Renaud of Vendôme

Renaud de Vendôme ( * before 991; † 1017 ) was Bishop of Paris 991-1017 and Count of Vendome, and Paris from 1005 to 1017.

Family

Renaud came from the family of French Burchard Inger and was the son of Count Burchard of the Venerable and Elizabeth of Melun.

Life

In the year 988 he became Chancellor of Hugh Capet, who later made ​​him a little also to the bishop. With the accession of Robert II, he was ousted from power and sank his influence in the royal council. He withdrew more and more back into Vendômois. In 1005 he succeeded his father as Count of Vendome, and Paris.

After his death, was Paris, which had received his father of Hugh Capet, as a completed fief to the crown back while Vendôme went to Bodo von Nevers from the house Monceaux, the son of his sister Elizabeth and Count Fulk III. Nerra of Anjou.