Battle of Mortemer
The Battle of Mortemer place at the end of the year 1054 held near the church today Mortemer -en- Bray, between the Normans and the troops of the king of France. In 1057 the Battle of Mortemer by the battle of Varaville was continued with the same result.
Prehistory
Gottfried II, Count of Anjou had Le Mans, Domfront and Alençon conquered areas that had received the gentlemen of Bellême by the king. While King Henry I. Geoffrey of Anjou directly threatened, burned down Duke William of Normandy (later the conqueror of England ) Alençon and Domfront besieged, the garrison there was under the commitment -free allowance.
William's marriage to Matilda of Flanders was now increase its power in the eyes of the king so strong that Henry had his former allies fall and with Geoffrey of Anjou, Theobald I., confederate, Count of Blois and Champagne, as well as rebellious Norman barons.
The campaign
William grabbed his uncle Guillaume de Talou at, besieged the newly built castle in Arques and took them to an end in 1053. Towards the end of winter 1053/1054 were two armies in Normandy one: from the north Odo, the brother of the king, who crossed the Bresle to achieve the Pays de Bray, from the south of the King himself and the Count of Anjou approached who overcame the river Avre and County Évreux attacked. The goal was to unite the two armies before Rouen.
William took to the threat a defensive posture, but also presented two armies: one under his command, he led against the king, and under the command Gautier Giffards and Roberts of Eu in the Pays de Bray. The two armies had the mandate to monitor the movements of the opposite side and avoid any direct confrontation until the appropriate moment had come for action.
The Battle
The Normans attacked - by French negligence benefiting - at night the enemy's camp at, set it on fire and carried a light but devastating victory over the sleepy French it.
Results and consequences
Norman acquisitions
In 1057 Henry moved through the valley of the Orne to another attack. This was intercepted at the ford of Varaville at Caen and the swamps of the Dives. William had now free of the hands to conquer the County Maine, whose heritage he was after the death of Count Herbert II, who had fled to him become. 1063 William conquered Le Mans and handed the county his young son, Robert.
Roger de Mortemer
Roger de Mortemer (* 1025, † 1086 ), Lord of Mortemer in the Pays de Bray (Seine- Maritime), 1054 lost his castle because he Count Rudolf IV of Vexin and Valois called Rudolf of Montdidier, the one he had confided, released her after the battle of Mortemer.
- Battle ( Middle Ages)
- 1054