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 study[1] 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.
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.
Isabelle sold Roucy to Louis I of Anjou in 1370, but her uncle Simon of Pierrepont asserted his right of foreclosure and sued the Parlement of Paris to obtain the county. The trial lasted 20 years and was judged in his favor.
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 <John III of Sancerre, and Louis of Sancerre, Marshal of France and Constable of France; Jeanne de Blaison and Chemellier / Chemillé, x the Grand Panetier and Marshal of France Charles I of Montmorency.
1392–1395: Hugh II of Pierrepont, son of the previous count:
→ Siblings: John of Roucy, Bishop of Laon in 1386–1419; Marguerite x 1 ° Gaucher V de Nanteuil-la-Forêt (in the Montagne de Reims) and x 2 ° Robert III de Coucy-Pinon, great-grandson of Marshal Robert above (by another x that with Elisabeth of Roucy, Viscountess of Mareuil); Marie, x Jacques d'Enghien-Havré: maternal grandparents of Jean de Dunois.
1395–1415: John VI of Pierrepont, Lord of Château de Montmirail (killed 25 October 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt), son of the previous count.
→ His sister Joan, x François d'Albret sire of Ste-Bazeille († 1435), first cousin of the Constable Charles I d'Albret, Bernard Ezi IV-V d'Albret.
House of Sarrebruckedit
Sarrebruck : d'azur semé de croisettes recroisetés au pied fiché d'or au lion d'argent, armé, lampassé et couronné d'or brochant sur le tout.[2]
1415–1459: Joan of Pierrepont-Roucy, daughter of the previous count, married in 1417 to Robert I of Saarbrücken-Commercy (Robert III), damoiseau de Commercy-Château-Haut and Lord of Louvois († 1460):
Only daughter, Joan of Pierrepont brought the counties of Roucy and Braine to her husband Robert of Saarbrücken-Commercy → They had as children John VII of Saarbrücken-Commercy; Amé II of Saarbrücken-Commercy; Marie, Dame de Bailleul, x Jean II de Melun d'Antoing, d'Épinoy, Lord of Ghent; and Jeanne, x Christophe de Barbençon-Jeumont, Lord of Cany.
1459–1492: John VII of Sarrebruck-Commercy, son of the previous ones, was count of Roucy by the donation made to him by his mother on condition for him to bear the name and arms of Roucy, married to Catherine d'Orléans-Longueville daughter of Dunois above, died without legitimate children (→ but leaving two natural children: Louis, seigneur de Sissonne and Marguerite).
1492–1504: Robert II of Saarbrücken-Commercy (Robert IV), nephew of the previous one, son of Amé II of Saarbrücken-Commercy and of Guillemette of Luxembourg-Ligny, daughter of Thibault, seigneur de Fiennes; grandson of Joan of Pierrepont x Robert I / III above:
married to Marie de Chaumont d'Amboise, Dame de Ricey, daughter of Charles I and niece of Cardinal d'Amboise. → They have a son, Amé III from Saarbrücken-Commercy; and three daughters: Philippe (de Commercy and Montmirail; wife of Charles de Silly, Lord of Rochefort, Auneau, and La Roche-Guyon); Catherine (de Roucy; wife Antoine de Roye); and Guillemette (de Braine; wife of Robert III de La Marck, duc de Bouillon.
1504–1525: Amé III of Saarbrücken-Commercy, son of the previous one, married in 1520 to Renée de La Marck, daughter of Guillaume d'Aigremont and granddaughter of Sanglier des Ardennes, they had only one son, Robert, died in infancy. When Amé III died, his three sisters shared his inheritance: Philippe / Philippine (x Charles de Silly) obtained Commercy-Château-Haut, Einville, Montmirail, Louvois; Catherine: Roucy and Pierrepont; Guillemette (x Robert III de La Marck): Braine, Pontarcy, La Ferté-Gaucher, Neufchâtel.
House of Royeedit
1525–1542: Catherine of Saarbrücken, sister of Amé III of Saarbrücken-Commercy and daughter of Robert II of Saarbrücken-Commercy, married in 1505 to Antoine de Roye († 1515).
1542–1551: Charles I of Roye, son of the previous count, married to Madeleine de Mailly, Dame de Conti.
de Roye de la Rochefoucault: Ecartelé aux 1 et 4 de gueules à la bande d'argent ; aux 2 et 3 burelé d'argent et d'azur de 10 pièces à trois chevrons de gueules brochant sur le tour, le premier écimé ; sur le tout d'or au lion d'azur (armé et lampassé de gueules.)
