Drogo Mantsky ( Dreux ; Fr. Dreux ; 996 - 1035 , Nicea ) - Count of Amiens and Vexin from 1027 from the house of Vexins . Second son Gauthier II Bely and his wife Adele.
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Biography
Drogo received Amiens and Veksen after his father died in 1027, while his elder brother Raoul became Count of Valois . Following his predecessors, he pursued a policy of formal loyalty to the Kapetings and the alliance with the duchy of Normans . Duke Robert the Devil gave him (possibly, on April 7, 1024 [1] ) his cousin, daughter of the English king Ethelred the Unreasonable Godgif , at that time an exile. Due to this, the fate of the descendants of Drogo Mantsky was closely associated with England .
In 1035, Drogo went along with Robert the Devil on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . Pilgrims passed through France and Italy, visited Constantinople and got to Jerusalem . Both of them, Robert and Drogo, died on their way back to Nicea .
According to Order Vitaly , William the Conqueror made his claims to Veksen in 1087, relying on the fact of his relationship with Count Drogo. The feud over Veksen between the Capetys and the English kings became one of the most important political factors in the region for the next hundred years.
Family
From marriage to Godgif , Drogo had three children:
- Ralph, Earl Hereford (died 1057)
- Gauthier III , Count Vexin and Amiens (died 1063)
- Fulk , Bishop of Amiens (died 1068)
Shortly after the death of her husband, Godgifu married a second time - with Count Boulogne Eustachius II .
Notes
- ↑ Elisabeth van Houts. Edward and Normandy // Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend. - The Boydell Press, 2009. - p. 65.