Guillemette de Neufchâtel

Guillemette (or Guillaumette) of Neufchâtel (or Neuchâtel) (born in the years 1260 and died in 1317 in the Castle of Etobon (close to Héricourt - Haute-Saône), is the girl of Amédée de Neufchâtel and Jordanna of Sarraz (family of Montfaucon/Neufchâtel-in addition to-Joux (Switzerland)).

In 1282, it Marie with Renaud of Burgundy from which it had Agnès of Burgundy marries itself of Henri de Montfaucon, and Alix of Burgundy marries of Jean of Auxerre.

When she dies, four years before her husband, she is buried with Balsam-the-Sirs. Its heart is deposited in the Saint-Maimbœuf church of Montbeliard (Doubs).

Montbeliard and Burgundy

Marguerite of Montbeliard, girl of Thierry III of Montbeliard (1205-1283), had married in 1259 the Large Lord of Neufchâtel-in-Burgundy with like dowry the seigniories of Blamont, Châtelot, Belmont and Cuisance. Blamont was placed, by the lords of Neufchâtel-in-Burgundy, under the protection of the counts and dukes of Burgundy to withdraw it from covetousness those of Montbeliard.

By testamentary provisions, Thierry III made of the countess Guillemette, his back grand-daughter, the only heiress of the county of Montbeliard.

As she had married a lord of Burgundy, the entirety of the county returned to the latter to the great displeasure of the other descendants of Thierry III.

In order to avoid a war of succession, Renaud of Burgundy alleviated the situation by making some concessions. By a transaction made Thursday after flowered Easter of the year 1283, it yielded to Thiébaud IV, lord de Neufchâtel, all the part of the county of Montbeliard which the seigniories of Blamont and Châtelot formed; with load to hold them of him in stronghold, expressly reserving on the grounds in question suzerainty. According to the act, the seigniory of Blamont included/understood the following places: Blamont, borough and castle, Rocks, Chamabon (disappeared), Ecurcey, Autechaux, Mossonvillers (disappeared), Pierrefontaine, Villars, Damvans, Vaufrey, Réclère, Grandfontaine, Abbévillers, Rocourt, Vandoncourt, Seloncourt, Bondeval, Hérimoncourt, Mélieres, Glay and Audincourt.

Sources

  • the Novel of a Principality Daniel. Lord. Editions Cêtre - Besancon.

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