Vergy

Who he is

Name

Hugh of Vergy (Hugues de Vergy)

Title

Lord of Vergy (until 1199) and of Mirebeau, hereditary seneschal of Burgundy

Since

lord of Vergy before 1183; seneschal and lord of Mirebeau by the 1199 settlement

Born

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Family

House of Vergy. Wife Gillette of Trainel (1160-1224). Daughter Alice, duchess of Burgundy since summer 1199. His son William of Vergy is later lord of Mirebeau and seneschal.

Confidence

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fr.wikipedia Alix de Vergy and Eudes III de Bourgogne (after Petit)

Overlord

Odo III, duke of Burgundy, for Mirebeau and the seneschalship; his lands in the county of Burgundy (Autrey and others) are held on the imperial side

What it holds

• Mirebeau-sur-Beze and the ducal lands beyond the Tille (from 1199)
• the hereditary seneschalship of Burgundy
• lands in the county of Burgundy across the Vingeanne (Autrey and others, imperial side; detail not pinned)

How it was acquired

Exchange and grant in the 1199 marriage settlement, mediated at Citeaux.

Allies and rivals

Father-in-law of Duke Odo. Formerly the duke's enemy and the king's protege (1183-1199). Kin by marriage to the Trainel of Champagne.

How things stand that morning

Holds Mirebeau and the lands beyond the Tille as the duke's vassal and seneschal; Vergy itself is now the duke's.

Wealth

Lands of the Tille and Vingeanne plain; the seneschal's dues. Detail not pinned.

Military

The castle of Mirebeau; Vergy's men. The family held Vergy against two dukes and a long siege (1183-1186).

Threats

• the Comte's turmoil after Otto I's death touches his lands beyond the Vingeanne

Places of note

• Castle of Mirebeau: Hugh's seat from 1199

Where the sources disagree

• fr.wikipedia's Eudes III says Stephen of Mont-Saint-Jean was seneschal and gave the office up for ducal lands; its Alix de Vergy says the seneschalship went to Hugh of Vergy in 1199. Both fit if Stephen resigned at the settlement.

Evidence: The 1199 exchange is in Petit's history; the exact list of villages beyond the Tille is not pinned.

On the map: Village list illustrative of the castellany; the 1199 boundary was the river Tille.

Primary sources for Burgundy

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicle of Robert of Auxerre, Robert of Auxerre (Robert of Saint-Marien) (about 1190 to 1211; continued at Saint-Marien to 1227). A universal chronicle whose last twenty years are contemporary and well informed from Burgundy and the Auxerrois. Read online
• Deeds of Philip Augustus, Rigord (about 1186 to 1206, in stages). The French court's own chronicle for the year, from the monk of Saint-Denis who called himself the king's chronographer. Read online
• The Conquest of Constantinople (Villehardouin), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (about 1207 to 1213). Opens with the preaching of Fulk of Neuilly and the tournament at Ecry (28 November 1199) where Theobald III of Champagne and Louis of Blois took the cross, then the taking of the cross by Baldwin of Flanders, Hugh of Saint-Pol, Geoffrey of Perche and others through early 1200, the assemblies at Soissons and Compiegne in 1200, and the six envoys sent to Venice in the winter of 1200 to 1201. Read online
• Documents of the French Royal Treasury of Charters, vol. 1 (755 to 1223) (755 to 1223; the archive was organised from the 1190s). The treaties and bonds the French crown kept in its own archive, printed in date order. Read online
• The Acts of Philip Augustus, with Delisle's Calendar, Various (the French royal chancery) (1179 to 1223). The king's own charters and treaties for the year: the peace of Peronne with Baldwin IX in January 1200, the treaty of Le Goulet with John on 22 May 1200, the marriage settlement for Louis and Blanche, the privilege for the scholars of Paris, grants to towns, abbeys and Norman lords, and the first acts of the king's new acquisitions in the Vexin, Evreux and Berry. Read online