Individual Details

Manassès I de Chalon

(875 - Bet 910 and 918)

According to Wikipedia:

Manassès I er de Chalon or Mainier (c.875 - 910/918) dit l'Ancien, comte de Chalon , de Beaune , Dijon et d ' Auxois (887-918), lord of Vergy (893-918) and Langres (894-918).

Biography
Born around 875, Manassès would be the son of Manassès, count of Dijon 1 , or of Théodoric (Thierry), lord of Vergy , himself supposed son of Warin I of Auvergne 2 .

He is by the side of Duke Richard the Justicier and fights the Vikings which ravage Burgundy . He participated in the battles of Saint-Florentin and Argenteuil against the Normans in 898 .

At the end of his life he founded the Saint-Vivant monastery of Vergy in Curtil-Vergy on the advice of his son Hervé, also known as "Hervé de Chalon", bishop of Autun from 920 to 929 2 . In this place it allows the installation of the monks of Biarne who fled the Normans of Astings (or Austin or Hasting ) who, towards 886 , after the siege of Paris , advanced towards Burgundy .

He disappeared around 910 / 918 and his wife Ermengarde (873-921 v) daughter of Boson , king in Provence , will be buried in his monastery 2 . He leaves five children 3 , 4 :

Walo de Vergy ( ru ) (ap. 924)
Herve
Gilbert de Châlon .
Manasses
Ermengarde [III] wife of Count Liétald II de Mâcon
Notes and references
" Manassès I er de Chalon († v. 925) " [ archive ] , in "Burgundy duchy - Dijon", ch. 1: "Comtes de Dijon", section A: "Comtes de Dijon" , on MedLands (accessed December 15, 2017 ) .
André Duchesne , Genealogical history of the house of Vergy justified by charters, titles, arrests, & other good & some proofs , Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy,1625 ( read online [ archive ] ) , p. 23-33
Anthony Marinus Hendrik Johan Stokvis , Manual of history, genealogy and chronology of all the states of the globe, from the earliest times to the present day , pref. HF Wijnman. Brill Publishers Leiden 1889 reissue, 1966, Volume II, part 1, chapter II, Table Family n o 49 p. 156
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Events

Birth875
DeathBet 910 and 918

Families

SpouseErmengarde (873 - 921)
ChildLiving