Lucienne de Rochefort

Lucienne of Rochefort (French Lucienne de Rochefort; * around 1090 to 1095, † May 6, 1137 or later), also Luciane from Rochefort, the first wife of the future King Louis VI was.

Life

Lucienne was the daughter of Guido of Rochefort, called the Red, out of the house Montlhery born and his second wife Adelheid of Crécy (French Adélaïde de Crécy ). In 1104, the French King Philip I appointed her father to the Seneschal of France, and to strengthen the good relationship between the family and the royal house, was Guido's immature daughter Lucienne in the same year with the heir to the throne Louis VI. engaged. However, the connection remained only three years without the marriage was consummated when the Vita Ludovici VI. Abbot Suger of Saint- Denis to be believed. The betrothal was a year before Louis the French throne by Pope Paschal II, under the pretext of blood marriage at the Council of Troyes on May 23, 1107 canceled because Lucienne and Louis VI. were related to each other in the sixth canonical degrees.

The reasons for the cancellation reported Suger of Saint- Denis in his Vita Ludovici VI. , That intrigues of the rival with the Rochefort family of Garlande were responsible. But also is possible that the dissolution of the compound at the instigation of Philip II 's second wife Bertrada of Montfort was because she was trying to booth Louis weaken in any way possible to bring her own son Philip of Mantes to the French throne. Guy of Rochefort and his son Hugh of Crécy intricate Louis VI. from resentment over the resolved Engagement for about one and a half years in military conflicts in which they were received IV an alliance with Count Theobald of Blois, but they were subject to the king finally.

Progeny

In some publications to find the information that from the union Lucienne with Ludwig a daughter named Isabelle entstamme. This, however, was rather an illegitimate daughter of Louis VI. with his mistress Maria Breuillet (French Marie de Breuillet ). She was married in the spring of 1107 William of Chaumont (French Guillaume de Chaumont ).

According to the chronicles of Orderic Vitalis Lucienne married his second wife Guichard III, sire de Beaujeu, with whom she had eight children.:

  • Guichard
  • Gauthier
  • Baudouin of Beaujeu, died young
  • Etienne, not backed
  • Alix
  • Marie
  • A daughter, ⚭ Guido I, Count of Forez Lyon
  • Humbert III. (* 1120, † 1192 ), Lord of Beaujeu
Louis VI of France Bertrade de Montfort Theobald II, Count of Champagne
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