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Meaux Meaux () is a commune on the river Marne in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is east-northeast of the centre of Paris. Meaux is, with Provins, Torcy and Fontainebleau, ...

. about 750 : Helmgaud 787 : Richard, appeared in an

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after the death of abbot Witlaic 799-813 : Helmgaud II son of Gauzhelm, son of Helmgaud I; he was a Charlemagne's missi dominici alongside the bishop Jessé d'Amiens ; he notably attended the coronation of Charlemagne (according to

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in 799) and was sent in 802 as an embassy to

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in about 812-813 862-877 :

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(† 879)

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(877-879) ?-886 : Thibert (or Teutbert), count of Madrie, son or grandson of Nivelon, his daughter marries

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Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995 - Herbert Ier de Vermandois p. 258 ; Teutbert, comte de Madrie, note 33 p. 411 ; Teutbert, frère d'Anschéric p. 412 886-888 : Thibert (Teutbert or Tetbert) († 888), killed in

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, brother of Anscharic

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888-902 :

Herbert I of Vermandois Herbert I (c. 848/850 – 907) or Heribertus I, Count of Vermandois, Count of Meaux, Count of Soissons, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin. He was a Carolingian aristocrat who played a significant role in Francia. Herbert was the son of Pepin of V ...

(† 902),

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902-943 : Herbert II de Vermandois († 943), count of Vermandois, son of the preceding, marries Adèle, daughter of

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, king of France 943-966 :

Robert of Vermandois Robert of Vermandois ( – ) was Count of Meaux and Count of Troyes, son of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois and his wife, Adele of France, daughter of Robert I of France. Robert succeeded his father as Count of Meaux in 943 and became Count ...

(† 966), count of Meaux (943-967) and

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(956-967), son of the preceding ::marries Adélaïde Werra, countess of Troyes, daughter of

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, main count of Burgundy 967-995 : Herbert of Vermandois, count of Meaux and Troyes, son of the preceding 995-1022 : Stephen I of Troyes, count of Meaux and Troyes, son of the preceding 1022-1037 :

Odo II, Count of Blois Odo II () (983 – 15 November 1037) was the count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Beauvais and Tours from 1004 and count of Troyes (as Odo IV) and Meaux (as Odo I) from 1022. He twice tried to make himself a king: first in Italy after 1024 and t ...

(983 † 1037),

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, of Reims, Meaux and Troyes, cousin of the preceding, descendant of Herbert II, count of Vermandois ::marries firstly in 1103 to

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(† 1006) ::secondly to Ermengearde d'Auvergne 1037-1047 : Stephen II († 1047), count of Meaux and Troyes, son of the preceding and Ermengearde d'Auvergne 1047-1066 :

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(† 1115), count of Meaux and Troyes, son of the preceding ::he accompanies

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and settles in England. His uncle then took over his Champagne estates. 1066-1089 : Thibaut I (1019 † 1089), count of Blois, Meaux and Troyes, uncle of the preceding, son of Odo I and Ermengearde d'Auvergne ::marries firstly to Gersende du Maine ::secondly to

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1089-1102 :

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, († 1102), count of Blois and Meaux, son of Theobald I and Gersende du Maine. :marries

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1102-1151 : Theobald II, († 1152), count of Blois and Meaux, count of Champagne in 1125, son of the preceding. :See list of counts of Champagne next

Viscount of Meaux

:The counts of Meaux were assisted by the viscounts of Meaux, at least since 1081/1098 They were also Lords of La Ferté-Ancoul/-sous-Jouarre (see details in this article), and from the end of the 11th century until the Revolution, the viscounts were descended from the old masters of La Ferté-sous-Jouarre : the families of La Ferté-Ancoul, then Oisy (

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), of Montmirail (

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and his daughter

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; they had also Condé, long associated with La Ferté-Ancoul and Meaux), Coucy (

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; Enguerrand V), of Béthune-Locres,

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( Robert of Marle and his daughter Jeanne), of Luxembourg- Saint-Pol (

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and his granddaughter

), of

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(

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and the grandfather of the King

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) then Bourbon-Condé (

). :And then 13 August 1627 Henri II of Condé (1588-1646 ; 26th Viscount of Meaux) yields the viscount (Word épicène at the time) to duke of Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, from Béthune-Locres (the valuation was very low 15 000

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. The latter leaves it to his youngest son François, duke of Orval (1602-1678 ; brother of Maximilien II) and to his grandson Philippe († August 1682 ; son of François ; he is said to have ceded the viscount during his lifetime to his first cousin Maximilien III), then to Maximilien II, dukes of Sully Maximilien III François (1615-1662), Maximilien IV Pierre (1640-1694), Maximilien V Pierre-François-Nicolas (1664-1712) Maximilien VI Henri (1669-1729 ; without offspring : vacant at his death), Maximilien VIII Antoine-Armand of Orval (1730-1786 ; ''known as viscount of Meaux'' ''since his birth''; father of Maximilien IX Alexis (1750-1776) and Maximilien X Gabriel-Louis (1756-1800)).

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