Henry II of Rodez

Henry II (c. 1236 – 1304), of the House of Millau, was the Count of Rodez and Viscount of Carlat from 1274 until his death. He was the son of Hugh IV of Rodez and Isabeau de Roquefeuil.

Henry II was a troubadour and patron of troubadours (his Occitan name was "Enric II de Rodes"). He composed six poems that survive: four "tensos" and two "partimens" (alternatively five "torneyamens"). His short "vida" records an exchange of couplets between "lo coms de Rodes" (the count of Rhodes) and Uc de Saint Circ. The count claims to have got Uc back on his feet through his generous patronage. Among the other troubadours who were supported at Henry's court were Guiraut Riquier, Folquet de Lunel, Cerverí de Girona, and Bertran Carbonel.

Marriages and children

Henry II married three times. His first wife, married in 1256, was Marquise, dauther of Barral des Baux. They had one daughter named Isabeau who inherited the viscounty of Carlat and married the troubadour Geoffrey, lord of Pons. Though Marquise died in 1276, she was repudiated sometime before that in favour of Mascarosse, daughter of Bernard IV of Comminges. The latter bore Henry four children:
*Hugh
*Cecilia (1275–1313), successor, married (1298) Bernard VI of Armagnac
*Beatrix, lady of Scorailles and Saint-Christophe, married (1295) Bernard III (died 1325), lord of La Tour
*Valpurge, viscountess of Creyssel and lord of Roquefeuil, married (1298) Gaston d'Armagnac (died 1326), viscount of FézenzaguetHenry was widowered in 1292 and remarried for the last time in 1302 to Anne (died 1351), daughter of Aymar III of Valentinois. The couple had no children and the widowed Anne remarried to John I, Dauphin of Auvergne.

ources

*Egan, Margarita, ed. and trans. "The Vidas of the Troubadours". New York: Garland, 1984. ISBN 0 8240 9437 9.

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