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Guy (died 1075) was the bishop of Amiens in the north-east of France and a Latin poet. He composed the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio , a celebration of the Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Born in 1058, Guy was the son of Enguerrand I, Count of Ponthieu. [1] [2] He was educated for a career in the church at the abbey of St Riquier and was one of its most brilliant students. [3] His teacher was abbot Enguerrand, called "the wise". [3] Guy was an archdeacon by 1045. [4] As the trusted representative of Bishop Fulk II, he was sent in 1049 to the papal curia to place charges against the abbot of Corbie. [4] In 1056, Guy was witness to a charter by Count Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, for St. Peter's at Ghent, also in attendance were Guy's nephew Guy I, Count of Ponthieu, and Roger, Count of Saint-Pol. [5]
Guy succeeded Fulk II as bishop of Amiens in 1058. [4] On May 23, 1059, Bishop Guy went to Reims to witness the crowning of Philip I of France alongside his nephew, Guy I, Count of Ponthieu. [4] When Guy became bishop of Amiens he inherited the ecclesisatical struggles of his predecessor with the abbey of Corbie; this eventually resulted in Guy being suspended by Pope Alexander II from his duties as bishop. [6]
He was in this state of papal disfavour at the time of the Norman Conquest. This may have been the (contributing) reason why bishop Guy composed the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio ("Song of the Battle of Hastings"), as an effort to flatter the new Norman king of England, William I, who was then in very high favor with the pope. But if so, bishop Guy's poem failed in its purpose. In 1067, he gave an endowment to the abbey of Saint-Riquier in Ponthieu, which was witnessed by Count Baldwin VI of Flanders. [7] He was highly enough thought of at the Norman court to be assigned as Matilda of Flanders's chaplain when she went over to England for her coronation in 1068. [a] [9] When Guy died in 1075, he still had not regained his bishopric. [6]
Philip I, called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low it had reached during the reign of his father, Henry I, and he added the Vexin region and the viscountcy of Bourges to his royal domaine.
Robert I, known as Robert the Frisian, was count of Flanders from 1071 until his death in 1093. He was a son of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, and the younger brother of Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders. He usurped the countship after defeating his nephew Arnulf III and his allies, which included King Philip I of France, Count Eustace of Boulogne and the counts of Saint-Pol and Ardres at the Battle of Cassel. He subsequently made peace with Philip, who became his stepson-in-law, but remained hostile to his sister Matilda and her husband William the Conqueror, who was king of England and duke of Normandy.
Ponthieu was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town is Abbeville.
Adelaide of Normandy was the ruling Countess of Aumale in her own right in 1069–1087. She was the sister of William the Conqueror.
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio is a 20th-century name for the Carmen Widonis, the earliest history of the Norman invasion of England from September to December 1066, in Latin. It is attributed to Guy, Bishop of Amiens, a noble of Ponthieu and monastically-trained bishop and administrator close to the French court, who eventually served as a chaplain for Matilda of Flanders, William the Conqueror's queen. Bishop Guy was an uncle to Guy I, Count of Ponthieu, who figures rather prominently in the Bayeux Tapestry as the vassal of Duke William of Normandy who captured Harold Godwinson, later to become King Harold II of England, in 1064.
Guy I of Ponthieu was born sometime in the mid- to late 1020s and died 13 October 1100. He succeeded his brother Enguerrand II as Count of Ponthieu.
Enguerrand II was the son of Hugh II count of Ponthieu. He assumed the county upon the death of his father on November 20, 1052.
Hugh II of Ponthieu was count of Ponthieu and lord of Abbeville, the son of Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. Evidently, Hugh II was the half-brother of Guy, who became the bishop of Amiens; Fulk, who became the abbot of Forest l'Abbaye; and Robert. However, it is possible that both Robert and Hugh II were the sons of Enguerrand's first wife, and Guy and Fulk the sons of a later wife that Enguerrand I married when he was in his forties.
Enguerrand I, Count of Ponthieu, was recognized as count by 1026-7, having endorsed a royal charter. Protecting Vimeu, he inflicted losses on an invasion by Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Enguerrand was quite influential, being at Duke Robert of Normandy's court before the latter left on crusade. He was instrumental in his son, Hugh's marriage to Bertha of Aumale, which expanded the family's territory. Enguerrand died in 1045 and was succeeded by his son Hugh II of Ponthieu.
Hugh I of Ponthieu, who died circa 1000, was also known as Hugo Miles.
Arnold II is a Count of Boulogne identified by Morton and Muntz as the one slain in battle by Count Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. Frank Barlow prefers to retain the traditional identification of the slain count as Baldwin I of Boulogne. However, he admits that the identification is "uncertain." In any case, the widow (Adelvie?) of Baldwin / Arnold then married Count Enguerrand I.
Saint-Riquier is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
The County of Ponthieu, centered on the mouth of the Somme, became a member of the Norman group of vassal states when Count Guy submitted to William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy after the battle of Mortemer. It eventually formed part of the dowry of Eleanor of Castile and passed to the English crown. Much fought-over in the Hundred Years' War, it eventually passed to the French royal domain, and the title Count of Ponthieu became a courtesy title for the royal family.
The Diocese of Amiens is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Somme, of which the city of Amiens is the capital. In 2022 it was estimated that there was one priest for every 6,916 Catholics in the diocese.
Frank Barlow was an English historian, known particularly for biographies of medieval figures. His subjects included Edward the Confessor, Thomas Becket and William Rufus.
Hilduin I, Count of Montdidier. It is unknown who the parents of Hilduin were. Hilduin was the founder of the House of Montdidier, which produced the Counts of Montdidier, Dammartin and Roucy.
Robert, Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings, son of William I, Count of Eu, and his wife Lesceline. Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings.
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Drogo was bishop of Thérouanne from 1030 to 1078. Very little is known about his early life, except that he was a cleric from Amiens and a monk from Saint Bertin, where he learned music from Enguerrand, abbot of St. Riquier. At the beginning of his episcopate, he was in conflict with Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, who ousted him in 1030, probably in the context of his conflict with his son, Baldwin V. By 1032 he was back at his siege, and from 1035 he frequently appeared alongside the younger Baldwin. In 1036 he substituted for bishop Fulk of Amiens at the elevation of the relics of St. Adalard at Corbie. He was a participant of the Council of Reims in 1049, where he made count Baldwin sign a "Peace of God" agreement, promising to respect merchants, clerics, women and church assets. In 1052, he performed the elevation of St. Omer and St. Bertin. During his episcopate, at least five new religious houses were founded, and all of them received privileges from him: a nunnery at Mesen, canonries at Voormezele, Ardres and Zonnebeke, and a priory for canons regular at Watten.
The coronation of William the Conqueror as King of England took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 25 December 1066, following the Norman Conquest of England. It was the first coronation which can be proved to have been held at Westminster. In May 1068, William's wife, Matilda of Flanders, was also crowned at the abbey. At Easter in 1070, William was crowned for a second time at Winchester by three papal legates, to confirm the acceptance of his rule by the Catholic Church.
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