Joscelin (bishop of Paris)

Gauzlin († April 16 886 ) was the Frankish Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Paris. He was descended from the Counts of Rorgoniden and was a son of Count Rorico of Le Mans.

Gauzlin was simultaneously abbot of Jumièges, Saint- Amand, Saint-Germain -des- Prés and from 878 and abbot of Saint- Denis.

As a confidant of Charles the Bald Gauzlin belonged (as well as his opponent Hugo Abbas ) to the category of the Great, the emperor at a meeting in the royal palace Quierzy (877 ) for the duration of his second Italian expedition as " co-ruler " (KF Werner) his son, Louis the Stammerer, named (see the Kapitular of Quierzy ). After the death of Charles the Bald at the Mont Cenis to Gauzlin involved in a princely opposition, which (probably along the lines of the Treaty of Coulaines ) conceded Louis kingship only against the contractual assurance of their rights and to award additional honores. Probably in the course of these events Gauzlin received the abbey of Saint - Denis. With the division of the kingdom of Amiens (880 ), which implemented the treaties of Verdun ( 879 ), and RIBEMONT (880 ), he reached after the death of Louis the Stammerer, the division of the West Frankish Empire under Charlemagne man and King Ludwig III. († 882 ), who took him as Lord Chancellor. According to Karl Ferdinand Werner him a personal coup had succeeded with the division of the kingdom, fell through the creation of two western Frankish courts but the direct competition with Hugo Abbas away. This had previously occupied the stronger position at court and accordingly urged to follow only one son. Thus, it seems likely that Gauzlin, under whose auspices the Treaty of Fouron ( 879 ) was formed, in which Louis the Stammerer and his eponymous East Frankish cousin had promised, among other things, the successions of all the sons, on the initiative of Hugo lost his Erzkanzleramt and it only could recover, as he could move Louis the younger as a contractor of Fouron for military intervention and the conclusion of the treaties of Verdun and RIBEMONT. An important source of these events is available with the Annales Bertiniani. However, it should be noted that Hincmar of Reims, who is responsible for their transcript records 861-882, personal animosity against his former pupil Gauzlin harbored, in which he saw a competitor for influence at court since the late period of Charles the Bald.

Gauzlin it was, in all probability, of the elevation of the Robertiners Odo brought about 882 to the Count of Paris. Two years later Gauzlin was the local bishop and organized during the Siege of Paris ( 885-886 ) together with Count Odo the defense of the city. On April 16, 886 fell Gauzlin a plague victim.