Although the genealogy of early Ponthieu and Boulogne is scanty (and the 12th century versions unreliable, because of their efforts to tie the ruling houses of Boulogne and Ponthieu into earlier noble houses), it is most likely that Guy, Bishop of Amiens, was the uncle (and not the brother) of Enguerrand II and his brother Guy I of Ponthieu. Ponthieu is a former province of northern France. Its chief town is Abbeville. Boulogne-sur-Mer ( Bonen in Dutch is a City in Northern France. Guy I of Ponthieu (died 13 October 1100) was born sometime in the mid to late 1020s Count Enguerrand II's and Guy I's father Hugh II was the son of Enguerrand I by an earlier marriage: Enguerrand I evidently married a Boulognnais countess, the wife of Arnold II, who died in battle: from this later marriage came Guy and his brother Fulk (later abbot of Forest l'Abbaye), and probably a Robert. Hugh II of Ponthieu was Count of Ponthieu and lord of Abbeville, the son of Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. Enguerrand I was the son of Hugh I count of Ponthieu. He was apparently married twice Arnold II is a Count of Boulogne identified by Morton and Muntz (page xxxi note 7 as the one slain in battle by Count Enguerrand I of Ponthieu.
Bishop Guy was educated for a career in the church at the abbey of St Riquier and was one of its most brilliant students. Saint-Riquier is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France. His teacher was abbot Enguerrand (called "the wise" d. 9 December 1045). Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Guy may have been an archdeacon by 1045, and was bishop by 1058. "His predecessor to the episcopate of Amiens, Fulk II, was caught up in the emerging struggle between the secular clergy, dominated by the political contentions of the great feudal families, and the reforming popes, with their bias in favour of monastic houses, which they often rendered exempt from episcopal jurisdiction. " When Guy became bishop of Amiens he inherited the legal struggles of his predecessor; this eventually resulted in Guy being suspended from his duties as bishop, although he continued to rule the see as lord. Amiens (amjɛ̃ is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km north of Paris.
He was in this state of papal disfavor at the time of the Norman Conquest. This may have been the (contributing) reason why bishop Guy composed The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (Song of the Battle of Hastings), as an effort to flatter the new Norman king of England, William I, who was then in very high favor with the pope. The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio ( Song of the Battle of Hastings) is an early written source for the Norman invasion of England in September through The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England. Norman dynasty is the usual designation for the English monarchs which immediately followed the Norman conquest and lasted until the Plantagenet dynasty England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland William I of England ( 1027 His reign which brought Norman culture to England had an enormous impact on the subsequent course of England in the Middle Ages But if so, bishop Guy's poem failed in its purpose. He was highly enough thought of at the Norman court to be assigned as queen Matilda's chaplain when she went over to England for her coronation in 1068. Matilda of England (also called Maud; 1156 &ndash 13 July 1189) was the eldest daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine But when bishop Guy died in 1075, he still had not regained his bishopric.
Sources
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972. The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio ( Song of the Battle of Hastings) is an early written source for the Norman invasion of England in September through
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited and translated by Frank Barlow, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1999.
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