Geoffrey de Rancon

Godfrey I (franz: Geoffroy, † probably 1153 ) was a Lord of Rancon ( Dép: Haute- Vienne) and waist Bourg. He was probably a son of Amalric III. of Rancon and brother of Amalric IV of Rancon.

Together with Hugo VII of Lusignan in 1127 he reached the castle of Montignac, but was repulsed by Count Vulgrin II of Angoulême.

Gottfried became known as participants in the Second Crusade, to which he had taken the cross in 1146, together with King Louis VII and other French knights in Vezelay. When crossing from Asia Minor Gottfried noticed by his lack of discipline, by 1148, contrary to the command of the king during a camp near Laodicea defected from the main army to take a second storage bin that seemed safer. Because he was followed by several knights then, it had a division of the army a result, what the Rum Seljuk recognized and exploited immediately to an attack that struck the unorganized army of crusaders at great cost to flight. The also surviving Gottfried was then commanded by the king as a punishment on the journey home.

For a marriage to Fossifia Gottfried had three children:

  • Gottfried II († 1194), Lord of Rancon and waist Bourg
  • Bourgogne († 1169 ) ∞ with Hugo VIII of Lusignan
  • Bertha, ∞ with Guillaume Maingot, Lord of Surgères
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