Does Henry I of France have any favorites?
I'm trying to find someone he might give a minor fief to.
I'm trying to find someone he might give a minor fief to.
Now, you could see an equivalent to Guillaume Maréchal in France, as royal networks usually included unlanded miles as trusted men as they depended more on royal support, and had less conflicting interest overall (to not mention a certain cultural-political mindset of service).
I know : it's why I said "you could see an equivalent". Which would have significant differences (socially and culturally wise) for the following reasons.This guy is perfect, except that he served Henry Fitzpress not Henri of France.
Similarily, I pointed that it was maybe a bit too early to see milites arising as landed vassals : at this point they were essentially trusted familiars (milites castri) or territorial auxiliaries (vicarii) respnsible of the maintain of senioral power, but not recieving senioral power themselves.Does Henri I of France have anyone like that?
Milites weren't nobiliar cadets : while after the XIIth century the notion of chivalry (being praised as a christian way-of-life for nobles) began to really spread among nobility as a social-military ethos, as knights became less and less of a distinct social class and more merged with the nobiliar estates; the societal, cultural and political changes happening with the Renaissance of the XIIth century dealt with the necessity of milites as a special sub-class of warring nobility, and (christianized, valorized, laregly re-written) knighthood became a cultural model for aristocracy as well.Alternately, was there anyone who was a son, but not the first and therefore not going to inherit, who happened to have a good relationship with Henri?