MANASSES [II] (-925 or after). Comte de Dijon. “Manasses...comes” donated property “in pago Oscarense...magnam firmitatem...Schi---...ecclesiam...sancti Sequani” to Langres by charter dated 18 Oct 910, subscribed by “Mannonis fratris eius...Ugonis filius Gibuini comitis, Madalberti, Bernonis, Eldemodi”[16]. [A charter dated 912 names "venerabili comite domno Manasse" as present at a judgment in an ecclesiastical court at Dijon by Garnier Bishop of Langres[17]. The word "venerabili" suggests that this document may refer to Manassès [I] rather than his son Manassès [II], although this is not beyond doubt.] “Ricardus comes et dux Burgondiæ”, on the advice of “Manasse ceterorumque fidelium nostrorum”, restored “de Liciaco [Lecey] villa...in pago Lingonico”, previously donated by “Amadeus comes in suo nomine et uxoris suæ, necnon et filii eius Anscharii”, to Langres by charter dated 18 May 918[18]. The Vita Sanctii Viventii Presbyteri records that "Manasses" built "monasterium in territorio Augustudunensi in loco montis Vergiaci castri" with the advice of "suæ uxoris Hermengardis fratrisque sui Walonis Æduorum urbis pontificis"[19]. The Chronicle of St Bénigne de Dijon records a donation dated 925 confirmed by "Manasse comite"[20]. m ERMENGARDE, daughter of --- (-after Jun 924). "Heriveus…Eduorum episcopus" donated property "villam Tilionacum" to the canons of St Nazaire by charter dated 31 Oct 920 which names "genitricis nostræ domnæ Hirmingardis comitissæ et fratrum nostrorum…[et] Walo presul et noster avunculus", signed by "Hirmingardis comitissa, Walonis filii eius, Gisleberti filii eius alterius, Manassæ filii eius"[21]. The Vita Sanctii Viventii Presbyteri names "Manasses…suæ uxoris Hermengardis"[22]. "Warulfus…virum nobilem…filio equivoco eius Warulfo" petitioned "Ermengardis comitisse…seu filii eius Gisleberti comitis" for some donated property of Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon by charter dated Jun 924[23]. A possible origin of Ermengarde is suggested by one version of the Series abbatum Flaviniacensium, as reproduced only in a 17th century secondary source, which records that "Richardus dux et Ingelbertus" installed "Vualonem, fratrem Manasserii comitis qui gener erat B fratris Richardi ducis" as abbot of Flavigny[24]. If this is correct, she was Ermengarde, daughter of Boson King of Provence & [his second wife Ermengardis of Italy].
Manassès & his wife had [five] children:
WALO (-after 924).
GISELBERT (-Paris after Easter 956).
MANASSES (-after 31 Oct 920)
HERVE (-after 31 Oct 920).
ERMENGARDE (-before [941]).
Bronnen:
[16] Roserot ‘Chartes inédites’ (1897), 12, p. 183.
[17] Dijon Saint-Etienne, [Tome I], 22, p. 41.
[18] Roserot ‘Chartes inédites’ (1897), 13, p. 184.
[19] Vita Sanctii Viventii Presbyteri, RHGF IX, p. 131.
[20] Chronique de Saint-Bénigne de Dijon, p. 124.
[21] Autun (Charmasse), Vol. I, Part 1, 26, p. 42.
[22] Vita Sanctii Viventii Presbyteri, RHGF IX, p. 131.
[23] Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon 28, p. 53.
[24] Duchesne (1625) Vergy, preuves, p. 17, also quoted in Settipani (1993), p. 373 footnote 80. The text in question does not appear in Series abbatum Flaviniacensium, MGH SS VIII, p. 502.
https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/burgddijon.htm#Manassesdied925
Il est marié avec Ermengard van Bourgondië.
Ils se sont mariés
Enfant(s):
Manasses, Graf
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+ 918
Entstammte einer großen Familie Austriens und war vielleicht Sohn des Giselbert, Grafen von Condroz
Er soll mit Ermengard, einer Tochter Bosos von Vienne (BOSONIDEN), vermählt gewesen sein und war’fidelis‘ von Bosos Bruder, Richard dem Justitiar. Manasse hatte (anscheinend seit 888) die Grafschaft Beaune inne und gründete für die von den Normannen vertriebenen Religiosen von St-Vivant die Abtei Vergy. Auch besaß er die Grafschaft Chalon sowie weitere Grafschaften im Umkreis von Dijon (Atuyer oder Oscheret). Nachhaltig unterstützte Manasses das Vorgehen Richards, ließ den gegnerischen Bischof Tedbald von Langres, der die Erhebung von Manasses Bruder Waldo zun Bischof von Autun bekämpfte, blenden und intervenierte in Sens, dessen Erzbischof er gefangennehmen ließ (894,895). Manasses setzte seine Verwandten in Sens, Auxerre, Troyes und Bar-sur-Seine ein und begründete so, gestützt auf Richards Autorität, den Aufstieg seiner Familie, insbesondere seines Sohnes Giselbert von Vergy. 911 kämpfte Manasses gemeinsam mit Richard gegen Rollo.
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