1551–1572: Charlotte de Roye (1537-1572), daughter of the previous one and sister of Éléonore de Conti,
married in 1557 to Francis III, Count of La Rochefoucauld (1521-1572) (Francis I, Count of Roucy; from a 1 ° x with Silvia Pic de La Mirandole, from whom descend Francis IV and the following of the counts then dukes of La Rochefoucauld until 1762).
1572–1589: Josué de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, † 1589, eldest son of the above, without alliance.
1589–1605: Charles II de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (1560-1605), younger brother of the previous one,
1680–1690: Frédéric-Charles de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (around 1633–1690), son of the previous count,
married in 1656 to his cousin Elisabeth de Durfort de Duras, granddaughter of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, daughter of Guy-Aldonce I and sister of Jacques Henri de Durfort,
1690–1721: François III-II de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (1660-1721), son of the previous one. → Her younger brother Charles, Comte de Blanzac (1665-1732), x 1691 Marie-Henriette d'Aloigny made the Dukes of Estissac, then of Liancourt, then of La Rochefoucauld since 1792; their younger brother Louis (1672-1751) made the Marquis of Roye and La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Dukes of Anville, then of La Rochefoucauld in 1762-1792:
married in 1689 to Catherine-Françoise d'Arpajon (1670-1716), daughter of Duke Louis and Catherine-Henriette d'Harcourt de Beuvron, heir to the duchy-peerage of Arpajon since 1672.
1721–1725: François IV-III de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (1689-1725), son of the previous count,
married in 1711 to Marguerite-Elisabeth Huguet de Sémonville, † 1735 → their youngest daughter Françoise-Pauline, Mlle de Roye (1723- guillotined in 1793/1794), x 1740 Marshal Louis-Antoine, Duke of Gontaut-Biron (1701-1788).
1725–1784: Marthe-Elisabeth de la Rochefoucauld, Madamoiselle de Roucy (1720-1784), eldest daughter of the previous one:
married in 1737 to François Joseph de Béthune (1719- † 1739) 17, marquis d'Ancenis.
1784–1789 : Armand-Joseph de Béthune (1738 † 1800), marquis de Chârost,
married 1 ° 1760 to Louise-Suzanne Edmée Martel lady of Fontaine-Martel and Fontaine-Bolbec (in Bolbec) → their second son Armand-Louis François Edmé (1770- guillotined in April 1794); and 2 ° 1783 to Henriette Adélaïde du Bouchet de Sourches below, without posterity.
He is the last to bear the hereditary title of Count of Roucy. In 1767 he sold his title to a very distant cousin, Jacques Henri Salomon Joseph de Roucy (1747-1814), Lord of Manre (his family also owned Termes and Marvaux in the vicinity), from Hugues de Thosny and du Bois younger brother of Count Robert Guiscard above, known as Count of Roucy, field marshal and colonel of the Queen's cavalry regiment, husband of Marie Perrine de Scépeaux, but died without posterity in 1814.
Referencesedit
^Jean-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
^ abc"Abrégé historique et généalogique des comtes de Roucy, par Adrien Grave". Le Regain, Roucy d'hier et de demain, novembre 2012 (in French).
