Manasses (died 15 December 1037),
Count of Dammartin
The Counts of Dammartin were the rulers of the county of Dammartin, based in the current commune of Dammartin-en-Goële as early as the 10th century. Located at the central plain of France, the county controlled the roads of Paris to Soissons and L ...
(Dammartin-en-Goële), son of
Hilduin II, Count of Arcis-sur-Aube Hilduin II (d. after 993), Count of Arcis-sur-Aube, Seigneur de Ramerupt, was the nephew or son of Hilduin I, Count of Montdidier. His mother was Hersende, a noble lady who was either Hilduin I's wife or sister or the spouse of Hilduin I's unnamed b ...
and Seigneur de Ramerupt. He was a member of the
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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Manasses died in the battle of Ornel, near Etain, Bar-le-Duc, apparently part of an invasion of the
Kingdom of Burgundy
Kingdom of Burgundy was a name given to various states located in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. The historical Burgundy correlates with the border area of France, Italy and Switzerland and includes the major modern cities of Geneva and ...
by
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 ...
, after the death of
Rudolph III, in an attempt by Odo to gain the crown of Burgundy.
Manasses married Constance, daughter of
Robert II the Pious and his third wife
Constance of Arles
Constance of Arles (c. 986 – 28 July 1032), also known as Constance of Provence, was Queen of France as the third spouse of King Robert II of France.
Life
Born Detlev Schwennicke, ''Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europà ...
. There is some question that Constance was the child of Robert and Constance, the major proof of the issue by onomastics. They had three children:
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Odo, Count of Dammartin
Odo (Eudes) (d. after 1061), Count of Dammartin, son of Manasses, Count of Dammartin, and Constance of France. Odo's maternal grandfather was Robert the Pious, King of France, and his paternal great-grandfather was Hilduin I, Count of Montdidier ...
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Hugh I, Count of Dammartin
Hugh I (died after 1093), Count of Dammartin and Seigneur de Bulles, son of Manasses, Count of Dammartin, and Constance of France. Hugh's maternal grandfather was Robert the Pious, King of France, and his paternal great-grandfather was Hilduin I ...
* Eustachie de Dammartin
Upon his death, Manasses was succeeded as count of Dammartin by his son Odo.
Sources
*Henri Moranvillé, ''Origine de la Maison de Ramerupt-Roucy'', BEC, 1925
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Europäische Stammtafeln ''Europäische Stammtafeln'' - German for ''European Family Trees'' - is a series of twenty-nine books which contain sets of genealogical tables of the most influential families of Medieval European history. It is a standard reference work for thos ...
Medieval Lands Project, Seigneurs de Ramerupt, Comtes de Montdidier, Comtes d’Arcis-sur-Aube
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House of Montdidier
1037 deaths
Year of birth unknown