EFL - Enciclopedia delle Famiglie Lombarde

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CENTRAL%20FRANCE.htm The early histor y of the county of Chartres is obscure. Guillaume de Jumièges describ es how "le comte Thibaut" [Thibaut [I] Vicomte de Tours] bought the to wn of Chartres from Hasting the Viking [1]. The Chronicle of Alberic d e Trois-Fontaines records that "Hastingo" sold "civitate Carnoto" to " Turonensi comiti Theobaldo" in 904 [2], presumably copying from the sa me source. The accuracy of these two reports is uncertain as it is unc lear whether Hasting ever was comte de Chartres. It is also unclear wh ether Hasting was Viking in origin: Rodulfus Glauber records that "vir ... in pago Trecassino ex infimo rusticorum genere Astingus... in vico ... Tranquillus" left home and joined "Normannorum gentem" [3]. It i s more likely that Thibaut [II], son of Thibaut [I], who had acquire d the county of Blois also gained control of the counties of Chartre s and Châteaudun in the 960s. Thereafter, the counts of Blois were al so counts of Chartres. Government of the county was entrusted to the v icomtes, records of whom are continuous from the early 11th century . Episcopal influence in the town was of course strong, the bishops b eing represented in temporal matters by the vidames de Chartres. HILD UIN [Gilduin], son of --- (-St Vanne, Verdun 18 May [1060]). Vicomte d e Chartres. He founded the abbey of Coulombs in 1025. "…Gilduini vic ecomitis Carnotensi…" subscribed the charter dated [1027/28] under w hich Robert II King of France confirmed donations to Coulombs [4]. H e founded the abbey of Saint-Jean-en-Vallée, Chartres in 1036. Comt e de Breteuil. "Gelduinus" donated property by charter dated to [1038/ 40] which names "propinquo meo… Fulcherio, seniorisque mei Odonis