Footnotes

1. He was son of Theobald III., Count of Champagne. Hugo showed extreme munificence towards religious houses in general, and especially towards the monasteries of Moustier Ramey and Molesme. He was at first Count of Bar sur Aube, then of Troyes, after the death of his brother Eudes. But having suppressed the names of those counties when uniting them in his own person, he was the cause that his successors took the title of Counts of Champagne in lieu of that of Counts of Bar sur Aube and Troyes, which they had hitherto borne (Fraiois ChifHet). He went three times on pilgrimage to the Holy Land — the first time in A.D. 1113. the second in A.D. 1121, and the third when he joined the Order of the Templars, which was in A.D. 1125 (Alberic, Chronicle). When about to undertake this voyage beyond the sea, if Peter Pithon is to be believed (says ChifHet), he sold his county to Theobald, son of his brother Stephen, disinherited his son Eudes, and left enceinte his second wife, whom he had married after his marriage with Constance, daughter of Philip I., King of France, had been dissolved because of consanguinity in 1 104. He died beyond the sea on the I4th June. This Hugo is another person from Hugo, Master of the Knights of the Temple, to whom Bernard directed his exhortation Ad Milites Templi. ↩

2. It was Count Hugo who had given to Bernard and his monks the district of Clairvaux and its dependencies, and may merit to be called by the name of their Founder. As that fact has hitherto been noticed but by few, we give here the deed of donation itself, of which we owe the publication to ChifHet, whom we have already had often occasion to quote. He has copied it from the autograph at Clairvaux, and first published it in his Dissertation: — " In Nomine Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis incipit charta Comitis Hugonis. Notum sit omnibus praesentibus et futuris, quod ego Comes Trecensis, Do Deo, et beatae Mariae et fratribus Clarae Vallis, locum ipsum qui vocatur Clara- Vallis, cum pertinentiis agris, pratis, vineis, silvis et aquis, nihil omnino mihi aut hseredibus meis retinens. Unde testes Acardus Remensis et Petrus, et Robertus Aurelianensis milites mei. Et sciendum quod Gaufridus Felonia dat pasturas suas in finagio de Juvencourt, tarn in bosco quam in piano, omni tempore: et si aliquod damnum intulerint animalia dictorum fratrum, solum capitale restituetur sine emenda. Haec autem omnia dedi in praesentia supradictorum testium. Sciendum quoque est, quod dominus Josbertus de Firmitate, cognomine Rufus, et dominus Rainaudus de Perceris dederunt eisdem fratribus pasturam et usuarium per totam terrain suam, et praecipue in aquis, silvis, pratis, in finagio de Perrecin. Hujus rei testes sunt Acardus Remensis et Robertus milites mei. Item sciendum quoque est, quod ego Hugo Comes Trecensis laudo et concedo eisdem fratribus libere et quiete possidere terram et silvam de Aretela. Has donationes confirmamus ego Joscerannus Lingonensis Episcopus, et ego Hugo Comes Trecensis de sigillo et annulo meo." As to the year of foundation, which is not specified in this deed, ChifHet, following the Chronograph of S. Marianus, of Auxerre, refers it to June A.D. 1 114. All agree as to the month; as to the year, the documents, both domestic and from external sources, seem to negative it, and among others the Exordium C is ter dense (Dist. ii. cap i), also the tablet attached to the tomb of S. Bernard, plainly say A.U. 1115. It seemed better, therefore, to adhere to the opinion long since received, considering that Bernard had scarcely made his profession in June, 1114, and Hugo himself, who made the grant, was still occupied in the East. Clairvaux was then founded by Hugo, Count of Champagne, and transferred in 1 135 to a larger site with the aid of Count Theobald, his successor, and new buildings erected. Wherefore some have given him the name of the first founder, confounding the removal with the foundation. ↩