Enguerrand II,

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, known as of

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or of Marle, was a French nobleman. He was also lord of Marle, La Fère, Crécy (sur-Serre),

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, Pinon, Landouzy (la-Ville), Fontaine (lès-Vervins), and of several other places. Unlike his father, the brigand-lord Thomas de Marle, Enguerrand II peacefully administered his lands, building a chapel in his castle (the chapel's foundations survive as some of the oldest remains in Coucy). Enguerrand joined the army of

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during the

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. He died in battle and was buried in Nazareth. In 1131, he married Agnès de Beaugency, daughter of Mathilde de Vermandois and Raoul I of Beaugency.M.A. Pollock, ''Scotland, England and France after the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296'', (The Boydell Press, 2015), 145. Agnès gave him two sons: * Raoul I, Lord of Coucy * Enguerrand His main leisure pursuit was hunting in the woods, where legend holds he met and killed a fierce lion or beast which had been terrorising the area, and founded the Order of the Lion to commemorate the event.

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