Guillaume of the Pole

Guillaume , dead the February 18th 1226, was count of the Pole of 1217 with 1226. It was wire of Rotrou IV, count of the Pole, and Blois-Champagne Mathilde.

He was initially treasurer and provost of Saint Martin's day of Tours. Then he was elected bishop of Châlons in 1215 and was crowned in 1216. The following year, it succeeds its nephew Thomas, count of the Pole, killed with Lincoln. It made in 1220 donations with the Notre Dame abbey of the Trap door for the rest of the heart of his Geoffroy brother and his Thomas nephew.

It made the pilgrimage in Jerusalem in 1225 and died in the return. The house of the Pole died out with him, and several heirs asserted the succession, but the king Louis VIII the Lion took advantage of the right of reversion and annexed the Comté of the Pole.

Sources

  • Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: counts of the Pole
  • France Trotts Counts of the Pole

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