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 brother. Hilduin II was a member of the
House of Montdidier
The House of Montdidier was a medieval French nobility, French noble house which ruled as count of Montdidier, Somme, Montdidier, Dammartin-en-Goële, Dammartin and List of counts of Roucy, Roucy. Its earliest definite member of the family was a c ...
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Virtually nothing is known about Hilduin II other than an obscure reference in the Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines. He reportedly made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 992 during a rare time of peace there following the death of conquering general
Jawhar al-Siqilli
Al-Qaid Jawhar ibn Abdallah (, better known as Jawhar al Siqilli, al-Qaid al-Siqilli, "The Sicilian General", or al-Saqlabi, "The Slav"; born in the Byzantine Empire and died 28 April 992) was a Sunni Fatimid general who led the conquest of Maghre ...
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Marriage and Issue
He apparently married, but the name of his wife is unknown. He and his wife had two children:
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Hilduin III, Count of Montdidier
Hilduin III (died after 1032), Count of Montdidier, Seigneur de Ramerupt, son of Hilduin II, Count of Arcis-sur-Aube. He was a member of the House of Montdidier. Virtually nothing is known about his life.
Marriage and Issue
Hilduin married ...
and Seigneur de Ramerupt
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Manasses, Count of Dammartin (sometimes referred to as Calvus Manassas), married Constance, daughter of
Robert II, King of France.
His son Hilduin III inherited the title of Seigneur de Ramerupt, but no other Counts of Arcis-sur-Aube are recorded.
References
Sources
* Tardif, J., ''Monuments historiques'', Paris, 1866
Hilduin
10th-century deaths
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