Hugh II, Count Of Rethel
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Hugh II, Count of Rethel (died 1227) was a son of Manasses IV and his wife, Matilda of Kyrburg. In 1199, he succeeded his father as
Count of Rethel The first rulers of Rethel might have governed under the Abbey of Saint-Remi and later independently, before the county passed first to the counts of Nevers, then to the counts of Flanders, and finally to the dukes of Burgundy. In 1405 the coun ...
. In 1191, he married Felicitas (d. 1257), the daughter of Simon of Broyes.Theodore Evergates, ''Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 252. They had the following children: * Helissende (d. 1234), married
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, the son of Geoffroy III, Count of Perche * Hugh III (d. 1243) * Matilda, married Thomas II of Coucy-Vervins (1184–1253), the son of
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(d. 1251), married Marie of Thourotte *
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(d. 1262) * Manasses V (d. 1273)


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Counts of Rethel 12th-century births 1227 deaths Year of birth unknown 12th-century French nobility 13th-century French nobility 13th-century counts in Europe {{France-noble-stub