Melun
Melun (population 37,000) isFrench city onriver Seine. It ispréfecture (administrative capital) ofSeine-et-Marne département.History
The city started on an island nearjunction ofMarne Riveris south southwestParis. What Caesar saidMelunhis commentaries testifies that itvery old,thatwas very importantits time. The Normans sackedin 845.
King Hugh Capet gave MelunBouchard, his favorite. UnderreignRobert, Eudes,countChampagne, boughtcity, andking tookback forviscount999. Le Chatelainhis wife, who had soldcity, were hanged.
Melun, ancient family (or household)
1. The firstthis householdJosselin I. by name, viscountMelun, who reigned amonggreat lords incourtkings Hugh Capet,Robert. In 998, he gavevillageNoisy-le-Sec tomonasterySaint Maur-des-Fossez, where he took upon himselfmonk's habit,where he died March 19, (no year given - probably 998/999).
On February 26, 999 Josselin I De Melun's grandson Manasses supported by Eudes, CountChartres andmayorMelun took control claimingimportant river castlevillage. They did not holdlong. King Robert, alongBouchardHerve, laid siege999forcedthose fighting against hereditary rightspaytheir lives. The mayorEudes were hangedmany others, but thereno further mentionManasses.
2. Herve, viscountMelun, who was still living1030 by report ofauthorMiraclesSaint Liesne,who wasfatherUrsion, who follows.
3. Ursion I. He had Guillaume I. who follows;Manasses who tooksideLe ChatelainCambray againstbishopthis city.
4. Guillaume I.,name, ViscountMelun, was named, Carpenter, because no weapon (opponents weapons that is) could be found that could resistpowerhis strikes. The heavinesshis (weapons) resultedhim being fearedcombats". Carpenters must of, attime, been amongmost "well build" people... " This isreportPierre, monkS. RemiReims. This historian, who knew Guillaume countMelun, assures infourth bookhis history ofconquest ofHoly Land, speaking ofretreat ofChristian army aftertakingAntioch1098, that this lord wasroyal lineage,was cousinHuguesFrance, countVermandois, brotherking Phillipe I. In 1084, this king confirmedprivileges accorded by his predecessors toabbeyHoly FatherMelun,toprayer ofviscount. The namehis wife andtimehis deathnot well known. He wasfatherUrsion II De Melun.
Robert, monkSaint Remy de Reims,his history ofHoly Land, Book 4, wrote thathouseMelun came from royal origins*. He gathered** "titlesmonuments"that great house, intended forgenealogical history more complete than could be given here. The firstthat ancient house, whose memorypreserved topresent day, is..."
(*) See du Bouchet, HistoryCourtenay, pp 194ff.
(**) Cabinee de M. de Clairembault.
External linksreferences
- The ViscountsCountsMelunlistedES (Detlev Schwennicke, "Europäische Stammtafeln," Neue Folge) Volume VII, Tafels 55 & 56.
Initial text from"Carpenters' EncyclopediaCarpenters 2001" Compiled by John R. Carpenter.
