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Theobald the Elder

Theobald the Elder

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Theobald the Elder (Thibaud l'Ancien, c. 890 – c. 940) was a Viscount of Tours and Blois in medieval France. He is the first known member of the House of Blois.

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Biography

Theobald the Elder, from 908 on, was Viscount of Tours. He replaced Warnegald as Viscount of Blois before 920.[1] He is a faithful of the Marquis of Neustria, Robert I then Hugh the Great. In the first half of the 920s, Robertian power entered Aquitaine[2] at Saint-Aignan, Vierzon and Aix-d'Angillon. A charter of the Cartulary of Vierzon[3] shows that King Rudolph and Hugh the Great relied on Thibaud.

He is well known as being the father of Theobald I, Count of Blois who fought against Richard I in 960.[4]

Family

Theobald the Elder and Richildis had:

References

  1. [1]
    Raphaël Bijard. "Les Thibaldiens : origines, premières alliances et ascension politique". Academia.
  2. [2]
    Devailly 1973, p. 129-130.
  3. [3]
    Devailly, Guy (1963). Le cartulaire de Vierzon - Edited text with introduction, notes and index (PUF ed.). Paris: Publ. Fac lettres Rennes.
  4. [4]
    Freeman, Edward (1867). The preliminary history to the election of Eadward the Confessor (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 261. Retrieved 22 June 2015. Theobald De Tours Count of Chartres.
  5. [5]
    Devailly 1973, p. 131.
  6. [6]
    LoPrete 2007, p. 576.

Sources

  • Devailly, Guy (1973). Le Berry du X siecle au milieu du XIII (in French). Mouton & Co.
  • LoPrete, Kimberly A. (2007). Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137). Four Courts Press.
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