Count of Roucy

This article is a list of the counts of Roucy. In medieval France, Roucy was a county held by a succession of noble families. By the Late Middle Ages, it was one of seven titles that was made a peer within the provincial peerage of the greater County and Province of Champagne up until the French Revolution.

First counts

c.950–967 : Renaud of Roucy, Count of Roucy and of Reims († 967):
::married Albérade, daughter of Gilbert, Duke of Lotharingia, and of Gerberga of Saxony (she remarried to king Louis IV of France).

967–c.1000 : Gilbert of Roucy, 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, Count of Roucy and Archbishop of Reims (1021–1033):
::married Béatrice of Hainaut, daughter of Regnier IV, Count of Hainaut and of Hedwig, a daughter of Hugh Capet.

House of Montdidier

*1033–1063: Hilduin, 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 Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia.
*1103–1160: Hugh I, 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: John I, brother of above,
: married Beatrice de Vignory; had no legitimate offspring.
*1200–1205?: Enguerrand, brother-in-law of Raoul I.

House of Pierrepont

Blazon of arms: ''Gules a chief indented Or.''
*1205–1251: John II, grandson of Count Guiscard through his mother (his sister Elisabeth, Viscountess of Mareuil, x Marshal 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, Countess of Ponthieu (niece of Philippe Auguste).

*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 Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle), 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: John V (Killed 26 August 1346 at the Battle of Crécy), 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 Nemours- Villebéon 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'Enghien, daughter of Gautier II d'Enghien, Knight, Lord of Enghien, Advocate of Tubize.

*1364–1370: Isabelle of Pierrepont, daughter of the previous count, married to Louis of Flandre-Namur, son of John I, without posterity.

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: Isabelle sold Roucy to Louis I of Anjou in 1370, but her uncle Simon of Pierrepont asserted his right of foreclosure and sued the Parliament of Paris 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.

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*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 Laon by his marriage to Marie de Clacy-et-Thierret / Clacy; Béatrice, x Louis II of Sancerre Constable of France