Hughes d'Amboise

• Preferred Name: Hughes d'Amboise
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GHDX-6HK
  
• Birth: ABT 1075 in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France at LATI: N7.4104 LONG: E0.9811
  
• Death: 24 JUL 1129 in Kingdom of Jerusalem
  
• Fact: 1115 in Amboise, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France at LATI: N7.4358 LONG: E0.0125 with note: Description: Commissioned to be built the second stone bridge on the Loire after that of Tours (this bridge replaced a bridge made of boats)
  
• Burial: AFT 24 JUL 1129 in Mount of Olives Cemetery, Kingdom of Jerusalem
  
• Fact: BET 1105 AND 1120 in Touraine, France at LATI: N7.4325 LONG: E0.6885 with note: Description: Financed Construction of castles, abbeys, bridges, churches and monasteries
  
• MilitaryService: Took part in the siege of Nicaea, at the seige of AntiochJUN 1098
  
• MilitaryService: the taking of15 JUL 1099 in Jerusalem, Palestine at LATI: N1.7833 LONG: E5.2333
  
• Financed+Construction: BET 1105 AND 1120 in Touraine, France at LATI: N7.4325 LONG: E0.6885 with note: Description: castles, abbeys, bridges, churches and monasteries
  
• MilitaryService: Took part at the capture of Marre11 DEC 1098
  
• Commissioned+to+be+built: 1115 in Amboise, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France at LATI: N7.4358 LONG: E0.0125 with note: Description: the second stone bridge on the Loire after that of Tours (this bridge replaced a bridge made of boats)
  
• MilitaryService: at the headquarters of Ascalon12 AUG 1099
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Touraine1096
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Hugues Ist of Amboise, born around 1055, and died on July 24, 1129, was a lord of Touraine.
  
  Origin
  Hugues Ist of Amboise was the son of Sulpice Ist of Amboise, lord of Amboise and Chaumont-sur-Loire. He was, after the Count of Anjou, the most powerful lord of Touraine.
  
  Biography
  After years of war, and to reach a truce with Count Fulk IV of Anjou, Sulpice I of Amboise , his father, gave Hugues I as hostage to the count. Hugues thus remained a good part of his childhood at the court of the Count of Anjou. It is his uncle, Lisois de Verneuil, who, after the death of his father, managed to release him by threatening the count to defect at a time when it was exposed to the attacks of the count of Poitou, and Geoffroy, lord of Preuilly. After coming into possession of his property, Hugues Ist of Amboise became a knight and continued the fight against the Count of Anjou.
  
  In 1096, Hugues was one of the first lords of Touraine to answer the call of Pope Urban II. He left the abbey of Marmoutier, along with several other lords, to go to the Holy Land, with the first crusade of Godefroy de Bouillon. Before leaving, he entrusted the guard of Amboise Castle to Robert des Roches, lord of Roche-Corbon, his brother-in-law. However, being wary of Count Foulque IV of Anjou, who sought to make himself master of the castles of Roche-Corbon and Amboise, Hugues built in 1095, the castle of Roche-Corbon, on the highest place of the rock, a square tower forming a kind of lighthouse whose fires could be seen from the fortress of Amboise. It was then easy, by means of agreed signals, to warn the garrisons of one or the other fortress, in case of attack. This tower, the only ruin of the castle existing today, is still known under the name of "Lantern of Rochecorbon".
  
  He took part in the siege of Nicaea, was at the siege of Antioch in June 1098, and was at the capture of Marre on December 11, 1098. He participated in the taking of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, and was at the headquarters of Ascalon on August 12, 1099. He did not return his estates until Christmas 1099.
  
  Upon his return the war began again with Count Fulk IV of Anjou. The latter, to beat him, made alliances with Aubri lord of Montrésor and Montrichard, as well as with Josselin and Hugues de Sainte-Maure de Touraine. For his part, Hugues made an alliance with his brother-in-law, the lord of Lignières. Hugues Ist of Amboise won this war where both the Sainte-Maure de Touraine brothers and Fulk IV of Anjou died, in 1109.
  
  Fulk's successor, Foulque V of Anjou, preferred to compromise with Hugues by giving him all his possessions around Amboise. This did not prevent Hugues Ist of Amboise from attacking his other Aubri aggressor, lord of Montresor and Montrichard. At the end of the year 1109, he defeated him on the banks of the Indre and seized his fortress of Montrichard, which he annexed to his domains.
  
  Between 1105 and 1120, Hugues Ist of Amboise financed many construction projects throughout Touraine, including castles, abbeys, bridges, churches and monasteries. He had almost entirely rebuilt the castle of Amboise which became one of the main fortresses of Touraine. He also built, in 1115, in front of the fortress of Amboise the second stone bridge on the Loire, after that of Tours. This bridge replaced a bridge made of boats.
  
  In 1120, Hugues Ist of Amboise again took the cross to accompany Count Fulk V of Anjou , who was going to marry the daughter of the king of Jerusalem. He participated in several expeditions, including that against Damascus, and died in Jerusalem on July 24, 1129. His body was buried on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem.
  
  Hugues Ist of Amboise had married, in 1103, the half-sister of the Count of Anjou Geoffrey Martel IV, Elizabeth, daughter of William, lord of Jaligny, and Emengarde of Bourbon daughter of Archambaud IV. He had four sons and a daughter.
  
  1.) Sulpice II , known as Le Hutin , his successor (1105-1153)
  
  2.) Hugues d'Amboise, who became lord of Colombier in Touraine (Today Villandry ). He married with a loft. He had a daughter Agnès d'Amboise married in first marriage, (before 1198), with Amaury VI de Montfort-Evreux
  
  3.) Oudin, who became lord of Jaligny , in Auvergne
  
  4.) Etienne who entered the orders
  
  5.) Denise, who married Ernould de Bourbon
  
  Widowed in 1129, Elizabeth de Jaligny, put herself at the head of a small army to recover the inheritance of his father that had been removed by neighboring lords. The fight lasted a long time, but it finally triumphed and returned to its good.
  
  In 1128, she also took up arms to defend some of her children who were attacked.
  
  In 1153, although very old, she assisted her son Sulpice III in his war against Thibault count of Blois . She concluded a peace treaty with the count in 1154, and died on the 12th of December of the same year.
  
  After his death, his son Oudin inherited the lordship of Jaligny.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CENTRAL%20FRANCE.htm#HuguesIAmboisedied1129 as of 3/30/2016
  
  HUGUES [I] (-Jerusalem 24 Jul [1129/30], bur Jerusalem Mount Olives). The Gesta Ambaziensium na
  
  === Source: Kraentzler 1425. K: Hugues II d' ===
  Source: Kraentzler 1425. K: Hugues II d'Amboise, Seigneur d'Amboise and Chateau-sur-Loire.
  
  === M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 67 ===
  M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 67
  
  === #Générale# Il fait rebâtir et fortifier ===
  #Générale# Il fait rebâtir et fortifier le chateau d'Amboi se. Seigneur d'Amboise. Mariage : avant 1107
  
  === Line in Record @I07210@ (RIN 6732) from ===
  Line in Record @I07210@ (RIN 6732) from GEDCOM file not recognized: FAMILY_SPOUSE @F3002@

• m. ABT 1100

1. Agnes d'Amboise, b. ABT 1102 in Shenton, Leicestershire, England     d. ABT 1153 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England