April 13, 2024
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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 Contents 1 First counts 2 House of Montdidier 3 House of Pierrepont 4 House of Sarrebruck 5 House of Roye 6 House of La Rochefoucauld 7 House of Bethune 8 ReferencesFirst counts editc 950 967 Renaud of Roucy Count of Roucy and of Reims 967 married Alberade daughter of Gilbert Duke of Lotharingia and of Gerberga of Saxony she remarried to king Louis IV of France dd 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 study 1 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 Macon 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 Beatrice of Hainaut daughter of Regnier IV Count of Hainaut and of Hedwig a daughter of Hugh Capet dd House of Montdidier edit nbsp Montdidier De gueules a la rose d or 2 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 edit nbsp Pierrepont Gules a chief indented Or 2 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 Melissende 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 dd 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 Beraud VIII x Beatrice de Bourbon Dampierre dd 1271 1304 John IV Lord of Pierrepont and Viscount of Mareuil Killed 18 August 1304 at the Battle of Mons en Pevele 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 dd 1304 1346 John V Killed 26 August 1346 at the Battle of Crecy 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 Beatrice de La Suze x Amaury III de Craon and Marie x Jean II de Chateauvillain married to Marguerite de Baumetz Bommiers Bomez Beaumez Lady of Blaison Chemille Mirebeau and Montfaucon en Berry and not Montfaucon very likely probable daughter of Marguerite de Nemours Villebeon 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 Deols grand niece of Raoul VI de Deols Chateauroux Marguerite x 1 Louis I of Beaujeu Montferrand and x 2 Henri III of Sully Robert de Bommiers Thibaud Ier the Elder dd 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 dd 1364 1370 Isabelle of Pierrepont daughter of the previous count married to Louis of Flandre Namur son of John I without posterity Isabelle sold Roucy to Louis I of Anjou in 1370 but her uncle Simon of Pierrepont asserted his right of foreclosure and sued the Parlement 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 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 Beatrice x Louis II of Sancerre lt John III of Sancerre and Louis of Sancerre Marshal of France and Constable of France Jeanne de Blaison and Chemellier Chemille x the Grand Panetier and Marshal of France Charles I of Montmorency married to Marie of the House of Chatillon daughter of Hugues de Pont Arcy Pontarci and granddaughter of the Constable of France Gaucher V de Chatillon dd 1392 1395 Hugh II of Pierrepont son of the previous count Siblings John of Roucy Bishop of Laon in 1386 1419 Marguerite x 1 Gaucher V de Nanteuil la Foret in the Montagne de Reims and x 2 Robert III de Coucy Pinon great grandson of Marshal Robert above by another x that with Elisabeth of Roucy Viscountess of Mareuil Marie x Jacques d Enghien Havre maternal grandparents of Jean de Dunois married to Blanche de Coucy Lady of Encre Bailleul en Vimeu La Ferte Gaucher and Montmirel granddaughter of William of Coucy dd Their daughters Marguerite Lady of Albert and Blanche of Roucy Pierrepont married respectively in 1403 Thomas III del Vasto Marquess of Saluzzo hence Giovanna Dame d Encre wife of Guy IV de Clermont Nesle and in 1414 Louis I of Bourbon Vendome Count of Vendome Grand Master of France 1395 1415 John VI of Pierrepont Lord of Chateau de Montmirail killed 25 October 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt son of the previous count His sister Joan x Francois d Albret sire of Ste Bazeille 1435 first cousin of the Constable Charles I d Albret Bernard Ezi IV V d Albret House of Sarrebruck edit nbsp Sarrebruck d azur seme de croisettes recroisetes au pied fiche d or au lion d argent arme lampasse et couronne d or brochant sur le tout 2 1415 1459 Joan of Pierrepont Roucy daughter of the previous count married in 1417 to Robert I of Saarbrucken Commercy Robert III damoiseau de Commercy Chateau Haut and Lord of Louvois 1460 Only daughter Joan of Pierrepont brought the counties of Roucy and Braine to her husband Robert of Saarbrucken Commercy They had as children John VII of Saarbrucken Commercy Ame II of Saarbrucken Commercy Marie Dame de Bailleul x Jean II de Melun d Antoing d Epinoy Lord of Ghent and Jeanne x Christophe de Barbencon Jeumont Lord of Cany dd 1459 1492 John VII of Sarrebruck Commercy son of the previous ones was count of Roucy by the donation made to him by his mother on condition for him to bear the name and arms of Roucy married to Catherine d Orleans Longueville daughter of Dunois above died without legitimate children but leaving two natural children Louis seigneur de Sissonne and Marguerite 1492 1504 Robert II of Saarbrucken Commercy Robert IV nephew of the previous one son of Ame II of Saarbrucken Commercy and of Guillemette of Luxembourg Ligny daughter of Thibault seigneur de Fiennes grandson