Enguerrand II,
Lord of Coucy
The Lords of Coucy (french: sires de Coucy or ''seigneurs de Coucy''), also spelt Couci, were a medieval lordship based on the barony of Coucy located in the current commune of Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, Picardy. The château de Coucy was founde ...
, known as of
La Fère
La Fère () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Aisne department
The following is a list of the 799 communes in the French department of Aisne.
The communes coope ...
or of
Marle, was a French nobleman. He was also lord of Marle, La Fère,
Crécy (sur-Serre),
Vervins
Vervins (; nl, Wervin) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is a subprefecture of the department. It lies between the small streams Vilpion and Chertemps, which drain towards the Serre. It is surroun ...
,
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
Louis VII of France during the
Second Crusade. 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.
References
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Lords of Coucy
12th-century French people
Christians of the Second Crusade