Comte Ademar de Bourbon

Note: The following article from French Wikipedia contains conflicting information for this individual especially in regard to his wife herein listed as Ermengarde. Further reading indicates that there is apparent questionable information regarding our subject overall.

Aimard or Aymar, born in 894, died about 953 (sometimes also called Adhemar), sire of Souvigny is the most distant known ancestor of the House of Bourbon being the father of the first Lord of Bourbon, Aymon I of Bourbon. Adhemar or Aymar provost of Châtel Neuvre for the Count Duke William I of Aquitaine called clarissimus miles by the editor cartulary of the abbey of Cluny is the first historically some ancestor of the house of Bourbon, cited 913 when King Charles the Simple, granted him a reward for his faithfulness more land in Berry, in Auvergne and in the Autunois, on the banks of the Allier. Aymar was the head of a viguerie important to its location on the borders of four provinces: Auvergne the Berry the Nivernais and Burgundy .We consider this viguerie contained the land located between Marigny and Chateldeneuvre Neuvy He donated to 915 "for fear of hell, for the love of God and to cure the soul" of the freehold of Souvigny with the church dedicated to St. Peter at the Cluny Abbey founded in 910. By this act he was probably a political act by giving his villa to the abbey founded by his suzerain It is also cited in another dubious deed is to Autun in 918, when he added to Souvigny priory property located in Lusigny. Adhemar made ​​his will in 923; this will, dated "from his castle of Moulins to the territory of Autun", he speaks of his grandfather Count Childebrand and father Nivelon and it establishes Amon, his eldest son, heir to all his property, the exceptions of smaller land holdings to his younger brothers. The authenticity of the acts of 918 and 923 is however more than questionable because the act of 923 mentions of his castle Mills, yet it did not yet exist castle in Moulins, he also speaks of St. Vincent de Chantelle that will founded only 13 years later Posterity [edit | edit the code] Aymard would have had four son of his wife Ermengarde: Amon I., his successor, and Dagobert and Archambaud and Emmon no known descendants. Source ry, genealogy and chronology of all states of the world, from ancient times until today, pref. HF Wijnman, editions Brill Leiden 1889 reissue, 1966, Volume II, Chapter II "France & Monaco," A) France e) feudal states, § 84 "lordship and barony and later duchy of Bourbon" p. 143 and Table Family No. 42 p. 144 References [change | edit the code] ↑ Grand cartulary of Cluny A, fol. 82, published by Dom Jean Mabillon, Annalecta Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, vol. III, p. 85; and Gallia Christiana nova, t. II, in Instrumenta, col. 377. ↑ a and b Moines and Dukes Leo Cote in Souvigny ↑ Souvigny and Bourbon Benedictines of St. Mayeul to today Souvigny Association Grand Site ↑ a fanciful genealogy makes this Childebrand little son and namesake of the name of the brother of Charles Martel!

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