to NN NN.

They got married


Child(ren):

  1. Louis de Chiny  ????-1025 


Notes about Otton (Otton I) de Warcq

Il édifia vers 971 la forteresse de Warcq, en Ardennes, et s'attaqua à ses voisins, dont l'évêque Adalbéron de Reims. Il est éventuellement fils de Albert I de Vermandois. D'autres sources le disent fils de Arnoul de Bourgogne-Granson et de Mathilde de Verdun.
Il est probable qu'Otton de Warcq ait réussi à se mettre en possession du comté d'Ivois car ses successeurs l'occupèrent en même temps que Warcq. Après avoir édifié Chiny, ils se nommèrent désormais d'après ce château.
B-6810 Chiny-sur-Semois (Luxembourg)
The early generations of the Chiny family given in ES are fictitious - Schwennicke followed Hippolyte Goffinet, who was taken in by one of the countless invented genealogies from the 14th & 15th centuries. This one came from Jean Zittart, prior of Suxy writing from 1398 as redacted by Henri Russel, a successor in the early 17th century.
Ct Arnold of Chiny (aka Arnold of Granson, or of Burgundy), who is supposed to have been killed in Calabria in 982 & "Matilda" alleged to be his wife are completely bogus.

Settipani followed a very old conjecture, first made (I think) in Gallia Christiana, that Otto of Warcq was the son of Albert I of Vermandois and Gerberga of Lorraine - certainly they had a younger son of this name and Otto of Warq was said to be descended from the Ottonians, the family of Gerberga's mother. Some historians in the 18th century wrongly claimed that he was actually the dispossessed son of an emperor.

However, the identification is unproven and so is the link to Otto of Warcq's supposed son Count Louis I of Chiny. We do not know even the name of Otto's wife, later often stated to be Ermengarde, much less her
family.

Peter Stewart

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Otton de Warcq

Otton de Warcq
942-987


NN NN
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Louis de Chiny
????-1025

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