Gilles (Ægidius) (died before 1193), was
Count of Montaigu and Clermont, through his father
Count Godefried of Montaigu, and
Count of Duras, through his wife Juliane, daughter of
Count Otto of Duras. Gilles was also Seigneur of
Rochefort
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Places France
* Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, in the Charente-Maritime department
** Arsenal de Rochefort, a former naval base and dockyard
* Rochefort, Savoie in the Savoie department
* Rochefort-du-Gard, in the Ga ...
,
Jodoigne
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and
advocate of the
abbey of Saint-Trond.
In 1174, Gilles also married Laurette de Looz, daughter of
Louis I, Count of Looz, and his wife Agnes von Metz. They divorced childless in 1176.
Gilles contracted leprosy, giving up most of his lands to his brothers
Conon
Conon ( el, Κόνων) (before 443 BC – c. 389 BC) was an Athenian general at the end of the Peloponnesian War, who led the Athenian naval forces when they were defeated by a Peloponnesian fleet in the crucial Battle of Aegospotami; later he c ...
and Pierre. Gilles was succeeded as Count of Montaigu, Clermont and Duras by his brother Conon, possibly as early as 1175. In a charter dated 1175 donating property to the
Knights Hospitaller
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, Gilles is referred to as former count and his brothers Pierre and Conon as Counts of Montaigu and Duras, respectively. He kept the lordship of Jodoigne and was then at least once referred to as count of Jodoigne. (His mother had also referred to herself as countess of Jodoigne.
[Hanon de Louvet Vol.1 p.71])
Leprosy, however, was not the end of his military life, according to
Gislebert of Mons, as he and his brother Conon fought the duke of Louvain, for seizing Duras and Jodoigne, his only remaining allod. They were able to recover Duras. Moreover, he writes of his capture in the town of Namur by
Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, who held him captive for a long time.
Gilles and his brothers prepared to go on crusade, though Gilles probably never went ahead with this plan. None of the brothers had heirs, and so arrangements were made for their possessions.
References
Sources
*Hanon de Louvet (1941) ''Histoire de la Ville de Jodoigne''
* Wolters, Joseph Mathias, ''Notice Historique sur l’Ancien Comté de Duras en Hesbaie'', Gyselinck, 1855 (available o
Google Books
*{{citation, author=C. G. Roland, title=Les seigneurs et comtes de Rochefort, journal=Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur, volume=20, year=1893, url=https://archive.org/details/annalesdelasocie20soci/page/130, pages=63–141.
External links
12th-century deaths
Counts of Montaigu