Hugh of Chaumont-sur-Loire

Hugh of Chaumont-sur-Loire

lord of Amboise

Amboise

1129

Hugh of Chaumont-sur-Loire had ruled Amboise as co-lord with his cousin, Aimery of Courron, when the two set off on the First Crusade. Aimery died near Nicaea, but Hugh of Chaumont returned to Anjou. In 1128, in the midst of a major dispute with the monks of Marmoutier, Hugh traveled to Le Mans to find Count Fulk V of Anjou and make his case. According to a document recorded by the monks, the count sided with Marmoutier, Hugh admitted he was at fault, and forfeited the lands and rights in question to the monastery. It was apparently on this occasion that Hugh also took the cross, with Fulk, to travel to Jerusalem. The dynastic history of the Anjou family records that he was ultimately buried on the Mount of Olives.

Fulk V of Anjou

Chartrou, L 'Anjou de 1109 a 1151, 367-69, no. 38.
= Paris, B.N., Touraine, IV, no. 1500, f. 256 and no. 1501, fol. 257-8.

Mark Blincoe, "Angevin Society and the Early Crusades, 1095-1145 (Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2008),pp. 487-492.