of Joan of Pierrepont x Robert I III above married to Marie de Chaumont d Amboise Dame de Ricey daughter of Charles I and niece of Cardinal d Amboise They have a son Ame III from Saarbrucken Commercy and three daughters Philippe de Commercy and Montmirail wife of Charles de Silly Lord of Rochefort Auneau and La Roche Guyon Catherine de Roucy wife Antoine de Roye and Guillemette de Braine wife of Robert III de La Marck duc de Bouillon dd 1504 1525 Ame III of Saarbrucken Commercy son of the previous one married in 1520 to Renee de La Marck daughter of Guillaume d Aigremont and granddaughter of Sanglier des Ardennes they had only one son Robert died in infancy When Ame III died his three sisters shared his inheritance Philippe Philippine x Charles de Silly obtained Commercy Chateau Haut Einville Montmirail Louvois Catherine Roucy and Pierrepont Guillemette x Robert III de La Marck Braine Pontarcy La Ferte Gaucher Neufchatel House of Roye edit1525 1542 Catherine of Saarbrucken sister of Ame III of Saarbrucken Commercy and daughter of Robert II of Saarbrucken Commercy married in 1505 to Antoine de Roye 1515 1542 1551 Charles I of Roye son of the previous count married to Madeleine de Mailly Dame de Conti Their daughter Eleonore Dame de Conti x Louis I Prince of Conde hence the following of the Princes of Conde and Conti House of La Rochefoucauld edit nbsp de Roye de la Rochefoucault Ecartele aux 1 et 4 de gueules a la bande d argent aux 2 et 3 burele d argent et d azur de 10 pieces a trois chevrons de gueules brochant sur le tour le premier ecime sur le tout d or au lion d azur arme et lampasse de gueules 1551 1572 Charlotte de Roye 1537 1572 daughter of the previous one and sister of Eleonore de Conti married in 1557 to Francis III Count of La Rochefoucauld 1521 1572 Francis I Count of Roucy from a 1 x with Silvia Pic de La Mirandole from whom descend Francis IV and the following of the counts then dukes of La Rochefoucauld until 1762 dd 1572 1589 Josue de La Rochefoucauld Roye 1589 eldest son of the above without alliance 1589 1605 Charles II de La Rochefoucauld Roye 1560 1605 younger brother of the previous one married in 1600 to Claude de Gontaut Biron 1617 daughter of Marshal of France Armand dd 1605 1680 Francois II I de La Rochefoucauld Roye 1603 1680 son of the previous one married in 1627 to Julienne Catherine de La Tour d Auvergne daughter of Henri de La Tour d Auvergne and Elizabeth of Nassau daughter of William the Silent dd 1680 1690 Frederic Charles de La Rochefoucauld Roye around 1633 1690 son of the previous count married in 1656 to his cousin Elisabeth de Durfort de Duras granddaughter of Henri de La Tour d Auvergne daughter of Guy Aldonce I and sister of Jacques Henri de Durfort dd 1690 1721 Francois III II de La Rochefoucauld Roye 1660 1721 son of the previous one Her younger brother Charles Comte de Blanzac 1665 1732 x 1691 Marie Henriette d Aloigny made the Dukes of Estissac then of Liancourt then of La Rochefoucauld since 1792 their younger brother Louis 1672 1751 made the Marquis of Roye and La Ferte sous Jouarre Dukes of Anville then of La Rochefoucauld in 1762 1792 married in 1689 to Catherine Francoise d Arpajon 1670 1716 daughter of Duke Louis and Catherine Henriette d Harcourt de Beuvron heir to the duchy peerage of Arpajon since 1672 dd 1721 1725 Francois IV III de La Rochefoucauld Roye 1689 1725 son of the previous count married in 1711 to Marguerite Elisabeth Huguet de Semonville 1735 their youngest daughter Francoise Pauline Mlle de Roye 1723 guillotined in 1793 1794 x 1740 Marshal Louis Antoine Duke of Gontaut Biron 1701 1788 dd House of Bethune edit1725 1784 Marthe Elisabeth de la Rochefoucauld Madamoiselle de Roucy 1720 1784 eldest daughter of the previous one married in 1737 to Francois Joseph de Bethune 1719 1739 17 marquis d Ancenis dd 1784 1789 Armand Joseph de Bethune 1738 1800 marquis de Charost married 1 1760 to Louise Suzanne Edmee Martel lady of Fontaine Martel and Fontaine Bolbec in Bolbec their second son Armand Louis Francois Edme 1770 guillotined in April 1794 and 2 1783 to Henriette Adelaide du Bouchet de Sourches below without posterity dd He is the last to bear the hereditary title of Count of Roucy In 1767 he sold his title to a very distant cousin Jacques Henri Salomon Joseph de Roucy 1747 1814 Lord of Manre his family also owned Termes and Marvaux in the vicinity from Hugues de Thosny and du Bois younger brother of Count Robert Guiscard above known as Count of Roucy field marshal and colonel of the Queen s cavalry regiment husband of Marie Perrine de Scepeaux but died without posterity in 1814 References edit Jean Noel Mathieu La Succession au comte de Roucy aux environs de l an mil in Onomastique et Parente dans l Occident medieval under the direction of Christian Settipani and Katharine S B Keats Rohan 2000 a b c Abrege historique et genealogique des comtes de Roucy par Adrien Grave Le Regain Roucy d hier et de demain novembre 2012 in French Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of counts of Roucy amp oldid 1190829408, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
