Hugh I of Le Puiset (died 23 December 1096), son of
Everard I of Breteuil and his wife Humberge.
In 1067, taking advantage of the weakness of
Philip I of France
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, he seized the royal castle of Puiset and settled there. In 1073,
Theobald III, Count of Blois
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, became Count of Chartres and did not hesitate to defy royal order, defeating the royal army in 1079 at Le Puiset. He took as prisoner
Ivo, Bishop of Chartres, and kept him confined for two years.
Hugh married Alice of Montlhéry, daughter of
Guy I, lord of Montlhéry, and
Hodierna de Gometz. The family of Montlhéry was also part of the turbulent nobility that
King Louis VI
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Chronicles called him "King of Saint-Denis". Louis was the first member ...
would have to put down a generation later. The alliances of the Montlhéry Clan formed a broad network of nobles who engaged heavily in the Crusades.
Hugh and Alice had at least nine children:
* Odeline of Puiset (d. before 2 November 1107), married Joscelin IV of Lèves, a Crusader. Their daughter (name unknown) married
Ralph the Red of Pont-Echanfray.
*
Éverard III, Seigneur of Puiset, Viscount of Chartres
*
Hugh II, Seigneur of Puiset, Count of Jaffa (as Hugh I of Jaffa)
* Guy of Puiset (d. 1127 of after), Canon of Chartres, Seigneur of Méréville, Viscount d’Étampes
*
Gilduin (d. 1135), Monk at
Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Prior at Lurey-Le-Bourg, Abbot at
Notre-Dame du Val, Josaphat
*
Waleran (Galéran) (d. in prison 1126), made lord of
Birecik
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Built on a limestone cliff 400 ft. high on the left/east bank of the Euphrates, "at the upper part of a reach of that river, which runs near ...
in 1116 after its capture by
Baldwin II. Married the daughter of the previous lord, Abu'lgharib.
* Raoul of Puiset
* Humberge of Le Puiset, married
Walo II of Beaumont-sur-Oise, Viscount of Chaumont-en-Vexin. Their son Drogo was an early ancestor of the counts of Dammartin.
* Eustachie.
Hugh established a
priory of Marmountier at
Le Puiset. See also
the Houses of Montlhéry and Le Puiset
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1096 deaths
11th-century French people
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