Hilduin IV (d. 1063), Count of Montdidier and Lord of

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, son of Hilduin III, Count of Montdidier, member of the

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. Hilduin was also Count of Roucy by virtue of his marriage to the daughter of Ebles I, Count of Roucy. Little is known about Hilduin despite his many renowned children and grandchildren. Hériman of Tournai records that

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appointed Hilduin as an ambassador to Rome (date unknown). Sometime between 1033 and 1054, probably closer to the latter, Hilduin was driven from Montdidier by Count

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, who continued to rule it until his death in 1074. Hildiun married Adelaide (Alice) de Roucy, daughter of Ebles I, Count of Roucy, and Beatrix of Hainaut. They had: * Ebles II, Count of Roucy, married Sibylle de Apulia, daughter of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Sichelgaita de Salerno * Andre (d. after 1118),

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de Ramerupt and of Arcis-sur-Aube, married Guisemode, widow of Hugh, Siegneur of Pleurs. Their son Eble de Roucy was

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(1122-1127) and daughter Alix married Erard I, Count of Brienne. * Beatrix de Ramerupt (d. after 1129), married

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* Marguerite de Ramerupt, married

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, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis * Ermentrude de Ramerupt (d. after 1102), married Thibaut, Count of Reynel, son of Olri, Count of Reynel. * Ada de Ramerupt (d. after 1121), married first Geoffroy, Seigneur de Guise, and second Gauthier, Seigneur de Ath * Adélaïs, married Arnold I, Count of Chiny * Aelis de Ramerupt, married Conan “Falcon” de la Sarraz. Their son was Barthélemy de Jur,

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. * Felicia of Roucy, married Sancho I, King of Aragon. Hilduin was apparently the last Count of Montdidier, the line being continued with the Counts of Roucy.

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* *{{cite journal , title=Les généalogies entre l'histoire et la politique: la fierté d'être Capétien, en France, au Moyen Age , first=Bernard , last=Guenée , journal=Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales , number=3 , date=May–June 1978 , volume=33 , pages=450–477 , doi=10.3406/ahess.1978.293943 *Hermann Monacii of Laon, ''From the Miracles of Mary'' (Hermanni Laudunensis Monacii de Miraculis B. Mariæ Laudunensis), RHGF XI *Morton, Catherine, and Muntz, Hope (editors). ''The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens'', Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972 1063 deaths Counts of Roucy Hilduin