This article is a list of the counts of Roucy. In medieval

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, Roucy was a

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held by a succession of noble families. By the

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, it was one of seven titles that was made a peer within the provincial

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of the greater County and

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up until the

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First counts

c.950–967 :

Renaud of Roucy Renaud or Ragenold, Count of Roucy ( 920 – 10 May 967) was a 10th-century Viking who swore allegiance to the Franks, Frankish kings, and became the military chief of Reims after the restoration of the Archbishop of Reims, Archbishop Artald of Re ...

, Count of Roucy and of Reims († 967): ::married Albérade, daughter of

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, and of

Gerberga of Saxony Gerberga of Saxony (c. 913 – 5 May 968/9 or 984?) was a French queen who ruled as regent of France during the minority of her son Lothair in 954–959. She was a member of the Ottonian dynasty. Her first husband was Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. ...

(she remarried to king Louis IV of France). 967–c.1000 :

Gilbert of Roucy Gilbert (also Giselbert or Gislebert), Count of Reims & Roucy, was the son of Renaud, Count of Reims and Alberade of Lorraine, daughter of Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. Although his wife's name is unknown, she was likely from the family of the Poit ...

, Count of Roucy and Viscount of Reims († c.1000), son of the former: :''No document of the era mentions the relationship between Gilbert and his successor Ebles I. It has long been thought that Ebles of Roucy was a son of Gilbert and of a daughter of William III, Duke of Poitiers.'' :''A recent studyJean-Noël Mathieu, "La Succession au comté de Roucy aux environs de l'an mil", in ''Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval'', under the direction of Christian Settipani and Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, 2000 proposed another theory : Ebles I of Roucy was a son of Ebles of Poitiers (himself the son of William IV, Duke of Poitiers and of Emma of Blois) and of a daughter of Aubry II, count of Mâcon, and of Ermentrude of Roucy, sister of Gilbert of Roucy.'' c.1000–1033 :

Ebles I of Roucy Ebles I of Roucy (died 11 May 1033) was count of Roucy from 1000 to 1033 and archbishop of Reims from 1021 to 1033. Possible family origins In Genealogiciæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis''Genealogiciæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis names 'Lebaldus de Malla e ...

, Count of Roucy and

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(1021–1033): ::married Béatrice of Hainaut, daughter of Regnier IV, Count of Hainaut and of Hedwig, a daughter of Hugh Capet.

House of Montdidier The House of Montdidier was a medieval French noble house which ruled as count of Montdidier, Dammartin and Roucy. Its earliest definite member of the family was a certain Hilduin, who died before 956 and was known as ''comte de Montdidier''. Th ...

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*1033–1063:

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, Count of Ramerupt and Roucy, son-in-law of the above, : married in 1031 to Alix de Roucy (c.1020-1062), daughter of Ebles I. *1063–1103: Ebles II, son of the above, : married Sybille de Hauteville, daughter

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, Duke of Apulia. *1103–1160:

Hugh I Hugh I may refer to: * Hugh I of Lusignan (c. 885–c. 930) * Hugh I, Count of Maine (died 933) * Hugh I, Viscount of Châteaudun (died 989 or after) * Hugh I of France (c. 939–996), a.k.a. Hugh Capet, first King of the Franks of the Capetian dy ...

, son of the above, : married Richildis von Stauffen, daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Swabia. *1160–1180: Guiscard, son of the above, : married Elisabeth de Mareuil, dame de Neufchatel-sur-Aisne. *1180–1196: Raoul I, son of the above, : married Isabelle de Coucy, daughter of Raoul I, Seigneur de Coucy; their only child was a daughter who became a nun. *1196–1200:

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, brother of above, : married Beatrice de Vignory; had no legitimate offspring. *1200–1205?:

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, brother-in-law of Raoul I.

House of Pierrepont

Blazon of arms: ''Gules a chief indented Or.'' *1205–1251:

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, grandson of Count Guiscard through his mother (his sister Elisabeth, Viscountess of Mareuil, x

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Robert de Coucy-Pinon, without posterity): ::married in first marriage to Isabelle of Dreux, daughter of Robert II and Yolande of Coucy (sister of Isabelle / Mélissende wife of Raoul I above) married in second marriage to Joan of Dampierre (?) married in third marriage to Marie of Dammartin († 1279), daughter of Simon, Count of Aumale x Marie,

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(niece of

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). *1251–1271: John III, son of the previous count and of Marie of Dammartin (→ a sister of John III, x Jean de Garlande, sire de Possesse): :: married to Isabelle de Mercœur daughter of Béraud VIII x Béatrice de Bourbon-Dampierre. *1271–1304: John IV, Lord of Pierrepont and Viscount of Mareuil (Killed 18 August 1304 at the

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), son of the previous count: :: married to Joan of Dreux, Lady of La Suze daughter of Robert IV, Count of Dreux and of Braine and of Beatrice, Countess of Montfort and Lady of La Suze. *1304–1346:

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(Killed 26 August 1346 at the

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), John V abandoned the arms of the House of Pierrepont for the Blue Lion on a field of gold (Blazon: ''Or a lion azure armed and langued gules''). Ebles I, ancestral Count of Roucy, also displayed the Blue Lion→ Siblings: Béatrice de La Suze, x Amaury III de Craon; and Marie, x Jean II de Châteauvillain: :: married to Marguerite de Baumetz (Bommiers, Bomez, Beaumez) Lady of Blaison, Chemillé, Mirebeau and Montfaucon (-en-Berry and not Montfaucon, very likely), probable daughter of Marguerite de

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and Thibaud (II) the Younger , son of Robert IV de Bommiers and his 2nd wife Yolande de Mello (to be distinguished from his half-brothers and sister, the children of Robert IV de Bommiers x 1st Mathilde / Mahaut de Déols grand-niece of Raoul VI de Déols-Châteauroux: Marguerite, x 1 ° Louis I of Beaujeu-Montferrand and x 2 ° Henri III of Sully; Robert de Bommiers; Thibaud (Ier) the Elder). *1346–1364: Robert II, son of the previous count: :: married to Marie d'

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, daughter of Gautier II d'Enghien, Knight, Lord of Enghien,

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of Tubize. *1364–1370: Isabelle of Pierrepont, daughter of the previous count, married to Louis of Flandre-Namur, son of

, without posterity. ---- : Isabelle sold Roucy to Louis I of Anjou in 1370, but her uncle Simon of Pierrepont asserted his right of foreclosure and sued the

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to obtain the county. The trial lasted 20 years and was judged in his favor. *1370–1384: Louis I of Anjou, Duke of Anjou, son of John II of France. *1384–1390: Louis II of Anjou, son of the previous count. ---- *1390–1392: Simon of Pierrepont, son of John V, count of Braine and of Roucy after the death of his niece Isabelle. → Siblings of counts Simon and Robert II: Hugh of Pierrepont, Vidame of

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by his marriage to Marie de Clacy-et-Thierret / Clacy; Béatrice, x Louis II of

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First counts

House of Montdidier The House of Montdidier was a medieval French noble house which ruled as count of Montdidier, Dammartin and Roucy. Its earliest definite member of the family was a certain Hilduin, who died before 956 and was known as ''comte de Montdidier''. Th ...

House of Pierrepont

House of Sarrebruck

House of Roye

House of La Rochefoucauld

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